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The Imitation Game actress is set to star in Breathing Water, an adaptation of the 1995 novel Sights Unseen written by New York Times best-selling author Kaye Gibbons.
The Thomas Crown Affair is the latest remake being developed for the big screen with studio MGM signing up Michael B. Jordan to lead the film. Jordan previously worked with MGM on last year’s hit Creed, the sequel to the Rocky franchise with Sylvester Stallone.
Franco, Stewart, and Carter are circling the biopic about the fact-is-stranger-than-fiction story behind the hoax of JT LeRoy, a woman who pretended to be a man that identified as transgender, tricking the rich and famous in Hollywood, the fashion world, and elite literary circles.
Ethan Hawke has signed on to star in 24 Hours To Live. Sierra/Affinity will be handling international sales at the European Film Market in Berlin while CAA handles domestic rights.
Mary Parent has picked up the hot comedy spec Girls Night Out from up-and-coming screenwriter Ali Segel. Parent is producing through her Disruption Entertainment with Cale Boyter.
Barbra Streisand is heading behind the camera for the first time in almost twenty years as she signs on to helm Catherine The Great. The script was written by Hit List Alum Kristina Lauren Anderson.
Kevin Bacon is attached to star in the Tremors television series being developed by Universal Cable Productions and Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions. Bacon, who will also executive produce, will reprise his role from the 1990 cult classic.
Set 20,000 years ago during the ice age, The Solutrean follows a young man’s brave journey to reunite with his tribe, facing harsh conditions and treacherous terrains. Dan Wiedenhaupt scripted the big budget adventure, based on an idea by Albert Hughes.
Story follows a group of college girlfriends who are forced to reunite and go on an adventure through Los Angeles when their friend goes missing after going on an online date.
An ensemble female comedy in the vein of BRIDESMAIDS meets THE HANGOVER. Story follows a group of college girlfriends who are forced to reunite and go on an adventure through Los Angeles when their friend goes missing after going on an online date.
Jordan’s in talks to nab the role of Tree, one of the key leads in the edgy two-hander, which follows two blood-sucking best friends whose relationship enters a crisis. The pic’s based on the Dark Horse comic series of the same name written by Mike Gagerman and Andrew Waller.
A successful magazine editor returns home to care for his grieving mother after his father’s untimely death, uncovering long buried secrets and lies within his family history, his parents, his friends and his very identity, fueled by madness, sexuality, hauntings and violence.
A round-up of this week’s pilot and series TV casting and sales!
Jeremy Sisto has been cast in ABC’s Wicked City, Emily Kinney has joined Masters of Sex, while Ron Livingston, Anna Camp, and Vincent Kartheiser are set to lead Nat Geo’s miniseries Saints & Strangers
The pic follows an ex-con, working undercover for the police, who is sent into a maximum security prison to break a criminal organization’s stranglehold on amphetamine dealings, and then must escape on his own after he’s abandoned during the mission.
Plot details are primarily kept hush, but the project is being pitched as an R-rated comedy following Osment as a guy who loves his old summer camp too much.
They join Pierce Brosnan in the story following a publisher that tries to keep his life from completely unraveling after firing an unstable I.T. guy who has gotten too close to his family. The screenplay was written by William Wisher Jr., with a previous draft by Dan Kay.
Based on the 1967 comic book series written by Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mezieres, the story follows the adventures of a space-and-time-traveling agent and his sidekick.
Plaza joins Zac Efron and Anna Kendrick in the story following two brothers that find wedding dates in the personal adds. When their dates arrive, they end up being much different than who they thought they were going to be.
The “Penny Dreadful” actress has joined the cast of the upcoming thriller.
The “Pirates Of The Caribbean” director has cast the leads of his upcoming horror film.
The “Big Lebowski” star has signed for the bank heist thriller, with Chris Pine and Ben Foster in talks.
Following Chris Pratt and Will Ferrell, McCarthy is the third major star to leave CAA, spelling trouble for the agency giant.
The Malloy Brothers are set to helm the YA surfing novel adaption.
Following a near-fatal car accident, a man wakes from a coma and begins to have strange and surreal experiences.
Following a near-fatal car accident, a man wakes from a coma, and begins to have strange and surreal experiences.
“Glee” star Jane Lynch picks up a new pilot.
“Training Day” stars re-unite for “Magnificent Seven” remake.