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MPAA Rating: R for some language including sexual references.Run time: 93 MinutesU.S. Release Date: August 21, 2015 (In Theaters and On Demand)

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SHE’S FUNNY THAT WAY

SYNOPSIS:

From renowned director Peter Bogdanovich, SHE’S FUNNY THAT WAY is a screwball comedy featuring the interconnected personal lives of the cast and crew of a Broadway production. When established director Arnold Albertson (Owen Wilson) casts his call girl-turned-actress Isabella “Izzy” Patterson (Imogen Poots) in a new play to star alongside his wife Delta (Kathryn Hahn) and her ex-lover Seth Gilbert (Rhys Ifans), a zany love tangle forms with hilarious twists. Jennifer Aniston plays Izzy’s therapist Jane, who is consumed with her own failing relationship with Arnold’s playwright Joshua Fleet (Will Forte), who is also developing a crush on Izzy.

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION:

SHE’S FUNNY THAT WAY marks the long awaited return to the big screen of Peter Bogdanovich, one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of his generation. After a fifteen year absence, during which he directed films for television, the documentary “Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin’ Down a Dream,” acted, and wrote about the movies, Bogdanovich also returns to the comedy genre, which he was so adept at with his early classics, the critically acclaimed, box office hits “What’s Up, Doc?” and “Paper Moon,” as well as the cult favorite, “They All Laughed.”

Like “They All Laughed,” SHE’S FUNNY THAT WAY was filmed entirely in New York and, again, Bogdanovich shows off the city at its glistening, romantic best. And known for his work with actors, from his award-winning breakout film “The Last Picture Show” to his last feature “The Cat’s Meow,” for SHE’S FUNNY THAT WAY, Bogdanovich has assembled a stellar ensemble cast, headed by Owen Wilson, Imogen Poots, Kathryn Hahn, Will Forte, Rhys Ifans, and Jennifer Aniston all working together at the top of their form.

SHE’S FUNNY THAT WAY is a classic style romantic comedy, with touches of the equally classic screwball comedy, in the best sense of those words. Although completely modern in its characters, situations, and settings, it’s a film that harkens back to the landmarks of the genre from Hollywood’s heyday of the 30s and 40s, with sparkling wit, charm, and sophistication amidst the craziest and zaniest of premises and situations.

The film centers around Isabella “Izzy” Patterson (Imogen Poots), a Brooklyn-born call girl with aspirations to be an actress who, during a rendezvous at the Barclay Hotel in Manhattan with Arnold (Owen Wilson) – a successful Hollywood director about to direct a play on Broadway, is offered $30,000 to do something else with her life. As Arnold explains to her, there are those people who go to the park and feed nuts to the squirrels. But why not sometimes feed squirrels to the nuts? It turns out this isn’t the first time Arnold has said that to a call girl. Izzy isn’t his first squirrel and ‘squirrels to the nuts’ is a line that reverberates throughout the film to great comic effect.

Although Isabella is clearly stunned, she accepts the offer. But when she does, it starts a chain of events which also changes the lives of everyone she encounters: Arnold’s wife and star of his play, Delta Simmons (Kathryn Hahn), Delta’s co-star Seth Gilbert (Rhys Ifans), who is Arnold’s rival for Delta’s affections, the playwright Joshua Fleet (Will Forte) who falls in love with Izzy, her therapist, Jane (Jennifer Aniston), who turns out to be Joshua’s girlfriend, and the distinguished and esteemed Judge Pendergast (Austin Pendleton), a former client of Izzy’s, who is obsessed

with her. Added to the mix are Izzy’s parents (Cybill Shepherd and Richard Lewis) and a mysterious detective (George Morfogen), who turns out to be the playwright Joshua’s father. And by the end of the film, through a series of comedic encounters, twists and turns, nothing is the same for any of them.

The story unfolds with a wraparound structure, as Isabella sits with a cynical interviewer (Illeana Douglas), down the block from Bergdorf’s in New York, and relates how she, a girl from Brooklyn, working as a call girl, became a movie star. And through the course of the interview we see how all of that happened, how her love of the movies and her dreams of Hollywood, turned into a reality, just like some kind of fairy tale.

Peter Bogdanovich originally conceived the story for the film, which he wrote with his now ex-wife Louise Stratten. Stratten was going to play the Isabella Patterson role, now played by Imogen Poots, and John Ritter, the role of Arnold, now played by Owen Wilson. But after John Ritter’s untimely death, Bogdanovich decided to put the script and project aside.

Years later, when Bogdanovich became friends with Owen Wilson, he discussed the role of Arnold and the script with Wilson while binge watching “Breaking Bad” at Wilson’s Malibu home, and then decided to resurrect the project, with Wilson attached as Arnold. And so began SHE’S FUNNY THAT WAY’s journey to the big screen.

Two other friends of Bogdanovich, the acclaimed filmmakers Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach also read the resurrected script. “They read it, they liked it, and they said they’d like to help me get it made,” recalls Bogdanovich. “They like my pictures. They’re both fans and I’m a fan of theirs. We’re all very friendly. They call me pop. And I call each of them son - Son Noah and Son Wes. We’re very close and they were very helpful in getting the picture off the ground. By having them aboard, we were able to get Owen and Jennifer Aniston attached. Quentin Tarantino also loved the script. He read it a long time ago when it was going to star John Ritter. And Quentin loved it then. So when I called him during the filming and said, ‘Can you do this cameo? – I told him what it was and he laughed - he said, ‘Sure, I’ll do that. It would be a kick to be in a Bogdanovich picture.’ And I said ‘Well, can you do it the day after tomorrow?’”

“I read the script and liked it a lot” says producer Holly Wiersma. “I’d always been a huge Peter Bogdanovich fan; I grew up watching his movies. And I’m also a big fan of Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston, who were already attached.

“What I particularly liked about the screenplay,” continues Wiersma, “is that it reminded me of the classic, old-time Hollywood movies that you don’t see anymore. I think the closest any filmmaker today comes to making movies like that is Woody Allen. But otherwise, there just aren’t movies like that anymore. They don’t get made; I don’t think they even get written. So the script for SHE’S FUNNY THAT WAY, with Owen and Jennifer attached, was very exciting to me. And I decided to come on board the film as a producer, along with Logan Levy and his company Lagniappe to arrange the financing.”

How did Bogdanovich originally conceive the project? “It started with two things,” Bogdanovich explains: “the title at the time ‘Squirrels to the Nuts,’ which has now been changed, and the notion of someone giving money to a hooker in order to help her stop being a hooker. I did that a couple of times in Singapore when I was there directing ‘Saint Jack.’ There were some ladies of the evening that I saw there – one was from Bangkok and one was from Malaysia – Singapore is sort of the melting pot of all of Asia – and I just felt that both of these girls were not

happy with what they were doing and I gave them some money to go home and stop being hookers. And they did actually.”

“That was sort of the impetus for the script,” continues Bogdanovich. “I liked the title ‘Squirrels to the Nuts,’ because I always liked the Lubitch film that it was based on, ‘Cluny Brown.’ The title came from some dialogue in ‘Cluny Brown,’ Lubitch’s last film. He’s one of my favorite directors.”

“And that’s where it started,” recalls Bogdanovich. “My ex-wife, Louise Stratten and I were talking about writing a script together. And I said how about we write this thing – I have this idea and we set it in New York. Originally Louise was going to play the lead girl, Isabella, and John Ritter and Cybill Shepherd were going to play the director/husband, Arnold, and his actress wife. It was quite a bit more slapstick then.”

“We subsequently changed the title,” continues Bogdanovich, “because in the post-production work, the picture went from being more of a screwball comedy, with romantic comedy overtones, to being more of a romantic comedy, with screwball comedy overtones. And so ‘Squirrels to the Nuts’ didn’t seem to go with this particular version of the film. SHE’S FUNNY THAT WAY, from a 1930s song, seemed more appropriate. I’m partial to that song as well as songs from the 30s in general.”

Owen Wilson for the part of the director Arnold was the first person cast in the film. As Bogdanovich relates, “I got to know Owen, we became friendly over the years and we hung out a bit. And he’s one of the few actors today who’s a movie star in the sense that he has a personality which comes across that is very appealing. And so a movie like Woody Allen’s ‘Midnight in Paris’ just works so well because he holds it together. I mean it’s a good script, but Owen just holds it together with his charisma. You just want to watch him. And I remember my mother-in-law said, ‘Who’s that guy? He’s really good, he should get more money, he made it work.’ Owen is one of the only stand in’s for Woody Allen who didn’t play it like Woody. He played it like himself and he’s just great. I love talking to him, I love being his friend. We watched a lot of TV shows together – ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Game of Thrones’ - and we just got friendly. So I said, ‘Would you like to do this comedy?’ and he read it and he thought there was a bit too much slapstick for him. So I took most of that out because the slapstick had been written for John Ritter who was brilliant at that and, with Owen, it’s not his long suit. But he comes up with great lines. He ad-libbed a number of lines in the picture and they’re very funny. When he’s asked, ‘Where do I find you?’ he says, ‘I’ve been asking myself that for 40 years and I still haven’t got the answer.’ That’s an ad-lib.”

Both Bogdanovich and Wiersma believe that Owen Wilson was the perfect actor for the role of Arnold and few actors could have made the character come across so likeable or sympathetic. “I think Owen Wilson has three things about him that make Arnold work,” explains Wiersma. “Owen is the everyman, there’s that star quality that shines through, and he’s likeable. There aren’t that many actors who could play the role of Arnold where at the end of the day you’d still like him. When we tested the movie, Owen was one of the actors in the film who tested the highest. How many actors could pull that off? Arnold is a guy who’s cheating on his wife and calling hookers on the phone while his children are on the other line. He’s doing some things that most people would view as despicable. Yet at the same time you never hate this guy, it just never goes through your mind, which not many actors could have pulled off.”

“I love Owen,” adds Bogdanovich. “I love him personally and I love him as an actor. He’s one of the few movie stars today that I was interested in working with – because he’s like the old-fashioned kind of movie star, you know what you’re getting.”

When Jennifer Aniston was approached to do the film it was with the idea of her playing the role of Delta, Arnold’s actress wife. But as Bogdanovich relates, “She just had no interest in playing the wife, but said she’d love to play Jane, the therapist. I tried to convince her that maybe the part of Delta was more central to the story, but she had her heart set on playing Jane. So finally I said, ‘Okay, play Jane.’”

“And she’s very good at it, she’s excellent in the part,” continues Bogdanovich. “She wears a wig which she insisted upon for the role and which I liked. And everything she did was fine with me. I think she did a great job. It was very much a stretch for her with the performance. She never played anything quite like that. She basically played a complete bitch. And audiences laughed when they saw her in the part because they know she’s not like that. That’s one of the reasons the dynamic works. So she’s playing it like that whereas, if she actually was known to be a bitch it wouldn’t be funny.”

In addition, a lot of Aniston’s dialogue has a sped up tempo like in classic Hollywood comedies of the 30s. “It’s a comedy tempo to build a certain pace,” explains Bogdanovich. “She’s good at that and we worked at it. I kept saying ‘faster.’ Joanna Lumley, who was one of the cameos in this, did a picture with me called ‘The Cat’s Meow’ and when they interviewed her and she was asked, ‘How did Peter direct you?’ she replied, ‘Pedro? Mainly, he just said faster, darling.’”

“Frank Capra told me an interesting thing,” relates Bogdanovich, referring to the legendary director: “He said he didn’t know why, but ‘films slow things down, so if you play something at a normal speed it’ll seem slow, but if you play it at a somewhat faster than normal speed it’ll seem normal. Then if you really want to go faster than that you’ve got to speed up.’ And he’s right, absolutely right. I don’t know why but film seems to slow it down. If you play something at a normal speed it just seems interminable. That’s maybe because film is bigger than life. I remember when we did ‘What’s Up, Doc?’ Barbara Streisand said, ‘Can we take a moment here?’ And I said, ‘There’ll be no moments in the entire picture.’”

“I think the reason Jennifer Aniston works so well in the role of Jane is that it’s so different from anything she’s ever done,” says Wiersma. “I think the closest would be ‘Horrible Bosses.’ But I feel even with that she played a sexier role, whereas in SHE’S FUNNY THAT WAY, she really went for it, with the wig, as well as her whole demeanor. She said that ‘What’s Up, Doc?’ was her favorite movie so when she got this script it was one of those things she really wanted to do. She wanted to work with Peter and she knew Owen. She was the second person cast in the film and she stayed with it and stuck with it for a year as the project was put together for filming. It’s so different than anything that she’s usually cast in and she just played the role so well. And she was great to work with.”

“I’m really pleased with Imogen Poots as ‘Isabella,’” says Bogdanovich. “She’s an extraordinary actress. And I’d never seen her in anything before I met with her. There was a list of up and coming girls that was given to me. I saw four of them in L.A., then came to New York and Imogen heard that we wanted to see her. She was shooting a picture in Atlanta and she flew up to see me. We met at the Palm Court at the Plaza hotel, a kind of old-fashioned place to meet, and within five minutes I knew she was the girl. She didn’t audition, we just talked. And the reason I knew it was that she was quirky, just quirky as a person, but not trying to be quirky. She wasn’t pretentious or putting on airs or being cutesy pie – none of that. She was just being

herself, but she was quirky. And I recognized that quickly. And after about 20 minutes I said, ‘Look, I’m not supposed to do this, but when you leave here, just know you’ve got the part. I’ll work out the details.’ So that was it.”

“And I wasn’t wrong – she’s fabulous in the role,” enthuses Bogdanovich. “She’s really good. She’s very, very, very good. And she’s very original. She’s just herself, she’s not like anybody. The Brooklyn accent was always in the script because the girl that the character is slightly based on is a girl from Brooklyn who had that accent. So I just told Imogen that she had to do a Brooklyn accent – and she worked hard at it. She had a vocal coach, she took it seriously and did it very well, particularly given that she’s British! But the British are superb actors, generally speaking. They just are, they’re just good. They’re trained well, they have a culture and a tradition which we don’t have and they’re just dynamite. And she’s one of them.”

“I knew Imogen would bring a genuine quality to the role of Isabella, very real, not actory,” says Bogdanovich, “and I was right. Her being quirky without trying to be quirky really works for the character. And she’s enormously appealing and likeable. She’s also attractive without being Ava Gardner. She’s just really attractive and looks different every time you look at her. Every time you look at her she doesn’t look the same. “And she does everything superbly. She’s a great actress. And she dominates the screen. The camera likes her as they used to say.”

“I think it’s a tricky role to pull off,” adds Bogdanovich, “but Imogen made it seem easy. She never gave me a hard time. At one point in the film when she auditions for the play, they were playing it sort of for comedy, and I said, ‘No, we have to play this audition scene real.’ I told her she had to cry because audiences equate good acting with crying. If you can cry, you must be a good actor. So I said, ‘We haven’t got a lot of time, so cry.’ So she did it and was crying at the end of the scene and did it very well. Then I came over to her and whispered, ‘It was very good, darling, but you screwed up your face. I want you to cry and still be attractive.’ And she said, ‘Jesus, Peter!’ And I told her ‘You can do it. Cry with your eyes, don’t make faces.’ And she did it.”

“I think what’s so interesting about Imogen is that there’s a toughness to her, but also something about her that’s very fragile,” adds Wiersma. “She has both innocence and toughness. And to have that combined is something you don’t see often. Most actresses could do one of the two parts of her character’s story. But in the movie you have to believe Isabella as both a movie star and a call girl. And she is from Brooklyn. And Imogen is beautiful, but not in a classic way. She’s so interesting to watch. And she always kind of looks a little bit different from scene to scene.”

Obviously, one of the things Bogdanovich also had to consider was how Imogen would play opposite Owen Wilson. “They were great together,” says Bogdanovich. “They really liked each other and worked very well together. And their chemistry shows on screen. But Imogen worked well with everybody in the cast. She’s a pro. And everybody liked her and got along with her. There really wasn’t any temperament on the picture in front of the camera.”

As for the casting of Kathryn Hahn as Arnold’s wife Delta and Will Forte as Joshua Fleet, the playwright, Bogdanovich couldn’t be more pleased with selecting them for those roles. “I wasn’t familiar with Kathryn Hahn’s work, but she’s a close friend of Jennifer’s,” explains Bogdanovich. “And when Jennifer said she wanted to play Jane she said, ‘I know who should play Delta: Kathryn Hahn.’ They both have the same agent and manager. So I met with Kathryn, I liked her, saw some stuff she was in and that was it.”

“Kathryn was wonderful,” says Bogdanovich. “And I don’t think she’s ever looked as good in a picture. She said it herself, she said, ‘I look good.’ And I said, ‘Well, you should. You’re playing a leading lady, so we made you look like a leading lady.’ We shot her that way. She’s very good. She has a natural flair for comedy and she’s very real. And again, I didn’t have to direct her much. She had it. She played it much more down to earth than like a prima donna. She played it like herself; she is very down to earth.”

“And I thought she and Owen were really believable as a married couple and I was really torn as to whether or not to break them up at the end. But women objected to them getting back together, women thought she would never forgive him that quickly.”

“They worked well together,” says Bogdanovich. “I think Kathryn and he were very good together and were excellent playing off each other. Their relationship came across as very warm and that helps the story too. They seem to get along very well. You buy that they’re married. And the cab scene in which they’re talking over each other worked so well, it was really perfect. And that was all ad-libbed. That was great.”

“All the ad-libbing over each other - that was all Owen and Kathryn. They just did it and wonderfully so. I didn’t rehearse it either, they just did it. If you have really good actors you’re way ahead of the game. I once said to Orson Welles, ‘I thought it was a pretty good picture, but it wasn’t very well acted.’ And he said, ‘How could it be a good picture if it’s not well acted? What else is there? Who cares about the camerawork, it’s the acting.’ And he’s right, really.”

“We’re so glad that Jennifer Aniston did a little bit of casting for us by recommending Kathryn Hahn for the character of Delta,” says Wiersma. “We met with Kathryn and thought she was perfect for the role. And she really is fabulous in the movie. It’s funny, but although Kathryn’s done so many different roles in so many movies for years, you’ve never seen her in a role like this. I feel, in a weird way, this is probably the role she’s most like in real life. She’s so cool and she’s so pretty. And she never gets to play pretty in movies. So it was fun to see her in this and she was a joy to have on set. Everyone’s favorite.”

What did Kathryn Hahn bring to the role of Delta? “I think what was great about Kathryn’s performance is that she just played it very straight,” says Holly Wiersma. “She didn’t try to play it as an over the top, dramatic actress. She played it like everywoman. Lots of women you know have in some way been cheated on and she never played it as the victim and yet also never played it as the cad. And I thought that was really interesting.”

“With Will Forte, we had a number of possibilities for that part,” continues Bogdanovich, “and I liked him best. He’s kind of a leading man, pretty straight, easy going – and looks like a playwright. He looks intelligent. Orson Welles used to say, ‘It’s very hard to believe that an American actor is a writer or an intellectual. That’s why we often cast English people to play those kind of parts.’ Orson, himself, looks like a man who thinks and reads. But there aren’t that many. Cary Grant did so he could play professors and things. But it was not common with American actors. I remember when Bob Redford made ‘Quiz Show’ he had to get two Englishmen to play the Van Doren father and son.”

“Will Forte looks like a playwright,” says Bogdanovich. “And he’s kind of a nice leading man. It’s not a comedy part really; it’s more of a straight part. And I thought he was very appealing. He has a gentleness about him and there’s an intellectual part to him as well. You believe that he could write a play. And he was just easy to work with, a joy. None of the actors on this film were difficult to work with.”

“Will Forte is another person whom Jennifer had recommended,” adds Wiersma. “She and he had worked together on another independent film before us. She loved working with Will on that film, so she told us about him and suggested him for the part of Joshua Fleet. And when we met him, we thought he’d be perfect for the role and they would be the perfect combination for the playwright and his therapist girlfriend. He was just coming off ‘Nebraska’ and he was amazing. He’s a writer, intelligent, a great straight man, the good guy.”

Rhys Ifans, who plays Seth Gilbert, the actor who stars opposite Arnold’s wife Delta in the play, was one of the last people we cast,” recalls Bogdanovich. “I think we cast him the day before he appeared in the film. We had been thinking of using more of a romantic, matinee idol type. And we did decide to use Jack Huston. I liked him for the part as a matinee idol. But he was doing ‘Boardwalk Empire’ and they wouldn’t let him go, even for a couple of days. So we had to move on. And I think George Drakoulias, one of our producers and the music supervisor (who was also a producer on my documentary about ‘Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’), had worked with Rhys on Noah Baumbach’s picture ‘Greenberg’ and suggested him not as a matinee idol type, but more of a rock star type movie star. And when I met him I thought he’d be terrific. We met him and he worked the next day.”

“He was superb in the role of Seth,” says Bogdanovich. “And he was wonderful to work with. He loved the script, loved the part, and most importantly, understood it completely. I didn’t have to direct him much, he just got it. The looks he gives to Owen are absolutely perfect. It was written for more of a matinee idol like Bradley Cooper or Jack Huston. But I think this worked out better because he’s more of a rock star type of actor in the film. And he’s funnier, wittier. He’s very witty in the part.”

“Austin Pendleton I’ve wanted to work with again since we did ‘What’s Up, Doc?’ enthuses Bogdanovich. “We wrote the Judge for him and the detective for George Morfogen. When we wrote it they were a bit younger, 15 years younger, but we wrote it for them and I didn’t want to cast anybody else. George has been a friend of mine since I was 18. We met at Shakespeare in the Park, Joe Papp’s production of ‘Othello.’ We were both in it. I was a spear carrier and George was the understudy for Lago. We worked together numerous times and he’s also worked behind the camera with me. He was co-producer with me of ‘Saint Jack,’ ‘At Long Last Love,’ ‘They All Laughed.’ He worked with me behind the scenes on those. ‘Saint Jack’ he wasn’t in, but he was in ‘They All Laughed,’ as well as being one of the producers.”

Rounding out the cast in smaller roles are Cybill Shepherd and Richard Lewis as Izzy’s parents, Nettie and Al Finkelstein. Shepherd and Bogdanovich, of course, have known each other for many years and worked on various films together, beginning with Shepherd’s film debut in “The Last Picture Show.” Comedian/actor Lewis and Bogdanovich are longtime friends, although this is the first time they’ve worked together. Both Shepherd and Lewis really liked the script and eagerly joined the cast to work with Bogdanovich and help get the film made.

And when Bogdanovich and the producers decided to shoot a wrap around for the movie, they cast Illeana Douglas as Judy, the journalist interviewing Izzy. “I’ve worked with Illeana on three films, including ‘Factory Girl,’” explains Wiersma, “so it was easy to call her at the last minute and I knew she’d be perfect for the role.”

“The story of SHE’S FUNNY THAT WAY is a bit complicated for me to explain,” says Bogdanovich. “But basically, it’s about a girl who’s an escort and how she evolves into being a movie star through a series of odd circumstances. That’s what it’s about. And all the people in

the movie are sort of involved in getting her to that place, inadvertently or not. And it’s about the accidental nature of things. Things just happen to her through a bunch of strange coincidences. Robert Graves, who’s my favorite writer said, ‘There were so many chains of coincidence in his life that he’s come to think of it as a habit.’”

Producer Holly Wiersma describes the film as “a throwback to old Hollywood movies which pays homage to the classic romantic comedies. The story is told through the point of view of Imogen Poots’ character, Izzy, and throughout it she references various older movies – the kind I grew up watching – like ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s,’ as well as movie stars of yesteryear such as Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Lana Turner, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. And there are some screwball comedy elements in the film as well.”

“And the story is about a girl who is sitting with an interviewer and telling her about incidents that occurred in New York a couple of years before and how she got to where she is today,” explains Wiersma. “It’s kind of a classic rags to riches story. As people say, it’s a small world. And in this movie, Izzy and all the people she meets through unlikely encounters find their lives changed in the process. Is it coincidence or is it fate?”

The use of music has always been integral to Bogdanovich’s films. “We did a bunch of different scores on this picture,” explains Bogdanovich, “but none of them were quite right. I liked the idea of Louis Armstrong in the score, but every score that we did with records – because I’ve done that through most of my career – was done in counterpoint. So there were blues, but they weren’t bluesy, but rather kind of sarcastic. I think I did about four different scores with records. Then, we finally decided to use a composer. We chose Ed Shearmur, and he did a superb job. And it’s the first picture of mine that’s been scored, that has a real score all the way through. I never did that before. And I really think Ed did great work. He understood the picture. He saw the picture, he liked the picture, he got what it needed, and he did a very good job. We only used a couple of songs, for the beginning and end of the film.”

There are also numerous cameos sprinkled throughout SHE’S FUNNY THAT WAY, including actors who have had significant roles in previous Bogdanovich films, such as Tatum O’Neal, Colleen Camp and Joanna Lumley. Actor Michael Shannon and filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, both of whom Bogdanovich knows, also make appearances.

“The cameos in the film are really terrific,” says Wiersma. “We were in New York and we wanted SHE’S FUNNY THAT WAY to really be a New York movie, so it was great to call people the day of or the day before and say, ‘Hey, come be in our movie. Help us sell New York. This is a movie about Broadway and famous people. Let’s use that to our advantage and put fun people into the cameos, even if they don’t say anything on screen. So we started with Graydon Carter, as Owen Wilson’s limo driver, who’s one of the first people you see when we flashback from Isabella’s interview to New York a few years earlier. With Graydon, it doesn’t get any more New York than that. And then Owen Wilson walks into the hotel and there’s a friend of mine, an actor who lives in California and New York – Jake Hoffman, Dustin Hoffman’s son. We’d run into him in the Bowery and said, ‘Come, be in the movie.’ And then Owen Wilson walks to the hotel desk and there’s the amazing artist and designer, Scott Campbell, who’s walking by. And the one who is walking with him is Erin Heatherton, the Victoria Secret supermodel. We wanted to open the first New York scene with famous New York faces.”

Lionsgate Premiere and Grindstone Entertainment Group present a Lagniappe Films production in association with Venture Forth / Three Point Capital / Lailaps Pictures / Holly Wiersma Productions.

ABOUT THE CAST:

OWEN WILSONOwen Wilson is one of contemporary cinema’s most successful actors, having won great acclaim for his memorable turns in mainstream and independent films. In 2011, Wilson starred in Woody Allen’s Academy Award-nominated feature “Midnight in Paris,” alongside Rachel McAdams and Marion Cotillard. Wilson’s performance as screenwriter and aspiring novelist Gil Pender garnered him a Golden Globe nomination in the category of Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

He will star alongside Zach Galifianakis and Kristen Wiig in Relativity’s heist comedy, “Masterminds” and in The Weinstein Company thriller, “No Escape” with Pierce Brosnan and Michelle Monaghan. Wilson is currently in production on “Zoolander 2” where he will reprise his role as Hansel. Zoolander 2 is due out in Spring 2016.

Wilson’s string of box office successes also include “Little Fockers,” the third installment of the blockbuster “Fockers” series, opposite Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro; “Marley & Me,” with Jennifer Aniston, based on the popular memoir by John Grogan; the “Night At The Museum” franchise opposite Robin Williams and Ben Stiller; the smash hit comedy “Wedding Crashers,” opposite Vince Vaughn; the romantic comedy “You, Me And Dupree”; and as the voice of Lightning McQueen in Disney’s “Cars” and “Cars 2.”

Wilson starred opposite Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman in Wes Anderson’s critically acclaimed film “The Darjeeling Limited,” about brothers taking a spiritual journey through India to rekindle their bond. Wilson has collaborated with director Anderson seven times, including the Academy Award nominated “The Grand Budapest Hotel”; “The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou,” co-starring Bill Murray and Anjelica Huston; “The Royal Tenenbaums,” for which he and Anderson were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay; “Rushmore,” which Wilson co-wrote and co-executive produced; and Anderson’s directorial debut, “Bottle Rocket,” which Wilson starred in and co-wrote. Wilson also lent his voice to Anderson’s Academy Award-nominated animated feature “Fantastic Mr. Fox.”

Wilson’s additional acting credits include “The Internship,” “Free Birds,” “Are You Here,” James L. Brooks’ romantic comedy “How Do You Know,” “The Big Year,” “Hall Pass,” “Marmaduke,” “Starsky & Hutch,” “Zoolander,” “Drillbit Taylor,” “The Wendell Baker Story,” “Shanghai Noon,” “Behind Enemy Lines,” “I Spy,” “Shanghai Knights,” “Armageddon,” “The Minus Man” and “The Cable Guy.”

IMOGEN POOTSAs an emerging actress on the rise, Imogen Poots challenges herself with each new role and continues to evolve her body of work with every project she takes on.

Imogen is currently in production on Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone’s “Conner4Real” opposite Andy Samberg. Produced by Apatow Productions, the film is expected to premiere in 2016.

Following that, Imogen stars in Jeremy Saulnier’s “Green Room”. Imogen portrays Amber, a young woman in a punk rock band who finds themselves trapped in a secluded venue after stumbling upon a horrific act of violence. The film, which is premiering at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival in the Directors Fortnight section, will be released by Broad Green later 2015. Also upcoming, Imogen will be seen in as Della in Terrence Mallick's “The Knight of Cups” with

Christian Bale and Natalie Portman; the film follows a screenwriter living in LA tries to make sense of the strange events occurring around him. BroadGreen will release the film December 11, 2015.

Recently, Imogen completed production on Matthew M. Ross’ “Frank and Lola” opposite Michael Shannon. The story of betrayal, forgiveness, obsession and revenge follows Frank (Shannon) and Lola (Poots) on a Halloween night in which Frank, a Las Vegas chef, falls in love with Lola, a mysterious girl who is new to town. Prior to that, Imogen lensed the independent comedy-drama “A Country Called Home” which Anna Axster directed from her own screenplay. The film centers on a jaded young woman a small Texas town finding her world unexpectedly shaken by the news of her estranged father’s death which sets her off on a journey to redefine her path in life.

Since making her breakthrough performance as “Tammy” in Juan Carlos Fesnadilo's critically acclaimed film “28 Weeks Later”, Imogen has continued to impress critics and audiences alike. She was most recently seen in John Ridley’s “All Is By My Side” co-starring Andre Benjamin and Hayley Atwell, Pascal Chaumameil's “A Long Way Down” with Aaron Paul, Pierce Brosnan and Toni Collette and Irvine Welsh's “Filth”, a follow up to “Trainspotting”, with James McAvoy.

Other film credits include Scott Waugh’s “Need for Speed” co-starring Aaron Paul, Tom Gormican's “That Awkward Moment” opposite Zac Efron; Michael Winterbottom's “The Look Of Love”, co-starring opposite Steve Coogan and Tamsin Egerton; Daniel Algrant's “Greetings from Tim Buckley” opposite Penn Badgley; Yaron Zilberman's “A Late Quartet” alongside Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Mark Ivanir; Simon Aboud's “Comes a Bright Day”, alongside Craig Roberts, Kevin McKidd and Timothy Spall. Additionally, Craig Gillespie's “Fright Night”, opposite Colin Farrell and Anton Yelchin; Cary Fukunaga's “Jane Eyre” alongside Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender; “Chatroom” with Aaron Johnson; Neil Marshall's “Centurion” with Michael Fassbender; “Waking Madison” opposite Elisabeth Shue, Sarah Roemer and Frances Conroy; “Solitary Man” with Michael Douglas and Susan Sarandon; “Cracks” with Juno Temple; Richard Linklater's “Me and Orson Welles” with Zac Efron and Christian McKay;

Beyond film, Imogen' television credits include BBC's “Miss Austen Regrets” as “Fanny Knight” ITV's “Bouquet of Barbed Wire” as “Prue Sorensen,” and BBC's “Christopher and His Kind” as “Jean Ross.”

KATHRYN HAHNKathryn Hahn’s versatility in both comedy and drama has made her one of Hollywood’s most sought after actresses and has shaped a career full of memorable roles.

On the small screen, Hahn can currently be seen on SHOWTIME’s dark comedy “Happyish” as the female lead opposite Steve Coogan. Hahn will play the wife to Coogan’s character, a man facing his own obsolescence after his advertising agency is taken over.

With a busy slate of upcoming feature projects, Hahn is in various other films including M. Night Shyamalan’s horror comedy “The Visit”; and “Captain Fantastic” opposite Viggo Mortensen.

Hahn has recently been seen in “The D Train,” which premiered at Sundance and was picked up for distribution by IFC Films; Brad Bird’s sci-fi mystery “Tomorrowland” opposite George Clooney, which was released recently released by Disney.

She was also recently seen in Warner Bros.’ family dramedy “This is Where I Leave You,” directed by Shawn Levy and based on the novel by Jonathan Tropper. Others in the ensemble included Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Rose Byrne and Jane Fonda. Previously, she was seen starring opposite Jason Bateman in his directorial debut, “Bad Words,” which was released by Focus features, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” starring and directed by Ben Stiller and the hit comedy “We’re the Millers,” with Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis. Hahn also starred in Jill Soloway’s “Afternoon Delight,” which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and garnered her a 2013 “Breakthrough Actor” Gotham Award nomination.

Other feature film credits include stand-out roles in “Step Brothers,” playing John C. Reilly’s outrageous and funny love interest and “Revolutionary Road” playing Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio's neighbor.  Her additional film credits include “Wanderlust,” “Our Idiot Brother,” “How Do You Know,” “The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard,” “The Last Mimzy,” “The Holiday,” “Around the Bend,” and “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.”

Other recent TV credits include a role in the critically acclaimed and Golden Globe award winning Amazon original series “Transparent” created by Jill Soloway, a guest-starring arc on the NBC hit show “Parks & Recreation,” and HBO’s “Newsroom” and “Girl.”   Her previous roles include NBC’s “Crossing Jordan,” “Four Kings,” “Hung” and “Free Agents.”  She also has lent her voice to the FX animated series “Chozen,” and Fox’s “Bob’s Burgers” and “American Dad!”

Hahn made her Broadway debut in the Tony-winning play “Boeing-Boeing,” alongside Bradley Whitford, Gina Gershon, Mary McCormack, Christine Baranski and Mark Rylance.  “Boeing-Boeing” won the 2008 Tony in the category of Best Revival of a Play.

No stranger to the stage, her theatre credits also include “Dead End,” at the Ahmanson Theater and Huntington Theater Company; “Ten Unknowns,” at Huntington Theater Company; “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Chaucer in Rome” and “Camino Real,” at Williamstown Mainstage; and “Hedda Gabler,” at Williamstown/Baystreet.

Hahn received her Bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and her Masters in Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama, where she appeared on stage in “Othello” and “The Birds.”

WILL FORTEWill Forte has established himself as one of the most versatile actors in film and television.  He spent eight seasons making audiences laugh on “Saturday Night Live” and has been extremely busy with projects since he wrapped his final season in 2010. Forte currently stars in Fox’s critically acclaimed comedy series “The Last Man on Earth,” which he created and produces alongside Chris Miller and Phil Lord. The series was recently renewed for a second season and will return this fall. Forte also recently wrapped production on the upcoming Adam Sandler comedy feature for Netflix, “The Ridiculous 6”. Additionally, he will co-star in the New Line comedy “Keanu” opposite Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, which is set to release in early 2016.

Forte recently received much acclaim for his role in Alexander Payne’s Academy Award and Golden Globe nominated film, “Nebraska”. The film, which premiered at Cannes and co-stars Bruce Dern, was released by Paramount. For his role as ‘David Grant,’ Forte was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award in the Best Supporting Male category and he won the National Board of Review's Best Supporting Actor Award. Forte also previously starred in “Life of Crime” based on Elmore Leonard’s novel “The Switch”. He co-stared opposite Jennifer Aniston, John Hawkes and Tim Robbins, and the film closed out the 2013 Toronto Film Festival. He also had a

lead role in “Run and Jump”, which debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2013 and won the Best Irish Feature Award at the Galway Film Festival.

Forte is also known for his role in Universal’s feature film adaptation of “MacGruber”. In addition to starring in the lead role, he co-wrote the script with Jorma Taccone and John Solomon. Other film credits include comedies “That’s My Boy” opposite Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg, as well as “The Watch” opposite Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill and Vince Vaughn. Forte also lent his voice to “The Lego Movie”, Sony’s “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” and the sequel “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2”. Additionally, he wrote and starred in the feature “The Brothers Solomon”, opposite Will Arnett and Kristen Wiig. 

Forte also has had many memorable guest starring roles on hit television comedies. His work on NBC’s award-winning “30 Rock” earned him a 2013 Primetime Emmy nomination in the Guest Actor category. He has also had roles in “How I Met Your Mother,” “Parks and Recreation,” “Up All Night,” “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” and on HBO’s “Flight of the Conchords.” He is a frequent guest on “Conan,” portraying a crazed Ted Turner.  Additionally, he has lent his voice to many animated series including the upcoming “Moonbeam City,” “Bob’s Burgers,” “Gravity Falls,” “The Simpsons,” “The Cleveland Show” and “Sit Down, Shut Up” from creator Mitch Hurwitz, as well as MTV’s “Clone High.”

Forte came to “SNL” from L.A.’s improv-sketch theater “The Groundlings” where “SNL” alum Will Ferrell, Phil Hartman and Maya Rudolph got their respective starts. Forte has a great deal of experience behind the camera - serving as producer on “That 70’s Show” and as story editor for “3rd Rock from the Sun” and “Action,” as well as working as a writer for “Late Show with David Letterman” and the MTV Movie Awards.

Forte currently resides in LA.

RHYS IFANSRhys Ifans is a gifted actor known for his enduring presence, his distinctive approach to comedy, and his ability to elegantly disappear into compelling and complex roles that are always memorable.

His next project will see Ifans star in Oliver Stone’s “Snowden” alongside a Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley and Tom Wilkinson. Other future projects due for release in 2015/16 include: “The Marriage of Reason and Squalor,” first television drama from internationally renowned visual artist Jake Chapman; James Bobin’s “Alice and Wonderland: Looking through the Glass” (2016), alongside stellar cast Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter; “Dominion” as ‘Dylan Thomas’ directed by Steven Bernstein; Kevin Allen’s “Under Milk Wood” as ‘Captain Cat’ and “Len and Company” directed by Tim Godsall.

In 2014, Ifans starred in one man play “Protest Song” at the National Theatre and received excellent reviews across the board from audiences and critics alike. Notably, Ifans played the role of ‘Dr. Curt Connors’ in Marc Webb’s “The Amazing Spiderman” starring alongside Emma Stone, Andrew Garfield and Martin Sheen. He appeared in Judd Apatow's “The Five-Year Engagement,” opposite Jason Segal and Emily Blunt in independent film “Serena,” directed by Susanne Bier and starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper. “Another Me”, saw Ifans join an ensemble cast including Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Claire Forlani and Sophie Turner in a film written and directed by Isabel Coixet.

Rhys Ifans is perhaps the most commercially known for his scene-stealing performance in Roger Michell's “Notting Hill” (1999) where he starred opposite Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant. For this portrayal of Hugh Grant’s roommate ‘Spike,’ Ifans received a BAFTA nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role.

Additional credits include: “Anonymous,” directed by Roland Emmerich; the closing chapter to the “Harry Potter” franchise, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”; Noah Baumbach's dark comedy, “Greenberg” with Ben Stiller; “The Boat that Rocked”, starring Philip Seymour-Hoffman; Shekhar Kapur's “Elizabeth: The Golden Age”; Peter Webber's “Hannibal Rising; Once Upon A Time in the Midlands”, directed by Shane Meadows; Michel Gondry's comedy drama, “Human Nature”, where he starred opposite Patricia Arquette; Mike Figgis’ “Hotel”; Lasse Hallström's “The Shipping News” and Howard Deutch's comedy “The Replacements”, where he starred alongside Keanu Reeves and Gene Hackman.

On television, he played the role of Peter Cook in Terry Johnson's “Not Only But Always”, for which he won the BAFTA for Best Actor. He also appeared in “Shakespeare Shorts”; “Trial and Retribution”; “The Two Franks”; “Judas and the Gimp”; “Night Shift”; “Spatz”; “Burning Love” and “Review”. Rhys played the lead in Marc Evans' Sky Playhouse short “Gifted”.

In theatre, Ifans starred at the Donmar Warehouse in Patrick Marber's “Don ‘Juan’ in Soho”, Robert Delamere's “Accidental Death of an Anarchist”, and Michael Sheen's “Bad Finger”. He was seen at the National Theatre in Matthew Warchus' “Volpone” and Roger Michell's “Under Milk Wood”; the Duke of York Theatre in Hettie MacDonald's “Beautiful Thing” at the Royal Court Theatre in James MacDonald's “Thyesters” and at the Royal Exchange in Braham Murray's “Smoke” and Ronald Harwood's “Poison Pen”.

Beyond film and television, Rhys made a guest appearance for the rock band Oasis in the video for their single “The Importance of Being Idle,” for which he accepted their award for Video of the Year at the 2005/6 NME Awards. Ifans was born and raised in Wales, where he attended youth acting schools at Theatre.

JENNIFER ANISTONJennifer Aniston was born in Sherman Oaks, CA. Her family moved to New York City when her father was cast in a role on the daytime drama “Love of Life.” As an eleven-year-old student at the Rudolf Steiner School in New York City, she joined the drama club and her experience there encouraged her to pursue acting as a career. She then studied further at New York’s High School of the Performing Arts. After she graduated in 1987, she landed roles in the off-Broadway production For Dear Life at New York’s Public Theater and Dancing On Checker’s Grave.

Jennifer’s television career then started after being cast as a series regular on “Molloy” and “The Edge.” She had guest-starring roles on “Quantum Leap” and “Burke’s Law” and a starring role in “Ferris Bueller.” She was then cast in perhaps her most well known role as “Rachel Green” in the classic television comedy “Friends.” For her role as “Rachel,” she received five Emmy nominations, two SAG Award nominations and two Golden Globe nominations. She won an Emmy (2002) and a Golden Globe (2003) for Lead Actress in a Comedy. The generosity of her fans lead to her winning six People’s Choice Awards.

During hiatus from “Friends,” Jennifer pursued a budding film career. She had roles in “Then There Was You”,” Picture Perfect”, “Dreams For An Insomniac”, “She’s The One, Rock Star”, And “The Object Of My Affection” -- the first of her roles with Paul Rudd -- and “Bruce Almighty”

with Jim Carrey. One of her most critically acclaimed roles was 2002’s “The Good Girl” with Jake Gyllenhaal. Jennifer received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her performance.

With the emotional end of “Friends” and her time as Rachel Green, Jennifer devoted herself full-time to her movie career. She had starring roles in “Rumor Has It” with Kevin Costner and Shirley Maclaine, “Derailed” with Clive Owen and the box office hit “The Break Up” with Vince Vaughn. For her role as a depressed housekeeper in director Nicole Holofcener’s “Friends With Money”, the independent film which also starred Frances McDormand and Catherine Keener and for which Jennifer received some of the best reviews of her career.

Proving her ability to navigate the world of both independent and studio financed films, Jennifer also costarred in the box office hits in the emotionally moving “Marley And Me” with Owen Wilson and “He’s Just Not That Into You”.  She also starred opposite Gerard Butler in “The Bounty Hunter”, Aaron Eckhart in “Love Happens” and Adam Sandler in “Just Go With It”.  After costarring in her first film with Jason Bateman in “The Switch”, Jennifer and Jason costarred in the box office hit “Horrible Bosses” which also starred Jason Sudeikis and Colin Farrell, in which Jennifer played a sexually insatiable dentist.  Jennifer paired up again with Paul Rudd in “Wanderlust”. In 2014 Jennifer can be seen in the comedic hit “We’re The Millers” and “Horrible Bosses 2”. Her film “Cake” directed by Daniel Barnz premiered at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival. Jennifer was nominated for a Golden Globe, SAG Award, and Critics Choice Award for her portrayal as Claire, a woman dealing with chronic pain. Earlier this year Jennifer received the Montecito Award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival to honor her for her work over the years.

In addition to acting, Jennifer has pursued her interest in directing. Her first film was the short “Room 10” which was part of an award winning short film series. She most recently directed one of an anthology of five short films “Project Five” exploring the impact of breast cancer on people’s lives.  Jennifer is also a producer on “Call Me Crazy” a Project Five film premiering on Lifetime in April. 

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS:

PETER BOGDANOVICH – CO-WRITER/DIRECTORAfter spending most of his teens studying acting with the legendary Stella Adler, and working as an actor in live TV and various theaters around the country, including the New York and the American Shakespeare Festivals, Peter Bogdanovich at age 20 began directing plays Off-Broadway and in N.Y. summer theater. He also wrote for the Museum of Modern Art a series of three monographs on Orson Welles, Howard Hawks, and Alfred Hitchcock, the first such retrospective studies of these directors in America. He also began writing a classic series of feature articles and profiles for Esquire, doing the groundbreaking Humphrey Bogart tribute, as well as definitive pieces on James Stewart, Jerry Lewis, and John Ford, among others.

In 1966 he began working in movies first as Roger Corman’s assistant on the hit, “The Wild Angels”; Bogdanovich without credit re-wrote most of the script and directed the second unit. Within a year, Corman financed Bogdanovich’s first film as director-writer-producer-actor with the cult classic, “Targets”, starring Boris Karloff in his last great film role, virtually playing himself. In 1971, Bogdanovich commanded the approving attention of both critics and public with “The Last Picture Show”, starring then-unknowns Jeff Bridges and Cybill Shepherd, Ellen Burstyn, Cloris Leachman, and other newcomers, a brilliant look at small-town Texan-American life in the early 1950s. The film won the New York Film Critics’ Circle Award for Best Screenplay

(which Bogdanovich co-wrote with novelist Larry McMurtry), the British Academy Award for Best Screenplay, and received a total of eight Academy Award nominations, including three for Bogdanovich; Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman won for Best Supporting Actor and Actress. A couple of years ago, the Library of Congress designated the film as a National Treasure.

An unapologetic popularizer of the classic Hollywood era of great movie makers, Bogdanovich had a second huge success in 1972 with “What’s Up, Doc?”, a madcap romantic farce starring Barbara Streisand and Ryan O’Neal, made in the style of ‘30s screwball comedy; it won The Writers’ Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay, on which Bogdanovich had worked with Buck Henry, David Newman and Bob Benton. One year later, he recreated a memorable vision of rural ‘30s America with “Paper Moon”, a Depression Era tale about a pair of unlikely con artists, which got four Academy Award nominations and nabbed a Supporting Actress Oscar for nine-year-old Tatum O’Neal in her screen debut, the youngest performer ever to win an Academy Award. The film was also awarded the Silver Shell at The San Sebastian Film Festival.

Bogdanovich followed this up with his critically acclaimed (N.Y. Times, Newsweek, etc.) version of Henry James’ classic “Daisy Miller”, for which he was named Best Director at the Brussels Film Festival. Another highly praised drama followed with Bogdanovich’s version of the Paul Theroux novel, “Saint Jack”, starring Ben Gazzara and Denholm Elliot, which told the story of an amiable and ambitious American pimp living in Singapore. Shot entirely on location, the picture received the coveted Critics’ Prize at the Venice Film Festival. After directing Audrey Hepburn in her last starring picture, the bittersweet romantic comedy, “They All Laughed”, co-starring Gazzara, John Ritter, and Dorothy Stratten, and filmed in New York, Bogdanovich scored another major triumph with 1985’s “Mask”, starring Cher and Eric Stoltz in the true story of a boy whose face has been terribly disfigured by a rare disease and the mother who has instilled in her son a sense of confidence and love. The film won an Academy Award and Cher won the Best Actress Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

After guiding Michael Frayn’s classic theater comedy “Noises Off” to the screen for Steven Spielberg’s company with an all-star cast, including Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, and Carol Burnett, as well as the well-received sequel to “The Last Picture Show”, based on Larry McMurtry’s best-seller, “Texasville”. In 2002, Bogdanovich again received critical praise and commercial success with “The Cat’s Meow”. This suspenseful and entertaining satirical drama tells the true story of a mysterious 1924 death on board the yacht of William Randolph Hearst; starring Kirsten Dunst (as Hearst’s mistress Marion Davies), Eddie Izzard (as Charlie Chaplin), Edward Herrmann (as Hearst) and Jennifer Tilly (as Louella Parsons), all of whom garnered glowing notices.

Having published over twelve books on various aspects of film and filmmaking, Bogdanovich currently has four of his works in print: the bestselling “Who The Devil Made It” (1997), which includes interviews with sixteen legendary directors, including Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, George Cukor, and Howard Hawks (5 printings in hardcover; currently 4th paperback printing); “Peter Bogdanovich’s Movie Of The Week” (1999), a collection of pieces on fifty-two film recommendations for a year of classics (in its 3rd printing); “This Is Orson Welles” (revised and expanded edition 1998), comprised of his conversations over a period of five years with by now nearly mythological co-author Orson Welles (in its 5th printing), already translated into five foreign languages; and his classic interview book, “John Ford”, which has been continuously in print since its first edition in 1967. “Who The Devil Made It” also received a Special Citation from the Los Angeles Film Critics’ Association, as well as the coveted Barbari Award from the Italian Film Critics’ Association.

In 2004 came the premiere of Bogdanovich’s 3-hour ABC special, “The Mystery Of Natalie Wood”, as well as his hard-hitting docudrama about the infamous ballplayer Pete Rose, called HUSTLE. At the end of the year, Knopf published his latest book, “Who The Hell’s In It”, which features chapters on 25 stars he knew or worked with including Cary Grant, James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney, Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando. Also shown was the episode he directed, “Sentimental Education,” for the 5th season of the award-winning HBO series, “The Sopranos”, in which for four seasons he has had the recurring role of the shrink’s (Lorraine Bracco’s) shrink.

In 2007 he directed the 4-hour documentary, “Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers”, RUNNIN' DOWN A DREAM, about Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers which Chronicled the history of the band, from its inception as Mudcrutch, right up to the 30th anniversary concert in Petty's hometown of Gainesville, Florida. The movie features interviews with George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Stevie Nicks, Dave Grohl, Jeff Lynne, Rick Rubin, Johnny Depp, Jackson Browne and more. Petty's solo career is also touched on, as is his time with The Traveling Wilburys. The film was awarded the 2009 Grammy for Best Long Form Music Video.

LOUISE STRATTEN – CO-WRITER/PRODUCERLouise B. Stratten was born in Vancouver B.C. Canada. She has extensive leadership within the entertainment industry. She has achieved stellar results as an actress, a writer and producer. Louise studied acting with Stella Adler theater studio. As an actress, she has appeared in several films and T.V. productions. She co-starred with Rob Lowe in "Illegally Yours", with Cecily Tyson in "The Price of Heaven", and along Vivica A. Fox in "Saintly Switch" on the network Wonderful World of Disney. She can be seen in Henry Jaglom's film "Irene in Time", Raymond De Felitta’s “City Island” as well as in Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained.”

Louise has worked within a producing capacity, with The Kennedy-Marshall Company, who produces films with Steven Spielberg. Her accomplishments also include producing the film “Noises Off” and news segments for the CBS morning news, along with the new comedy SHE IS FUNNY THAT WAY. She continues to soar working on “One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film” and began developing a new film “Wait for Me.”

She is currently writing a pilot for a T.V. series, as well as a new personal memoir about her sister Dorothy Stratten. Her exceptional dedication and passion as a writer have been the inspiration of a project in development, a shelter for victims of domestic violence. “The Dorothy Stratten Foundation” She divides her time between NY and LA.

Louise has also nurtured her involvement with several local homeless shelters including “The Downtown Women’s Center” in L.A. California and sponsoring the “1736 Family Crisis Center.” She has gotten personally involved, and believes she can contribute more and this role has certainly made her a much stronger and better woman today. She has helped numerous women and children gain self-esteem and confidence.

LOGAN LEVY - PRODUCERAfter completing his BA at Southern Methodist University’s COX School of Business, Mr. Levy went on to begin his career working at Basil Iwanyk’s Warner Bros. based Thunder Road Pictures; while at Thunder Road the company was involved in movies such as “The Town” and “Clash of the Titans”. After Thunder Road, Levy went on to the newly formed bay area firm

Gordian Wealth Management where he worked as an analyst on the investment side of the business.

Combining his knowledge of film with his experience as an investment analyst Mr. Levy founded Lagniappe Films LLC. While at Lagniappe Mr. Levy put together the financing for and executive produced Academy Award winner “Dallas Buyer’s Club” as well as producing other titles that include “A Case Of You” and “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”. Lagniappe looks to maximize investors upside by creating strong foreign value through packaging high profile talent in enticing roles.

HOLLY WIERSMA - PRODUCERProducer Holly Wiersma moved to Los Angeles in 1997, where she began her career as a casting associate on such films as “Blade”, “The Rainmaker” and “Amistad”.  Soon after, she developed a strong passion for independent filmmaking and switched her focus from casting to producing, which has kept her busy ever since. 

In 1999, Wiersma was co-producer on the Sundance Film Festival hit “Shadow Hours” directed by Isaac Eaton, starring Balthazar Getty and Peter Weller; and in 2000, she went on to produce the films “Rent Control” and “Comic Book Villians”.  In 2003, Wiersma produced “Wonderland” starring Kate Bosworth, Val Kilmer, Dylan McDermott, Michael Pitt and Josh Lucas. In 2004 Wiersma completed production on four films: “Happy Endings”, “Down In The Valley”, “The Quiet” and “The Tenants”. Variety named Wiersma one of “Ten Producers to Watch” in 2003 and FADE IN magazine featured her in the “100 People You Need To Know” in 2004. In 2007, Wiersma produced the two time Golden Globe nominated “Bobby”, written and directed by Emilio Estevez, and The Weinstein Company's “Factory Girl” starring Sienna Miller as socialite Edie Sedgwick, which also received critical praise and award nominations. In 2009, Wiersma re-teamed with Edward Norton for the film “Stone”.  Directed by John Curran and also starring Robert De Niro and Milla Jovovich, the film premiered to stellar reviews and screened at The New York Film Festival.  In 2010, Wiersma was back in New York City filming Dito Montiel’s “the son of no one”.  Starring Channing Tatum, Ray Liotta, Katie Holmes, Juliette Binoche and Al Pacino, Variety proclaimed, “No indie producer can put together a cast better than Holly Wiersma.”  The film was later chosen as the closing night film at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. In 2013 and 2014, Wiersma completed production on three films: “Catch Hell”, co-written, directed by and starring Ryan Phillippe. “A Case Of You”, co-written by and starring Justin Long, along with Peter Dinklage, Sam Rockwell, Evan Rachel Wood, Brendan Fraser, Busy Philipps and Sienna Miller. And Academy Award winning true-life HIV drama “Dallas Buyers Club” starring Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner and Jared Leto.

This year, Wiersma completed production on “Elvis & Nixon” starring Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey, Academy Award nominated Michael Shannon, Alex Pettyfer, Evan Peters, Colin Hanks, Ahna O’Reilly, Ashley Benson and Johnny Knoxville, to be released Winter 2015 With considerable experience to draw from, Wiersma looks forward to discovering more unique voices in the independent world.

GEORGE DRAKOULIAS – PRODUCERGeorge Drakoulias (born 1965) is a Greek-American music producer, film producer, music supervisor, and a former A&R executive at the American Recordings label. He is often considered a protégé of Rick Rubin.

Drakoulias grew up in Syosset, New York and attended Syosset High School where he started his musical career with a band called Lifeline. He went to college at New York University (NYU), where he majored in music and business. There he befriended Rick Rubin, whom he met after he started dating an ex-girlfriend of Rubin's. He became one of the first hires for Rubin's Def Jam label. As an A&R man, he discovered L.L. Cool J and the Beastie Boys. After Rubin left Def Jam to move to Los Angeles and form the Def American label, which was later retitled American Recordings, Drakoulias moved with him and became a producer. Drakoulias signed The Black Crowes, The Jayhawks and The Freewheelers to American Recordings, and produced albums for all three. He has also produced albums for artists including Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Maria McKee, Primal Scream, Madrugada and Screaming Trees. He has also produced tracks for Kula Shaker and served as a music supervisor for a number of movies, including “Blades of Glory”, “School of Rock”, “Star Trek”, “Team America: World Police”, “Tropic Thunder”, “The Runaways”, “Zodiac”, “The Hangover”, “The Hangover Part II” and “Super 8.”

CREDITS

Directed byPeter Bogdanovich

Written byLouise Stratten &

Peter Bogdanovich

Produced byLogan Levy

Holly Wiersma

Produced byLouise Stratten

George Drakoulias

Executive ProducersWes Anderson

Noah Baumbach

Director of PhotographyYaron Orbach

Production DesignerJane Musky

EditorsNick Moore

Pax Wassermann

Lionsgate Premiere andGrindstone Entertainment Group

Present

A Lagniappe Films

Production

In Association withVenture Forth

Three Point CapitalLailaps Pictures and

Holly Wiersma Productions

Owen Wilson

In Peter Bogdanovich’s SHE’S FUNNY THAT WAY

Imogen PootsKathryn Hahn

Will ForteLucy Punch

Joanna LumleyCybill ShepherdIlleana DouglasRichard Lewis

Austin PendletonGeorge Morfogen

Ahna O’ReillyJake Hoffman

Tovah Feldshuhwith Rhys Ifans

and Jennifer Aniston

Casting byJen Rudin

Executive ProducersCassian Elwes

Robert Ogden Barnum

Executive ProducersJacob PechenikAndy NeubergerBrice Sanderford

Executive ProducersCharles CaplingerNajeeb ThomasCaptain Mauzner

Executive ProducersJeff Rice

Christa CampbellLati Grobman

Executive ProducersNils Dunker

Josef SteinbergerGeorge Steiner

Co-ProducersMichael SleddParry Creedon

Co-Executive ProducersDarin DusanRodney BatyCarrie Menke

Antonia Bogdanovich

Music byEdward Shearmur

Costume DesignerPeggy Schnitzer

Music SupervisorRobin Urdang

Associate ProducersColleen CampBrandon ParkChris Cuseo

Unit Production Managers Michael SleddParry Creedon

First Assistant Director Mariela Comitini

Second Assistant Director Brad Robinson

Isabella Patterson Imogen PootsJudy Illeana DouglasLimo Driver Graydon CarterArnold Albertson Owen WilsonHotel Guest #1 Scott CampbellHotel Guest #2 Erin HeathertonHotel Receptionist Melanie HillHotel Bellman Jake HoffmanSeth Gilbert Rhys IfansAl Finkelstein Richard LewisNettie Finkelstein Cybill ShepherdVickie Debi MazarJudge Pendergast Austin PendletonHarold Fleet George MorfogenMiriam Pendergast Tovah FeldshuhJane Claremont Jennifer AnistonJoshua Fleet Will ForteElizabeth Ahna O'Reilly

Delta Simmons Kathryn Hahn     David Albertson Jake Lucas     Josie Albertson Sydney Lucas     Sandy Nora Jobling     Auditioning Girl #1 Nicole Kohut     Auditioning Girl #2 Bergen Sanderford     Maitre'd Dimitri Dimitrov     Waitress Tatum O'Neal     Frankie Ren Croney     Cece Colleen Camp     Margie Jennifer Esposito     Bernie's Floor Manager David Calderazzo     Bernie's Security Albert Jones     Limo Driver Besnik Shabani     Macy's Greeter Poppy Delevingne     Seth Fan Megan Rosen     Policeman Macy's Michael Shannon     Delta's Father Peter Cormican     Delta's Mother Polly Adams     Kandi Lucy Punch     Wrestler #1 Nur Khan     Wrestler #2 Chazz Menendez     Wrestling Spectator #1 Brian Donahue     Wrestling Spectator #2 Nell Schaap     Vivian Claremont Joanna Lumley     Himself Quentin Tarantino     

                          

Additional Editing Gregory Tillman     Production Consultant Lauren Bratman     

          

Stunt Coordinators Manny Siverio     

  Elliot Santiago       

          

Camera Operator, David IsernSteadicam Operator     First Assistant Camera Scott Tinsley       Second Assistant Camera Nicole Cosgrove       DIT Tiffany Armour     Stills Photographer KC Bailey       Camera Department Caleb TouAssistant    

             

Additional Photography Nathan Levine-Heaney     

          

Script Supervisor Jean-Paul Chreky     

          

Sound Mixer Damian Canelos     Boom Operator Vince Reed Camuto       

          

Art Director Ryan Heck     Art Department Mason CheslerCoordinator    

   Graphic Designers Max Bode       

  Joe Kepple       Draftsman Matthew J. Sama     Art Department PA William Hopper       

Art Department Intern Natasha Le Sourd       

          

Set Decorator Jonathan Rose     Leadperson TJ Horan       Buyer Lisa Weeks       On-Set Dresser Jeni Harden       Set Dressers Derrick Demeskey       

  Gerrard McMorrow       

  John Scalzi       

          

Set Decoration Driver Roxana Rivera     

          

Property Master Jennifer Santucci     Assistant Property Tim LindenMasters Maria Sylvania       

              

Assistant Costume Danielle BurakovskyDesigner  

   Wardrobe Supervisor Sonja Cizmazia       Set Costumer Joey Armon       

  Keia Thompson       

  Angie Zeigler       Costume Assistant Bryan Gilmore     Costume Intern Brooke Levy       

          

Gaffer Shawn Greene     Best Boy Electric Gennero Morrone       Company Electrics Paul Marfe       

  Joel Minnich     

  Damian Ward     Generator Operators Philip Dixon     

  Nate Loehrke     Basecamp Generator Steve CalitriOperators Brian Kelly       

             

Key Grip Anthony Gamiello     Best Boy Grip John Nasta     Dolly Grip Christopher Gamiello       Company Grips Christopher Elassad       

  Rocco Proscia       

  Erinne Lukaniec       

          

Make Up Department Barbara LacyHead  

   Key Make Up Artist Paul Molnar       Make Up Artist Angela Levinfor J. Aniston     

        

Hair Department Head Vanessa Sims     Key Hair Stylist John Roberson       Hair Stylist for J. Aniston Linda Flowers     

          

Location Manager Jeff Caron       Assistant Location Alex StarkeManager    

   Assistant Location Greg MorrisonManager    

   Location Production Shanye FaysonAssistants Samer Nezamy       

        

          

Locations Intern Jacqueline Noack     Parking Coordinator Cisco Marcial       Assistant Parking Richard RentasCoordinator    

             

Production Coordinator Greg Outcalt       Assistant Production Ashleigh TuckerCoordinator    

   Production Secretary Daniel D'Amico       Office Production Assistants Josh Barker       

  Nick Gazzillo       

  Kieran Murray       Production Office Intern Iuliana Diaconesco       

          

Production Accountant Greg Wyrick       Assistant Production Rob BuschgansAccountant    

   Payroll Accountant Tammi Haynes       Accounting Clerk Patrick Allen       

          

Second Second Steve LaffertyAssistant Director     Key Set Production Nick NotteAssistant    

   Set Production Assistants Bonnie Cook       

  Brittney Diez       

  Kyle Garrison       

  Nicole Real       

  Courtnee Rizzo       

  Lisa Simon       

          

PA Drivers Clayton Brown       

  Malica Chehrzad       

  Randy Frey       

  Omar Hernandez       

  Avi Schraeter       

          

Set Interns Mari Ayala       

  Will O'Donnell       

          

Assistant to Mr. Bernice MillerBogdanovich  

             

First Assistant Editor Dylan Correll     

        

Additional Assistant Sandra GranovskyEditors Ken Scribner     

  Gina Zappala     

                

Post-Production Jonathan FerrantelliSupervisor Tara Carrozza     Post-Production Jason FournetCoordinators  

              

Stand Ins Eric Aschenbrenner       

  Casper Andreasson       

  JP Cassidy       

  Leann Clinton       

  Misty Gibson       

  Sharon Juchniewicz       

  Mack Kuhr       

  Jones Miller     

  Madeline Russell       

  Sarah Anne Ward       

  Bart Wilder     

        

Casting Associate Bess Fifer       

          

Background Casting: Central Casting New York     

  Brad Kenny     Extras Casting Stephanie DeCourcey       Casting Assistant Adam Jamebozorgi       

          

Animal Wrangler Dawn Barkan-Hessler       Animal Trainers Elizabeth Bradley       

  Sue Gural       

  Lori Schweizer       

  Bonnie Waseleski       

          

Clearances/Product Laurie GershonPlacement    

             

Transportation Coordinator Dougie Salomone/ Captain     Transportation Co-CaptainPaul Castiglione       Drivers Bernie Ackerman       

  Joe Appel       

  Daniel Davis       

  Tom Gallagher       

  Ron Goddard       

  Jerry Malinaric       

  Sal Rotundo       

  Mike Scalese       

  Chris Schirripa       

  Pat Trollan       

  Steve Whitt       

  Paul Wiener       

          

Construction Coordinator Rich Hebrank       

          

Charge Scenic Mary Owens     Scenic Kristin Singh       

          

Catering Take First Inc.       

        

Craft Service EW Crafty     Key Craft Service Eva Vedock     Assistant Craft Service William Sepulveda     

        

Post Production J.R. CraigmileAccountant  

   Assistant Post Production Colette HalinanAccountant  

           

Music Editor Missy Cohen     

        

Supervising Sound Editor Robert Hein     Dialogue Editors Sylvia Menno     

  David Wahnon     ADR Editor Dan Korintus     Foley Engineer George Lara     Foley Artist Ryan Collison     

        

Re-Recording Mixer Rob Fernandez    Re-Recording Mix Ian Gaffney-RosenfeldTechnician  

   ADR Mixer Bobby Johanson     ADR Recordist Michael Rivera     

        

Foley Recorded at C5     

        

Sound Editorial, Harbor Picture CompanyADR and Mix at     

        

Title Design by Chris Cuseo     

        

David Voice Over Ethan McConnell     

        

VFX by The Molecule     VFX Supervisor Luke DiTommaso     VFX Executive Producers Chris Healer     

  Andrew Bly     VFX Sr Producer Henry Langstraat     VFX Producers Aniela Sidorska     

  Lotta Forssman     

Compositing Supervisor Mark Friedman     Compositors Austin Meyers     

  Jonathan Skabla     

  Victoria Penzes     

  Matthew Perry     

  Chad Sikora     

  Christopher Hayes     

  Melissa Peralta     

  Henry Jean     CG Supervisor Kenneth Polonski     VFX Coordinators Joshua Sacavage     

  Audra Coulombe     

        

Digital Intermediate Harbor Picture Companyand Editorial Services by     

        

Colorist Joe Gawler     Additional Colorist Roman Hankewycz     Senior DI Producer Molle DeBartolo     Conform Artist Christian Farfán     DI Assist Dylan Ball     DI Coordinator Justin Scutieri     Head of Operations Pieter M. Van Hattem     VP of Sales Jason Dunkel     Video Technician Gautam Sinha     

          

Piano Edward Shearmur     Guitar George Doering     

Violin Mark Robertson     Cello David Low     Bass Ian Walker     Clarinet Phil O'Connor     Percussion MB Gordy     

          

Production Assistants Harrison lee     

  Lance Trevino     

         Legal Services Cohen Gardner LLPprovided by     Payroll Services EPSG Talent ServicesProvided by     Insurance provided by Dewitt Stern Group, Inc.     Script Clearance Research IndieClear  

   Completion Bond Film Finances Inc.provided by     

            

Andrew RosenbergVictoria Adjmi

Trevor ColhounJack Huston

Nora FlahertyJustin Long

Christian LongKevin Tent

Tara Summers22 Indiana

Brett RatnerTom Gormican

Kat CoiroLaura EngelOren Segal

Britton SanderfordFrank Levy

"Cheek To Cheek"Written by Irving Berlin

Performed by Fred AstaireCourtesy of The Verve Music Group under license from Universal Music Enterprises

"Bill Bailey"Arranged by John H SimsPerformed by Zoot Sims

Courtesy of Verse Music GroupBy arrangement with d2 Music

"Yankee Doodle"Arranged By Ben AshfordCourtesy of Focus Music

Under license from 5 Alarm Music / Imagem Production Music 

"Coco Beach"Written and Performed by David N. Wilson

Courtesy of Riptide Music Group, LLC

"Lovers and Friends"Performed by Frank & FriendsCourtesy of Mar-Tune Music

"Gabrielle"Written by Charlotte Politte

Performed by Charlotte Politte TrioCourtesy of Mar-Tune Music

"Pass The Sauce"Written by Martin Wereski

Performed by The JL Pasta BandCourtesy of Mar-Tune Music

"Through The Years"Performed and written by Anthony T. Hiebert

Courtesy of Crucial Music Corporation

“Steppin’ Out With my Baby”Written by Irving Berlin

Performed by Fred AstaireCourtesy of The Verve Music Group under license from Universal Music Enterprises

                 

Rudolph RodriguezBonaventure Ngu

Edna NguJo Yao

Jimmy DarmodyJack Whigham

Danny SussmanFred Specktor

Aleen KeshishianJeremy BarberMatthew BragSusan MillerElan RuspoliEmily BorgTed Bardy

Rich KlubeckMark RozzanoWilliam PeifferJohn W. Davis

J.C. ColeIris Chester

Mary GleesonMark Nolan

Dolce And GabbanaCartier

CosabellaDNA JewelryRen skincare

YaYa PublicitySeize Sur Vingt

Siren PR/DavinesNola Singer Jewelry

NatoriJohn Varvatos

Lenor GreylGear Communications

Gold N Hot Styling ToolsEarnest Sewn

Fournier PrEkornes

'Orlane ParisNorma Kamali

Dana SchneiderSusan Miller

SardisRon Robinson

The Writer's RoomBad Robot

The Intercontinental Barclay HotelThe Sopranos

HBODavid Chase

     Footage from 'CLUNY BROWN' Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox. All rights reserved.

Anine Bingiatse

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The Cloisters Museum & GardensThe Central Park Conservancy

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