Author: Zehra Phelan
Chloe Grace Moretz, Josh Gad, and Britain’s own Jack O’Connell have all signed on the dotted line to star in Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman’s romantic story Party of the Century which is focused on Truman Capote’s infamous Black and White Ball.
Party of the Century is an unexpected love story between O’Connell’s working-class elevator operator and Moretz’s Hollywood ingénue, both of whom score coveted invites to Capote’s (who will be played by Gad) soiree.
Truman Capote was not only known for his literary brilliance, the man also held the most lavish of social affairs in his heyday, this one story of his turbulent life was initially revealed via Deborah Davis’s book Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote in which the synopsis read;
In 1966, everyone who was anyone wanted an invitation to Truman Capote...
Chloe Grace Moretz, Josh Gad, and Britain’s own Jack O’Connell have all signed on the dotted line to star in Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman’s romantic story Party of the Century which is focused on Truman Capote’s infamous Black and White Ball.
Party of the Century is an unexpected love story between O’Connell’s working-class elevator operator and Moretz’s Hollywood ingénue, both of whom score coveted invites to Capote’s (who will be played by Gad) soiree.
Truman Capote was not only known for his literary brilliance, the man also held the most lavish of social affairs in his heyday, this one story of his turbulent life was initially revealed via Deborah Davis’s book Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote in which the synopsis read;
In 1966, everyone who was anyone wanted an invitation to Truman Capote...
- 5/11/2017
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
A few days ago, I noted that Rachel Weisz was lining up a role in "The Lobster" director Yorgos Lanthimos' brewing period drama "The Favorite." What I didn't realize was that while her name was on IMDb for the project, nothing had been formally announced. Clearly I needed more coffee. But indeed, it looks like she's reteaming with the Greek director. Deadline reports that the actress in talks to join the film alongside Emma Stone and Olivia Colman, replacing Kate Winslet who was originally cast in the film. A turn toward the conventional for Lanthimos, the script is by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, with the 17th century set story finding Colman all dressed up as Queen Anne, with Weisz as Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, and Stone as Sarah's distant relative Abigail, with the tale detailing the various political machinations of royalty. So, get your corsets ready. Production will begin next spring.
- 10/15/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Rachel Weisz is in talks to reunite with her "The Lobster" director Yorgos Lanthimos in "The Favorite," taking over a role originally pegged for Kate Winslet.
The story follows political machinations behind the scenes during the reign of Queen Anne, the last monarch of the House of Stuarts. It takes place over a period between the end of the 17th century and first years of the 18th century.
Winslet was and now Weisz is up for playing Sarah, a close confidante of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman). Emma Stone is lining up to play Abigail Masham, an impoverished, distant relative of Sarah.
The project, which boasts a script by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, has the likes of Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney and Lee Magiday as producers. Filming begins spring next year.
Source: Deadline...
The story follows political machinations behind the scenes during the reign of Queen Anne, the last monarch of the House of Stuarts. It takes place over a period between the end of the 17th century and first years of the 18th century.
Winslet was and now Weisz is up for playing Sarah, a close confidante of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman). Emma Stone is lining up to play Abigail Masham, an impoverished, distant relative of Sarah.
The project, which boasts a script by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, has the likes of Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney and Lee Magiday as producers. Filming begins spring next year.
Source: Deadline...
- 10/15/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
An A-list cast of all your favourites are lining up to appear in a new royal drama - conveniently titled The Favourites.
Olivia Colman, Kate Winslet and Emma Stone are in talks to join director Yorgos Lanthimos's film, which dives behind the scenes during the 18th century reign of Queen Anne.
BAFTA-winning Broadchurch star Colman will play the last monarch of the House of Stuarts, while Winslet will play Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, a close confidante of the Queen.
Stone is closing in on the role of Abigail Masham, a distant relative of Sarah who is introduced to the Queen's court, reports Deadline.
Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara have written the script for the movie, which will focus on the shifting balance of power and how each character tries to influence Colman's Anne.
The story will cross from the 17th century to the 18th, encompassing the queen's reign from...
Olivia Colman, Kate Winslet and Emma Stone are in talks to join director Yorgos Lanthimos's film, which dives behind the scenes during the 18th century reign of Queen Anne.
BAFTA-winning Broadchurch star Colman will play the last monarch of the House of Stuarts, while Winslet will play Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, a close confidante of the Queen.
Stone is closing in on the role of Abigail Masham, a distant relative of Sarah who is introduced to the Queen's court, reports Deadline.
Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara have written the script for the movie, which will focus on the shifting balance of power and how each character tries to influence Colman's Anne.
The story will cross from the 17th century to the 18th, encompassing the queen's reign from...
- 9/25/2015
- Digital Spy
Kate Winslet, Emma Stone and "Broadchurch" actress Olivia Colman are all in discussions to join "The Lobster" director Yorgos Lanthimos' new film "The Favorite".
Set at the start of the 18th century, Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara's script follows the political machinations during the reign of Queen Anne (Colman), the last monarch of the House of Stuarts.
Winslet plays Sarah the Duchess of Marlborough, a close confidante of the Queen. Stone would play Abigail Masham, an impoverished and distant relative of Sarah who gains a position at court.
Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday and Andrew Lowe will produce. Filming starts in Spring next year.
Source: Deadline...
Set at the start of the 18th century, Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara's script follows the political machinations during the reign of Queen Anne (Colman), the last monarch of the House of Stuarts.
Winslet plays Sarah the Duchess of Marlborough, a close confidante of the Queen. Stone would play Abigail Masham, an impoverished and distant relative of Sarah who gains a position at court.
Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday and Andrew Lowe will produce. Filming starts in Spring next year.
Source: Deadline...
- 9/24/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Following his critical and festival success with quirksome romantic drama The Lobster, there has been much pondering about what Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos will do for a follow-up. Turns out he’s headed for historical drama, and has Kate Winslet, Emma Stone and Olivia Colman all at different stages of talks for The Favourite.Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara have written the script for this one, which will see Colman crowned as Queen Anne, final monarch of the Stuarts. Ruling between 1702 and 1707 (monarchs generally didn’t get to sit on the throne as long as Liz has). Winslet is circling the role of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, one of her majesty’s closest confidents, while Stone is looking to play Abigail Masham, a poverty-stricken distant relative of Sarah’s, who is suddenly granted a position at court tending to the Queen, resulting in a shifting balance of power between the courtiers.
- 9/24/2015
- EmpireOnline
It's not often, in fact it's pretty rare, for a foreign filmmaker making decidedly weird arthouse movies to attract A-list casts to make his movies, but Yorgos Lanthimos is the exception. After wowing cinephiles with "Dogtooth" and "Alps," the filmmaker managed to score Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Lea Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, John C. Reilly, and more for his no less oddball "The Lobster." And quick to strike while the iron is hot, the director is gearing up his next movie and has more big names attached, but for something that sounds quite conventional. Emma Stone, Kate Winslet, and Olivia Colman are all in talks to join "The Favorite." This is not a movie spawned from the brain of Lanthimos, but is instead a gig he was offered, a period drama penned by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara. The 17th century set story will find Colman all dressed up as Queen Anne,...
- 9/24/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Whether you’ve caught it on the festival circuit since its Cannes debut or you’ll see it when it gets released next spring, there will likely not be another film like The Lobster (our review and the trailer) for many years to come. From the mind of Dogtooth director Yorgos Lanthimos, it looks like his English-language debut has attracted the attention of others in Hollywood as he’s lining up quite a cast for his follow-up.
Kate Winslet, Emma Stone and The Lobster star Olivia Colman are all in talks to join his new project The Favourite, according to Deadline. The long-gestating film, scripted by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, follows the “political machinations behind the scenes during the reign of Queen Anne, the last monarch of the House of Stuarts.” Check out a longer synopsis below:
The story takes place between the end of the 17th century and...
Kate Winslet, Emma Stone and The Lobster star Olivia Colman are all in talks to join his new project The Favourite, according to Deadline. The long-gestating film, scripted by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, follows the “political machinations behind the scenes during the reign of Queen Anne, the last monarch of the House of Stuarts.” Check out a longer synopsis below:
The story takes place between the end of the 17th century and...
- 9/24/2015
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Kate Winslet, Emma Stone and Olivia Colman are in discussions to join The Lobster director Yorgos Lanthimos’ new feature The Favourite. The award-winning, heavyweight female cast circling the project underlines the extent to which Lanthimos, who scored rave reviews for The Lobster, has established himself as one of the Europe’s most in-demand directors. Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara have written the script, while follows the political machinations behind the…...
- 9/24/2015
- Deadline
Veteran star of stage and screen, Jenifer Lewis (most recently seen as the over-protective mother in Think Like A Man), is starring in a new comedy web series, along with Shangela (the breakout star from the TV series RuPaul’s Drag Race), titled Jenifer Lewis and Shangela. The scripted series is directed by Emmy-winning producer, writer and director Mary Lou Belli (she's helmed episodes of Girlfriends, The Game and Reed Between The Lines), from scripts by the writing team of Mark Alton Brown & Dee Laduke (Girlfriends, Designing Women), as well as Deborah Dean Davis (It Takes Two) and Margaret Oberman (Saturday Night Live). ...
- 9/12/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Boston — Mark Wahlberg says he's considering a jailhouse meeting with James "Whitey" Bulger, but victim's relatives are criticizing the actor's interest in the reputed former mob boss.
Bulger has reached out to Wahlberg, the actor told Boston's Waaf-fm radio Friday, and he speculated Bulger wants to give him rights to his story.
"He wants me to come down and visit him. Maybe he'll give me the exclusive rights to tell his story, `cause he knows, you know, we can do it better than anybody else," Wahlberg said.
Wahlberg grew up in South Boston, also Bulger's home when he ran a local gang in the `70s, `80s and `90s while working as an FBI informant. Bulger, 82, is accused of participating in 19 murders before fleeing in 1995, allegedly after his FBI handler tipped him that an indictment was coming. He was caught in California last year after 16 years on the run.
Wahlberg said...
Bulger has reached out to Wahlberg, the actor told Boston's Waaf-fm radio Friday, and he speculated Bulger wants to give him rights to his story.
"He wants me to come down and visit him. Maybe he'll give me the exclusive rights to tell his story, `cause he knows, you know, we can do it better than anybody else," Wahlberg said.
Wahlberg grew up in South Boston, also Bulger's home when he ran a local gang in the `70s, `80s and `90s while working as an FBI informant. Bulger, 82, is accused of participating in 19 murders before fleeing in 1995, allegedly after his FBI handler tipped him that an indictment was coming. He was caught in California last year after 16 years on the run.
Wahlberg said...
- 1/15/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
- I'm not sure what to make from the Brit List. A trio of films from last year's batch (Nowhere Boy, Never Let Me Go and The Debt) that effectively received a greenlight, and are now in the can, and in the list's inaugural year, Grant Heslov's Men Who Stare at Goats was the top vote-getter. Now in its 3rd year, the "List" of the most liked and recommended unproduced screenplays in the UK and Ireland is complied by only 40 people in the industry. You've got some attention-getting projects among the list below, that I'm sure we'll be discussing in the near future and the Playlist made a good round-up, but for the sake of getting to the cream of the crop, I'll look at the top three screenplays instead. 1. Good Luck Anthony Belcher (Ruby Films)Screenwriter: George Kay Storyline: A high-concept comedy based on an original idea by James Corden,
- 10/8/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
New York -- Jim Field Smith is coming aboard to direct "Good Luck, Anthony Belcher," George Kay's script that recently was announced as leading this year's Brit List, the U.K.'s version of the Black List.
U.K.-based indie Ruby Films ("The Other Boleyn Girl") is producing the dramedy, which centers on a perennially unlucky man whose fortunes abruptly change. James Corden ("The History Boys") has signed on to star, and Smith and Kay will produce via their Idiotlamp Prods. banner.
Smith, like Kay repped by WME and Underground Management, recently completed shooting the romantic comedy "She's Out of My League" for DreamWorks and is attached to helm the rural-England drama "All Quiet on the Orient Express," which he wrote with Kay.
It marks the third edition of the Brit List, which like the Black List polls reps and studio execs about the year's best unproduced scripts...
U.K.-based indie Ruby Films ("The Other Boleyn Girl") is producing the dramedy, which centers on a perennially unlucky man whose fortunes abruptly change. James Corden ("The History Boys") has signed on to star, and Smith and Kay will produce via their Idiotlamp Prods. banner.
Smith, like Kay repped by WME and Underground Management, recently completed shooting the romantic comedy "She's Out of My League" for DreamWorks and is attached to helm the rural-England drama "All Quiet on the Orient Express," which he wrote with Kay.
It marks the third edition of the Brit List, which like the Black List polls reps and studio execs about the year's best unproduced scripts...
- 10/4/2009
- by By Steve Zeitchik
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The New York film scene is getting a new jewel in its crown: Princess Pictures.
The Tribeca-based production company, led by president Pamela Fielder and senior vp development and production Amy Dean Kennedy, is launching with four literary adaptations and an original romantic comedy.
The slate includes a screen version of Carrie Karasyov and Jill Kargman's satirical novel "Wolves in Chic Clothing," in which three Park Avenue heiresses try to make over an outsider for sport, only to discover they've picked the wrong girl.
"Wolves" is being adapted by CAA and Rain Management-repped Mimosa Jones, who wrote the original Princess screenplay "3 Carats in 30 Days." In that romantic comedy, a book publicist uses one of her client's "How To" books in an attempt to get him to propose marriage.
Also on the slate:
-- Mike Gayle's No. 1 British best-seller "My Legendary Girlfriend" (adapted for the screen by Mike Glock) centers on a prep school teacher who self-imposes a deadline to get over his girlfriend, who haunts his every move three years after their breakup. "Girlfriend" is set to be first out of the gate, with the producers aiming for a spring start.
-- "Strapless," from author Deborah Davis (wife of ThinkFilm head Mark Urman), tells the scandalous true story of John Singer Sargent and the subject of his famed "Madame X" painting, set against the backdrop of the Parisian "La Belle Epoque" period of the late 19th century. Icm-repped David Grimm is adapting the book.
-- Marc Wortman's book "The Millionaires' Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented American Airpower" is out to writers. The project will tell the true story of four wealthy Yale undergrads who helped lay the foundation for the U.S. Air Force during World War I.
Fielder said she's looking to develop a slate of sophisticated and uplifting romantic comedies and dramas, with a touch of satire, aimed at an upscale audience. Most of the $5 million-$20 million films will be financed with private equity, but the company will look for studio partners on bigger projects like "Millionares."
Kennedy, in charge of developing the slate, began her career at Jerry Bruckheimer Films in Los Angeles. She later became the head of development for Lary Simpson Prods., developing film projects from the Simpson/Bruckheimer library. She moved to New York to develop a slate of original movies and scripted series for the Oxygen network which, like Princess films, targets a primarily female audience.
The Tribeca Film Center-housed outfit also intends to hire New York talent and produce many of its projects (like "Girlfriend") in the city.
Princess is repped by Sloss Eckhouse Brennan Law (formerly known as Sloss Law).
The Tribeca-based production company, led by president Pamela Fielder and senior vp development and production Amy Dean Kennedy, is launching with four literary adaptations and an original romantic comedy.
The slate includes a screen version of Carrie Karasyov and Jill Kargman's satirical novel "Wolves in Chic Clothing," in which three Park Avenue heiresses try to make over an outsider for sport, only to discover they've picked the wrong girl.
"Wolves" is being adapted by CAA and Rain Management-repped Mimosa Jones, who wrote the original Princess screenplay "3 Carats in 30 Days." In that romantic comedy, a book publicist uses one of her client's "How To" books in an attempt to get him to propose marriage.
Also on the slate:
-- Mike Gayle's No. 1 British best-seller "My Legendary Girlfriend" (adapted for the screen by Mike Glock) centers on a prep school teacher who self-imposes a deadline to get over his girlfriend, who haunts his every move three years after their breakup. "Girlfriend" is set to be first out of the gate, with the producers aiming for a spring start.
-- "Strapless," from author Deborah Davis (wife of ThinkFilm head Mark Urman), tells the scandalous true story of John Singer Sargent and the subject of his famed "Madame X" painting, set against the backdrop of the Parisian "La Belle Epoque" period of the late 19th century. Icm-repped David Grimm is adapting the book.
-- Marc Wortman's book "The Millionaires' Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented American Airpower" is out to writers. The project will tell the true story of four wealthy Yale undergrads who helped lay the foundation for the U.S. Air Force during World War I.
Fielder said she's looking to develop a slate of sophisticated and uplifting romantic comedies and dramas, with a touch of satire, aimed at an upscale audience. Most of the $5 million-$20 million films will be financed with private equity, but the company will look for studio partners on bigger projects like "Millionares."
Kennedy, in charge of developing the slate, began her career at Jerry Bruckheimer Films in Los Angeles. She later became the head of development for Lary Simpson Prods., developing film projects from the Simpson/Bruckheimer library. She moved to New York to develop a slate of original movies and scripted series for the Oxygen network which, like Princess films, targets a primarily female audience.
The Tribeca Film Center-housed outfit also intends to hire New York talent and produce many of its projects (like "Girlfriend") in the city.
Princess is repped by Sloss Eckhouse Brennan Law (formerly known as Sloss Law).
- 8/8/2008
- by By Gregg Goldstein
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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