Joshua Deighton and Holly Becker are joining Sidney Kimmel Entertainment as senior vps production. They will report both to president of production Bill Horberg, who announced their appointments Thursday, and to SKE president Jim Tauber. The staffing ramp-up comes as SKE is finalizing a deal with MGM to distribute a slate of projects still to be determined. Deighton has served as vp production at Fox Searchlight, where he was involved in the acquisition of such films as "Napoleon Dynamite" and "Super Troopers". He also was a production exec on such films as "Sideways", "Sexy Beast", "One Hour Photo" and Danny Boyle's upcoming "Sunshine".
Fresh off his best actor Oscar win Sunday, Philip Seymour Hoffman has signed on to star in the dramedy The Savages for Fox Searchlight Pictures. He will join Laura Linney in the film, which will be directed by Tamara Jenkins, who also wrote the screenplay. The film revolves around a pair of adult siblings (Hoffman, Linney) who are obliged to care for their estranged and ailing elderly father who never took care of them. As they do, they confront the legacy of their upbringing and the realities of familial responsibility. This Is That's Ted Hope and Anne Carey are producing alongside Fred and Erica Westheimer, while Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor and Ad Hominem's Jim Burke are executive producing. Fox Searchlight's Claudia Lewis and Joshua Deighton are shepherding the project for the specialty label.
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