Amblin Partners has secured the film rights to “Confessions in B-Flat,” with Academy Award-winning actor and producer Octavia Spencer, four-time Oscar-nominated producer Kristie Macosko Krieger and Aimee Carpenter set to produce.
The 2020 novel, from Essence bestselling author Donna Hill, tells an emotional love story set amid the Civil Rights Movement, following two young people, Anita and Jason, who meet and fall in love despite their clashing political beliefs.
Maya Dunbar is adapting the book for the screen.
Spencer is producing the adaptation via her Orit Entertainment production company, with Carpenter producing under her Marcy Place Productions banner. Executive producers are Brian Clisham and Tara Taylor, with Liz Pelletier serving as co-producer. Jeb Brody, Amblin Partners’ president of production, and Mia Maniscalco, SVP of creative affairs, will oversee the project for the studio.
Hill is an American author of romance, mystery and women’s fiction, who has over 90 titles in print...
The 2020 novel, from Essence bestselling author Donna Hill, tells an emotional love story set amid the Civil Rights Movement, following two young people, Anita and Jason, who meet and fall in love despite their clashing political beliefs.
Maya Dunbar is adapting the book for the screen.
Spencer is producing the adaptation via her Orit Entertainment production company, with Carpenter producing under her Marcy Place Productions banner. Executive producers are Brian Clisham and Tara Taylor, with Liz Pelletier serving as co-producer. Jeb Brody, Amblin Partners’ president of production, and Mia Maniscalco, SVP of creative affairs, will oversee the project for the studio.
Hill is an American author of romance, mystery and women’s fiction, who has over 90 titles in print...
- 3/9/2023
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Octavia Spencer, Melissa McCarthy, Ben Falcone, Joel McHale, Aimee Carpenter and Leslee Feldman have joined forces with Frontline Foods in an effort to connect local restaurants with hardworking hospital clinicians.
The idea is simple: donate healthy meals to hospital clinicians who are working in wartime conditions by partnering with local restaurants who have been devastated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Frontline Foods and their network of community volunteers work with restaurants, hospitals and other medical facilities to feed those working on the frontline.
The Frontline Foods program started organically in multiple cities across the country. The program has raised more than $1.6 million nationwide, served more than 50,000 meals to frontline workers, and supported over 135 restaurants.
The celebrity...
The idea is simple: donate healthy meals to hospital clinicians who are working in wartime conditions by partnering with local restaurants who have been devastated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
More from DeadlineAmy Schumer To Front Quarantine Cooking Show For Food Network'Truth Be Told' Drama Renewed For Season 2 By AppleMelissa McCarthy Joins Nicole Kidman In 'Nine Perfect Strangers' Hulu Limited Series From David E. Kelley
Frontline Foods and their network of community volunteers work with restaurants, hospitals and other medical facilities to feed those working on the frontline.
The Frontline Foods program started organically in multiple cities across the country. The program has raised more than $1.6 million nationwide, served more than 50,000 meals to frontline workers, and supported over 135 restaurants.
The celebrity...
- 4/15/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
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