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UPDATE: The project has been shelved due to the fact that the filmmakers have yet to secure the rights to the novel. James Franco is looking to cast Russell Crowe in his adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. The Academy Award-winning actor is in talks to star with Tye Sheridan and Vincent D’Onofrio.
Will Gluck’s remake of the 2011 Norwegian action comedy Jackpot is eyeing Bryan Cranston and Mila Kunis to star.
The spec market is heating up yet again as the buzz around P.J. McIlvaine’s The Man On Lincoln’s Nose begins to build. The script, centered on the man who sculpted Mt. Rushmore, has made its way into the hands of some big name producers heading into the weekend…
Logline: Gutzon Borglum, the iconic, controversial, visionary sculptor/artist whose passion and perseverance resulted in the creation of one of America’s most beloved and enduring landmarks – Mt. Rushmore – while battling an indifferent public, recalcitrant politicians and the Great Depression.
Simon Cowell will produce the biopic about the man who is credited with having discovered The Beatles, Brian Epstein. Cowell is partnering with IM Global on the project, which previously saw Nicholas Hoult and Jack O’Connell circling the leads.
Jessica Chastain is in talks for the lead role in Woman Walks Ahead. The project is helmed by Susanna White and was written by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.
Follows a 19th century Brooklyn artist and activist who moved to the Standing Rock Reservation in Dakota Territory to help Sioux chieftan Sitting Bull fight to keep the land for his people.
Story of Brian Epstein, who discovered and managed the Beatles in the 60s before dying of a drug overdose at 32.
Russell Crowe is set to star as Captain James Riley in IM Global’s In Sand and Blood, which recounts the terrifying true story of when a shipwrecked captain and his crew were forced into slavery and tortured in the Western Sahara.
After his girlfriend disappears, a man sets out to find her, discovering along the way that she was not who she was pretending to be.