Terms of Endearment: Eric Wareheim to Direct Michael Cera in A24s ‘Jonty’

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Funny folks Eric Wareheim and Michael Cera are joining forces with Four Lions scribes Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain for Jonty – an A24 project set to being lensing in April 2019 in New York. The Production Weekly blurb went unnoticed late last week. Wareheim will direct.

Gist: This is about a coddled kid who joins forces with an old friend to produce a terrible Broadway play.

Worth Noting: Writing pair Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain have worked on several TV projects – Peep Show and Fresh Meat just to name a pair.

Do We Care?: Wareheim co-directed Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie with Tim Heidecker, but Jonty will be his feature debut.

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society), FIPRESCI and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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