{"id":139020,"date":"2025-04-16T08:19:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T08:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/matthew-modine-producing-documentary-about-michael-caton-jones\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T08:19:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T08:19:51","slug":"matthew-modine-producing-documentary-about-michael-caton-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/matthew-modine-producing-documentary-about-michael-caton-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Modine Producing Documentary About Michael Caton-Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE: <\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/stranger-things\/\" id=\"auto-tag_stranger-things\" data-tag=\"stranger-things\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stranger Things<\/a> <\/em>star <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/matthew-modine\/\" id=\"auto-tag_matthew-modine\" data-tag=\"matthew-modine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew Modine<\/a> is producing a documentary collection about iconic Scottish director <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/michael-caton-jones\/\" id=\"auto-tag_michael-caton-jones\" data-tag=\"michael-caton-jones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Caton-Jones<\/a>, the person credited with kickstarting Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s profession by casting him in <em>This Boy\u2019s Life.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tModine and Adam Rackoff\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/cinco-dedos-peliculas\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cinco-dedos-peliculas\" data-tag=\"cinco-dedos-peliculas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cinco Dedos Peliculas<\/a> indie is EPing <em>Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy\u2019s Life <\/em>with Scottish outfits <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/two-rivers-media\/\" id=\"auto-tag_two-rivers-media\" data-tag=\"two-rivers-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Two Rivers Media<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/partickular-films\/\" id=\"auto-tag_partickular-films\" data-tag=\"partickular-films\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Partickular Films<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe doc, which doesn\u2019t but have a purchaser, will observe the <em>Scandal <\/em>and <em>Doc Hollywood <\/em>director\u2019s journey from the working class mining village of Broxburn, close to Edinburgh, to the dizzying heights of Hollywood. He is hailed for casting DiCaprio in <em>This Boy\u2019s Life<\/em> within the early 90s reverse Robert De Niro. Only final month we revealed<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/03\/michael-caton-jones-eternity-1236351718\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> he&#8217;s helming <em>Eternity<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>from King Orba and Rachel Robinson-Zetzer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe movie will embody interviews with Caton-Jones and large names who labored with him all through his profession together with David Putnam, Tim Roth, Letitia Wright, Ron Perlman, Ewen Bremner and David Hayman, in addition to that includes archive materials from his 40-year profession.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tModine, who performs the terrifying Dr Martin Brenner AKA \u201cPapa\u201d in <em>Stranger Things,<\/em> is acquainted with Caton-Jones\u2019 oeuvre having starred in <em>Memphis Belle <\/em>as Captain Dennis Dearborn. He stated he&#8217;s \u201cexcited to have this opportunity to introduce Michael Caton-Jones\u2019 body of work to a new audience while also reminding folks what a terrific filmmaker he is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tModine and Rackoff\u2019s Cinco Dedos Peliculas was not too long ago behind <em>Downwind<\/em>, which chronicled the fallout from a long time of nuclear bomb testing on American soil and was narrated by Martin Sheen. Run by Scottish business vet Alan Clements, Two Rivers has been behind the likes of <em>Barbie Uncovered: A Dream House Divided<\/em> and <em>The Last Musician of Auschwitz<\/em>. Partickular Films\u2019 credit embody <em>Cows, Cash &amp; Cover-Ups: Investigating VCJD<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tClements stated: \u201cNot only is this film the story of how a young, working-class man became one of the most exacting directors in the business, it tells how Hollywood embraced this driven Scot. We are delighted to have secured so much unique and exclusive material with which to tell this inspiring story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<em>Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy\u2019s Life<\/em> is EP\u2019d by Clements and directed and produced by Partickular\u2019s Joseph McLean. Emmy winners Roddy Hart and Tommy Reilly of Hart Reilly Music, whose latest credit embody the Roger Moore documentary <em>From Roger With Love<\/em>, are composing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] EXCLUSIVE: Stranger Things star Matthew Modine is producing a documentary collection about iconic Scottish director Michael Caton-Jones, the person credited with kickstarting Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s profession by casting him in This Boy\u2019s Life. Modine and Adam Rackoff\u2019s Cinco Dedos Peliculas indie is EPing Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy\u2019s Life with Scottish outfits Two Rivers Media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[9194,118,1899,828,3205,1480],"class_list":{"0":"post-139020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-catonjones","9":"tag-documentary","10":"tag-matthew","11":"tag-michael","12":"tag-modine","13":"tag-producing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}