Exclusive: Carrie Preston has boarded John Logan’s untitled feature directorial debut at Blumhouse, which has been billed as a Lgbtqia+ empowerment movie set at a gay conversion camp. The project from the three-time Oscar nominee was previously known as Whistler Camp.
Preston joins the already cast Theo Germaine and Kevin Bacon, the latter who is also serving as executive producer. Jason Blum and Michael Aguilar are producing. Scott Turner Schofield is also serving as EP.
For seven seasons, Preston starred as Arlene Fowler, the sassy red-headed waitress on the hit HBO series True Blood. She won an Emmy playing Elsbeth Tascioni on CBS’ The Good Wife and recurred in the same role on its spinoff The Good Fight. She also recurred for five years on CBS’ Person of Interest playing Grace, the love interest to her real-life husband, Michael Emerson.
Preston can now be seen on TNT’s series Claws as Polly.
Preston joins the already cast Theo Germaine and Kevin Bacon, the latter who is also serving as executive producer. Jason Blum and Michael Aguilar are producing. Scott Turner Schofield is also serving as EP.
For seven seasons, Preston starred as Arlene Fowler, the sassy red-headed waitress on the hit HBO series True Blood. She won an Emmy playing Elsbeth Tascioni on CBS’ The Good Wife and recurred in the same role on its spinoff The Good Fight. She also recurred for five years on CBS’ Person of Interest playing Grace, the love interest to her real-life husband, Michael Emerson.
Preston can now be seen on TNT’s series Claws as Polly.
- 9/27/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: New Line has acquired an untitled spec script by Katie Wech for an untitled but hard R-rated comedy spec script that is best described was referred to me as Sausage Party meets Toy Story, done in a CGI and animation hybrid with some live action thrown in.
Pic will be produced by Alexa Faigen, who is also producing for New Line the studio’s recent acquisition of Sarah Knight’s bestseller The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck.
Wech is currently in pre-production for her pilot Good Sam for CBS and Cbstvs. She is also currently serving as a Consulting Producer for Republic of Sarah for the CW. She previously served as a Co-ep for Jane The Virgin and was a co-ep for Rizzoli & Isles on TNT and Fox’s Star, and she was a co-producer of Once Upon A Time In Wonderland for ABC. She wrote...
Pic will be produced by Alexa Faigen, who is also producing for New Line the studio’s recent acquisition of Sarah Knight’s bestseller The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck.
Wech is currently in pre-production for her pilot Good Sam for CBS and Cbstvs. She is also currently serving as a Consulting Producer for Republic of Sarah for the CW. She previously served as a Co-ep for Jane The Virgin and was a co-ep for Rizzoli & Isles on TNT and Fox’s Star, and she was a co-producer of Once Upon A Time In Wonderland for ABC. She wrote...
- 10/15/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: We have learned that New Line has picked up the feature rights to Sarah Knight’s international bestselling satirical and practical guide The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck, which Rachel Hirons will adapt for the big screen. Alexa Faigen will produce through her company, Five Quarters Entertainment.
The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck introduced Knight’s Not Sorry Method for mental decluttering, ”a system for identifying what annoys you and clearing it out of your life just as you would with physical junk that no longer serves its purpose.” The book is known for its hysterical prose and commonsense techniques—such as creating a “f*ck budget” to allocate one’s time, energy, and money toward what truly makes them happy—encouraging readers of ridding unwanted obligations and the guilt associated with saying no.
Knight has published five bestselling books and three journals...
The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck introduced Knight’s Not Sorry Method for mental decluttering, ”a system for identifying what annoys you and clearing it out of your life just as you would with physical junk that no longer serves its purpose.” The book is known for its hysterical prose and commonsense techniques—such as creating a “f*ck budget” to allocate one’s time, energy, and money toward what truly makes them happy—encouraging readers of ridding unwanted obligations and the guilt associated with saying no.
Knight has published five bestselling books and three journals...
- 5/29/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Reese Witherspoon is yet another woman in Hollywood who is tired of the same old same old and like many a movie star producer before her, has taken matters into her own hands. "Wild" earned her an Oscar nomination, competing against Rosamund Pike, star of her production "Gone Girl." Now she and her Pacific Standard producing partner Bruna Papandrea have grabbed rights to Jessica Knoll's upcoming debut novel "Luckiest Girl Alive" with Lionsgate. Simon & Schuster’s Sarah Knight, who acquired and edited “Luckiest Girl Alive,” also acquired Gillian Flynn’s “Gone Girl” and edited her best-seller “Dark Places” while at Random House, which is also being made into a movie. The new book comes out May 12 (Simon & Schuster). Early 'Dark Places' Bode Grim Return to Gillian Flynn Country “'Luckiest Girl Alive' is the kind of book that grabs you and doesn't let go," said witherspoon. "The hero of the book is.
- 4/10/2015
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Lionsgate has acquired the hotly sought-after rights to the upcoming novel Luckiest Girl Alive, it was announced today by Erik Feig, the Co-President of the Motion Picture Group.
Pacific Standard’s Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea (“Gone Girl,” “Wild”) will produce the film, based on Jessica Knoll’s eagerly-anticipated debut novel which will be released May 12 (Simon & Schuster).
“Luckiest Girl Alive” centers on Ani FaNelli, a twenty-eight-year-old New Yorker who appears to have it all: a sought-after position at a women’s magazine, a wardrobe to kill for, and a dream wedding with her handsome fiancé on the horizon. But behind that veneer of perfection lies a vulnerability that Ani holds close and buries deep—a dark trauma from her past resurfaces only to give her a chance to confront her most shocking secret of all—but not without unraveling her meticulously crafted life.
The novel, set for release next month,...
Pacific Standard’s Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea (“Gone Girl,” “Wild”) will produce the film, based on Jessica Knoll’s eagerly-anticipated debut novel which will be released May 12 (Simon & Schuster).
“Luckiest Girl Alive” centers on Ani FaNelli, a twenty-eight-year-old New Yorker who appears to have it all: a sought-after position at a women’s magazine, a wardrobe to kill for, and a dream wedding with her handsome fiancé on the horizon. But behind that veneer of perfection lies a vulnerability that Ani holds close and buries deep—a dark trauma from her past resurfaces only to give her a chance to confront her most shocking secret of all—but not without unraveling her meticulously crafted life.
The novel, set for release next month,...
- 4/10/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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