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
In 2001, director Todd Field made his directorial debut with "In the Bedroom," an intense drama based on the 1979 short story "Killings" by Andre Dubus. "In the Bedroom" is about the tenuous nature of family, class, the impossibility of emotional healing, and the horrors of justice. It boasted excellent performances from Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, and Marisa Tomei, and was nominated for five Academy Awards. It's handily one of the best films of the year. It would be five years before Field would return to directing with "Little Children," based on the novel by Tom Perrotta. That film also gazed into the suburbs and found helicopter parents, unhappy marriages, not-very-cathartic infidelity, and, most notably, a released sex criminal trying to reintegrate into a world that loathes him. That film was nominated for three Academy Awards, although it was quite a bit more mawkish and melodramatic than Field's previous effort.
That was...
That was...
- 1/10/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
It’s that time of year again. While some directors annually share their favorite films of the year, Steven Soderbergh lists everything he consumed, media-wise. For 2021––another year in which he not only released a new film, but shot another (and produced the Oscars)––he still got plenty of watching in.
Along with catching up on 2021’s new releases, he took in plenty of classics, including Jaws, Citizen Kane, Metropolis, The French Connection, and Lubitsch’s Ninotchka and Design For Living. Early last year, he also saw a cut of Channing Tatum’s Dog, which doesn’t arrive until next month. He also, of course, screened his latest movies while in post-production, with three viewings of No Sudden Move and three viewings of Kimi, which arrives on February 10 on HBO Max and the first look of which can be seen below.
Check out the list below via his official site.
Along with catching up on 2021’s new releases, he took in plenty of classics, including Jaws, Citizen Kane, Metropolis, The French Connection, and Lubitsch’s Ninotchka and Design For Living. Early last year, he also saw a cut of Channing Tatum’s Dog, which doesn’t arrive until next month. He also, of course, screened his latest movies while in post-production, with three viewings of No Sudden Move and three viewings of Kimi, which arrives on February 10 on HBO Max and the first look of which can be seen below.
Check out the list below via his official site.
- 1/5/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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 all set to star in and produce an action-thriller for Netflix titled ‘The Mother’.
The story will focus on a deadly female assassin, played by Lopez, who comes out of hiding to protect a daughter she gave up years ago while on the run.
‘Mulan’ helmer, Niki Caro, is currently in talks to direct the project. The script was script originally penned by Misha Green (‘Lovecraft Country’) and revised by Andrea Berloff (‘Straight Outta Compton’).
Also in news – Zach Braff joins cast of Disney+ ‘Cheaper By the Dozen’ remake
Green, Elaine Goldsmith Thomas, Benny Medina, Roy Lee and Miri Yoon will also produce.
Lopez, who seems to be having a career revival after her star turn in ‘Hustlers’, has previously worked with Netflix on an adaptation of the Isabella Maldonado novel ‘The Cipher’ which focuses on FBI agent Nina Guerrera (Lopez), who is pulled into a serial...
The story will focus on a deadly female assassin, played by Lopez, who comes out of hiding to protect a daughter she gave up years ago while on the run.
‘Mulan’ helmer, Niki Caro, is currently in talks to direct the project. The script was script originally penned by Misha Green (‘Lovecraft Country’) and revised by Andrea Berloff (‘Straight Outta Compton’).
Also in news – Zach Braff joins cast of Disney+ ‘Cheaper By the Dozen’ remake
Green, Elaine Goldsmith Thomas, Benny Medina, Roy Lee and Miri Yoon will also produce.
Lopez, who seems to be having a career revival after her star turn in ‘Hustlers’, has previously worked with Netflix on an adaptation of the Isabella Maldonado novel ‘The Cipher’ which focuses on FBI agent Nina Guerrera (Lopez), who is pulled into a serial...
- 2/2/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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
The first episode of Paramount Network's Waco, now streaming on Netflix, primarily takes place in Ruby Ridge, ID, where in 1992, an 11-day standoff between the FBI and the Weaver family took place. The Weavers lived in seclusion in the hills of Idaho, and the siege, which is largely considered a botched situation resulting in unnecessary deaths, set the tone for what was to come in Waco the following year. Here are the details on what went down in Idaho.
Before the Ruby Ridge Siege
The Weaver family, who were at the center of the FBI standoff in 1992, moved into the home in Ruby Ridge, ID, in the 1980s and largely kept to themselves. Former Us Army engineer Randy, his wife, Vicki, and their children moved from Iowa to Idaho to the remote cabin but spent some time at a nearby compound of Aryan nationalists. Though, according to ABC News,...
Before the Ruby Ridge Siege
The Weaver family, who were at the center of the FBI standoff in 1992, moved into the home in Ruby Ridge, ID, in the 1980s and largely kept to themselves. Former Us Army engineer Randy, his wife, Vicki, and their children moved from Iowa to Idaho to the remote cabin but spent some time at a nearby compound of Aryan nationalists. Though, according to ABC News,...
- 5/6/2020
- by Hedy Phillips
- Popsugar.com
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
Exclusive: Hot off the success of this fall’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, screenwriters Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster are set to make their feature directorial debut with their scripted adaptation of Dash Shaw’s graphic novel Bottomless Belly Button.
I hear that Bow and Arrow Entertainment, who were behind such Sundance premieres as Native Son and The Little Hours, has acquired the graphic novel for the duo.
Bottomless Belly Button follows the dysfunctional adventures of the Loony Family. After 40-some years of marriage, Maggie and David Loony shock their children with their announcement of a planned divorce. This sparks their now adult offspring Dennis, Claire and Peter to come together for a week long Loony family reunion at Maggie and David’s creepy –and possibly haunted– beach house.
Matthew Perniciaro and Michael Sherman of Bow and Arrow will produce the film with Fitzerman-Blue and Harpster,...
I hear that Bow and Arrow Entertainment, who were behind such Sundance premieres as Native Son and The Little Hours, has acquired the graphic novel for the duo.
Bottomless Belly Button follows the dysfunctional adventures of the Loony Family. After 40-some years of marriage, Maggie and David Loony shock their children with their announcement of a planned divorce. This sparks their now adult offspring Dennis, Claire and Peter to come together for a week long Loony family reunion at Maggie and David’s creepy –and possibly haunted– beach house.
Matthew Perniciaro and Michael Sherman of Bow and Arrow will produce the film with Fitzerman-Blue and Harpster,...
- 12/6/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
“Marjorie Prime” producer Uri Singer of Passage Pictures and former Netflix executive George Berry have launched TaleFlick, a platform with a searchable library of stories for film, television, and digital media.
“As a producer, I’ve learned the importance of finding strong content and having a reliable source that can provide it,” Singer said. “TaleFlick allows studios and producers, like myself, to find stories that otherwise would not have had a chance to be seen.”
Tuesday’s announcement appears to allow writers to bypass agents and managers in selling material. “TaleFlick bridges the gap between the written word on paper and the spoken word on screen by paving the way for storytellers around the world to shop their content to the entertainment industry,” the statement said.
The platform is for all content — published books, short stories, and any original narrative — and the submission process includes an introductory one-time single-level fee of $88 to cover curation,...
“As a producer, I’ve learned the importance of finding strong content and having a reliable source that can provide it,” Singer said. “TaleFlick allows studios and producers, like myself, to find stories that otherwise would not have had a chance to be seen.”
Tuesday’s announcement appears to allow writers to bypass agents and managers in selling material. “TaleFlick bridges the gap between the written word on paper and the spoken word on screen by paving the way for storytellers around the world to shop their content to the entertainment industry,” the statement said.
The platform is for all content — published books, short stories, and any original narrative — and the submission process includes an introductory one-time single-level fee of $88 to cover curation,...
- 8/28/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Platform will shop written content to studios and production companies.
Marjorie Prime producer and Passage Pictures head Uri Singer and former Netflix and Apple executive George Berry are launching TaleFlick, a platform offering authors of the written word a way to shop their work to film, TV, and digital media companies.
The platform is for all written content, be it published books, short stories, or original narrative in any form. Singer and Berry have invested in a new technology utilising a machine learning algorithm that classifies content, curating each piece with an algorithm paired with human expertise.
Authors will retain all rights to their books,...
Marjorie Prime producer and Passage Pictures head Uri Singer and former Netflix and Apple executive George Berry are launching TaleFlick, a platform offering authors of the written word a way to shop their work to film, TV, and digital media companies.
The platform is for all written content, be it published books, short stories, or original narrative in any form. Singer and Berry have invested in a new technology utilising a machine learning algorithm that classifies content, curating each piece with an algorithm paired with human expertise.
Authors will retain all rights to their books,...
- 8/28/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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
Exclusive: The Devil Wears Prada helmer David Frankel is making a deal to direct Fox 2000’s film adaptation of Jess Walter’s 2012 New York Times Best Seller Beautiful Ruins. Sam Mendes brought it to the studio intending to direct, but he stepped out and will produce through Neal Street with Julie Pastor and Karen Rosenfelt. The author is executive producer alongside Neal Street’s Pippa Harris.
The epic story begins in the spring of 1962 off the Ligurian Sea and centers on three young characters who meet during an incident involving the international jet-set in Rome, in the throws of La Dolce Vita-like swirl of the shooting of the film Cleopatra. The script was written by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster, and Elizabeth Gabler and Erin Siminoff are overseeing for Fox 2000. The intention is to go into production this summer.
Wme and Anonymous Content rep Frankel; Mendes is repped by CAA.
The epic story begins in the spring of 1962 off the Ligurian Sea and centers on three young characters who meet during an incident involving the international jet-set in Rome, in the throws of La Dolce Vita-like swirl of the shooting of the film Cleopatra. The script was written by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster, and Elizabeth Gabler and Erin Siminoff are overseeing for Fox 2000. The intention is to go into production this summer.
Wme and Anonymous Content rep Frankel; Mendes is repped by CAA.
- 4/19/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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
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
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
The UK actress is attached to star in the 1960s Ligurian drama for Cross Creek Pictures and Smuggler Films.
Todd Field will direct the adaptation of Jess Walter’s bestseller about a young actress on the Ligurian coast in 1962 at the time of La Dolce Vita and her relationship with four very different men, one of whom is Richard Burton.
Poots will play Dee Moray and the producers are out to casting for the male characters.
Field and Walters co-wrote the screenplay and will produce through Standard Film Company with Cross Creek’s Brian Oliver and Tyler Thompson and Smuggler Films’ Patrick Milling Smith and Brian Carmody.
Adam Kassan will oversee production for Cross Creek Pictures when filming starts in May 2014 in Italy.
Poots’ credits include Solitary Man, A Late Quartet, The Look Of Love and the upcoming Knight Of Cups.
CAA packaged the project and represents domestic rights. No international sales agent was on baord at time...
Todd Field will direct the adaptation of Jess Walter’s bestseller about a young actress on the Ligurian coast in 1962 at the time of La Dolce Vita and her relationship with four very different men, one of whom is Richard Burton.
Poots will play Dee Moray and the producers are out to casting for the male characters.
Field and Walters co-wrote the screenplay and will produce through Standard Film Company with Cross Creek’s Brian Oliver and Tyler Thompson and Smuggler Films’ Patrick Milling Smith and Brian Carmody.
Adam Kassan will oversee production for Cross Creek Pictures when filming starts in May 2014 in Italy.
Poots’ credits include Solitary Man, A Late Quartet, The Look Of Love and the upcoming Knight Of Cups.
CAA packaged the project and represents domestic rights. No international sales agent was on baord at time...
- 11/15/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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
Director Todd Field ("Little Children," "In the Bedroom") is set to direct an adaptation of Jess Walter's bestseller "Beautiful Ruins," centering on a near-love affair sparked in Italy in 1962, and rekindled in Hollywood half a century later. Field and Walter will co-pen the screenplay. The project is a team-up between companies Cross Creek Pictures and Smuggler Films. "Beautiful Ruins" was named one of the best books of 2012 by Entertainment Weekly, the New York Times, Amazon and NPR. Field reportedly also has "A Creed of Violence" in the pipeline for 2014, based on Boston Terran's novel that takes place during the Mexican Revolution in 1910.
- 4/9/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
With his 2001 feature, In the Bedroom, and his 2006 feature, Little Children, longtime actor Todd Field established himself as a director worth watching. It’s now been seven years since we’ve gotten a feature film from him though, which kind of feels like a gip. What’s the deal, man? Whatever the deal over the past seven years has been, the deal now is that the wait for another Field film is over, so all may rejoice. Cross Creek Pictures has announced [via Coming Soon] that they’ve hired him to helm an adaptation of the Jess Walter novel ‘Beautiful Ruins.’ The official plot synopsis the production company gives is a little vague, but a more thorough rundown of the novel’s plot from Good Reads describes it by saying: The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks on over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and...
- 4/9/2013
- by Nathan Adams
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The joy of most novels is in the trip the author takes the reader.s imagination on, allowing a string of words to substitute for locations and emotions, pulling characters from one writer.s mind into everyone else.s. Assuming it.s a good novel, of course. And even though Jess Walter.s years-spanning romance Beautiful Ruins hasn.t been out all that long, it has gotten overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics everywhere. So that means it will never get a cinematic adaptation, right? Of course not! Thanks to Coming Soon, we now know that Todd Field will be making Beautiful Ruins his next feature, teaming up with Cross Creek Pictures co-founders Brian Oliver and Tyler Thompson. Smuggler Films, run by Patrick Milling Smith and Brian Carmody, will also be producing. Field, the screenwriter for all of his past features, will be co-scripting with Walter himself. Field has been quiet...
- 4/9/2013
- cinemablend.com
The joy of most novels is in the trip the author takes the reader.s imagination on, allowing a string of words to substitute for locations and emotions, pulling characters from one writer.s mind into everyone else.s. Assuming it.s a good novel, of course. And even though Jess Walter.s years-spanning romance Beautiful Ruins hasn.t been out all that long, it has gotten overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics everywhere. So that means it will never get a cinematic adaptation, right? Of course not! Thanks to Coming Soon, we now know that Todd Field will be making Beautiful Ruins his next feature, producing the film through his Cross Creek Pictures imprint that he runs with Brian Oliver and Tyler Thompson. Smuggler Films, run by Patrick Milling Smith and Brian Carmody, will also be producing. Field, the screenwriter for all of his past features, will be co-scripting with...
- 4/9/2013
- cinemablend.com
"In the Bedroom" and "Little Children" director Todd Field is set to direct an adaptation of Jess Walter's novel "Beautiful Ruins" for Cross Creek Pictures and Smuggler Films.
Set in 1962 off the Ligurian Sea on the Italian Coast, the story follows an American actress who comes to stay in a hotel owned by the family of a young man named Pasquale.
The filming of "Cleopatra" in Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in Rome kicks the story into action, with scenes also taking place in Hollywood and Florence.
Walter and Field will co-write the screenplay. Field, Brian Oliver, Tyler Thompson, Patrick Milling Smith and Brian Carmody will produce.
Source: Vulture...
Set in 1962 off the Ligurian Sea on the Italian Coast, the story follows an American actress who comes to stay in a hotel owned by the family of a young man named Pasquale.
The filming of "Cleopatra" in Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in Rome kicks the story into action, with scenes also taking place in Hollywood and Florence.
Walter and Field will co-write the screenplay. Field, Brian Oliver, Tyler Thompson, Patrick Milling Smith and Brian Carmody will produce.
Source: Vulture...
- 4/9/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Actor turned writer and director Todd Field has delivered some stellar pieces of cinema in the form of In the Bedroom and Little Children. However, it's been seven years since his last film, and while he's supposedly working on the western Creed of Violence, which has Christian Bale involved. Now another project is in Field's future as Cross Creek Pictures has announced that he will direct an adaptation of Jess Walter's New York Times bestseller Beautiful Ruins, which he will write himself, along with the author, for the screen. The romantic story begins overseas in 1962, but spans decades and even hits in Hollywood. The book is described as the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 and is rekindled in Hollywood 50 years later. The press release gets a little more detailed saying: "The epic story begins in the spring of 1962 off the Ligurian Sea...
- 4/8/2013
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Beautiful Ruins, the epic romance novel EW counted among 2012′s best fiction, has found a director. Todd Field will helm the project and will also co-write the script with Jess Walter, author of the best-selling book.
The news was announced today by the heads of Cross Creek Pictures (Black Swan) and Smuggler Films (Greetings From Tim Buckley), which are set to produce the project.
Beautiful Ruins, Walter’s sixth novel, tells the stories of a beautiful American starlet fresh off the set of Cleopatra who flees to an Italian village after learning that she is dying, an ambitious development assistant in modern Hollywood,...
The news was announced today by the heads of Cross Creek Pictures (Black Swan) and Smuggler Films (Greetings From Tim Buckley), which are set to produce the project.
Beautiful Ruins, Walter’s sixth novel, tells the stories of a beautiful American starlet fresh off the set of Cleopatra who flees to an Italian village after learning that she is dying, an ambitious development assistant in modern Hollywood,...
- 4/8/2013
- by Emily Rome
- EW - Inside Movies
Beautiful Ruins — Jess Walter’s lovely novel about an aspiring actress, a failed novelist, a washed-up rock star, Cleopatra, the Amalfi Coast, and the Donner Party, among other things — will be made into a movie by none other than Todd Field (of In the Bedroom and Little Children fame). Walter and Field will co-write the screenplay; Lindsay Lohan will play the role of “Elizabeth Taylor’s back.” Just kidding! This is a classy affair.
- 4/8/2013
- by Amanda Dobbins
- Vulture
Are we finally going to see a new movie from director Todd Field? It has been a far too long seven years since his excellent "Little Children" and we've been patiently waiting for "The Creed Of Violence" to get moving, while Field has taken to directing Captain Morgan commercials and producing the brewing "Hold On To Me" with Robert Pattinson and Carey Mulligan. And now, Field is lining up another movie to direct, but one that will certainly find him courting his biggest audience yet. Via his Cross Creek Pictures shingle, Field is teaming with Smuggler Films, to produce, co-write and direct "Beautiful Ruins." The film is an adaptation of author Jess Walter's massive bestseller, and she'll help pen the screenplay. You can see why this makes such a good big outing from the logline already, with the story beginning in the spring of 1962 off the Ligurian Sea, centering...
- 4/8/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Just announced — Todd Field will direct Beautiful Ruins, with Jess Walter and Field co-writing the screenplay. No word yet who might star but there are many great parts. We wrote about this great book earlier.
- 4/8/2013
- by Sasha Stone
- AwardsDaily.com
Filmmaker Todd Field, Brian Oliver and Tyler Thompson, co-founders of Cross Creek Pictures, and Patrick Milling Smith and Brian Carmody, co-founders of Smuggler Films, announced today that their companies will team up to produce the film adaptation of Jess Walter's New York Times bestseller, Beautiful Ruins . Todd Field and Jess Walter are confirmed to write the screenplay, with Field set to direct. The epic story begins in the spring of 1962 off the Ligurian Sea and centers on three young characters whose orbit around one another is set in motion by an incident involving the international jet-set center, Rome, in the throws of "La Dolce Vita" madness during the shooting of Cleopatra, and continues for decades. Field will produce the film through Standard Film...
- 4/8/2013
- Comingsoon.net
We're big book lovers around here - novels, celebrity memoirs, the classics, Ya fiction … anything that grabs and transports us. This week's selection of staff book picks reflects our fairly eclectic tastes. Check out what we're reading this week below, and keep the conversation going by letting us know in the comments what books are capturing your imagination. Alynda Wheat, Movie Critic Her pick: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card I'm always reading something that's being turned into a movie. These days that means plenty of young-adult fiction as studios pursue the next hit teen franchise, like Twilight or The Hunger Games.
- 2/28/2013
- PEOPLE.com
You've got about seventeen days until Labor Day weekend, the last great hurrah of this and every summer. And we know you've been meaning to read a book, just one book. Well, we've got you covered. Here are a solid dozen titles that run the gamut — high and low, fat and slim, light and dark.If you like turning pages ...Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn This is probably the one book you’ve heard about this summer — and it lives up to the hype. Creepy good with one of the more excellent twists you’re likely to come across anywhere, Gone Girl is simultaneously a murder mystery and a story of the most effed-up marriage you can imagine. Or can’t imagine — it’s that clever. If you like Hollywood and Italy and pretty things ... Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter At the beginning of this dazzling new novel, it's 1962 and...
- 8/14/2012
- by Michele Filgate
- Vulture
We're not entirely sure what Esquire has in mind for its new ebook series "Fiction for Men", but as part of the launch they will be publishing a new story collaboration by father and son team Stephen King and Joe Hill entitled "In the Tall Grass". Hopefully women will be allowed to read it, too!
Per King's official site the story will be published in two parts, the first appearing in the magazine's June/July issue with the conclusion coming in the August issue. Joining King and Hill in the June/July issue will be thriller writer Lee Child (the Jack Reacher series) and Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin). The works will be available only in the print and iPad editions of the magazine.
Nothing else is known about the King/Hill story, but let's get back to this "Fiction for Men" thing for a moment. According to The New York Times,...
Per King's official site the story will be published in two parts, the first appearing in the magazine's June/July issue with the conclusion coming in the August issue. Joining King and Hill in the June/July issue will be thriller writer Lee Child (the Jack Reacher series) and Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin). The works will be available only in the print and iPad editions of the magazine.
Nothing else is known about the King/Hill story, but let's get back to this "Fiction for Men" thing for a moment. According to The New York Times,...
- 5/23/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Jack Black-starrer Bailout goes forward with Sony Pictures Worldwide picking up the project. Michael Winterbottom (A Mighty Heart) will direct the story about a businessman who moonlights as a poet as his life unravels. He leaves his great job to start a website which fails, putting him deeply in debt, takes another job only to be quickly laid off, all the while his marriage seems to be unraveling and he's about to lose his house. On the brink of total ruin, he considers an illegal way to make money. The movie is based on the book "The Financial Lives of Poets" by Jess Walter. Filming starts in January.
Source: Variety...
Source: Variety...
- 11/3/2011
- by tara@kidspickflicks.com (Tara the Mom)
- kidspickflicks
Director Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People, Wonderland) and funnyman Jack Black (Nacho Libre , School Of Rock) have teamed up on comedy Bailout, an adaptation of a comic novel called The Financial Lives Of The Poets by Jess Walter. It's just been snagged by Universal.
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Bailout "follows the misadventures of Matt Prior (Black), who loses his job, is crippled with debt and is convinced his wife is having an affair. He's two weeks from losing his home when he meets two losers at the supermarket who offer him a strange business opportunity and his last chance to save himself." [Deadline]
It sounds like a comedy with a tinge of drama, so we'll probably get to watch Black flex his Serious Actor chops again. He's appeared in crossover movies like that before,...
Jack Black joins the cast of Beastie Boys' Fight For Your Right Sequel
And: Check out Jack Black's New Years Resolution
Bailout "follows the misadventures of Matt Prior (Black), who loses his job, is crippled with debt and is convinced his wife is having an affair. He's two weeks from losing his home when he meets two losers at the supermarket who offer him a strange business opportunity and his last chance to save himself." [Deadline]
It sounds like a comedy with a tinge of drama, so we'll probably get to watch Black flex his Serious Actor chops again. He's appeared in crossover movies like that before,...
- 11/3/2011
- by Anna Breslaw
- Filmology
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: Jack Black could use a hit — one where we see him, and not just hear him (as we do in the “Kung Fu Panda” franchise). “The Big Year” wasn’t a big hit. “Bernie” went unseen. “Gulliver’s Travels” should have gone unseen.
Teaming up with Michael Winterbottom, however, could be just what the doctor ordered for Black, who’ll appear in the director’s upcoming comedy “Bailout,” which was just acquired by Sony Pictures Worldwide, THR reports.
Winterbottom’s film adapts Jess Walter’s novel “The Financial Lives of the Poets,” about a 99-percenter who hits rock bottom – broke, unemployed, cheating wife and so on – who must go to extremes to get his life back on track. Shooting on the comedy begins January 2012, with additional cast members announced shortly.
“We’re delighted to partner with Sony on this film,” said Ealing Metro head Will Machin.
Hollywoodnews.com: Jack Black could use a hit — one where we see him, and not just hear him (as we do in the “Kung Fu Panda” franchise). “The Big Year” wasn’t a big hit. “Bernie” went unseen. “Gulliver’s Travels” should have gone unseen.
Teaming up with Michael Winterbottom, however, could be just what the doctor ordered for Black, who’ll appear in the director’s upcoming comedy “Bailout,” which was just acquired by Sony Pictures Worldwide, THR reports.
Winterbottom’s film adapts Jess Walter’s novel “The Financial Lives of the Poets,” about a 99-percenter who hits rock bottom – broke, unemployed, cheating wife and so on – who must go to extremes to get his life back on track. Shooting on the comedy begins January 2012, with additional cast members announced shortly.
“We’re delighted to partner with Sony on this film,” said Ealing Metro head Will Machin.
- 11/3/2011
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
No other time, no other place sees a greater concentration of the world's film journalists than the Cannes Film Festival. If you've got an announcement to make, Cannes is the when and where to make it. Before what looks like a pretty raucous week gets rolling tomorrow, I thought I'd gather notes on a few of the most interesting made so far.
The Hollywood Reporter's Scott Roxborough goes to work on the story that's probably made the biggest noise so far: "The creator of Antichrist and the helmer of Taxi Driver will collaborate on their next project. Danish director Lars von Trier and Oscar-winner Martin Scorsese are teaming up for a remake of The Five Obstructions, von Trier's 2003 documentary deconstructing the filmmaking process…. It's unclear which of Scorcese's films will form the basis of the Five Obstructions remake."
Jason Guerrasio for Filmmaker: "This news got me thinking about another project...
The Hollywood Reporter's Scott Roxborough goes to work on the story that's probably made the biggest noise so far: "The creator of Antichrist and the helmer of Taxi Driver will collaborate on their next project. Danish director Lars von Trier and Oscar-winner Martin Scorsese are teaming up for a remake of The Five Obstructions, von Trier's 2003 documentary deconstructing the filmmaking process…. It's unclear which of Scorcese's films will form the basis of the Five Obstructions remake."
Jason Guerrasio for Filmmaker: "This news got me thinking about another project...
- 5/15/2011
- MUBI
Jack Black has signed up to Michael Winterbottom's forthcoming comedy Bailout. The feature film will see the actor playing a near-bankrupt man who tries to salvage his finances through drug-dealing after he meets a pair of down-and-outs in a supermarket, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Jess Walter penned the script from her novel The Financial Lives of the Poets. Black will next be seen (more)...
- 5/13/2011
- by By Zakia Uddin
- Digital Spy
All the latest news, reviews, comment and buzz from the Croisette, as it happens
9.15am: Morning all. Well, it's the morning after Britain's big night at this year's Cannes film festival, when Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin, wildly received by the critics yesterday, got its turn on the red carpet.
We've just launched this reel review on the movie, which also includes various pundits' take on the film, as well as that of our own Xan Brooks. Sample quote: "I'm still scared."
9.26am: So what else is on the cards today? Well we'll be updating our gallery from last night, then in an hour or so we'll launch another video – Xan's exploits wandering round the Marché, that fantastic flogging ground for weird and wonderful flicks. Then we'll have a first review of Habemus Papam, Nanni Moretti's hot potato film about the Pope, plus Xan's diary of the day,...
9.15am: Morning all. Well, it's the morning after Britain's big night at this year's Cannes film festival, when Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin, wildly received by the critics yesterday, got its turn on the red carpet.
We've just launched this reel review on the movie, which also includes various pundits' take on the film, as well as that of our own Xan Brooks. Sample quote: "I'm still scared."
9.26am: So what else is on the cards today? Well we'll be updating our gallery from last night, then in an hour or so we'll launch another video – Xan's exploits wandering round the Marché, that fantastic flogging ground for weird and wonderful flicks. Then we'll have a first review of Habemus Papam, Nanni Moretti's hot potato film about the Pope, plus Xan's diary of the day,...
- 5/13/2011
- by Catherine Shoard, Ian J Griffiths
- The Guardian - Film News
The Cannes Film Festival is currently going on right now, which is the main reason why we have so many casting updates every day. Stick with us as this festival continues on for the next week or so. We’ve got a bunch of casting updates for you from all over the place. In this article you see some confirmed and unconfirmed casting bits that involve Rob Lowe, Zoe Saldana, Susan Sarandon and Jim Broadbent, Bill Hader, Jack Black, Colin Firth and Emily Blunt. Keep reading to find out what projects they may be involved with.
• Rob Lowe has signed on to star in the political thriller Knife Fight coming from director Bill Guttentag. Lowe will play a “political crisis specialist who plays hard and tough in dealing with various October campaign surprises.” The film is set to shoot in June with hopes to release it in October, 2012, just in time for the elections.
• Rob Lowe has signed on to star in the political thriller Knife Fight coming from director Bill Guttentag. Lowe will play a “political crisis specialist who plays hard and tough in dealing with various October campaign surprises.” The film is set to shoot in June with hopes to release it in October, 2012, just in time for the elections.
- 5/13/2011
- by Ryan Laster
- If It's Movies
Jack Black moves over from one comedy to another as he sinks his teeth into Michael Winterbottom's new feature "Bailout." The upcoming film is based off the novel "The Financial Lives of The Poets" written by Jess Walter who also ended up writing the script for the adaptation. Producing the film is Melissa Parmenter, Ben Cooley, Michael Besman, Priyanka Mattoo under Ealing Metro International and Jack Black."Bailout" centers on the story of one man's attempt to come back from the brink of financial ruin after meeting a couple of losers in a late night supermarket. Winterbottom will begin shooting "Bailout" this August somewhere in the United States.Michael Winterbottom is best known for his directing work in films like "24 Hour Party People," "A Mighty Heart" and "The Killer Inside Me." He's the same director who's handling the World War II-set film "The Promised Land" with a cast that includes Colin Firth,...
- 5/13/2011
- LRMonline.com
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