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Bette Midler and Sharon Store have signed on to co-star in the odd-couple comedy The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, based on the play of the same name. Andy Flickman (“Game Plan”) will direct. The story centers on Marjorie Taub, an upper-middle-class, Upper-West-Sider, in the midst of a later-life crisis. Her loving husband, an acclaimed allergist to the...
Morten Tyldum will direct the psychological thriller The Marsh King’s Daugher, based on Karen Dionne’s best-selling novel. Alicia Vikander will star as Helena, a woman living a seemingly ordinary life, but hiding a dark secret within: that her father is the infamous “Marsh King”, the man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for...
Jim Parsons has signed on to produce and star in The Legend of Georgia McBride, for Fox 2000 Pictures. An adaptation of Matthew Lopez‘s play, the story follows Miss Tracy Mills, a veteran drag queen who coaches a broke young man in the art of performing, transforming him from a washed-up Elvis impersonator to a show-stopping drag queen....
Bette Midler and Sharon Store have signed on to co-star in the odd-couple comedy The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, based on the play of the same name. Andy Flickman (“Game Plan”) will direct. The story centers on Marjorie Taub, an upper-middle-class, Upper-West-Sider, in the midst of a later-life crisis. Her loving husband, an acclaimed allergist to the...
Morten Tyldum will direct the psychological thriller The Marsh King’s Daugher, based on Karen Dionne’s best-selling novel. Alicia Vikander will star as Helena, a woman living a seemingly ordinary life, but hiding a dark secret within: that her father is the infamous “Marsh King”, the man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for...
Jim Parsons has signed on to produce and star in The Legend of Georgia McBride, for Fox 2000 Pictures. An adaptation of Matthew Lopez‘s play, the story follows Miss Tracy Mills, a veteran drag queen who coaches a broke young man in the art of performing, transforming him from a washed-up Elvis impersonator to a show-stopping drag queen....
Doug Liman is in talks to develop and direct Unearthed, a sci-fi adventured based on the novel by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner, due for publication next year. Cross Creek Pictures acquired the rights to the novel, which follows Jules Addison and Amelia Radcliffe, two adventurers who join forces in a tomb-raiding race on a newly...
Kevin Hart is in talks to star as Santa Claus in Dashing Through the Snow, the family comedy Disney is developing. Rob Burnett has signed on to write the new draft of the screenplay, which follows a New York City detective whose difficult relationship with his son can only be repaired by Santa.
Lee Toland Krieger (“The Age of Adaline”) has signed on to direct Blackfriars for Lakeshore. The comedy, written by Chris Bremner, is based on the true story of Walter Robinson, an uptight Boston police detective, who gets the case of his career when he is assigned to protect Bobby Zachary, the lone survivor of the infamous...
Catherine Keener has joined Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin in Soldado, a sequel to last year’s crime thriller Sicario. The sequel will follow Alejandro Gillick and CIA agent Matt Graver, who are hellbent on hunting down cartel kingpins, and focus on what else is being smuggled across the border between Mexico and the U.S. in...
Gerard Butler has signed on to star in Angel Has Fallen, a follow-up to Olympus Has Fallen and London Has Fallen. Millennium Films is developing the sequel and has set Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt to write the screenplay. Butler will once again portray Secret Service agent Mike Banning, who has spent his career keeping American...
Adrien Brody, John Malkovich and Antonio Banderas are set to star in Unchained, a crime thriller from Millennium Films. Paul Solet (“Grace”) has written the screenplay and will direct. The film will follow career criminals who trap themselves in a warehouse with the law closing in, and run into an attack dog named DeNiro. The story...
Ed Helms has signed on to star in TAG, a comedy about a group of friends who for 30 years played a bizarre cross country version of the kids game. Tracy Morgan is in talks to co-star. Director Jeff Tomsic will make his feature film debut for New Line Cinema. The story is based on a...
20th Century Fox Animation has acquired the rights to Kelly Barnhill’s children’s novel The Girl who Drank the Moon. Marc Haimes (“Kubo and the Two Strings”) is set to write the screenplay. BottleCap Productions is producing. The story: Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives...
Jack O’Connell has signed on to play Alexander McQueen in the untitled biopic by Pathe. Andrew Haigh (“45 Years”) will direct for a script by Chris Urch. Based on the book “Blood Beneath the Skin” by Andrew Wilson, the film will explore McQueen’s creative process in the months leading up to his 2009 show, providing an...
