Dekanalog To Release Long-Lost Doc
Exclusive: New York-based distributor Dekanalog has acquired a pair of features for release in 2022. The first is Walter Saxer’s long lost documentary Sepa: Our Lord Of Miracles. Shot in 1987, the film observes the open-air penal colony of the same name, created in 1951 by the Peruvian government in the Amazonian jungle. Having screened only once on Swiss TV in the 1980s, the film faded from history. After a chance encounter with Dekanalog’s George Schmalz and Lysa Le, who visited Saxer’s Peruvian bed and breakfast in 2017, a conversation was started about unearthing and restoring the film negative. The 4K restoration, handled by the Cinémathèque suisse and Cineteca di Bologna from the 16mm original negative camera and sound held at Yacumama Films, will be released in summer 2022. Separately, Dekanalog has also picked up Paul Negoescu’s A Month In Thailand, which will be released on...
Exclusive: New York-based distributor Dekanalog has acquired a pair of features for release in 2022. The first is Walter Saxer’s long lost documentary Sepa: Our Lord Of Miracles. Shot in 1987, the film observes the open-air penal colony of the same name, created in 1951 by the Peruvian government in the Amazonian jungle. Having screened only once on Swiss TV in the 1980s, the film faded from history. After a chance encounter with Dekanalog’s George Schmalz and Lysa Le, who visited Saxer’s Peruvian bed and breakfast in 2017, a conversation was started about unearthing and restoring the film negative. The 4K restoration, handled by the Cinémathèque suisse and Cineteca di Bologna from the 16mm original negative camera and sound held at Yacumama Films, will be released in summer 2022. Separately, Dekanalog has also picked up Paul Negoescu’s A Month In Thailand, which will be released on...
- 1/24/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: We can tell you that CAA has inked New York Times bestselling author Tara Westover.
Westover is known for her 2018 memoir Educated about a young girl who, kept out of school, who leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University.
The Random House book debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list and spent more than 112 weeks on the list. Educated has sold more than 4 million copies, to date, and is being published in more than 40 languages.
Westover received her BA from Brigham Young University and was awarded the Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She earned a Master of Philosophy and PhD in Intellectual History from Trinity College, Cambridge. She has also served as a visiting fellow at Harvard University.
She continues to be repped by Melanie Cook at Ziffren Brittenham.
Westover is known for her 2018 memoir Educated about a young girl who, kept out of school, who leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University.
The Random House book debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list and spent more than 112 weeks on the list. Educated has sold more than 4 million copies, to date, and is being published in more than 40 languages.
Westover received her BA from Brigham Young University and was awarded the Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She earned a Master of Philosophy and PhD in Intellectual History from Trinity College, Cambridge. She has also served as a visiting fellow at Harvard University.
She continues to be repped by Melanie Cook at Ziffren Brittenham.
- 7/10/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Oscar and Emmy-winning actress Holly Hunter is set to star alongside Ted Danson in NBC’s new untitled L.A. mayor comedy from Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, 3 Arts Entertainment and Universal Television.
Written by Fey and Carlock, the Carlock-Fey project stars Danson as a wealthy businessman who runs for mayor of Los Angeles for all the wrong reasons. Once he wins he has to figure out what he stands for, gain the respect of his staff, and connect with his teenage daughter, all while controlling the coyote population.
Hunter will play Arpi, a longtime liberal councilwoman. Having dedicated her life to the betterment of Los Angeles, she makes no secret of her disdain for the newly elected Mayor Bremer (Danson), whom she considers unqualified, sexist, and too tall to be trusted.
In addition to Danson and Hunter, Saturday Night Live vet Bobby Moynihan was...
Written by Fey and Carlock, the Carlock-Fey project stars Danson as a wealthy businessman who runs for mayor of Los Angeles for all the wrong reasons. Once he wins he has to figure out what he stands for, gain the respect of his staff, and connect with his teenage daughter, all while controlling the coyote population.
Hunter will play Arpi, a longtime liberal councilwoman. Having dedicated her life to the betterment of Los Angeles, she makes no secret of her disdain for the newly elected Mayor Bremer (Danson), whom she considers unqualified, sexist, and too tall to be trusted.
In addition to Danson and Hunter, Saturday Night Live vet Bobby Moynihan was...
- 11/20/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Holly Hunter has been cast in the upcoming Tina Fey-produced La mayor comedy series at NBC.
The veteran actor will star opposite Ted Danson in the untitled series which is being written and executive produced by Fey and Robert Carlock.
The series is about a wealthy businessman (Danson) who runs for mayor of Los Angeles for all the wrong reasons. Once he wins he has to figure out what he stands for, gain the respect of his staff and connect with his teenage daughter, all while humanely controlling the coyote population.
Hunter will play Arpi, a longtime liberal councilwoman. Having dedicated her life to the betterment of Los Angeles, she makes no secret of her disdain for the newly elected Mayor Bremer, whom she considers unqualified, sexist, and too tall to be trusted.
“We’re so excited to write for Holly Hunter,” said Fey and Carlock in a statement.
The veteran actor will star opposite Ted Danson in the untitled series which is being written and executive produced by Fey and Robert Carlock.
The series is about a wealthy businessman (Danson) who runs for mayor of Los Angeles for all the wrong reasons. Once he wins he has to figure out what he stands for, gain the respect of his staff and connect with his teenage daughter, all while humanely controlling the coyote population.
Hunter will play Arpi, a longtime liberal councilwoman. Having dedicated her life to the betterment of Los Angeles, she makes no secret of her disdain for the newly elected Mayor Bremer, whom she considers unqualified, sexist, and too tall to be trusted.
“We’re so excited to write for Holly Hunter,” said Fey and Carlock in a statement.
- 11/20/2019
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Juliette Lewis (Camping) and Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Christina Ricci (Z: The Beginning of Everything) are set as series regulars in Showtime drama pilot Yellowjackets, from writers Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson (Narcos), Entertainment One and studio-based producer Drew Comins.
Rounding out the cast are regulars Ella Purnell (Sweetbitter), Sammi Hanratty (Shameless), Sophie Thatcher (Prospect), Sophie Nélisse (The Book Thief), Steven Krueger (The Originals) and Amy Okuda (Atypical). They join previously announced Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress and Jasmin Savoy Brown.
Karyn Kusama (Destroyer) will direct and executive produce the pilot, a co-production of Showtime and Entertainment One. Comins of Creative Engine also serves as executive producer.
Written by Lyle and Nickerson, Yellowjackets is equal parts survival epic, horror story and coming-of-age drama and tells the narrative of a team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors...
Rounding out the cast are regulars Ella Purnell (Sweetbitter), Sammi Hanratty (Shameless), Sophie Thatcher (Prospect), Sophie Nélisse (The Book Thief), Steven Krueger (The Originals) and Amy Okuda (Atypical). They join previously announced Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress and Jasmin Savoy Brown.
Karyn Kusama (Destroyer) will direct and executive produce the pilot, a co-production of Showtime and Entertainment One. Comins of Creative Engine also serves as executive producer.
Written by Lyle and Nickerson, Yellowjackets is equal parts survival epic, horror story and coming-of-age drama and tells the narrative of a team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors...
- 11/19/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Holly Hunter has been set to play Sally Yates in the CBS Studios event miniseries based on former FBI director James Comey’s bestselling book A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership. Yates served as a U.S. Attorney and later Acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General under President Barack Obama, and took on the role of Attorney General for 10 days following the inauguration of President Donald Trump. It did not go well.
The Oscar- and Emmy-winning Hunter joins Jeff Daniels as Comey, Brendan Gleeson as Trump, Michael Kelly as Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and Jennifer Ehle as Patrice Comey. Billy Ray adapted and is directing the miniseries, which begins shooting next month. CBS will set an airdate and decide whether to broadcast it on Showtime, CBS All Access or both. It most certainly will be ready in the topical period when Trump runs for a second term.
Hunter...
The Oscar- and Emmy-winning Hunter joins Jeff Daniels as Comey, Brendan Gleeson as Trump, Michael Kelly as Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and Jennifer Ehle as Patrice Comey. Billy Ray adapted and is directing the miniseries, which begins shooting next month. CBS will set an airdate and decide whether to broadcast it on Showtime, CBS All Access or both. It most certainly will be ready in the topical period when Trump runs for a second term.
Hunter...
- 10/10/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress Holly Hunter is joining the Season 2 cast of HBO’s drama series Succession in a recurring role.
Created by Jesse Armstrong (In the Loop) and executive produced by The Big Short‘s Adam McKay, Season 2 of Succession follows the Roy family as they struggle to retain control of their empire, and while the future looks increasingly uncertain, it is the past that threatens ultimately to destroy them.
Hunter will play Rhea Jarrell, the politically savvy CEO of a rival media conglomerate.
The Season 2 cast includes Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong, Hiam Abbass, Sarah Snook, Kieran Culkin, Alan Ruck, Nicholas Braun, Matthew Macfadyen, Peter Friedman, Rob Yang, J. Smith Cameron, Dagmara Dominczyk and Arian Moayed.
Succession is executive produced by Armstrong, McKay, Frank Rich, Kevin Messick, Will Ferrell, Jane Tranter, Mark Mylod and Tony Roche. Armstrong also serves as showrunner.
Hunter won a best actress Oscar for her...
Created by Jesse Armstrong (In the Loop) and executive produced by The Big Short‘s Adam McKay, Season 2 of Succession follows the Roy family as they struggle to retain control of their empire, and while the future looks increasingly uncertain, it is the past that threatens ultimately to destroy them.
Hunter will play Rhea Jarrell, the politically savvy CEO of a rival media conglomerate.
The Season 2 cast includes Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong, Hiam Abbass, Sarah Snook, Kieran Culkin, Alan Ruck, Nicholas Braun, Matthew Macfadyen, Peter Friedman, Rob Yang, J. Smith Cameron, Dagmara Dominczyk and Arian Moayed.
Succession is executive produced by Armstrong, McKay, Frank Rich, Kevin Messick, Will Ferrell, Jane Tranter, Mark Mylod and Tony Roche. Armstrong also serves as showrunner.
Hunter won a best actress Oscar for her...
- 5/21/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Entertainment One has set up Insane, a film based on the wild life of Eddie Antar, the late consumer electronics king who wound up serving six years in prison for perpetrating one of the greatest securities frauds in history. Peter Steinfeld, who wrote 21, has written the script and an exclusive rights deal has been made with Sam E. Antar, Eddie Antar’s criminal co-mastermind and cousin. eOne will finance. Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Peter Steinfeld, DeShawn Schneider, Mandy Stein will produce with Sam E. Antar serving as an Associate Producer.
eOne is currently seeking a director with plans to start production next spring. Michael McGrath will oversee with Schechter for Berlanti Productions.
Anyone of a certain age who grew up in the New York metropolitan area had the discount appliance/stereo/TV chain Crazy Eddie burned into their retinas by the endless in your face commercials featuring a frenzied...
eOne is currently seeking a director with plans to start production next spring. Michael McGrath will oversee with Schechter for Berlanti Productions.
Anyone of a certain age who grew up in the New York metropolitan area had the discount appliance/stereo/TV chain Crazy Eddie burned into their retinas by the endless in your face commercials featuring a frenzied...
- 11/16/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Fox studio chief Stacey Snider had one message for the men in the entertainment business: Experience some discomfort. It’s good for business.
Snider explained that as a woman coming up in the film industry, “I’ve spent my entire career feeling somewhat uncomfortable,” she said, noting she’d often be the lone woman at the table or at the company retreat where “everyone can’t wait for you to leave and for you to go to your hotel room.”
But that discomfort also helped her learn and grow in ways that she said made her a better film executive. Having more women at the table might mean there’s conversations around raising children or complimenting another woman’s footwear, Snider said, and while that might make some men uncomfortable, “it’s good business for them to suffer a little bit of discomfort for the diversity of ideas and different perspectives that you get.
Snider explained that as a woman coming up in the film industry, “I’ve spent my entire career feeling somewhat uncomfortable,” she said, noting she’d often be the lone woman at the table or at the company retreat where “everyone can’t wait for you to leave and for you to go to your hotel room.”
But that discomfort also helped her learn and grow in ways that she said made her a better film executive. Having more women at the table might mean there’s conversations around raising children or complimenting another woman’s footwear, Snider said, and while that might make some men uncomfortable, “it’s good business for them to suffer a little bit of discomfort for the diversity of ideas and different perspectives that you get.
- 6/7/2018
- by Ricardo Lopez
- Variety Film + TV
Variety will be hosting its inaugural women’s summit, Path to Parity, on June 6 at the Jeremy Hotel in West Hollywood, Calif. The conference will bring together numerous industry leaders, talent, showrunners, producers and legal minds who are actively working for women’s advancement in the #MeToo and Time’s Up era.
The one-day conference will feature speakers and panelists including actress Mila Kunis, activist attorney Gloria Allred, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Brian Grazer, Emmy Award-winners Jill Soloway and Kenya Barris, “Jessica Jones” showrunner Melissa Rosenberg, director Paul Feig, producer Nina Jacobson, entertainment lawyers Nina Shaw, Patti Felker and Melanie Cook, comedian and talk-show host Seth Meyers and industry leaders such as 20th Century Fox CEO and chairwoman Stacey Snider, Fox Television Group CEO and chairwoman Dana Walden and Universal Music Publishing CEO and chairwoman Jody Gerson.
The summit is timed to the publication of Variety’s gender equality index report,...
The one-day conference will feature speakers and panelists including actress Mila Kunis, activist attorney Gloria Allred, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Brian Grazer, Emmy Award-winners Jill Soloway and Kenya Barris, “Jessica Jones” showrunner Melissa Rosenberg, director Paul Feig, producer Nina Jacobson, entertainment lawyers Nina Shaw, Patti Felker and Melanie Cook, comedian and talk-show host Seth Meyers and industry leaders such as 20th Century Fox CEO and chairwoman Stacey Snider, Fox Television Group CEO and chairwoman Dana Walden and Universal Music Publishing CEO and chairwoman Jody Gerson.
The summit is timed to the publication of Variety’s gender equality index report,...
- 5/21/2018
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
A capacity crowd of 350 people celebrated Cliff Gilbert-Lurie, senior partner at the Ziffren Brittenham law firm, as the Beverly Hills Bar Association awarded him the honor of 2018 Entertainment Lawyer of the Year on Thursday at the Montage Beverly Hills.
Academy Award-winning actress Sandra Bullock and prolific TV producer Dick Wolf were among the guest speakers celebrating the lawyer’s accomplishments. Drew Carey, who regaled the crowd with lawyer jokes, served as the master of ceremonies. All three are clients of Gilbert-Lurie, one of the best-known transactional attorneys in the entertainment industry
Gilbert-Lurie also represents Emmy-winning actress Claire Danes, actor/writer/producer Tina Fey, Microsoft Corporation and Imagine Entertainment, among many other high-profile clients.
Four of Gilbert-Lurie’s colleagues from Ziffren Brittenham presented Gilbert-Lurie with his award: Skip Brittenham, Sam Fischer, Ken Ziffren (who was Bhba Entertainment Lawyer of the Year 2006) and Melanie Cook (Bhba Entertainment Lawyer of the Year in...
Academy Award-winning actress Sandra Bullock and prolific TV producer Dick Wolf were among the guest speakers celebrating the lawyer’s accomplishments. Drew Carey, who regaled the crowd with lawyer jokes, served as the master of ceremonies. All three are clients of Gilbert-Lurie, one of the best-known transactional attorneys in the entertainment industry
Gilbert-Lurie also represents Emmy-winning actress Claire Danes, actor/writer/producer Tina Fey, Microsoft Corporation and Imagine Entertainment, among many other high-profile clients.
Four of Gilbert-Lurie’s colleagues from Ziffren Brittenham presented Gilbert-Lurie with his award: Skip Brittenham, Sam Fischer, Ken Ziffren (who was Bhba Entertainment Lawyer of the Year 2006) and Melanie Cook (Bhba Entertainment Lawyer of the Year in...
- 5/4/2018
- by Peter Caranicas
- Variety Film + TV
In today's Horror Highlights, we have trailers for The Magnificent Dead and 3 Dead Trick or Treaters, details on Ed Marx editing Death Camp, and news about John Cusack and Christina Ricci joining the cast of Distorted.
The Magnificent Dead: Press Release: Sgl Entertainment is pleased to announce that they have just released The Magnificent Dead an epic western horror film. With a budget of more than a million dollars, this movie has been waiting for more than seven years to be released, but now the wait is over.
Directed by Shane Scott and starring Alexis Celeste Elliott, Jack Wilson, Lavelle White, David Lampe, Gilbert Austinamie Teer, Ric Maddox, Ayla Judson, Venda D’Abato, Sam Anderson, Margaret Hoard, Rick Perkins, John Arkinson, Steve Uzzell, Fred Ellis, Mark A. Hernandez, Joseph Fotinos, Chaille Stidham, Michael Sorrells, Julian Haddad, Karl Anderson, John Weathers, Marita De La Torre, Christian Haddad, Adam Simon, Kale Peel,...
The Magnificent Dead: Press Release: Sgl Entertainment is pleased to announce that they have just released The Magnificent Dead an epic western horror film. With a budget of more than a million dollars, this movie has been waiting for more than seven years to be released, but now the wait is over.
Directed by Shane Scott and starring Alexis Celeste Elliott, Jack Wilson, Lavelle White, David Lampe, Gilbert Austinamie Teer, Ric Maddox, Ayla Judson, Venda D’Abato, Sam Anderson, Margaret Hoard, Rick Perkins, John Arkinson, Steve Uzzell, Fred Ellis, Mark A. Hernandez, Joseph Fotinos, Chaille Stidham, Michael Sorrells, Julian Haddad, Karl Anderson, John Weathers, Marita De La Torre, Christian Haddad, Adam Simon, Kale Peel,...
- 5/23/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Exclusive: Wme has signed actress Naomie Harris. In Skyfall, she shot and nearly killed James Bond and became Moneypenny, a role she reprises in the upcoming Spectre. Harris played Winnie Mandela in Mandela: A Long Walk To Freedom. She just wrapped Our Kind Of Traitor, playing the female lead opposite Ewan McGregor, and Jungle Book: Origins for Warner Bros. Harris continues to be repped by Untitled, Melanie Cook and Jamie Afifi of Ziffren Brittenham, and Angharad Wood in…...
- 8/26/2015
- Deadline
Breaking: Bill Murray will star in Rock The Kasbah, with Barry Levinson directing a script by Mitch Glazer. The film is being backed and produced by Qed’s Bill Block, Venture Forth’s Jacob Pechenik and Shangri-La Entertainment’s Steve Bing. They will shop the film to international distribs at Toronto. Pic tells the story of a burned-out music manager who goes to Afghanistan on the Uso tour with his last remaining client. When he finds himself abandoned, penniless and without his passport, he discovers a young girl with an extraordinary voice, who stows away with him back to Kabul to compete on the popular television show, The Afghan Star, Afghanistan’s equivalent of American Idol. “Bill Murray and Barry Levinson are the perfect team to capture the lunacy, heartbreak and hope of this story. I’m ecstatic,” said Glazer. Levinson is repped by ICM Partners, Elaine Goldsmith Thomas and Barry Hirsch.
- 9/3/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Former Boston Legal and The Office star James Spader is set to star as the male lead opposite Megan Boone in NBC‘s drama pilot The Blacklist. Written by Jon Bokenkamp, the project centers on Red (Spader), the world’s most wanted criminal who mysteriously turns himself in and offers to give up everyone he has ever worked with. His only condition is he will only work with a newly minted FBI agent, Elizabeth Keen (Boone), with whom he seemingly has no connection. Red is described as a former Army intelligence officer who went Awol and now serves not as a spy but a facilitator…brokering deals for criminals. Emmy winner Spader, repped by ICM Partners and Melanie Cook, had been pursued for multiple pilots this season, ultimately settling on the Sony TV-produced drama.
- 3/12/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: CAA has just signed actress Rosemarie DeWitt. DeWitt, who just played Matt Damon’s love interest in the Gus Van Sant-directed Promised Land, had her breakout role as the bride in Rachel Getting Married. She also starred in Your Sister’s Sister and AMC’s Mad Men. DeWitt, who had been at ICM, continues to be managed by Troy Nankin at Wishlab Inc., and attorney Melanie Cook.
- 3/5/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Exclusive: Paul Attanasio has been set by Universal Pictures and producers Marc Shmuger and Martin Bregman to rewrite Scarface from the original draft by David Ayer. The film is a contemporary spin on the story first told in the 1932 film and then in 1983. Attanasio’s credits include the series House, along with Donnie Brasco and Quiz Show. CAA and attorneys Melanie Cook and Cathy Halberg at Ziffren just made his deal. Shmuger is working through his Global Produce banner and Bregman produced the remake of the film. Scarface was first done in 1932 and then turned into the iconic 1983 film that starred Al Pacino as Cuban gangster Tony Montana. As I’ve reported, the film is not intended to be a remake or a sequel. It will take the common elements of the first two films: An outsider, an immigrant, barges his way into the criminal establishment in pursuit of a...
- 10/17/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Harrison Ford and relative newcomer Chadwick Boseman are set to star in Legendary Pictures’ Jackie Robinson biopic. Brian Helgeland wrote the script and will direct the movie, titled 42.
Ford will play Branch Rickey, President and manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 when he broke the “color barrier” by signing Robinson as the first African-American in Major League baseball. Deadline reported his offer this week and Legendary sent a press release blitz Friday confirming his casting. Robert Redford had long been attached to the role.
30-year-old Boseman, whose resume consists of mostly bit television parts until now, will play the second baseman. Robinson won the inaugural Rookie of the Year award that year, the National League Mvp two years later, a world series title in 1955 and, in 1962, he was inducted in the Hall of Fame. Mlb retired his number, 42, across all teams in 1997.
Helgeland is best known as an Oscar-winning screenwriter,...
Ford will play Branch Rickey, President and manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 when he broke the “color barrier” by signing Robinson as the first African-American in Major League baseball. Deadline reported his offer this week and Legendary sent a press release blitz Friday confirming his casting. Robert Redford had long been attached to the role.
30-year-old Boseman, whose resume consists of mostly bit television parts until now, will play the second baseman. Robinson won the inaugural Rookie of the Year award that year, the National League Mvp two years later, a world series title in 1955 and, in 1962, he was inducted in the Hall of Fame. Mlb retired his number, 42, across all teams in 1997.
Helgeland is best known as an Oscar-winning screenwriter,...
- 12/10/2011
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
42 is a movie that will tell the story of Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey, the Dodger Executive who was the first to sign an African American player on a Major League Baseball team. Breaking the color barrier was a risky movie back then, but it was more a message than it was a risk. For obvious reasons the message was clear. Now a press release from Legendary Pictures confirms two major players joining the cast of 42. Harrison Ford, who was in talks to play as Rickey, has official joined the cast. And he will star opposite of relative newcomer Chadwick Boseman, who will play as Jackie Robinson.
42 is written and will be directed by Brian Helgeland. Legendary Pictures will be producing. Here is the official press release for the movie:
Burbank, CA – December 9, 2011 – Legendary Pictures announced today that it has cast Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford to star in the...
42 is written and will be directed by Brian Helgeland. Legendary Pictures will be producing. Here is the official press release for the movie:
Burbank, CA – December 9, 2011 – Legendary Pictures announced today that it has cast Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford to star in the...
- 12/10/2011
- by Mike Lee
- FusedFilm
Variety reports that Brian Helgeland and Warner Bros. have taken an unusual turn for their Jackie Robinson-centered 42, casting Chadwick Boseman as the iconic baseball star. (No, me neither.) The actor has spent the majority of his career in random episodes of random TV shows, with the occasional film role, such as The Express, being thrown his way. I don’t think you need me to tell you that this is a huge deal for him.
Not only because he’s playing one of baseball’s most iconic figures, either; Variety also confirms Harrison Ford‘s role as Branch Rickey, the man who signed Robinson into the Mlb in 1947 and forever changed the game. When he was rumored just yesterday, many (including myself) didn’t see it happening — if only because the once-iconic actor had relegated himself to easy genre fare or features drowned in sentimentality.
The latter characteristic could easily apply to here,...
Not only because he’s playing one of baseball’s most iconic figures, either; Variety also confirms Harrison Ford‘s role as Branch Rickey, the man who signed Robinson into the Mlb in 1947 and forever changed the game. When he was rumored just yesterday, many (including myself) didn’t see it happening — if only because the once-iconic actor had relegated himself to easy genre fare or features drowned in sentimentality.
The latter characteristic could easily apply to here,...
- 12/10/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Burbank, CA – December 9, 2011 – Legendary Pictures announced today that it has cast Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford to star in the company’s film based upon history’s most celebrated baseball figure, Jackie Robinson. Boseman will depict the iconic baseball star, paying tribute to the legacy and impact Robinson made when he became the first African American Major League Baseball player. Ford will star as Branch Rickey, the innovative Major League Baseball executive who is best known for breaking Mlb’s color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson to a minor league contract in 1945. Two years later, at the start of the 1947 major league baseball season, Robinson was signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers major league baseball team with the help of Rickey. Rickey was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1967. Legendary worked early on in development with Robinson’s widow, Rachel Robinson, to ensure the movie adaptation of the famed player’s story is authentic.
- 12/10/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Briefly: We've just heard that Harrison Ford is the latest actor [1] that the producers of Jackie Robinson film 42 have eyed to play Branch Rickey, the La Dodgers exec who helped break the color barrier in baseball by signing Jackie Robinson. While we don't know if Ford will end up playing the role (somehow I expect not) we do know who'll play Jackie Robinson. Chadwick Boseman, whose credits are primarily in small TV roles going back to 2003, will play Robinson, according to Variety [2]. Update: Looks like I was wrong in the opening paragraph, as Jeff Sneider at Variety just said via Twitter [3], "Breaking: Harrison Ford set to play Branch Rickey in Legendary Pictures' Jackie Robinson biopic 42! Link coming..." The full press release from Legendary Pictures is below. Brian Helgeland wrote and will direct; this is the evolution of a Jackie Robinson film that has been kicking around Hollywood for some time.
- 12/10/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
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