Exclusive: They are on a roll. The Gotham Group has acquired yet another book, this time the film rights to Robyn Harding's coming-of-age novel The Party. This comes on the heels of recent Gotham options of bestsellers The Lying Game by Ruth Ware and Janelle Brown's Watch Me Disappear over the past two weeks. Gotham's Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Eric Robinson will produce the film based on the The Party, which was published by Scout Press/Simon & Schuster in June of this…...
- 8/23/2017
- Deadline
Exclusive: Anick Poirier and her team will commence world sales in Toronto on Quadrant Motion Pictures’ film about a dysfunctional family reunion.
Andrew Currie, whose Fido premiered in Toronto in 2006, directed from a screenplay by Robyn Harding about a family reunion at a lake house in northern Ontario that goes wrong.
James Brolin, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Christine Lahti and Jason Ritter star in the Contemporary World Cinema selection.
Mary Anne Waterhouse, Daniel Iron, Currie and Jason James produced The Steps and Anne-Claire Villeneuve, Mark Slone, Neil Tabatznik and Harding serve as executive producers.
eOne will distribute in Canada.
Andrew Currie, whose Fido premiered in Toronto in 2006, directed from a screenplay by Robyn Harding about a family reunion at a lake house in northern Ontario that goes wrong.
James Brolin, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Christine Lahti and Jason Ritter star in the Contemporary World Cinema selection.
Mary Anne Waterhouse, Daniel Iron, Currie and Jason James produced The Steps and Anne-Claire Villeneuve, Mark Slone, Neil Tabatznik and Harding serve as executive producers.
eOne will distribute in Canada.
- 8/20/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
• The Vampire Diaries’ Paul Wesley will star in Convergence, a vehicle for him to star in and produce. Little is known about the plot at this time, but the film is said to follow a group of underground biotech engineers who experiment with a new technology that exceeds their expectations. Jeff Richard wrote the script. Filming is planned for next spring in Shanghai and Atlanta. [Deadline] • Sam Huntington, of Being Human fame, has been cast as the lead in Finding Sofia. Nico Casavecchia is directing the indie comedy, which follows Huntington as a young filmmaker who buys a ticket to Buenos...
- 11/18/2014
- by C. Molly Smith
- EW - Inside Movies
The Accountant
Jon Bernthal ("Fury," "The Walking Dead") is in negotiations to join Ben Affleck in Gavin O'Connor's assassin thriller "The Accountant" at Warner Bros. Pictures.
Affleck will star as a mild-mannered accountant who moonlights as a deadly assassin. J.K. Simmons and Anna Kendrick also star and filming begins in January. [Source: The Wrap]
Happy-ish
Kathryn Hahn is set to remain the co-star of Showtime pilot "Happyish," reprising the role she played opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman in the original pilot shot before Hoffman died.
Steve Coogan is taking over Hoffman's role of a man facing a mid-life crisis. Hahn plays Coogan’s wife and mother of their six-year-old son. [Source: Variety]
Ben-Hur
"Ouija" and "Bates Motel" star Olivia Cooke is circling a key role alongside Jack Huston in Timur Bekmambetov's remake of "Ben-Hur" at MGM and Paramount. Morgan Freeman and Pedro Pascal also star.
Huston plays the titular Jewish prince who is forced...
Jon Bernthal ("Fury," "The Walking Dead") is in negotiations to join Ben Affleck in Gavin O'Connor's assassin thriller "The Accountant" at Warner Bros. Pictures.
Affleck will star as a mild-mannered accountant who moonlights as a deadly assassin. J.K. Simmons and Anna Kendrick also star and filming begins in January. [Source: The Wrap]
Happy-ish
Kathryn Hahn is set to remain the co-star of Showtime pilot "Happyish," reprising the role she played opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman in the original pilot shot before Hoffman died.
Steve Coogan is taking over Hoffman's role of a man facing a mid-life crisis. Hahn plays Coogan’s wife and mother of their six-year-old son. [Source: Variety]
Ben-Hur
"Ouija" and "Bates Motel" star Olivia Cooke is circling a key role alongside Jack Huston in Timur Bekmambetov's remake of "Ben-Hur" at MGM and Paramount. Morgan Freeman and Pedro Pascal also star.
Huston plays the titular Jewish prince who is forced...
- 11/15/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Oscar winner Christine Lahti is joining James Brolin and Jason Ritter in The Steps, an indie drama from director-producer Andrew Currie (Fido). The pic follows down-on-his-luck Jeff (Ritter), who accepts his father’s invitation to spend the weekend at his lake house to meet his new wife (Lahti) and family. Robyn Harding scripted. Mary Waterhouse is also producing with Currie. Lahti recently shot indie Safelight with Juno Temple and Evan Peters and Mania Days with Katie Holmes. She recurs on Netflix’s Grace And Frankie opposite Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.
Cory Hardrict, Jesse Metcalfe, Margot Bingham (Boardwalk Empire), Zulay Henao (Fighting), Rob Riley, Jason Dohring, Mo McRae, Hill Harper (CSI NY), and Lala Anthony (Think Like A Man Too) have joined the cast of Destined for director Qasim “Q” Basir and producer Tommy Oliver’s Confluential Films. Oliver (The Perfect Guy) is producing with Whitewater Films’ Rick Rosenthal...
Cory Hardrict, Jesse Metcalfe, Margot Bingham (Boardwalk Empire), Zulay Henao (Fighting), Rob Riley, Jason Dohring, Mo McRae, Hill Harper (CSI NY), and Lala Anthony (Think Like A Man Too) have joined the cast of Destined for director Qasim “Q” Basir and producer Tommy Oliver’s Confluential Films. Oliver (The Perfect Guy) is producing with Whitewater Films’ Rick Rosenthal...
- 11/15/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
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