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Lyne Gets Money For Taking "Back Roads"
21 May 2012 8:09 PM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Adrian Lyne's long-gestating film adaptation of Tawni O’Dell's novel "Back Roads" has found financing says The Hollywood Reporter.
Set in Pennsylvania’s mining country, the story follows a 20-year-old man who has to care for his three sisters after his mother is convicted of killing his abusive father.
He commences an affair with a married mother of two and becomes the prime suspect in a murder. Andrew Garfield was previously attached to star but that fell apart a while back due to scheduling issues.
Rcr Media Group is backing the steamy thriller which "Fatal Attraction" and "Indecent Proposal" helmer Lyne will direct, marking his first film since 2002's "Unfaithful". Lyne's been attached to numerous projects over the years including "Two Minutes to Midnight," "Prince of Thieves", and last month he was linked to John Grisham's legal thriller "The Associate". »
- Garth Franklin
Kristen Stewart Offered Role In Adrian Lyne’s ‘Back Roads’
20 May 2012 7:00 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
I spent this afternoon visiting Adrian Lyne‘s 9 1/2 Weeks (which I’d never seen before), so I suppose it’s only natural that casting news should now surface on the director’s first project since 2002′s Unfaithful. We’d previously speculated that Lyne would be following up his Richard Gere-Diane Lane romantic stinger by adapting John Grisham‘s The Associate, but this up-to-date Moviehole report suggests a very different novel-to-film undertaking — that of Tawni O’Dell‘s best-selling Back Roads, which he was rumored to take on in February of 2011.
The report speculates furthermore about the potential casting choices on Lynn‘s adaptation. Chloë Moretz — who’s currently on screens worldwide in Tim Burton‘s trivial Dark Shadows — is thought to already be on board with the project, while Kristen Stewart — who will soon appear in On the Road — has merely been offered an unspecified part.
Moretz‘s task, »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
The Firm: Ratings for the 2011-12 Season
16 May 2012 10:30 AM, PDT | TVSeriesFinale.com | See recent TVSeriesFinale news »
Here are the newest ratings for The Firm. This TV series picks up 10 years after the events in the John Grisham novel and stars Josh Lucas, Molly Parker, Callum Keith Rennie, and Juliette Lewis. The first season of The Firm typically airs Thursday or Saturday nights on the NBC network.
These are the TV show's ratings for the 2011-12 season, the best way to tell if The Firm is going to be cancelled or renewed for season two. Check out our NBC ratings report card to see how this show's numbers compare with the others on the network.
These figures will be updated as the weeks progress so be sure to bookmark and return to this page:
Episode 01-16: Saturday, 05/12/12
0.4 in the demo (-20% episode-to-episode change) with 2.2 million; fourth in the timeslot.
Season average: »
- TVSeriesFinale.com
'Harry Potter' Scribe to Write & Direct Legal Thriller 'Defending Jacob'
14 May 2012 3:10 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
Warner Bros. has a pretty great relationship with Steve Kloves. He wrote all but one of the Harry Potter films (Michael Goldenberg wrote Order of the Phoenix) and helped to make the Potter series the highest grossing franchise of all time. He's also set to write and direct a live-action Jungle Book story for the studio, and now Variety reports that WB is in negotations with Kloves to write and direct Defending Jacob, a legal thriller based on William Landay's best-selling novel. It follows a district attorney father who leaves his job to defend his son from a murder charge, but he's unsure of the son's guilt or innocence. More below! During the 1990s, it seemed like every year there was at least one movie based on a John Grisham novel coming out with huge, A-list stars in key roles. That trend has diminished quite a bit in the years since, »
- Ben Pearson
The Firm
11 May 2012 8:56 PM, PDT | TVSeriesFinale.com | See recent TVSeriesFinale news »
Network: NBC
Episodes: 22 (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: January 8, 2012 -- present
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Josh Lucas, Molly Parker, Natasha Calis, Callum Keith Rennie, Juliette Lewis, Shaun Majumder, and Tricia Helfer.
TV show description:
As a young associate, Mitch McDeere (Josh Lucas) brought down the prestigious Memphis law firm of Bendini, Lambert & Locke, which operated as a front for the Chicago mob -- and his life was never the same.
This TV series picks up 10 years after the end of the John Grisham novel and 1993 feature film. We find that Mitch, his wife Abby (Molly Parker), and their 10-year-old daughter Claire (Natasha Calis) are tired of hiding. After coming out of the Federal Witness Protection program, they relocate to our nation's capitol.
Mitch starts »
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Juliette Lewis To Star In Film Based On Fellini's Nights Of Cabiria
7 May 2012 2:56 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
With NBC's low-rated legal thriller The Firm moved from Thursdays to Saturdays back in February, cancellation for the TV sequel to John Grisham's popular novel seems eminent, if it's not already assumed. So it's not all that surprising to see one of its stars moving on to other projects. For Juliette Lewis, it's a starring role in a remake of an Oscar-winning film Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria debuted at Cannes in 1957 and follows a prostitute living in Rome, searching for love but only ever getting her heart broken. The movie won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film the following year. In 1966, it was turned into a stage musical, with Neil Simon writing the book and Bob Fosse directing/choreographing. Then in 1969 the play was made into a movie starring Shirley MacLaine. And now it looks like the original Nights of Cabiria screenplay will be revisited »
The Hunger Games Box Office Run Ends at Zac Efron and Steve Harvey
22 April 2012 9:51 PM, PDT | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »
The Hunger Games is no longer king of the box office, though its nearly month-long run will be remembered for years to come.
Sony and Steve Harvey's Think Like A Man, Warner's The Lucky One with Zac Efron, and Disney's annual Earth Day documentary offering Chimpanzee joined former champ The Hunger Games to help perk up the North American box office after an unmemorable performance a week prior.
Take Steve Harvey's best-selling self-help book Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man, add an ensemble cast that includes popular comedian Kevin Hart, Regina Hall, Gabrielle Union and Romany Malco, and shrewdly market the hell out of it, and you will end up with a number one movie whose opening numbers were double even the most promising pre-release estimates. Sony's Think Like A Man opened on a moderately wide release of 2,015 theaters and went on to earn a terrific »
Zac Efron and Steve Harvey Leapfrog The Hunger Games in Weekend Box Office Results
22 April 2012 2:06 PM, PDT | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »
Sony and Steve Harvey's Think Like A Man, Warner's The Lucky One with Zac Efron, and Disney's annual Earth Day documentary offering Chimpanzee joined The Hunger Games to help perk up the North American box office after a quiet weekend last week.
Take Steve Harvey's best-selling self-help book Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man, add an ensemble cast that includes popular comedian Kevin Hart, Regina Hall, Gabrielle Union and Romany Malco, and shrewdly market the hell out of it, you will end up with a number one movie whose opening numbers were double even the most promising pre-release estimates. Sony's Think Like A Man opened on a moderately wide release of 2,015 theaters and went on to earn a terrific $33.3 million for a per screen average of $16,377, the third highest of the year thus far. Overall the Think Like A Man opening was the seventh biggest of »
Mark Wahlberg Plans To Help Make You Look Beautiful in 'Avon Man'
20 April 2012 4:58 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Mark Wahlberg is loading up his schedule with almost every movie currently in development in Hollywood, sometimes even calling up studios to ask if he can make another movie of his choosing. Wahlberg will be seen next in the comedy "Ted," followed by the drama "Broken City" opposite Russell Crowe and is already shooting the dark comedy curiosity "Pain and Gain" for director Michael Bay opposite Dwayne Johnson. After that, Wahlberg will shoot "2 Guns" with Denzel Washington. As if that isn't enough, Wahlberg will also play Navy SEALs with Taylor Kitsch and Ben Forster for director Peter Berg's adaptation of "Lone Survivor" and has added two more projects to his schedule this month: the football comedy "3 Mississippi" opposite Will Ferrell and an adaptation of John Grisham's thriller "The Partner." For good measure, Wahlberg is also adding "The Avon Man."
Back in 2010, "The Avon Man" was a lock for »
- Ryan Gowland
Adrian Lyne Up For The Associate
15 April 2012 10:51 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
This year marks a decade since Adrian Lyne last released a movie (that would be Diane Lane / Richard Gere / Olivier Martinez bonk triangle Unfaithful), but it hasn’t been for want of tying. He’s developed projects here and there through the years, but nothing has seemed to come of them until recently. And now he’s circling a likely prospect with John Grisham adaptation The Associate for Paramount.The legal drama, which finds a Yale graduate coerced into taking a job with a big law firm after he learns crucial information about a big case, has had its own stumbles on the road to the screen. Back in 2008, Shia Labeouf was attached to star as the main character, with Tony Scott showing interest in 2010, attracted by a script from William Monahan. But the deals never quite worked out.Enter Lyne, for whom “briefs” in a film usually means underwear and the shedding thereof. »
The John Grisham Renaissance Continues: Adrian Lyne To Direct 'The Associate'
13 April 2012 6:25 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
It seems that Hollywood is ready to get back into the John Grisham business. Earlier this week, Mark Wahlberg became attached to produce and star in New Regency's adaptation of "The Partner," and now director Adrian Lyne ("Flashdance," "Fatal Attraction") may come out of hybernation to helm Paramount's adaptation of Grisham's 2009 novel "The Associate."
It's been ten years since Lyne has worked on a studio film, last directing the 2002 thriller "Unfaithful," but Variety says that Lyne is now in talks to direct "The Associate," which has been laying dormant for some time. William Monahan ("The Departed") wrote the initial draft of the script, but Paramount had a difficult time setting the budget, which made Shia Labeouf and possible director Tony Scott walk away from the project (they were looking at it back in 2010). The report doesn't say what the budget might have been, but says that Paramount has settled on a $25-30 pricetag, »
- Ryan Gowland
Ford, Hemsworth & Oldman Feel Paranoia
13 April 2012 1:19 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
The project's been in development at Gaumont for at least three years, but Paranoia has now suddenly gained traction, with the news that Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, and The Hunger Games' Liam Hemsworth are all set to star. Robert Luketic will direct the corporate thriller, set in "the world of telecom giants". It is, as Bob Hoskins used to tell us, good to talk.The film is based on Joseph Finder's 2004 novel, which picked up some decent reviews for its non-stop action and John Grisham-y plot. It involves a junior product line manager at the fictional Wyatt Telecom, who impersonates a senior VP in order to liberate a hundred grand of the company's money to fund a buddy's retirement party. Noble motives, but still enough to land him with life in prison... unless he agrees to infiltrate Wyatt's biggest competitor Trion Systems as a spy, to discover »
Adrian Lyne May Direct the Adaptation of John Grisham’s The Associate
12 April 2012 9:49 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
As the last movie he directed is one of my personal favorites (mostly because I'm in love with Diane Lane), I welcome the possibility of Adrian Lyne returning to the director's chair. His last go round was in 2002's Unfaithful, for which Lane received an Academy Award for Best Actress nomination. Lyne is reportedly now in negotiations to direct the adaptation of John Grisham's The Associate for Paramount. The twisting and turning plot follows a young lawyer who is blackmailed by a number of organizations who each have their own nefarious interests in mind. The picture previously had Tony Scott attached to direct with Shia Labeouf starring and Lorenzo di Bonaventura producing. Only di Bonaventura remains attached. Hit the jump for more. Variety reports that Lyne is in talks to direct The Associate from a script originally drafted by William Monahan. Scott and Labeouf had dropped out of the »
- Dave Trumbore
Adrian Lyne In Talks For "Associate"
12 April 2012 8:49 PM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Adrian Lyne ("Fatal Attraction," "Unfaithful") is in talks to direct the adaptation of John Grisham's legal thriller "The Associate" at Paramount Pictures reports Variety.
The story follows a student who's about to graduate from Yale Law School when he's manipulated into accepting a job at a prestige law firm and given privileged information about a multibillion-dollar lawsuit.
William Monahan penned the original draft adaptation back when Shia Labeouf and director Tony Scott were attached. That version fell through due to monetary issues.
The new version has set a $25-30 million budget and the studio is now looking for its star and are keen to land new Spider-Man Andrew Garfield. Lorenzo di Bonaventura will produce. »
- Garth Franklin
Adrian Lyne May Return With John Grisham Adaptation ‘The Associate’; Andrew Garfield Wanted for Lead
12 April 2012 7:29 PM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Coming right after Mark Wahlberg‘s multi-hyphenated interest in The Partner, Variety has me thinking John Grisham‘s suddenly back in style. According to them, Adrian Lyne (Jacob’s Ladder, Fatal Attraction) may end his nearly ten-year retirement by adapting his novel, The Associate, with a script by William Monahan there to guide him along.
I could make a joke about the story centering on a lawyer, but we’re not going to poke fun at Michael Bay for making expensive action films, either. (Actually…) As it were, The Associate tells the story of “a recent Yale grad coerced into taking a job with a prestige firm after he’s given information about a multi-billion-dollar case.” When we first reported on the film, back in August of 2010, Shia Labeouf and Tony Scott were the prospective star and director, respectively, and the story was said to follow “a young lawyer thrust »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Adrian Lyne to direct The Associate
12 April 2012 1:57 PM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
Adrian Lyne last sat in the director’s chair for the 2002 Fox infidelity drama Unfaithful starring Richard Gere, Diane Lane and Olivier Martinez. Lyne looked to bring the ten-year, directing dry spell to an end with a deal to direct Paramount’s John Grisham adaptation The Associate. Variety reported that Lyne continued talks with producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura and looked likely to helm the project. William Monahan wrote the adaptation about Kyle McAvoy, a Yale law graduate and associate at the world’s largest law firm caught between a dark secret and a darker scheme that may get him killed. »
Adrian Lyne to direct The Associate
12 April 2012 1:57 PM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
Adrian Lyne last sat in the director’s chair for the 2002 Fox infidelity drama Unfaithful starring Richard Gere, Diane Lane and Olivier Martinez. Lyne looked to bring the ten-year, directing dry spell to an end with a deal to direct Paramount’s John Grisham adaptation The Associate. Variety reported that Lyne continued talks with producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura and looked likely to helm the project. William Monahan wrote the adaptation about Kyle McAvoy, a Yale law graduate and associate at the world’s largest law firm caught between a dark secret and a darker scheme that may get him killed. »
Stephen Fry Heists Doors Open For ITV
12 April 2012 1:48 PM, PDT | Boomtron | See recent Boomtron news »
I’ve long been convinced that in order for any American to lay claim to the title “nerd,” that American must take a crash-course in British comedy, around about the time of his or her adolescence. This is not just because that’s how things shook out for me, but I’ve noticed how thoroughly mired in British culture a lot of American nerds are, whether it’s Monty Python or Doctor Who. And one man who transcends comedy, and indeed any genre, is Stephen Fry, that British national treasure who is now turning his considerable powers to a caper-comedy.
Fry has lately been in the sights of crime-heads as it is with his handful of appearances on Bones as Dr. Gordon Wyatt. But Doors Open sounds like a project that is a little more appealing to, well, nerds.
Produced by Fry for the UK network ITV, Doors Open is »
- Jimmy Callaway
Mark Wahlberg Set For John Grisham’s The Partner?
12 April 2012 12:36 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Mark Wahlberg is apparently in early talks to join the cast of the John Grisham adaptation The Partner, according to the folks over at Variety. The film is being adapted for the big screen by screenwriter Arnon Milchan for New Regency, and it looks like Wahlberg is all set to produce the film too, alongside partner Stephen Levinson at Leverage Management.
The Grisham novel was first published in 2005, and revolves around Patrick Lanigan, a young partner in a prominent law firm who fakes his own death to steal a fortune from his company before starting a new life in Brazil. Directors are currently being sought for the project.
Wahlberg is a very busy boy indeed. He’s currently shooting the Michael Bay movie Pain And Gain, and there are whispers that he’s tackling a Us remake of the Jo Nesbo novel Headhunters.
Source: Variety
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- Paul Heath
Mark Wahlberg Negotiating to Join the Hallowed Halls of Actors Who Have Starred in John Grisham Thrillers
11 April 2012 7:00 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
The list of top name actors who have made their bones starring in adaptations of John Grisham thrillers is long and mighty. Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, Matt Damon, even Sir Matthew MaConaughey; they’ve all seen gigantic career bumps after playing a lawyer or something like it in a work that started off as a taut, thrilling book Grisham wrote about lawyers doing lawyery things. Once upon a time movies like The Firm, The Pelican Brief, and A Time to Kill were guaranteed hits at the box office, and their paperback counterparts were ubiquitous in airport lounges. But in recent years John Grisham’s status as the world’s top pop author has been usurped by fantasy books aimed at kids and teens. Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games are the new names of the day. It almost makes one wonder if thrilling tales about lawyers cracking dramatic cases can even fly in today »
- Nathan Adams
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