Joseph L. Mankiewicz’ “Cleopatra,” which opened in New York on June 12, 1963 and in Los Angeles a week later, was not a flop. In fact, the 243-minute film was a box office champ making $26 million at the box office, $6 million more than the Cinerama epic “How the West was Won.” But being the most expensive movie of its time — the budget ended up being around $44 million which would be around $429.5 million in 2023 — it took a long time to recoup its staggering costs. The film was such a drain on Twentieth Century Fox, the studio ended up having to sell nearly 300 acres of its backlot. That acreage was transformed into Century City.
The budgets started to soar when the original production with Elizabeth Taylor, who asked for and received $1 million for her services, Peter Finch as Julius Caesar, Stephen Boyd as Marc Antony and veteran filmmaker Rouben Mamoulian as director, stopped production...
The budgets started to soar when the original production with Elizabeth Taylor, who asked for and received $1 million for her services, Peter Finch as Julius Caesar, Stephen Boyd as Marc Antony and veteran filmmaker Rouben Mamoulian as director, stopped production...
- 6/19/2023
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
“Tár” is going to get people talking, but its star Cate Blanchett has made clear that she’s “not interested in agitprop.”
The Oscar winner is in Venice for the world premiere of the Todd Field-directed movie, and was in good spirits as she addressed journalists at a Thursday press conference.
The Focus Features pic stars Blanchett as fictional Lydia Tár, a globally renowned, gay and sometimes tyrannical conductor of a German orchestra, who finds herself in the crosshairs of a perilous #MeToo scandal. The film is Field’s first movie in 16 years, following the acclaimed “Little Children” (2006) and his breakout “In the Bedroom” (2001).
Asked whether she considered “Tár” to be an important movie for LGBT representation, as her 2015 film “Carole” was, Blanchett said it “felt urgent and undeniable,” but noted: “I don’t think about the character’s gender nor her sexuality at all, at all. I love that about the film.
The Oscar winner is in Venice for the world premiere of the Todd Field-directed movie, and was in good spirits as she addressed journalists at a Thursday press conference.
The Focus Features pic stars Blanchett as fictional Lydia Tár, a globally renowned, gay and sometimes tyrannical conductor of a German orchestra, who finds herself in the crosshairs of a perilous #MeToo scandal. The film is Field’s first movie in 16 years, following the acclaimed “Little Children” (2006) and his breakout “In the Bedroom” (2001).
Asked whether she considered “Tár” to be an important movie for LGBT representation, as her 2015 film “Carole” was, Blanchett said it “felt urgent and undeniable,” but noted: “I don’t think about the character’s gender nor her sexuality at all, at all. I love that about the film.
- 9/1/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Amblin Partners, Hera Pictures, Neal Street Productions are teaming on a film adaptation of the Maggie O’Farrell novel Hamnet. They’ve set Chiara Atik to write the script.
Liza Marshall, Sam Mendes and Pippa Harris are producing.
The bestselling historical fiction novel imagines the story of Agnes – the wife of the world’s most famous writer William Shakespeare – as she struggles to come to terms with the loss of her only son, Hamnet. The novel charts the emotional, familial and artistic consequences of that loss, bringing to life a human and heart-stopping story as the backdrop to the creation of Shakespeare’s most famous play, Hamlet. Hamnet won the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Fiction Prize at the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards, and was also shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
Atik has previously worked...
Liza Marshall, Sam Mendes and Pippa Harris are producing.
The bestselling historical fiction novel imagines the story of Agnes – the wife of the world’s most famous writer William Shakespeare – as she struggles to come to terms with the loss of her only son, Hamnet. The novel charts the emotional, familial and artistic consequences of that loss, bringing to life a human and heart-stopping story as the backdrop to the creation of Shakespeare’s most famous play, Hamlet. Hamnet won the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Fiction Prize at the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards, and was also shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
Atik has previously worked...
- 6/22/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Filmmaker Niki Caro and Charlize Theron are teaming up to develop a feature film about women’s fight for equality in big wave surfing for Netflix.
The feature is based on Daniel Duane’s New York Times Magazine article, “The Fight For Gender Equality In One of the Most Dangerous Sports on Earth,” and the four women — Bianca Valenti, Andrea Moller, Paige Alms, Keala Kennelly — who are fighting for the right to compete in big-wave contests.
The four women form a powerful bond as they surf dangerous spots including California’s Maverick’s and Maui’s Jaws while asserting their right to join the male-dominated competitions.
Caro will direct the film, from a screenplay adapted by Becky Johnston, which will focus on the four women’s stories and their powerful bond.
Caro will also produce the film adaptation alongside Theron, Aj Dix and Beth Kono for Denver and Delilah.
The...
The feature is based on Daniel Duane’s New York Times Magazine article, “The Fight For Gender Equality In One of the Most Dangerous Sports on Earth,” and the four women — Bianca Valenti, Andrea Moller, Paige Alms, Keala Kennelly — who are fighting for the right to compete in big-wave contests.
The four women form a powerful bond as they surf dangerous spots including California’s Maverick’s and Maui’s Jaws while asserting their right to join the male-dominated competitions.
Caro will direct the film, from a screenplay adapted by Becky Johnston, which will focus on the four women’s stories and their powerful bond.
Caro will also produce the film adaptation alongside Theron, Aj Dix and Beth Kono for Denver and Delilah.
The...
- 5/25/2021
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Olivia Colman will star in “Empire of Light,” the next film from director Sam Mendes that is set at Searchlight Pictures.
Mendes will direct “Empire of Light” as his follow-up to the Best Picture-nominated “1917.” Mendes also wrote the film; it marks the first time he’s penned a screenplay solo. “Empire of Light” is a love story set in and around a beautiful old cinema on the South Coast of England in the 1980s.
Mendes will also produce “Empire of Light” with Pippa Harris through his Neal Street Productions, ad Searchlight is aiming for a release in fall 2022.
Mendes will also reunite on the film with cinematographer Roger Deakins, who won his second Oscar on the continuous, unedited look of Mendes’ war film “1917.”
“I have long been an admirer of Searchlight and the dynamic way they have produced and released some of my favorite theatrical releases of recent years,...
Mendes will direct “Empire of Light” as his follow-up to the Best Picture-nominated “1917.” Mendes also wrote the film; it marks the first time he’s penned a screenplay solo. “Empire of Light” is a love story set in and around a beautiful old cinema on the South Coast of England in the 1980s.
Mendes will also produce “Empire of Light” with Pippa Harris through his Neal Street Productions, ad Searchlight is aiming for a release in fall 2022.
Mendes will also reunite on the film with cinematographer Roger Deakins, who won his second Oscar on the continuous, unedited look of Mendes’ war film “1917.”
“I have long been an admirer of Searchlight and the dynamic way they have produced and released some of my favorite theatrical releases of recent years,...
- 4/6/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Jennifer Lopez is set to star in and produce an action film at Netflix called “The Mother.” Niki Caro, who recently directed the live-action “Mulan,” is in talks to direct the feature.
Misha Green, the showrunner behind “Lovecraft Country,” wrote the original screenplay that will star Lopez as an assassin who comes out of hiding to protect her daughter she gave up years earlier. Andrea Berloff (“Straight Outta Compton”) made revisions to the script.
Lopez will produce “The Mother” alongside Elaine Goldsmith Thomas for Nuyorican Productions, Benny Medina and Roy Lee and Miri Yoon for Vertigo Entertainment. Green will also produce. Catherine Hagedorn is the executive producer and Courtney Baxter is the associate producer.
Lopez is also attached to star in another Netflix thriller called “The Cipher,” and she’s currently filming the Lionsgate comedy “Shotgun Wedding.” She’ll next be seen in the romantic comedy “Marry Me” alongside Owen Wilson and Maluma.
Misha Green, the showrunner behind “Lovecraft Country,” wrote the original screenplay that will star Lopez as an assassin who comes out of hiding to protect her daughter she gave up years earlier. Andrea Berloff (“Straight Outta Compton”) made revisions to the script.
Lopez will produce “The Mother” alongside Elaine Goldsmith Thomas for Nuyorican Productions, Benny Medina and Roy Lee and Miri Yoon for Vertigo Entertainment. Green will also produce. Catherine Hagedorn is the executive producer and Courtney Baxter is the associate producer.
Lopez is also attached to star in another Netflix thriller called “The Cipher,” and she’s currently filming the Lionsgate comedy “Shotgun Wedding.” She’ll next be seen in the romantic comedy “Marry Me” alongside Owen Wilson and Maluma.
- 2/1/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Exclusive: We can tell you first that Jennifer Lopez is reteaming with Netflix again, this time she will star and produce the action feature The Mother which Mulan director Niki Caro is in talks to direct.
Lopez will play a deadly female assassin who comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, while on the run from dangerous men. I’m told that the project is in the spirit of the Luc Besson classic The Professional.
Lovecraft Country creator Misha Green penned the original screenplay with revisions by Straight Outta Compton‘s Andrea Berloff.
Lopez is producing with Elaine Goldsmith Thomas for Nuyorican Productions; Benny Medina; Roy Lee and Miri Yoon for Vertigo Entertainment; as well as Green. Catherine Hagedorn will serve as EP with Courtney Baxter as Associate Producer.
As previously announced, Lopez is starring in and producing the Netflix adaptation of the Isabella Maldonado novel The Cipher.
Lopez will play a deadly female assassin who comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, while on the run from dangerous men. I’m told that the project is in the spirit of the Luc Besson classic The Professional.
Lovecraft Country creator Misha Green penned the original screenplay with revisions by Straight Outta Compton‘s Andrea Berloff.
Lopez is producing with Elaine Goldsmith Thomas for Nuyorican Productions; Benny Medina; Roy Lee and Miri Yoon for Vertigo Entertainment; as well as Green. Catherine Hagedorn will serve as EP with Courtney Baxter as Associate Producer.
As previously announced, Lopez is starring in and producing the Netflix adaptation of the Isabella Maldonado novel The Cipher.
- 2/1/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The destination of one of the marquee titles from the virtual AFM is finally coming into focus following weeks of negotiations.
Jennifer Lopez-Armie Hammer big-budget action-comedy Shotgun Wedding is heading to Amazon Prime Video for a host of major international territories as well as to some key indie buyers, we can reveal. Lionsgate will hold onto domestic rights. Lionsgate’s sales division is in final negotiations to pre-sell the in-demand film to Amazon for UK/Ire, France, Italy, Spain, Australia/Nz, Canada, Benelux and Latin America. Deals are also being finalized with some foreign buyers, including Leonine in Germany and Nordisk in Scandinavia. Negotiations are ongoing in most Asian markets, we understand. These are all lucrative deals, with the German pact alone pegged in the $6M range. During AFM the movie was being budgeted at around $65M. The Amazon deal is also significant because it marks one...
Jennifer Lopez-Armie Hammer big-budget action-comedy Shotgun Wedding is heading to Amazon Prime Video for a host of major international territories as well as to some key indie buyers, we can reveal. Lionsgate will hold onto domestic rights. Lionsgate’s sales division is in final negotiations to pre-sell the in-demand film to Amazon for UK/Ire, France, Italy, Spain, Australia/Nz, Canada, Benelux and Latin America. Deals are also being finalized with some foreign buyers, including Leonine in Germany and Nordisk in Scandinavia. Negotiations are ongoing in most Asian markets, we understand. These are all lucrative deals, with the German pact alone pegged in the $6M range. During AFM the movie was being budgeted at around $65M. The Amazon deal is also significant because it marks one...
- 12/11/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: On the heels of 1917 winning three Oscars and its soon to be $300M+ success at the global box office, Amblin Partners is reteaming with Pippa Harris and Sam Mendes’ Neal Street Productions for an adaptation of the Jess Walter New York Times bestseller Beautiful Ruins. Amblin takes over from Fox 2000 as the studio on the project. This is not a project that Mendes will direct. Amblin and Neal Street are currently winnowing the list of potential helmers.
Walter’s book is set in an Italian seaside village off the Ligurian Sea in 1962. There a charming young man runs a hotel with no guests, until one day an American starlet, fresh from the set of Cleopatra, appears and captures his heart. Five decades later in Hollywood, a jaded assistant to a powerhouse producer gets caught up in the magic of his story, and takes it upon herself to find a happy ending.
Walter’s book is set in an Italian seaside village off the Ligurian Sea in 1962. There a charming young man runs a hotel with no guests, until one day an American starlet, fresh from the set of Cleopatra, appears and captures his heart. Five decades later in Hollywood, a jaded assistant to a powerhouse producer gets caught up in the magic of his story, and takes it upon herself to find a happy ending.
- 2/13/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Lauren Fox has joined CAA as a television literary agent. She will be based in the agency’s Los Angeles office.
Fox comes to CAA from UTA, where she began her career in 2001 and was promoted to agent in 2004. Clients that she represented there included Eliot Laurence (Claws), Amy Rardin & Jessica O’Toole (Charmed), Eli Horowitz (Homecoming), Lauren Schmidt Hissrich (The Witcher), Taylor Elmore, Danny Brocklehurst, Chris Hollier (Roswell), Jami O’Brien (NOS4A2), Gloria Calderon Kellett (One Day At a Time), Seth Hoffman (The Walking Dead), Jennifer Schuur, Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster, and Rashida Jones & Will McCormack’s Le Train Train (Claws).
Fox comes to CAA from UTA, where she began her career in 2001 and was promoted to agent in 2004. Clients that she represented there included Eliot Laurence (Claws), Amy Rardin & Jessica O’Toole (Charmed), Eli Horowitz (Homecoming), Lauren Schmidt Hissrich (The Witcher), Taylor Elmore, Danny Brocklehurst, Chris Hollier (Roswell), Jami O’Brien (NOS4A2), Gloria Calderon Kellett (One Day At a Time), Seth Hoffman (The Walking Dead), Jennifer Schuur, Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster, and Rashida Jones & Will McCormack’s Le Train Train (Claws).
- 7/2/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
David Frankel is in negotiations to direct the adaptation of Beautiful Ruins for Fox 2000.
The story centers on an American actress who travels to Italy in 1962 during the production of Cleopatra, considered the most expensive flop in Hollywood history. In a plotline spanning decades and locations, the actress' narrative intertwines with Elizabeth Taylor, who starred in the real-life version of Cleopatra, and the subsequent love affair between Taylor and Richard Burton.
Sam Mendes will produce the book adaptation via his Neal Street banner, along with Julia Pastor and Karen Rosenfelt. Author Jess Walter will exec produce with Pippa Harris.
Frankel,...
The story centers on an American actress who travels to Italy in 1962 during the production of Cleopatra, considered the most expensive flop in Hollywood history. In a plotline spanning decades and locations, the actress' narrative intertwines with Elizabeth Taylor, who starred in the real-life version of Cleopatra, and the subsequent love affair between Taylor and Richard Burton.
Sam Mendes will produce the book adaptation via his Neal Street banner, along with Julia Pastor and Karen Rosenfelt. Author Jess Walter will exec produce with Pippa Harris.
Frankel,...
- 4/19/2018
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TriStar Pictures announced on Monday they have acquired worldwide rights to You Are My Friend, from Big Beach (Little Miss Sunshine, Loving).
Tom Hanks is attached to star as Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, the pioneering children’s television series from The Fred Rogers Company that is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
Marielle Heller (Diary of a Teenage Girl) will direct from a screenplay by Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster (Transparent, Beautiful Ruins). Marc Turtletaub and Peter Saraf of Big Beach will produce alongside Youree Henley (The Beguiled, 20th Century Woman). Leah Holzer of Big Beach will executive produce, along with Fitzerman-Blue and Harpster.
The project originated from a true story developed by Fitzerman-Blue and Harpster, first appearing on the Black List in 2013.
You Are My Friend is inspired by a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and award-winning journalist Tom Junod. In the heart-warming story, a cynical journalist begrudgingly...
Tom Hanks is attached to star as Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, the pioneering children’s television series from The Fred Rogers Company that is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
Marielle Heller (Diary of a Teenage Girl) will direct from a screenplay by Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster (Transparent, Beautiful Ruins). Marc Turtletaub and Peter Saraf of Big Beach will produce alongside Youree Henley (The Beguiled, 20th Century Woman). Leah Holzer of Big Beach will executive produce, along with Fitzerman-Blue and Harpster.
The project originated from a true story developed by Fitzerman-Blue and Harpster, first appearing on the Black List in 2013.
You Are My Friend is inspired by a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and award-winning journalist Tom Junod. In the heart-warming story, a cynical journalist begrudgingly...
- 1/30/2018
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Sam Mendes has been spending his time post “Skyfall,” peeking in at various projects, but not quite committing to anything yet. Well, that’s not entirely fair as “The Voyeur’s Motel” essentially fell apart over potential issues with the source material and a competing project, but though the filmmaker has eyeballed “Beautiful Ruins,” “My Favorite Thing Is Monsters,” and “James And The Giant Peach,” nothing has really stuck.
Continue reading Sam Mendes Exits ‘James And The Giant Peach,’ Now Eyes Live-Action ‘Pinocchio’ at The Playlist.
Continue reading Sam Mendes Exits ‘James And The Giant Peach,’ Now Eyes Live-Action ‘Pinocchio’ at The Playlist.
- 5/23/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
It’s been a couple of years since Sam Mendes directed “Spectre,” and he’s been kicking the tires on a number of directing gigs, without anything gaining enough momentum to get in front of cameras. He’s signed up at Disney for the live-action “James And The Giant Peach,” and presumably the adaptation of “Beautiful Ruins” remains a possibility. There was “The Voyeur’s Motel,” but that project fell apart after questions were raised about the Gay Talese‘s source material, not to mention news of a competing documentary about the same subject matter.
Continue reading Sam Mendes Eyes ‘My Favorite Thing Is Monsters’ at The Playlist.
Continue reading Sam Mendes Eyes ‘My Favorite Thing Is Monsters’ at The Playlist.
- 4/4/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
How’s this for a pairing? Nicolai Fuglsig has lined found two leads in Michael Shannon and Chris Hemsworth for his directorial debut, Deadline reports. Jerry Bruckheimer and Black Label Media will produce the film, which is titled Horse Soldiers. Based on a true story and adapted by Peter Craig and Ted Tally from a book penned by Dough Staton, Horse Soldiers follows a U.S. special forces team sent to Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11, led by a captain untested in the field. The team was tasked with joining forces with a local Warload to drive out the Taliban, an effort that proved much harder than anticipated. Bruckheimer stated his excitement over the project, saying “I am so happy that we’re finally getting this great project off the ground with wonderful leading actors, Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon. It’s also great to be partnered with Molly Smith,...
- 10/3/2016
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
As we patiently waited for Todd Field to helm a new film after “Little Children,” one of the many projects he tried to get off the ground was an adaptation of Jess Walter’s “Beautiful Ruins.” Imogen Poots was attached to lead the project, but unfortunately, it never got going and fell by the wayside. With Field now gearing up to shoot the 20-episode “Purity” next year starring Daniel Craig, “Beautiful Ruins” now has a new name looking to get behind the camera.
Continue reading Sam Mendes Circling Former Todd Field Project ‘Beautiful Ruins’ at The Playlist.
Continue reading Sam Mendes Circling Former Todd Field Project ‘Beautiful Ruins’ at The Playlist.
- 9/29/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
As befits a critically acclaimed, best-selling author, adaptations of Jonathan Franzen's work attract big league talent. Noah Baumbauch attempted to wrestle "The Corrections" into a series for HBO, starring Ewan McGregor, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Dianne Wiest, Rhys Ifans, and Greta Gerwig, but got in over his head. And now another one of Franzen's works is headed to the small screen, also with big league talent involved. Variety reports that James Bond, a.k.a. Daniel Craig, will star in "Purity." The limited series will be co-written by Franzen and Todd Field ("In The Bedroom," "Little Children"), with the latter directing. We're particularly excited to see Field back behind the camera. It has been a decade since "Little Children," and while he's seen a number of projects percolate ("Beautiful Ruins," "As It Happens," "The White Tiger," "The Creed Of Violence,"...
- 2/14/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
No film buff wants to see a promising, or prominent filmmaker pull a disappearing act a la Terrence Malick, (though it seems he isn’t keen to repeat another lapse like the one between Days of Heaven to The Thin Red Line), but whether they’re dealing with unforeseeable professional (endless pre-production woes, writer’s block) or personal issues, sometimes there is a considerable time between projects.
With John Cameron Mitchell, Charlie Kaufman, Rebecca Miller, Patty Jenkins, Kenneth Lonergan and more recently, Barry Jenkins recently moving out of the so called “inactive” period, we decided to compile a list of the top ten American filmmakers who, for the most part, we’ve lost sight of and would like to see get back in the director’s chair again. Most of the filmmakers listed below have gone well over half a decade without a substantial movement in this category. Here is...
With John Cameron Mitchell, Charlie Kaufman, Rebecca Miller, Patty Jenkins, Kenneth Lonergan and more recently, Barry Jenkins recently moving out of the so called “inactive” period, we decided to compile a list of the top ten American filmmakers who, for the most part, we’ve lost sight of and would like to see get back in the director’s chair again. Most of the filmmakers listed below have gone well over half a decade without a substantial movement in this category. Here is...
- 10/26/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Update: Looks like Bowe Bergdahl might already be the new Truman Capote: Deadline already report that a rival project to Bigelow & Boal's is in the offing, with Fox Searchlight acquiring the rights to "America's Last Prisoner Of War," an article by late Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings about Bergdahl. "In The Bedroom" and "Little Children" helmer Todd Field is involved, presumably as a writer/director, though we hope he shoots his adaptation of Jess Walter's brilliant novel "Beautiful Ruins," set to star Imogen Poots, first. Read the original article here. Well, if there was ever any doubt, we can say now firmly that Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal are not afraid of controversy. The director/writer pair had a certain amount of backlash from "The Hurt Locker," but nothing compared to their follow-up "Zero Dark Thirty" — willfully misread by some as being pro-torture, and well-researched to the extent...
- 6/16/2014
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Beautiful Ruins
Director: Todd Field
Writers: Todd Field and Jess Walter
Producers: Brian Carmody, Todd Field, Patrick Milling Smith, Brian Oliver, Tyler Thompson
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Imogen Poots
Replacing Terrence Malick as the elusive, American filmmaker who takes way too much time between projects and perhaps gets attached to too many of them (through the years there has been mentions for Time Between Trains, American Gothic, Back Roads, Blood Meridian, Buried, The Creed of Violence), In the Bedroom and Little Children director Todd Field will produce, write, direct and possibly hurt our feelings if there are no sighting of him or actress Imogen Poots in Italy later this year.
Gist: Based on the Jess Walter novel that became a bestseller after its publication in June 2012, the story follows an American ingenue who travels to Italy in 1962 during the production of “Cleopatra.” Poots will star as the young actress Dee Moray.
Director: Todd Field
Writers: Todd Field and Jess Walter
Producers: Brian Carmody, Todd Field, Patrick Milling Smith, Brian Oliver, Tyler Thompson
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Imogen Poots
Replacing Terrence Malick as the elusive, American filmmaker who takes way too much time between projects and perhaps gets attached to too many of them (through the years there has been mentions for Time Between Trains, American Gothic, Back Roads, Blood Meridian, Buried, The Creed of Violence), In the Bedroom and Little Children director Todd Field will produce, write, direct and possibly hurt our feelings if there are no sighting of him or actress Imogen Poots in Italy later this year.
Gist: Based on the Jess Walter novel that became a bestseller after its publication in June 2012, the story follows an American ingenue who travels to Italy in 1962 during the production of “Cleopatra.” Poots will star as the young actress Dee Moray.
- 2/26/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Holland, Michigan
Director: Errol Morris
Writer: Andrew Sodroski
Producers: Adam Kassan, John Lesher
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Naomi Watts, Bryan Cranston, Edgar Ramírez
Documentarian Errol Morris has signed on to direct not one, but two fiction feature films (he’s only ever done that once before, back in 1991 with the Lou Diamond Philips starrer The Dark Wind). Initially, it looked like the Christopher Walken/Paul Rudd headlining Freezing People Is Easy was set to film first, but now it looks as if it will be Holland, Michigan, set to roll this spring. While that may be cutting it close for a reasonable 2014 release, the 65 year old Morris has an efficient track record, so we shall see. As for Ms. Watts, she’s currently filming with Noah Baumbach for a film set to be released in 2015. This would be her next project, and, then maybe, finally, she’ll get...
Director: Errol Morris
Writer: Andrew Sodroski
Producers: Adam Kassan, John Lesher
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Naomi Watts, Bryan Cranston, Edgar Ramírez
Documentarian Errol Morris has signed on to direct not one, but two fiction feature films (he’s only ever done that once before, back in 1991 with the Lou Diamond Philips starrer The Dark Wind). Initially, it looked like the Christopher Walken/Paul Rudd headlining Freezing People Is Easy was set to film first, but now it looks as if it will be Holland, Michigan, set to roll this spring. While that may be cutting it close for a reasonable 2014 release, the 65 year old Morris has an efficient track record, so we shall see. As for Ms. Watts, she’s currently filming with Noah Baumbach for a film set to be released in 2015. This would be her next project, and, then maybe, finally, she’ll get...
- 2/26/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The Portland Mavericks baseball team were more than just mavericks. They were outlaws. In 1973, Hollywood actor Bing Russell roared into Oregon and established the Mavericks as an independent minor league team, meaning he had to recruit players that the Major Leagues franchises had rejected, a scrap heap that included a fair share of burn-outs, head-cases, and outright degenerates. “Guys were gambling in the back of the bus, there was drugs, there were women everywhere,” says Oscar-nominated director Todd Field (Little Children). “These guys were pirates.”
Field didn’t write or direct the Battered Bastards of Baseball, the documentary about the...
Field didn’t write or direct the Battered Bastards of Baseball, the documentary about the...
- 1/22/2014
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Switching easily between Fright Night, Jane Eyre, Centurion and the upcoming Need For Speed, Imogen Poots always seems to make an impact. She’ll be taking on an ingénue role for a new film, as she’s set to star in Todd Field’s latest, Beautiful Ruins.Adapted by Field and author Jess Walter from her best-selling book, Ruins is described as an epic story that begins off the Ligurian coast in the spring of 1962. It focuses on four characters whose orbit around one another is set in motion by an incident in that international jet-set centre, Rome, in the throes of “La Dolce Vita” madness during the shooting of Cleopatra.Poots will be Dee Moray, a young actress who catches the eye of several men, including a studio raconteur, a World War Two veteran in the midst of creative blocks on his first novel, a young Italian hotelier and even acting icon Richard Burton.
- 11/17/2013
- EmpireOnline
Untitled Gerardo Naranjo Project
Dakota Fanning is attached to star in "Miss Bala" director Gerardo Naranjo’s untitled coming-of-age story which he wrote and will helm for Verisimilitude. Alex Orlovsky and Hunter Gray will produce.
Fanning plays Viena, a roadie who’s on a journey of self-discovery and survival as part of a punk band’s convoy, traveling through America circa the 1980s. Shooting is slated to begin in February. [Source: Deadline]
A Year and Change
Bryan Greenberg ("How To Make It In America") are set to join Stephen Seuttinger's indie dramedy "A Year And Change". Knight, Marshall Allman, Jamie Hector, Kat Foster and Jamie Chung also star.
Greenberg plays a man who falls off a roof at a New Year’s house party. Over the next year, he changes his life - quits drinking, re-enters his estranged son’s life, reignites old friendships, and falls in love with a fellow divorcee.
Dakota Fanning is attached to star in "Miss Bala" director Gerardo Naranjo’s untitled coming-of-age story which he wrote and will helm for Verisimilitude. Alex Orlovsky and Hunter Gray will produce.
Fanning plays Viena, a roadie who’s on a journey of self-discovery and survival as part of a punk band’s convoy, traveling through America circa the 1980s. Shooting is slated to begin in February. [Source: Deadline]
A Year and Change
Bryan Greenberg ("How To Make It In America") are set to join Stephen Seuttinger's indie dramedy "A Year And Change". Knight, Marshall Allman, Jamie Hector, Kat Foster and Jamie Chung also star.
Greenberg plays a man who falls off a roof at a New Year’s house party. Over the next year, he changes his life - quits drinking, re-enters his estranged son’s life, reignites old friendships, and falls in love with a fellow divorcee.
- 11/17/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
• Career villain Javier Bardem has been offered the lead baddie role of the pirate Blackbeard in Peter Pan origin story Pan for Warner Bros. The tale follows an orphan through Neverland, where he becomes the savior of the natives and fights against the pirates. [Deadline]
• Imogen Poots, who stars alongside Aaron Paul in the upcoming Need for Speed, has joined the cast of Beautiful Ruins, an adaptation of Jess Walter’s bestselling novel about an American actress in Italy for the Cleopatra shoot, a development assistant in present day Los Angeles, and a producer who started on the set of Cleopatra.
• Imogen Poots, who stars alongside Aaron Paul in the upcoming Need for Speed, has joined the cast of Beautiful Ruins, an adaptation of Jess Walter’s bestselling novel about an American actress in Italy for the Cleopatra shoot, a development assistant in present day Los Angeles, and a producer who started on the set of Cleopatra.
- 11/16/2013
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
Jess Walter’s generation-spanning romance Beautiful Ruins tore up the bestseller charts and topped critical best-of lists when it was released last year, so no one was really surprised when Cross Creek Pictures and Smuggler Films promptly snapped up rights to the film adaptation. Interest in the project shot up dramatically, however, when Todd Field, the acclaimed director of In the Bedroom and Little Children signed on to direct. Now, Beautiful Ruins has its first actress as Field has selected the rising Imogen Poots to star in the film.
Poots will portray Dee Moray, a gorgeous ingenue who escapes to an Italian village during the 1962 shoot of Cleopatra when she’s told that she is dying. Walter’s book followed her story while also exploring a parallel plot set in modern-day Hollywood.
All signs point towards Poots, best known for her roles in the Fright Night remake and James McAvoy’s polarizing dark comedy Filth,...
Poots will portray Dee Moray, a gorgeous ingenue who escapes to an Italian village during the 1962 shoot of Cleopatra when she’s told that she is dying. Walter’s book followed her story while also exploring a parallel plot set in modern-day Hollywood.
All signs point towards Poots, best known for her roles in the Fright Night remake and James McAvoy’s polarizing dark comedy Filth,...
- 11/15/2013
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Todd Field’s adaptation of massively popular Jess Walter novel “Beautiful Ruins” is moving right along and has cast its first leading lady in British actress Imogen Poots, according to Variety. Walter’s 2012 novel spans two time periods and two settings – Italy in 1962 and modern day Hollywood – with interweaving stries. It kicks off [...]
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- 11/15/2013
- by Linda Ge
- UpandComers
With seven years passing since Todd Field's last film, 2006's "Little Children," fans of the director have had to be patient in waiting for his next movie. Taking a Stanley Kubrick-like stretch between pictures (the late filmmaker was a mentor to Field, who had a small role in "Eyes Wide Shut"), five years spanned between his debut feature "In The Bedroom" and his aforementioned sophomore film. But it looks like things are finally happening for "Beautiful Ruins," as the project now has a lead actress. The rising Imogen Poots ("Fright Night," "Jane Eyre") has bagged the lead role in the adaptation of Jess Walter's bestselling novel. Field adapted the screenplay that is set in the spring of 1962 off of the Ligurian Sea. It centers on three young characters whose orbit around one another is set in motion by an incident during the shooting of "Cleopatra" and continues on for decades.
- 11/15/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Imogen Poots of Fright Night and Need for Speed is set to start in the adaptation of Jess Walter's bestselling novel Beautiful Ruins which Todd Field is directing, reports Variety. The story takes place in 1962 and follows an innocent American who travels to Italy during the production of a big Hollywood film, and has a parallel story which takes place in Hollywood, present day. Producing are Patrick Milling Smith, Tyler Thompson, Brian Carmody, Brian Oliver and Field. The book was a number one New York Times best seller, as well as being named the Book of the Year by Esquire.
- 11/15/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Actor--turned-director Todd Field has not made a name for himself by being highly prolific, but the two feature films he has directed, 2001's In the Bedroom and 2006's Little Children , both garnered multiple Oscar nominations. Now comes word that Field is set to make a return to directing with his adaptation of Jess Walter's bestselling novel Beautiful Ruins with British actress Imogen Poots ( Fright Night ) being attached to star in the role of Dee Moray. Field adapted the novel, which has sold over a million copies, along with Walter with plans to produce it through his Standard Film Company along with Cross Creek Pictures' Brian Oliver and Tyler Thompson, as well as Smuggler Films' Patrick Milling Smith and Brian Carmody. According to the press release, "The epic...
- 11/15/2013
- Comingsoon.net
Audiobooks are more popular than ever, and when they're read by actors as talented as these it's easy to see why. Let us know what you think about our staffers' selections - and tell us what you're reading. Julie Farin, Sr. Public Relations Mgr. Her Pick: Bossypantsby Tina Fey Listening to Tina Fey narrate her life - her teenage escapades at drama camp, her dating disasters, her SNL years and adventures on 30 Rock - is endlessly entertaining. This is one book that is probably funnier to listen to than to read. J.D. Heyman, Executive Editor His Pick: The House...
- 8/8/2013
- PEOPLE.com
Cleopatra has earned the nickname of the most expensive film in Hollywood (though even with inflation many of the more recent blockbusters have far surpassed that price tag). It’s also known more for its off-camera scandals than for any of the content in its four-hour runtime. As the film turns 50 this year, Cleopatra finds itself back in the pop culture consciousness through Jess Walter’s popular novel Beautiful Ruins (which has a movie adaptation in the works) and the (much-derided) Lindsay Lohan film Liz & Dick. Yet even those works focus more on the infamous off-camera drama than anything related to the actual film. So, with this epic “flop” (it never made back it’s money despite being a top grosser for the year and scoring some Oscar statues) now on Blu-ray, is it worth revisiting?
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- 6/14/2013
- by John Keith
- JustPressPlay.net
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