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Via Hollywood Reporter:
Giorgio Serafini’s supernatural thrillerThe Healer, starring Isabelle Fuhrman, Joel Courtney and James Le Gros, is set to begin filming Sept. 14 in North Carolina.
Furhman, who is one of the stars of the upcoming The Hunger Games, and Courtney, who most recently appeared in Super 8, will play teenage twins who go on a camping trip with their father only to become lost in a haunted forest.
The film is being produced by Giuseppe Pedersoli and Susan Johnson through Perdersoli’s Italy-based Smile Prods.
Serafini, who wrote the screenplay he is directing, previously collaborated with Pedersoli on the dramatic thriller Johnny’s Gone, which will premiere at the upcoming Hollywood Film Festival. Johnson and Pedersoli aldo recently wrapped the family drama Eye of the Hurricane, directed by Jesse Wolfe and starring Campbell Scott and Melanie Lynskey.
From JJJ Book Club:
Joel Courtney may be filming a classic book (Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn) in Bulgaria, but there’s another book that he can’t put down — “Ashtown Burials: The Dragon’s Tooth” by N.D. Wilson.
The 15-year-old actor opened up about the book in his hand to the JJJ Book Club.
“My favorite book is ‘Ashtown Burials: The Dragon’s Tooth’ by N.D. Wilson. It has a great plot, excellent characters, and leaves you hanging for the next book in the series. Everyone should read it because it’s a kid’s book that’s a “page-turner” and is my favorite genre: fantasy,” Joel said.
Joel also admits that the cover is a definite factor in reading a book. “The cover of the book is what catches my eye. With ‘The Dragon’s Tooth,’ I noticed the snake, the boxing monkey patch, and the tooth on the cover. And I thought: that’s a weird combination.”
The Den of Thieves nominates Joel Courtney as Best Actor for his role as Joe Lamb in Super 8. Here's what they say:
A special shout-out for Joel Courtney, though, who’s the acting glue that holdsSuper 8 together for long periods. As good a leading performance as we’ve seen from such a young actor in a long time, he’s utterly believable in his role, and surely has a bright future ahead of him.
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From Paper G6:
Abrams usually likes to work with particular actors he has worked with before but The Cutting Room Floor’s beady eye only spotted one of the cast that it had seen previous. The child actors are the star turn in this film and they all fill their roles with sincerity and confidence that drama school teachers the world over would love their students to possess. Joseph (Joel Courtney) and Alice (Elle Fanning (sister of the established Dakota) give Super8 its emotional heart and their performance resonates through every frame and becomes irresistible in the more emotionally challenging scenes.