Following her well-received turn in the 2013 film adaptation of The Book Thief, young actress Sophie Nelisse has added another literary character to her upcoming slate – Gilly Hopkins.
Following the recent news that Seth Gordon would be helming the upcoming, high-profile Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, the director continues to enjoy his winning streak by taking the reins of Queen Of Hearts for Oddlot Entertainment.
The pages of Hollywood history are littered with stories of success borne of versatility, and the tale of Phil Lord and Chris Miller is no exception. This dynamic duo met as students at Dartmouth College and took an introductory course in animation. They both began to create animated shorts that were successful at a range of small festivals, such as The New England Film and Video Festival. This love of artistic storytelling led to jobs developing Saturday morning cartoons for Disney. Quickly outgrowing that brand, their move to developing primetime animation for Touchstone Television gave rise to their first high profile project, Clone High.
When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for their annual awards on January 16th, 2014, suspicion rumbled around the Best Original Song category, which featured a nomination for a little heard song from a little seen film titled Alone Yet Not Alone.
Kevin Williamson - the creator of Dawson's Creek and the Scream film franchise - has secured a late-season pilot order from CBS, for a drama about stalking. The as-yet-untitled series will focus on a pair of detectives working in the Threat Management Unit of the LAPD, and will be both written and executive produced by Williamson under the banner of his Warner Bros Television based company, Outerbanks Entertainment.
Never one to rest on his laurels, acclaimed director and producer Jason Reitman has added The Possibilities to his large slate of projects, snapping up the new novel before it has even been published.
The rise of British actor John Boyega continues today as he's now taken the high-profile lead role in Race - an upcoming biopic of Olympic legend Jesse Owens.
The independent spirit is alive and well, with Justin Lin (the Fast & Furious franchise) fighting off interest from DreamWorks, Columbia Pictures and Fox Searchlight to acquire the rights to remake The Battered Bastards of Baseball, which screened to great acclaim in the Documentary Premieres section of the Sundance Film Festival on 20 January. Todd Field – who has a personal connection to the subject of the film – is now in talks to write and direct.