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Paul Weitz
Actors Julianne Moore, Ken Watanabe, and Demián Bichir are all set to star in the forthcoming film from director Paul Weitz, Bel Canto. Based on the best-seller of the same name by Ann Patchett, the script was adapted by Weitz and Anthony Weintraub. Distribution company Bloom is going to start international sales at the Toronto International Film Festival, which begins tomorrow.
A guerilla group enters a South American politician’s villa during a party while a famous soprano is singing and takes everyone hostage.
Anders Holm has been cast in Judy Greer’s A Happening of Monumental Proportions. The movie marks the Archer actress’s directorial debut.
Actress Judy Greer is set to make her directorial debut on the comedic drama A Happening of Monumental Proportions. Common and Allison Janney will star in the dramedy, which Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz and Andrew Miano are producing under their Depth of Field banner.
Kept under wraps, but takes place in a small school in Los Angeles, which serves as the setting for an all-in-one-day story of of sex, lies and death.
Lee Bacon’s popular kid’s books have been optioned by Dimension. No writer is attached to adapt the series as of yet, but producers have a strong sense of who they’re looking for.
Based on the popular children’s book series by Lee Bacon.
Self-described misanthrope Elle Reid has her protective bubble burst when her 18-year-old granddaughter, Sage, shows up needing help. The two of them go on a day-long journey that causes Elle to come to terms with her past and Sage to confront her future.
A round-up of today’s distribution sales, deals, and awards at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
A round-up of today’s distribution sales, deals, and awards at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
A breakdown of our Top 10 choices for Sundance Premiers–includes pictures and clips!
Self-described misanthrope Elle Reid has her protective bubble burst when her 18-year-old granddaughter, Sage, shows up needing help. The two of them go on a day-long journey that causes Elle to come to terms with her past and Sage to confront her future.
Logline: Self-described misanthrope Elle Reid has her protective bubble burst when her 18-year-old granddaughter, Sage, shows up needing help. The two of them go on a day-long journey that causes Elle to come to terms with her past and Sage to confront her future.
Logline: Centers on a housewife who invites a young woman to interact with her family, only to learn she may be the daughter that the woman secretly abandoned at birth.
The sibling writing duo will pen the script for the remake.
Logline: Upon discovering a mysterious letter from her husband, Cecilia slowly pieces together a massive secret that will bring two other women connected to her husband into her life.
Logline: Learning of a hospital mixup, a wealthy family discovers the 6-year-old they’re raising is not their biological child and that their actual child is being raised by a family of modest means.
Logline: When a down-and-out high school counselor starts talking with a student that reminds him of himself, he decides to help the kid out by altering his transcripts.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Portia Nelson’s well-ordered life as an admissions counselor for Princeton University becomes unraveled when she discovers one of her applicants may be the son she gave up for adoption 17 years earlier.
Portia Nelson’s well-ordered life as an admissions counselor for Princeton University becomes unraveled when she discovers one of her applicants may be the son she gave up for adoption 17 years earlier.
Logline: Four overachievers set out to reinvent themselves the summer after they graduate high school.
Logline: Story centers on an admissions officer at Princeton and her relationship with a prospective student and his teacher.
Logline: A college student buys a second hand car that turns out to have magical powers: it can fly, and turns him into a superhero who must protect the city.
Logline: Centers on an average frustrated chump’s attempts to become the world’s best pickup artist with the help of professional seduction experts.
Logline: The whole gang returns to East Great Falls for their ten-year high school and remember the good times – only to be faced with the frightening realization that they’re no longer young teenagers.
Logline: Follows the story of a poet in his 20s, working at one of the city’s homeless shelters, where his path crisscrosses with his down-and-out, wayward ex-con of a father.
Logline: Sequel will revolve around the children of Greg and Pam.