The recent revelation surrounding child stars and the industry they inhabit has sparked numerous discussions. Jessica Alba, who also started her career in show business at the early age of 13, recently opened up about her personal journey and how her mother had a significant role in keeping her safe from potential threats during those formative years.
Jessica Alba in Fantastic Four
Known for her roles in movies like Fantastic Four and Good Luck Chuck, Alba stepped into the limelight with her debut in the 1994 comedy film Camp Nowhere and would gain recognition for the sci-fi drama Dark Angel.
Jessica Alba’s Mother Protected Her From Hollywood’s Shadows
In a recent interview with Elle India, Hollywood star Jessica Alba opened up about her experience as a child actor in the film industry. And the actress shared that she was fortunate to not encounter traumatic experiences growing up in the spotlight.
Jessica Alba in Fantastic Four
Known for her roles in movies like Fantastic Four and Good Luck Chuck, Alba stepped into the limelight with her debut in the 1994 comedy film Camp Nowhere and would gain recognition for the sci-fi drama Dark Angel.
Jessica Alba’s Mother Protected Her From Hollywood’s Shadows
In a recent interview with Elle India, Hollywood star Jessica Alba opened up about her experience as a child actor in the film industry. And the actress shared that she was fortunate to not encounter traumatic experiences growing up in the spotlight.
- 4/3/2024
- by Laxmi Rajput
- FandomWire
Exclusive: After co-founding and building a leading consumer goods brand with The Honest Company, actress and entrepreneur Jessica Alba is looking to do the same in the film and TV production space with the launch of Lady Spitfire.
Alba has partnered with producer Tracey Nyberg in Lady Spitfire which aims to work collaboratively with diverse artists and creators in producing boundary-pushing, high-quality content, focusing on female driven, culturally diverse and Latino inspired stories.
“I’m thrilled that in this stage of my life and career, I get to create and build, and Lady Spitfire is part of this next chapter,” Alba said. “Reimagining and redefining how women and minorities show up in the world through great stories is my passion. I believe that my children and the next generation shouldn’t have to face the same barriers as I have. Inspired by the heroes whose shoulders I humbly stand on,...
Alba has partnered with producer Tracey Nyberg in Lady Spitfire which aims to work collaboratively with diverse artists and creators in producing boundary-pushing, high-quality content, focusing on female driven, culturally diverse and Latino inspired stories.
“I’m thrilled that in this stage of my life and career, I get to create and build, and Lady Spitfire is part of this next chapter,” Alba said. “Reimagining and redefining how women and minorities show up in the world through great stories is my passion. I believe that my children and the next generation shouldn’t have to face the same barriers as I have. Inspired by the heroes whose shoulders I humbly stand on,...
- 2/5/2024
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The producers of hit Netflix movie Nowhere, the streamer’s most-watched Spanish-language film ever, have found their next movie in the shape of supernatural horror Tooth Fairy, which UK sales firm Architect is launching ahead of the EFM in Berlin.
The Spanish-language movie follows a series of child disappearances in a tight-knit rural community in Spain. As a social worker begins to dig into the village’s myths and legends, she discovers she has unwittingly reawakened a terrifying, vengeful spirit. Filming is due to get underway this summer with casting underway.
Producers Miguel Ruz and Jordi Roca have locked financing on the project from writer-director Tony Morales. The movie marks the feature film directorial debut of Spanish filmmaker Morales, whose horror shorts include Abracitos, Black Eyed Child, Alicia, and Hada, on which Tooth Fairy is based.
Rock & Ruz are coming off their debut feature, the Netflix survival thriller Nowhere,...
The Spanish-language movie follows a series of child disappearances in a tight-knit rural community in Spain. As a social worker begins to dig into the village’s myths and legends, she discovers she has unwittingly reawakened a terrifying, vengeful spirit. Filming is due to get underway this summer with casting underway.
Producers Miguel Ruz and Jordi Roca have locked financing on the project from writer-director Tony Morales. The movie marks the feature film directorial debut of Spanish filmmaker Morales, whose horror shorts include Abracitos, Black Eyed Child, Alicia, and Hada, on which Tooth Fairy is based.
Rock & Ruz are coming off their debut feature, the Netflix survival thriller Nowhere,...
- 2/1/2024
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: British genre specialist Tea Shop, known for 47 Meters Down and coming off breakout thriller Fall, is lining up its next survival pic in the shape of The Bayou, which Architect is launching for sales in Cannes.
The movie, also produced by fledgling UK outfit Cowboy Cosmonaut, crash-lands a group of friends in the water-logged, inhospitable Louisiana swamplands where they’re hunted by a fearsome, primordial apex predator.
Megan Best (Seance) leads the unfortunate survivors, out of their depth, who are picked off one-by-one by a relentless pack of gators, led by a ferocious alpha female. Filming is being lined up for Q4, 2023.
The Bayou, written by Gavin Mehrtens from a story by Ashley Holberry, will be directed by Matthew Ninaber (Death Valley) and is produced by Mehrtens and Holberry for Cowboy Cosmonaut and by Mark Lane and James Harris for Tea Shop Productions. Architect will executive-produce.
Following their work on Fall,...
The movie, also produced by fledgling UK outfit Cowboy Cosmonaut, crash-lands a group of friends in the water-logged, inhospitable Louisiana swamplands where they’re hunted by a fearsome, primordial apex predator.
Megan Best (Seance) leads the unfortunate survivors, out of their depth, who are picked off one-by-one by a relentless pack of gators, led by a ferocious alpha female. Filming is being lined up for Q4, 2023.
The Bayou, written by Gavin Mehrtens from a story by Ashley Holberry, will be directed by Matthew Ninaber (Death Valley) and is produced by Mehrtens and Holberry for Cowboy Cosmonaut and by Mark Lane and James Harris for Tea Shop Productions. Architect will executive-produce.
Following their work on Fall,...
- 5/15/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Mckenna Grace (A Friend of the Family) and Asher Angel (Shazam! films) are set to star in Alloy Entertainment’s teen romance 99 Days, based on the New York Times bestselling novel of the same name by Katie Cotugno, which we were first to tell you was in development.
Martha Stephens is attached to direct from a script she co-wrote with Shannon Bradley-Colleary, her screenwriter for the 2019 drama To the Stars. Leslie Morgenstein and Elysa Koplovitz Dutton will produce through Alloy Entertainment, which also produced the book, with Architect to launch worldwide sales at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival.
99 Days marks Alloy’s follow-up to Purple Hearts, the smash hit YA romance, starring Sofia Carson and Nicholas Galitzine, which remains in the Global Top 10 of the most-watched movies ever on Netflix. The film tells the story of Molly (Grace), who is facing one long, hot summer vacation back at Star...
Martha Stephens is attached to direct from a script she co-wrote with Shannon Bradley-Colleary, her screenwriter for the 2019 drama To the Stars. Leslie Morgenstein and Elysa Koplovitz Dutton will produce through Alloy Entertainment, which also produced the book, with Architect to launch worldwide sales at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival.
99 Days marks Alloy’s follow-up to Purple Hearts, the smash hit YA romance, starring Sofia Carson and Nicholas Galitzine, which remains in the Global Top 10 of the most-watched movies ever on Netflix. The film tells the story of Molly (Grace), who is facing one long, hot summer vacation back at Star...
- 5/12/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Actress/writer/stand-up comedian Jenny Slate, whose credits include Best Picture winner Everything Everywhere All at Once, the Marvel Comics adaptation Venom, and Saturday Night Live, has signed on to star in the horror film Mindful, which Deadline describes as being about “a possessed meditation app that begins to kill its followers.”
Perry Blackshear (They Look Like People) will be directing the film from a screenplay by Leslie Bohem, who got his start writing House III: The Horror Show and A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child. In the decades since, Bohem has worked on the likes of Nowhere to Run, Daylight, Dante’s Peak, The Darkest Hour, The Alamo, and the mini-series Taken. The story he has crafted for Mindful has the following synopsis: When her husband shockingly dies while meditating on the Mindful app, Angela (Slate), deeply suspicious of the new wellness craze, uncovers supernatural forces that have fused with the technology.
Perry Blackshear (They Look Like People) will be directing the film from a screenplay by Leslie Bohem, who got his start writing House III: The Horror Show and A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child. In the decades since, Bohem has worked on the likes of Nowhere to Run, Daylight, Dante’s Peak, The Darkest Hour, The Alamo, and the mini-series Taken. The story he has crafted for Mindful has the following synopsis: When her husband shockingly dies while meditating on the Mindful app, Angela (Slate), deeply suspicious of the new wellness craze, uncovers supernatural forces that have fused with the technology.
- 4/19/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Jenny Slate (Venom, Everything Everywhere All At Once) is set to make her horror entrance in Mindful, an upcoming feature about a possessed meditation app that murders its followers, per Deadline.
The actor, author, and stand-up comedian won’t just star in the horror movie, but executive produces as well. Perry Blackshear (They Look Like People, When I Consume You) will direct.
In Mindful, “when her husband shockingly dies while meditating on the Mindful app, Angela (Slate), deeply suspicious of the new wellness craze, uncovers supernatural forces that have fused with the technology. As the app’s popularity spreads like wildfire, she is forced to confront her own demons and dive into a terrifying ‘out of body’ experience in order to save the ones she loves.”
The script is penned by Les Bohem (Daylight, Dante’s Peak).
Blackshear told Deadline, “I am delighted to be working with such a high caliber actress as Jenny,...
The actor, author, and stand-up comedian won’t just star in the horror movie, but executive produces as well. Perry Blackshear (They Look Like People, When I Consume You) will direct.
In Mindful, “when her husband shockingly dies while meditating on the Mindful app, Angela (Slate), deeply suspicious of the new wellness craze, uncovers supernatural forces that have fused with the technology. As the app’s popularity spreads like wildfire, she is forced to confront her own demons and dive into a terrifying ‘out of body’ experience in order to save the ones she loves.”
The script is penned by Les Bohem (Daylight, Dante’s Peak).
Blackshear told Deadline, “I am delighted to be working with such a high caliber actress as Jenny,...
- 4/19/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Exclusive: Everything Everywhere All At Once and Venom star Jenny Slate will lead cast in and executive-produce horror movie Mindful, about a possessed meditation app that begins to kill its followers.
Actress, author and stand-up Slate is in the limelight having recently co-created, co-written, co-produced and voiced the titular character of Marcel in A24’s Oscar-nominated film Marcel The Shell With Shoes On, and for having co-starred in Oscar and box office breakout Everything Everywhere All At Once. The SNL alum is also well known for voicing animated series such as Big Mouth and Bob’s Burgers.
In Mindful, when her husband shockingly dies while meditating on the Mindful app, Angela (Slate), deeply suspicious of the new wellness craze, uncovers supernatural forces that have fused with the technology. As the app’s popularity spreads like wildfire, she is forced to confront her own demons and dive into a terrifying ‘out of...
Actress, author and stand-up Slate is in the limelight having recently co-created, co-written, co-produced and voiced the titular character of Marcel in A24’s Oscar-nominated film Marcel The Shell With Shoes On, and for having co-starred in Oscar and box office breakout Everything Everywhere All At Once. The SNL alum is also well known for voicing animated series such as Big Mouth and Bob’s Burgers.
In Mindful, when her husband shockingly dies while meditating on the Mindful app, Angela (Slate), deeply suspicious of the new wellness craze, uncovers supernatural forces that have fused with the technology. As the app’s popularity spreads like wildfire, she is forced to confront her own demons and dive into a terrifying ‘out of...
- 4/19/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Aggregate Films is developing and will produce a feature adaptation of the hit Off-Broadway play Amy and the Orphans, with Jamie Brewer set to reprise the title role, which earned her both a Theater World Award and a Drama Desk Award in 2018.
Lindsey Ferrentino will adapt her play for the screen, also here making her directorial debut. Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan are developing and producing for Aggregate, with Tracey Nyberg also on board to produce.
In Amy and the Orphans, three adult siblings come together in Montauk after the death of their father and confront the truths of their childhood. Amy has Down syndrome and has spent almost her entire life in group homes, and her older siblings Maggie and Jacob come to realize that she is perhaps a very different person than they had thought.
Edward Barbanell is set for a new role written for the screen,...
Lindsey Ferrentino will adapt her play for the screen, also here making her directorial debut. Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan are developing and producing for Aggregate, with Tracey Nyberg also on board to produce.
In Amy and the Orphans, three adult siblings come together in Montauk after the death of their father and confront the truths of their childhood. Amy has Down syndrome and has spent almost her entire life in group homes, and her older siblings Maggie and Jacob come to realize that she is perhaps a very different person than they had thought.
Edward Barbanell is set for a new role written for the screen,...
- 2/7/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix and Jason Bateman will continue collaborating after the mega success of Ozark, Bateman’s gritty thriller series about a Missouri family of money launderers swept into the drug trade. According to Deadline, Bateman will direct Dark Wire, an FBI surveillance thriller based on Wired journalist Joseph Cox’s upcoming book. Bateman will also produce with Michael Costigan through Aggregate Films, Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen, and Dan Levine of 21 Laps.
Based on actual events, Dark Wire revolves around how the FBI established a fake telecom company and posed as a phone service provider to listen in on one of the world’s most infamous gangs. The setup arrested a thousand international criminals, making the sting one for the history books. Matthew Orton is in charge of adapting the story, with Tracey Nyberg executive producing.
Since Arrested Development took the comedy world by storm, Bateman is always up to something new.
Based on actual events, Dark Wire revolves around how the FBI established a fake telecom company and posed as a phone service provider to listen in on one of the world’s most infamous gangs. The setup arrested a thousand international criminals, making the sting one for the history books. Matthew Orton is in charge of adapting the story, with Tracey Nyberg executive producing.
Since Arrested Development took the comedy world by storm, Bateman is always up to something new.
- 9/29/2022
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Netflix has acquired the rights to an upcoming book called “Dark Wire” about a true story of FBI surveillance, and the streamer has tapped “Ozark” star Jason Bateman to direct and produce a film based on the book.
Bateman will team with “Stranger Things” producer Shawn Levy and his 21 Laps banner on an adaptation of the film, while Matthew Orton (“Operation Finale”) will write the screenplay.
The book “Dark Wire” comes from journalist Joseph Cox, who has written for Wired and Vice Motherboard, among others. Cox announced the project on his personal Twitter last month and explained it examines “one of the craziest law enforcement stings ever,” in which the FBI launched their own phone company in order to track underground crime organizations.
Personal news: I'm writing a book on one of the craziest law enforcement stings ever, where the FBI secretly ran its own tech startup called Anom & used...
Bateman will team with “Stranger Things” producer Shawn Levy and his 21 Laps banner on an adaptation of the film, while Matthew Orton (“Operation Finale”) will write the screenplay.
The book “Dark Wire” comes from journalist Joseph Cox, who has written for Wired and Vice Motherboard, among others. Cox announced the project on his personal Twitter last month and explained it examines “one of the craziest law enforcement stings ever,” in which the FBI launched their own phone company in order to track underground crime organizations.
Personal news: I'm writing a book on one of the craziest law enforcement stings ever, where the FBI secretly ran its own tech startup called Anom & used...
- 9/29/2022
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Here’s a hot one. In a lucrative deal, Netflix has pre-emptively landed feature rights to upcoming book Dark Wire, which uncovers the true story of how the FBI launched a fake telecom company and became a phone service provider to some of the world’s most notorious gangs, culminating in the arrest of more than a thousand international criminals.
Ozark star and director Jason Bateman will direct the thriller, which will be produced by Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen, and Dan Levine for Stranger Things outfit 21 Laps, and by Bateman and Michael Costigan for Aggregate Films (Game Night).
Based on Vice Motherboard journalist Joseph Cox’s upcoming book, the story is being adapted for the screen by Matthew Orton (Operation Finale). Tracey Nyberg will be executive producer. Niija Kuykendall is creative lead on the project for Netflix, which has deals with both 21 Laps and Bateman’s Aggregate.
Ozark and...
Ozark star and director Jason Bateman will direct the thriller, which will be produced by Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen, and Dan Levine for Stranger Things outfit 21 Laps, and by Bateman and Michael Costigan for Aggregate Films (Game Night).
Based on Vice Motherboard journalist Joseph Cox’s upcoming book, the story is being adapted for the screen by Matthew Orton (Operation Finale). Tracey Nyberg will be executive producer. Niija Kuykendall is creative lead on the project for Netflix, which has deals with both 21 Laps and Bateman’s Aggregate.
Ozark and...
- 9/29/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: HBO Max Films has snapped up the spec script Black Choke written by Doug Simon with Lawrence Michael Levine set to direct.
The script is billed as a neo-noir about a bank robbery gone wrong.
Tracey Nyberg, Michael Costigan and Jason Bateman of Aggregate Films are attached to produce.
Simon is currently writing Frost & Fire based on the Ray Bradbury short story of the same name, for Thunder Road Pictures. His original spec script Breathe is also set up at Thunder Road, and has Stefon Bristol (See You Yesterday) attached to direct, and was featured on the 2019 Black List.
Levine directed and wrote the Aubrey Plaza drama Black Bear which made its world premiere at Sundance 2020 and notched an 89% Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. He also directed, wrote and starred in the 2014 feature Wild Canaries which made its world premiere at SXSW.
Simon is repped by Verve, Writ Large...
The script is billed as a neo-noir about a bank robbery gone wrong.
Tracey Nyberg, Michael Costigan and Jason Bateman of Aggregate Films are attached to produce.
Simon is currently writing Frost & Fire based on the Ray Bradbury short story of the same name, for Thunder Road Pictures. His original spec script Breathe is also set up at Thunder Road, and has Stefon Bristol (See You Yesterday) attached to direct, and was featured on the 2019 Black List.
Levine directed and wrote the Aubrey Plaza drama Black Bear which made its world premiere at Sundance 2020 and notched an 89% Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. He also directed, wrote and starred in the 2014 feature Wild Canaries which made its world premiere at SXSW.
Simon is repped by Verve, Writ Large...
- 7/23/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Netflix has acquired feature comedy Student Driver, an original pitch from writer Peter Hoare and Jason Bateman’s Aggregate Films, sources said.
Written by Hoare, with Murder Mystery helmer Kyle Newacheck attached to direct, I hear Student Driver is an action comedy involving a substitute driver’s ed teacher and his students embarking on a madcap adventure.
Aggregate Films produces the movie, now in early development. Tracey Nyberg brought in the project and is overseeing for Aggregate. Netflix declined comment.
Hoare is coming off of his sale of Family Jewels to New Republic, starring Diane Keaton, Bette Midler and Goldie Hawn. He was a writer on CBS sitcom Kevin Can Wait and also wrote the screenplay for the Billy Crystal-starring comedy film Standing Up, Falling Down, which premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. He is repped by Verve, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Goodman Genow Schenkman.
Written by Hoare, with Murder Mystery helmer Kyle Newacheck attached to direct, I hear Student Driver is an action comedy involving a substitute driver’s ed teacher and his students embarking on a madcap adventure.
Aggregate Films produces the movie, now in early development. Tracey Nyberg brought in the project and is overseeing for Aggregate. Netflix declined comment.
Hoare is coming off of his sale of Family Jewels to New Republic, starring Diane Keaton, Bette Midler and Goldie Hawn. He was a writer on CBS sitcom Kevin Can Wait and also wrote the screenplay for the Billy Crystal-starring comedy film Standing Up, Falling Down, which premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. He is repped by Verve, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Goodman Genow Schenkman.
- 11/19/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Following the news of Ozark and Stranger Things each earning Emmy noms for Best Drama series, Netflix is looking to stay in business with the shows’ respective leads on a new film project. We are hearing Netflix is adapting Tess Sharpe’s novel The Girls I’ve Been into a feature film with Millie Bobby Brown attached to star and Jason Bateman on board to produce.
Brown will also produce through her Pcma Productions while Bateman will produce through his Aggregate Films Banner along with his partner Michael Costigan.
The novel is a twisty, exhilarating thriller centering around a con artist, Nora, who must use her powers of persuasion and impersonation to get herself, her girlfriend, and ex-boyfriend free during a hostage situation at a bank. It was brought in by Aggregate Films’ Tracey Nyberg and falls under Aggregate’s overall deal with Netflix and will be published by...
Brown will also produce through her Pcma Productions while Bateman will produce through his Aggregate Films Banner along with his partner Michael Costigan.
The novel is a twisty, exhilarating thriller centering around a con artist, Nora, who must use her powers of persuasion and impersonation to get herself, her girlfriend, and ex-boyfriend free during a hostage situation at a bank. It was brought in by Aggregate Films’ Tracey Nyberg and falls under Aggregate’s overall deal with Netflix and will be published by...
- 7/28/2020
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler and Diane Keaton are starring in the family comedy “Family Jewels” for New Republic Pictures.
It’s a reunion for the trio, 24 years after they starred in the Paramount comedy “The First Wives Club.” New Republic is planning a 2020 production start for “Family Jewels.”
New Republic principals Brian Oliver and Bradley Fischer will produce, along with Alan Nevins. Tracey Nyberg will executive produce. Fischer and Nevins packaged the project with the three leads and, together with Nyberg, brought in screenwriter Peter Hoare.
“Family Jewels” will center on the characters played by Hawn, Midler and Keaton, who are forced to spend the Christmas holidays together, along with their kids and grandkids, after the man they were all once married to drops dead in a New York City department store.
“The chemistry of Diane, Bette and Goldie is unmatched and irresistible, and I’m thrilled to help reunite...
It’s a reunion for the trio, 24 years after they starred in the Paramount comedy “The First Wives Club.” New Republic is planning a 2020 production start for “Family Jewels.”
New Republic principals Brian Oliver and Bradley Fischer will produce, along with Alan Nevins. Tracey Nyberg will executive produce. Fischer and Nevins packaged the project with the three leads and, together with Nyberg, brought in screenwriter Peter Hoare.
“Family Jewels” will center on the characters played by Hawn, Midler and Keaton, who are forced to spend the Christmas holidays together, along with their kids and grandkids, after the man they were all once married to drops dead in a New York City department store.
“The chemistry of Diane, Bette and Goldie is unmatched and irresistible, and I’m thrilled to help reunite...
- 2/20/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
New Republic Pictures has won the auction for “Family Jewels,” a comedy pitch starring Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler and Diane Keaton, who have not appeared on screen together since 1996’s “The First Wives Club.”
Peter Hoare is writing the screenplay, while New Republic principals Brian Oliver and Bradley Fischer are producing alongside Alan Nevins. Tracey Nyberg is executive producing. Fischer and Nevins packaged the project and brought in Hoare with Nyberg.
The film, which is eyeing a 2020 production start, is a multigenerational family comedy in which Hawn, Midler and Keaton are forced to spend the Christmas holidays together along with their kids and grandkids — after the man they were all once married to suddenly dies in a department store.
Also Read: Chris Hemsworth and Tiffany Haddish $40 Million Comedy 'Down Under Cover' Picked Up by Paramount
“The chemistry of Diane, Bette and Goldie is unmatched and irresistible, and I’m thrilled...
Peter Hoare is writing the screenplay, while New Republic principals Brian Oliver and Bradley Fischer are producing alongside Alan Nevins. Tracey Nyberg is executive producing. Fischer and Nevins packaged the project and brought in Hoare with Nyberg.
The film, which is eyeing a 2020 production start, is a multigenerational family comedy in which Hawn, Midler and Keaton are forced to spend the Christmas holidays together along with their kids and grandkids — after the man they were all once married to suddenly dies in a department store.
Also Read: Chris Hemsworth and Tiffany Haddish $40 Million Comedy 'Down Under Cover' Picked Up by Paramount
“The chemistry of Diane, Bette and Goldie is unmatched and irresistible, and I’m thrilled...
- 2/20/2020
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
New Republic eyeing 2020 production start.
Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler and Diane Keaton will reunite for the first time since 1996 hit The First Wives Club in Family Jewels, which 1917 producer New Republic Pictures has won in auction from a pitch by screenwriter Peter Hoare.
The multigenerational family comedy sees the three stars play women forced to spend the Christmas holidays together, along with their children and grandchildren, after the man they were all once married to drops dead in a New York City department store.
New Republic principals Brian Oliver and Bradley Fischer will produce, along with Alan Nevins. Tracey Nyberg will serve as executive producer.
Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler and Diane Keaton will reunite for the first time since 1996 hit The First Wives Club in Family Jewels, which 1917 producer New Republic Pictures has won in auction from a pitch by screenwriter Peter Hoare.
The multigenerational family comedy sees the three stars play women forced to spend the Christmas holidays together, along with their children and grandchildren, after the man they were all once married to drops dead in a New York City department store.
New Republic principals Brian Oliver and Bradley Fischer will produce, along with Alan Nevins. Tracey Nyberg will serve as executive producer.
- 2/20/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
New Republic Pictures has won an auction for Peter Hoare’s pitch Family Jewels, a multigenerational family comedy that returns Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler and Diane Keaton back on the big screen together for the first time since the 1996 blockbuster The First Wives Club.
In Family Jewels, Hawn, Midler and Keaton’s characters are forced to spend the Christmas holidays together, along with their kids and grandkids, after the man they were all once married to drops dead in a New York City department store. New Republic is eyeing a production start this year. Hoare will also write the screenplay. Last May, one of the biggest deals to come out of the Cannes Film Festival was the sale of Hoare’s original spec Down Under Cover to Paramount with Chris Hemsworth and Tiffany Haddish attached to star. His new dramaedy starring Billy Crystal and Ben Schwartz, Standing Up, Falling Down,...
In Family Jewels, Hawn, Midler and Keaton’s characters are forced to spend the Christmas holidays together, along with their kids and grandkids, after the man they were all once married to drops dead in a New York City department store. New Republic is eyeing a production start this year. Hoare will also write the screenplay. Last May, one of the biggest deals to come out of the Cannes Film Festival was the sale of Hoare’s original spec Down Under Cover to Paramount with Chris Hemsworth and Tiffany Haddish attached to star. His new dramaedy starring Billy Crystal and Ben Schwartz, Standing Up, Falling Down,...
- 2/20/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Joseph Baxter Jun 17, 2019
Bill & Ted 3’s Samara Weaving stars in Ready or Not, a horror film that puts a deadly spin on meeting the in-laws.
Ready or Not is, apropos to its plot, counting down to the appropriate moment to unleash a mix of horror and comedy tropes on the moviegoing public. Indeed, for one bride, the typically tense scenario of meeting one’s in-laws gets put through the lens of a deadly sport that – besides being set inside the fancy-mansion atmosphere of a whodunnit – plays out more like The Running Man.
The film is headlined by a rising star in Samara Weaving, who, amongst recent highlights, just nabbed a co-starring role in the long-awaited threequel, Bill & Ted Face the Music.
Ready or Not Trailer
The trailer for Ready or Not has arrived, revealing an intriguingly chaotic, levity-infused horror genre mishmash.
Video of Ready Or Not | Red Band Trailer [HD] | Fox Searchlight
Unfortunately,...
Bill & Ted 3’s Samara Weaving stars in Ready or Not, a horror film that puts a deadly spin on meeting the in-laws.
Ready or Not is, apropos to its plot, counting down to the appropriate moment to unleash a mix of horror and comedy tropes on the moviegoing public. Indeed, for one bride, the typically tense scenario of meeting one’s in-laws gets put through the lens of a deadly sport that – besides being set inside the fancy-mansion atmosphere of a whodunnit – plays out more like The Running Man.
The film is headlined by a rising star in Samara Weaving, who, amongst recent highlights, just nabbed a co-starring role in the long-awaited threequel, Bill & Ted Face the Music.
Ready or Not Trailer
The trailer for Ready or Not has arrived, revealing an intriguingly chaotic, levity-infused horror genre mishmash.
Video of Ready Or Not | Red Band Trailer [HD] | Fox Searchlight
Unfortunately,...
- 6/17/2019
- Den of Geek
Eden Brolin will join Vince Vaughn, Liam Hemsworth, and Clark Duke in Duke’s directorial debut film, Arkansas, which follows a pair of low level drug runners in the Dixie Mafia, Kyle (Hemsworth) and Swin (Duke), who live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin Frog (Vaughn). The film, also written by Duke, is set to be presented at the American Film Market, which starts on October 31. Patrick Hibler, Jeff Rice, Martin Sprock, and Storyboard Media are producing. Jd Beaufils and Julie Paquit of Vmi Worldwide will handle sales in conjunction with Elisabeth Costa de Beauregard of Storyboard Media. Brolin (daughter of Josh Brolin) starred in Freeform’s supernatural series, Beyond, and co-stars in upcoming indie films Back Fork and King Fish with Molly Ringwald. She’s repped by Paradigm, Grandview, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
Actress Elyse Levesque (CW’s The Originals) is set for the role of Charity...
Actress Elyse Levesque (CW’s The Originals) is set for the role of Charity...
- 10/24/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Featuring the modern-day boogeyman for a generation of horror fans, Slender Man is coming home in time for Halloween, as the horror film based on the viral character created by Victor Surge has now been unleashed on digital platforms ahead of its Blu-ray and DVD release on October 30th via Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. To celebrate today's digital release, we've been provided with an exclusive clip from the movie's featurette "Summoning Slender Man: Meet the Cast," which explores the tight-knit friendships from the film, both in front of and behind the camera.
You can watch the cast discuss their genuine friendships with one another in our exclusive clip below, keep an eye out for Slender Man on Amazon and iTunes beginning today, and in case you missed it, read Heather Wixson's review of the horror film!
Press Release: Culver City, Calif. – Fascinated by the internet lore of the Slender Man,...
You can watch the cast discuss their genuine friendships with one another in our exclusive clip below, keep an eye out for Slender Man on Amazon and iTunes beginning today, and in case you missed it, read Heather Wixson's review of the horror film!
Press Release: Culver City, Calif. – Fascinated by the internet lore of the Slender Man,...
- 10/19/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Adam Brody, Mark O’Brien, and Henry Czerny (Sharp Object) have come aboard Fox Searchlight’s Ready or Not thriller, which is being directed by Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin from the Radio Silence team. Samara Weaving and Andie MacDowell were previously announced to star in the film, which is currently in production.
The plot, which was written by Guy Busick and Ryan Murphy, centers on a young bride (Weaving) as she joins her new husband’s (O’Brien) rich, eccentric family in a time-honored tradition that turns into a lethal game with everyone fighting for their survival.
Tripp Vinson and James Vanderbilt are producing the pic, while Radio Silence’s Chad Villella serves as exec producer with Tara Farney and Tracey Nyberg.
Matthew Greenfield, David Greenbaum, DanTram Nguyen, and Richard Ruiz are...
The plot, which was written by Guy Busick and Ryan Murphy, centers on a young bride (Weaving) as she joins her new husband’s (O’Brien) rich, eccentric family in a time-honored tradition that turns into a lethal game with everyone fighting for their survival.
Tripp Vinson and James Vanderbilt are producing the pic, while Radio Silence’s Chad Villella serves as exec producer with Tara Farney and Tracey Nyberg.
Matthew Greenfield, David Greenbaum, DanTram Nguyen, and Richard Ruiz are...
- 10/18/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Andie MacDowell has boarded Radio Silence’s heightened genre thriller Ready or Not.
MacDowell joins Picnic at Hanging Rock actress Samara Weaving who has already been announced in the Fox Searchlight pic. Ready or Not tells the story of a young woman, who on the night of her wedding, is invited to her new in-laws time-honored tradition which turns into a lethal game of survival. MacDowell will play the mother-in-law to Weaving’s protagonist.
MacDowell is a three-time Golden Globe lead actress nominee for Green Card; Sex, Lies and Videotape; and Four Weddings and a Funeral. She received a special Golden Globe ensemble award for Robert Altman’s Short Cuts. Recent credits include IFC’s Love After Love which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last year, Only the Brave, the Netflix movie The Last Laugh with Richard Dreyfus and Chevy Chase and the TV series Cuckoo. MacDowell is repped by the Gersh Agency,...
MacDowell joins Picnic at Hanging Rock actress Samara Weaving who has already been announced in the Fox Searchlight pic. Ready or Not tells the story of a young woman, who on the night of her wedding, is invited to her new in-laws time-honored tradition which turns into a lethal game of survival. MacDowell will play the mother-in-law to Weaving’s protagonist.
MacDowell is a three-time Golden Globe lead actress nominee for Green Card; Sex, Lies and Videotape; and Four Weddings and a Funeral. She received a special Golden Globe ensemble award for Robert Altman’s Short Cuts. Recent credits include IFC’s Love After Love which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last year, Only the Brave, the Netflix movie The Last Laugh with Richard Dreyfus and Chevy Chase and the TV series Cuckoo. MacDowell is repped by the Gersh Agency,...
- 9/20/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Featuring the modern-day boogeyman for a generation of horror fans, Slender Man is coming home in time for Halloween, as we can exclusively reveal that the horror film based on the viral character created by Victor Surge will be unleashed on Blu-ray and DVD on October 30th via Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, following an October 19th digital debut. In addition to the movie's Blu-ray and DVD cover art, we've also been provided with the official release details to share with Daily Dead readers!
The Slender Man Blu-ray and DVD releases will each come with featurette “Summoning Slender Man: Meet the Cast." Below, we have the official press release with full details, as well as a look at the cover art:
Press Release: Culver City, Calif. – Fascinated by the internet lore of the Slender Man, Joey King, Julia Goldani Telles (“The Affair”), Jaz Sinclair (When the Bough Breaks) and Annalise Basso...
The Slender Man Blu-ray and DVD releases will each come with featurette “Summoning Slender Man: Meet the Cast." Below, we have the official press release with full details, as well as a look at the cover art:
Press Release: Culver City, Calif. – Fascinated by the internet lore of the Slender Man, Joey King, Julia Goldani Telles (“The Affair”), Jaz Sinclair (When the Bough Breaks) and Annalise Basso...
- 9/18/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
The House With A Clock In Its Walls opens in theaters September 21 and Wamg has your free passes to see it early!
In the tradition of Amblin classics where fantastical events occur in the most unexpected places, Jack Black and two-time Academy Award® winner Cate Blanchett star in The House with a Clock in Its Walls, from Amblin Entertainment. The magical adventure tells the spine-tingling tale of 10-year-old Lewis (Owen Vaccaro) who goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house with a mysterious tick-tocking heart. But his new town’s sleepy façade jolts to life with a secret world of warlocks and witches when Lewis accidentally awakens the dead.
Based on the beloved children’s classic written by John Bellairs and illustrated by Edward Gorey, The House with a Clock in Its Walls is directed by master frightener Eli Roth and written by Eric Kripke (creator of...
In the tradition of Amblin classics where fantastical events occur in the most unexpected places, Jack Black and two-time Academy Award® winner Cate Blanchett star in The House with a Clock in Its Walls, from Amblin Entertainment. The magical adventure tells the spine-tingling tale of 10-year-old Lewis (Owen Vaccaro) who goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house with a mysterious tick-tocking heart. But his new town’s sleepy façade jolts to life with a secret world of warlocks and witches when Lewis accidentally awakens the dead.
Based on the beloved children’s classic written by John Bellairs and illustrated by Edward Gorey, The House with a Clock in Its Walls is directed by master frightener Eli Roth and written by Eric Kripke (creator of...
- 9/5/2018
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Australian actress Samara Weaving has been set for the lead role in Fox Searchlight’s upcoming thriller “Ready or Not,” which is scheduled to shoot in the fall, Variety has learned exclusively.
The Radio Silence directing team of Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin is helming from a script by Guy Busick and Ryan Murphy. Fox Searchlight picked up the rights last fall for the project, in which a young woman is invited on the night of her wedding by her new husband’s rich, eccentric family to participate in a time-honored tradition that turns into a lethal game with everyone fighting for their survival.
Tripp Vinson is producing via his banner, Vinson Films. James Vanderbilt, Bradley Fischer, and William Sherak of Mythology Entertainment are also producing. Executive producers are Tara Farney, Tracey Nyberg, and Radio Silence’s Chad Villella.
Weaving played the role of Penelope, the naive 19-year-old girlfriend of John Hawkes’ Charlie Hayes character,...
The Radio Silence directing team of Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin is helming from a script by Guy Busick and Ryan Murphy. Fox Searchlight picked up the rights last fall for the project, in which a young woman is invited on the night of her wedding by her new husband’s rich, eccentric family to participate in a time-honored tradition that turns into a lethal game with everyone fighting for their survival.
Tripp Vinson is producing via his banner, Vinson Films. James Vanderbilt, Bradley Fischer, and William Sherak of Mythology Entertainment are also producing. Executive producers are Tara Farney, Tracey Nyberg, and Radio Silence’s Chad Villella.
Weaving played the role of Penelope, the naive 19-year-old girlfriend of John Hawkes’ Charlie Hayes character,...
- 8/23/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
“We don’t know what it does except something horrible,” warns Jack Black’s Jonathan Barnavelt as the group works to destroy the hidden clock in the newly released trailer from the Eli Roth-directed film, The House with a Clock in Its Walls. “Three gongs. Last time it was for four. What happens when it gets down to one?” Jonathan ponders. “Nothing good that’s for certain,” says Mrs. Zimmerman, a witch and Jonathan’s neighbor, played by Cate Blanchett.
From Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment, the magical adventure film follows of 10-year-old Lewis (Owen Vaccaro) who goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house with a mysterious tick-tocking heart. But his new town’s sleepy façade jolts to life with a secret world of warlocks and witches when Lewis accidentally awakens the dead.
Kyle MacLachlan, Colleen Camp, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Vanessa Anne Williams, Lorenza Izzo and Sunny Suljic co-star.
From Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment, the magical adventure film follows of 10-year-old Lewis (Owen Vaccaro) who goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house with a mysterious tick-tocking heart. But his new town’s sleepy façade jolts to life with a secret world of warlocks and witches when Lewis accidentally awakens the dead.
Kyle MacLachlan, Colleen Camp, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Vanessa Anne Williams, Lorenza Izzo and Sunny Suljic co-star.
- 6/28/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
John Bellairs' first book in the Lewis Barnavelt series comes to life in the new trailer for Eli Roth's The House with a Clock in Its Walls, which co-stars Jack Black and Cate Blanchett and looks like it could be an ideal Halloween season treat for those who loved 2015's Goosebumps (which is getting a sequel this October).
Moviegoers can enter The House with a Clock in Its Walls when Universal Pictures releases it in theaters on September 21st. In the meantime, we have the synopsis, poster, and trailer, which includes a look at Kyle MacLachlan as an evil wizard:
"In the tradition of Amblin classics where fantastical events occur in the most unexpected places, Jack Black and two-time Academy Award® winner Cate Blanchett star in The House with a Clock in Its Walls, from Amblin Entertainment. The magical adventure tells the spine-tingling tale of 10-year-old Lewis (Owen Vaccaro...
Moviegoers can enter The House with a Clock in Its Walls when Universal Pictures releases it in theaters on September 21st. In the meantime, we have the synopsis, poster, and trailer, which includes a look at Kyle MacLachlan as an evil wizard:
"In the tradition of Amblin classics where fantastical events occur in the most unexpected places, Jack Black and two-time Academy Award® winner Cate Blanchett star in The House with a Clock in Its Walls, from Amblin Entertainment. The magical adventure tells the spine-tingling tale of 10-year-old Lewis (Owen Vaccaro...
- 6/28/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
WWE stars John Cena and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson are tag-teaming outside of the ring in Universal Pictures’ action thriller, The Janson Directive, in which Cena has signed to star and Johnson will serve as an executive producer. Johnson, who originally was attached to star in the film, made the announcement via social media.
Written by Jason Bourne author Robert Ludlum, The Janson Directive novel focused on Paul Janson, an ex-Navy Seal and former member of a covert government agency Consular Operations who becomes a corporate security consultant and takes a job rescuing an important man. When the mission goes awry, Janson is targeted for a “beyond salvage” termination order and has no choice but to follow the clues that lead him to a massive scandal.
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Producers are Ben Smith and Jeffrey Weiner from Captivate Entertainment, Seven Bucks’ Hiram Garcia,...
Written by Jason Bourne author Robert Ludlum, The Janson Directive novel focused on Paul Janson, an ex-Navy Seal and former member of a covert government agency Consular Operations who becomes a corporate security consultant and takes a job rescuing an important man. When the mission goes awry, Janson is targeted for a “beyond salvage” termination order and has no choice but to follow the clues that lead him to a massive scandal.
RelatedDwayne Johnson Wrestling Drama ‘Fighting With My Family’ Rolls Into 2019
Producers are Ben Smith and Jeffrey Weiner from Captivate Entertainment, Seven Bucks’ Hiram Garcia,...
- 4/30/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Six years ago, they faced off at Wrestlemania. Now John Cena and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will be a movie-making tag team in the upcoming Universal action-thriller, “The Janson Directive,” with Cena starring and Johnson executive producing through his Seven Bucks production banner.
Based on the novel by Jason Bourne writer Robert Ludlum, the film will star Cena as Paul Janson, a former Navy Seal who left the world of covert ops after his commander betrayed him during the Vietnam War. Now working as a security consultant, he returns to his old world when he’s asked to save a Nobel Peace laureate being held hostage. When the hostage is killed, Janson is framed for the murder and must uncover a deep conspiracy while being the target of a directive demanding he be stopped at all costs.
Also Read: John Cena Cuts Epic Promo on Dwayne Johnson's Toothbrush Threat (Video)
The novel was released in 2002, a year after Ludlum’s death.
“I’ve known John for years, he’s so excited to play the role,” Johnson said in a social media post announcing Cena’s casting. “I’m excited for him and he’s very committed.”
Both wrestlers have released films this past month. Cena starred in Universal’s comedy “Blockers,” which has grossed $77.5 million worldwide against a $21 million budget. Johnson’s mega-budget film, “Rampage,” grossed $335 million worldwide with $106 million from China.
Also Read: 'Rampage' Star Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia Share Their Trailblazing Plan for Hollywood Dominance (Exclusive)
Johnson will executive produce alongside Dany Garcia for Seven Bucks and Tracey Nyberg of Mythology. Producers include Ben Smith and Jeffrey Weiner of Captivate Entertainment; Hiram Garcia of Seven Bucks Productions; James Vanderbilt; Brad Fischer and William Sherak of Mythology; and Akiva Goldsman of Weed Road Pictures.
Goldsman shares story credit with James Vanderbilt, who is adapting Ludlum’s novel for the big screen. Executive vice president of production Mark Sourian and creative executive Lexi Barta will oversee production for Universal. Cena is represented by ICM Partners.
Read original story John Cena and Dwayne Johnson Team Up for Universal’s ‘The Janson Directive’ At TheWrap...
Based on the novel by Jason Bourne writer Robert Ludlum, the film will star Cena as Paul Janson, a former Navy Seal who left the world of covert ops after his commander betrayed him during the Vietnam War. Now working as a security consultant, he returns to his old world when he’s asked to save a Nobel Peace laureate being held hostage. When the hostage is killed, Janson is framed for the murder and must uncover a deep conspiracy while being the target of a directive demanding he be stopped at all costs.
Also Read: John Cena Cuts Epic Promo on Dwayne Johnson's Toothbrush Threat (Video)
The novel was released in 2002, a year after Ludlum’s death.
“I’ve known John for years, he’s so excited to play the role,” Johnson said in a social media post announcing Cena’s casting. “I’m excited for him and he’s very committed.”
Both wrestlers have released films this past month. Cena starred in Universal’s comedy “Blockers,” which has grossed $77.5 million worldwide against a $21 million budget. Johnson’s mega-budget film, “Rampage,” grossed $335 million worldwide with $106 million from China.
Also Read: 'Rampage' Star Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia Share Their Trailblazing Plan for Hollywood Dominance (Exclusive)
Johnson will executive produce alongside Dany Garcia for Seven Bucks and Tracey Nyberg of Mythology. Producers include Ben Smith and Jeffrey Weiner of Captivate Entertainment; Hiram Garcia of Seven Bucks Productions; James Vanderbilt; Brad Fischer and William Sherak of Mythology; and Akiva Goldsman of Weed Road Pictures.
Goldsman shares story credit with James Vanderbilt, who is adapting Ludlum’s novel for the big screen. Executive vice president of production Mark Sourian and creative executive Lexi Barta will oversee production for Universal. Cena is represented by ICM Partners.
Read original story John Cena and Dwayne Johnson Team Up for Universal’s ‘The Janson Directive’ At TheWrap...
- 4/30/2018
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Fresh off his comedy hit “Blockers”, John Cena is in talks to star in Universal Pictures’ “The Janson Directive,” with Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia executive producing through their Seven Bucks Productions.
Johnson announced the casting on his social media outlets, praising his long friendship with Cena that goes back to their classic WrestleMania match.
The action-thriller was originally being developed with Johnson attached to star, but sources say given his busy schedule, Johnson and the studio decided it was best move along with Johnson as a producer.
Like Johnson, Cena began his career as a WWE Superstar before bringing his talents to Hollywood. Universal is also high on Cena after successful runs in his recent comedies “Blockers,” “Sisters,” and “Train Wreck.” The studio had been looking for a possible Cena-starring franchise that would play to his strengths as a physical presence.
Ben Smith and Jeffrey Weiner of Captivate Entertainment...
Johnson announced the casting on his social media outlets, praising his long friendship with Cena that goes back to their classic WrestleMania match.
The action-thriller was originally being developed with Johnson attached to star, but sources say given his busy schedule, Johnson and the studio decided it was best move along with Johnson as a producer.
Like Johnson, Cena began his career as a WWE Superstar before bringing his talents to Hollywood. Universal is also high on Cena after successful runs in his recent comedies “Blockers,” “Sisters,” and “Train Wreck.” The studio had been looking for a possible Cena-starring franchise that would play to his strengths as a physical presence.
Ben Smith and Jeffrey Weiner of Captivate Entertainment...
- 4/30/2018
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
Post “It,” New Line is staying in the Stephen King business and putting the author’s 1979 novel “The Long Walk,” into active development, an individual with knowledge of the project tells TheWrap.
Screenwriter James Vanderbilt has written the script to adapt the book. King originally wrote the novel under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
Vanderbilt will also produce the adaptation with Bradley Fischer and William Sherak via their Mythology Entertainment banner. Tracey Nyberg will exec produce.
“The Long Walk” is set in a future dystopian America and follows the contestants of a grueling walking contest, held annually by the totalitarian government of the United States of America. Contestants must maintain a pace of four miles per hour, and if they drop below it they will be executed — the race ends when only one contestant is alive.
Screenwriter James Vanderbilt has written the script to adapt the book. King originally wrote the novel under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
Vanderbilt will also produce the adaptation with Bradley Fischer and William Sherak via their Mythology Entertainment banner. Tracey Nyberg will exec produce.
“The Long Walk” is set in a future dystopian America and follows the contestants of a grueling walking contest, held annually by the totalitarian government of the United States of America. Contestants must maintain a pace of four miles per hour, and if they drop below it they will be executed — the race ends when only one contestant is alive.
- 4/25/2018
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
New Line Cinema, which made the big-screen version of Stephen King’s<em> It,</em> is staying in the King business, setting its sights on adapting his novel <em>The Long Walk.</em>
James Vanderbilt, who was behind the Robert Redford-Cate Blanchett drama <em>Truth</em>, has written the script to adapt the book, which King wrote under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
Vanderbilt will also produce with Bradley Fischer and William Sherak. Mythology Entertainment is the company behind the project and the company's Tracey Nyberg will executive produce.
First published in 1979, <em>Long Walk</em> is set in a future dystopian America ruled by an authoritarian. The country holds ...
James Vanderbilt, who was behind the Robert Redford-Cate Blanchett drama <em>Truth</em>, has written the script to adapt the book, which King wrote under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
Vanderbilt will also produce with Bradley Fischer and William Sherak. Mythology Entertainment is the company behind the project and the company's Tracey Nyberg will executive produce.
First published in 1979, <em>Long Walk</em> is set in a future dystopian America ruled by an authoritarian. The country holds ...
- 4/25/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
New Line Cinema, which made the big-screen version of Stephen King’s It, is staying in the King business, setting its sights on adapting his novel The Long Walk.
James Vanderbilt, who was behind the Robert Redford-Cate Blanchett drama Truth, has written the script to adapt the book, which King wrote under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
Vanderbilt will also produce with Bradley Fischer and William Sherak. Mythology Entertainment is the company behind the project and the company's Tracey Nyberg will executive produce.
First published in 1979, Long Walk is set in a future dystopian America ruled by an authoritarian. The country...
James Vanderbilt, who was behind the Robert Redford-Cate Blanchett drama Truth, has written the script to adapt the book, which King wrote under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
Vanderbilt will also produce with Bradley Fischer and William Sherak. Mythology Entertainment is the company behind the project and the company's Tracey Nyberg will executive produce.
First published in 1979, Long Walk is set in a future dystopian America ruled by an authoritarian. The country...
- 4/24/2018
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The House With A Clock In Its Wall
In the tradition of Amblin classics where fantastical events occur in the most unexpected places, Jack Black and two-time Academy Award® winner Cate Blanchett star in The House with a Clock in Its Walls, from Amblin Entertainment. The magical adventure tells the spine-tingling tale of 10-year-old Lewis (Owen Vaccaro) who goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house with a mysterious tick-tocking heart. But his new town’s sleepy façade jolts to life with a secret world of warlocks and witches when Lewis accidentally awakens the dead.
The film hits theaters September 21.
Based on the beloved children’s classic written by John Bellairs and illustrated by Edward Gorey, The House with a Clock in Its Walls is directed by master frightener Eli Roth and written by Eric Kripke (creator of TV’s Supernatural). Co-starring Kyle MacLachlan, Colleen Camp, Renée Elise Goldsberry,...
In the tradition of Amblin classics where fantastical events occur in the most unexpected places, Jack Black and two-time Academy Award® winner Cate Blanchett star in The House with a Clock in Its Walls, from Amblin Entertainment. The magical adventure tells the spine-tingling tale of 10-year-old Lewis (Owen Vaccaro) who goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house with a mysterious tick-tocking heart. But his new town’s sleepy façade jolts to life with a secret world of warlocks and witches when Lewis accidentally awakens the dead.
The film hits theaters September 21.
Based on the beloved children’s classic written by John Bellairs and illustrated by Edward Gorey, The House with a Clock in Its Walls is directed by master frightener Eli Roth and written by Eric Kripke (creator of TV’s Supernatural). Co-starring Kyle MacLachlan, Colleen Camp, Renée Elise Goldsberry,...
- 3/27/2018
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
After playing R.L. Stine in 2015's Goosebumps movie, Jack Black is helping bring another beloved book series to life with his role as Uncle Barnavelt in The House with a Clock in Its Walls, an adaptation of John Bellairs' book of the same name (which featured artwork by Edward Gorey), and you can get a look at what's to come in the first trailer for the Eli Roth-directing Amblin Entertainment movie ahead of its September 21st theatrical release:
"In the tradition of Amblin classics where fantastical events occur in the most unexpected places, Jack Black and two-time Academy Award® winner Cate Blanchett star in The House with a Clock in Its Walls, from Amblin Entertainment. The magical adventure tells the spine-tingling tale of 10-year-old Lewis (Owen Vaccaro) who goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house with a mysterious tick-tocking heart. But his new town...
"In the tradition of Amblin classics where fantastical events occur in the most unexpected places, Jack Black and two-time Academy Award® winner Cate Blanchett star in The House with a Clock in Its Walls, from Amblin Entertainment. The magical adventure tells the spine-tingling tale of 10-year-old Lewis (Owen Vaccaro) who goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house with a mysterious tick-tocking heart. But his new town...
- 3/27/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
We've seen Jack Black enter the world of horror as R.L. Stine in the Goosebumps movie, and now it looks like the actor is heading back into the realm of chills and thrills with Amblin Entertainment and Mythology Entertainment's film adaptation of the 1973 children's book The House with a Clock in its Walls.
According to multiple sources, including Variety (with Deadline the first to report the news), Black will star in and Roth will direct The House with a Clock in its Walls. Eric Kripke, the creator of the long-running Supernatural TV series, wrote the screenplay for the film, adapting the 1973 children's book for the big screen.
Written by the late John Bellairs and featuring illustrations by Edward Gorey, The House with a Clock in its Walls was the first installment of a horror mystery series featuring the young, orphaned protagonist Lewis Barnavelt. The series even continued after Bellairs...
According to multiple sources, including Variety (with Deadline the first to report the news), Black will star in and Roth will direct The House with a Clock in its Walls. Eric Kripke, the creator of the long-running Supernatural TV series, wrote the screenplay for the film, adapting the 1973 children's book for the big screen.
Written by the late John Bellairs and featuring illustrations by Edward Gorey, The House with a Clock in its Walls was the first installment of a horror mystery series featuring the young, orphaned protagonist Lewis Barnavelt. The series even continued after Bellairs...
- 6/20/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Exclusive: Amblin Entertainment and Mythology Entertainment have set Eli Roth to direct and Jack Black to star in The House With A Clock In Its Walls, an adaptation of the 1973 John Bellairs book illustrated by Edward Gorey. It is part of a 12-book series. Eric Kripke wrote the script. Brad Fischer and James Vanderbilt will produce with Kripke. The exec producers include William Sherak, Tracey Nyberg and Laeta Kalogridis. The novel tells the tale of a recently orphaned…...
- 6/20/2017
- Deadline
Netflix Appealing To Your Mom With Feature Film Starring Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, And Diane Keaton
Netflix has acquired a new feature film to add to its burgeoning library of originals. The streaming video-on-demand service is working on the comedy flick Divanation, starring long-time favorites Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton.
Written by Lisa Addario and Joey Syracuse, Divanation features Midler, Hawn, and Keaton as three estranged members of a formerly-popular singing group who are forced to get together again nearly 30 years after their harsh split. The comedy flick, originally reported by Deadline, will reunite actresses Midler, Hawn, and Keaton, who all starred together in the 1996 rom-com The First Wives Club. Mythology Entertainment’s Brad Fischer, James Vanderbilt, and William Sherak will produce Divanation alongside Alan Nevins. Tracey Nyberg is set as an executive producer.
Divanation is a solid example of how Netflix is looking to expand its demographic reach, especially in terms of the older generations. For example, the streaming platform recently found great...
Written by Lisa Addario and Joey Syracuse, Divanation features Midler, Hawn, and Keaton as three estranged members of a formerly-popular singing group who are forced to get together again nearly 30 years after their harsh split. The comedy flick, originally reported by Deadline, will reunite actresses Midler, Hawn, and Keaton, who all starred together in the 1996 rom-com The First Wives Club. Mythology Entertainment’s Brad Fischer, James Vanderbilt, and William Sherak will produce Divanation alongside Alan Nevins. Tracey Nyberg is set as an executive producer.
Divanation is a solid example of how Netflix is looking to expand its demographic reach, especially in terms of the older generations. For example, the streaming platform recently found great...
- 12/15/2015
- by Bree Brouwer
- Tubefilter.com
Mythology Entertainment signed a first look deal on Thursday with 20th Century Fox Television and newly formed Fox 21 Television Studios to develop and produce broadcast, cable, and digital scripted series. The production company also announced the hire of two new department heads, Julia Gunn as Executive Vice President of Television and Tracey Nyberg as Executive Vice President of Film. They will report to company co-founders Brad Fischer and James Vanderbilt, and William Sherak who serves as a consultant and producer in both film and television. See Photos: The Faces of Pilot Season 2015 “We are thrilled to have a home at Fox.
- 3/12/2015
- by Travis Reilly
- The Wrap
Feature producer Mythology Entertainment is stepping up its TV efforts, signing a first-look deal with 20th Century Fox TV and its cable division Fox 21 TV Studios to produce broadcast, cable, and digital scripted series. The three-year old production banner is beefing up its in-house staff with the hiring of former Lifetime exec Julia Gunn as Evp Television and Temple Hill Entertainment’s Tracey Nyberg as Evp Film. They report to Mythology co-founders Brad Fischer and…...
- 3/12/2015
- Deadline TV
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