Christina Weiss Lurie launches new Hollywood film company
The Philadelphia Eagles co-owner and indie film and documentary producer is developing more commercial fare with her new L.A.-based company, Tango Pictures.
Christina Weiss Lurie launches new Hollywood film company
Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Columnist and Critic
Christina Weiss Lurie has some big news, and it’s not about Chip Kelly moving here from Eugene. The co-owner of the Philadelphia Eagles has long been involved in movie-making – she executive produced Inside Job, the 2011 Academy Award documentary nominee. And this year, the documentary short Oscar contender, “Inocente,” a 40-minute film about a homeless high school girl in San Diego, also bears Lurie's name. She executive produced the acclaimed film through Screen Pass Pictures, the non-profit she established with her ex, Jeffrey Lurie.
But now, having also worked in low-budget independents through her Vox3 Films, Lurie is setting her sites on bigger, more commercial ventures.
“I am trying to go Hollywood,” Lurie says with a laugh, reached on the phone the day the Oscar nominations were announced. “It’s always interesting to try to do new things, and... not that I’ve cornered the indie, small-budget film market, but I did that, and now I want to try something else.”
That something else is called Tango Pictures, which Lurie started with partners Steven Shainberg and Andrew Lazar last year. Based in Los Angeles, Tango is developing, among other projects, Bedbugs, an adaptation of Ben H. Winters’ horror novel (yes, it’s about bedbugs) published by Philly’s Quirk Books. Ti West (The Innkeeper) is attached to direct.
“Our mission is commercial,” Lurie explains. “And commercial can be low budget, it can be a studio film, it can be an indie psychological horror film-- that’s all to be determined. So we’ll see how successful we are. We hope to make our first film this spring.”
Steven Rea is the Inquirer's movie critic.
She's a smart lady.— Ballgame- Maybe Chip and Christina will start dating.— Joseph DeSantis
- Nice, maybe she will run it into the ground & then buy a NFL team - just like her ex-husband did!— main liner
- She should hire Juan Castillo to help her with inventory.— ricciaje
- Will her out of the way hopefully we can get some cooler uniforms.— Apollo Creed
- Maybe she can get new hair with Jeff's $$$. What a rag.— franka
- I hear her next project involves the trials and tribulations of a gay NFL head coach.— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
- more likely gay owner........— Earl J
- What the heck happened there anyway?— quigly46
- She already has two horror films in the can: "The 2012 Eagles Nightmare", and "Howie Sleeps in Our Bed".— Tyrone Biggums
- Will she still use that phoney European Accent she uses to impress people that she is from a European linage??? She actually went to school in Europe and she tries to con people that she is some type of royalty. A fake like her Ex Husband. He thinks he knows football????— rduexpress
- She had an affair with Howie & it was okay with Jeff?— ricciaje
- I hope this hag recognizes the talent that wins awards for her production company this time.She's as phoney as her fake accent and her pretentious two last names.— vrb1955
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