The ‘Brit List’ circulates British film community. Adam Dawtrey. An intriguing document started circulating privately around the British film community last week, and rapidly found its way to executive suites in Los Angeles. Titled the Brit List, it details the best unproduced movie scripts by non-American writers, as nominated by players in the U.K. and […]
Variety – RUSH HOUR Scribe Jim Kouf tees up to pen INGLE WOODS
New Line Cinema has acquired the comedy pitch “Ingle Woods” from Duane Martin and Lawrence Bender Prods., with Jamie Foxx attached to star. New Line will hire a writer to pen the script from Martin’s story. Comedy is the story of Ingle Woods, a golfer raised in Inglewood who plays golf when he isn’t working […]
Variety – New Line tees up Foxx pic INGLE WOODS
Studio seeking scribe to pen comedy. New Line Cinema has acquired the comedy pitch “Ingle Woods” from Duane Martin and Lawrence Bender Prods., with Jamie Foxx attached to star. New Line will hire a writer to pen the script from Martin’s story. Comedy is the story of Ingle Woods, a golfer raised in Inglewood who […]
Variety – Bender Inks 2 Producers
Lawrence Bender Prods. has signed first-look deals with producer and producer Ross Grayson Bell (“Fight Club”). Bell also served as the executive producer of “Under Suspicion” starring Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman. Barber, who first produced “The Adventures of Sebastian Cole,” began her career working with filmmakers Abel Ferrara and Robert De Niro. Bender most […]
Variety – SMOKE SIGNALS director Chris Eyre to helm New Line’s ROUSTABOUT
Just a few weeks after picking it up off turnaround from Fox 2000, New Line has tapped Chris Eyre (“Smoke Signals”) to direct “Roustabout,” to which Winona Ryder is attached to star. Newcomer Kathleen Orillion has been hired to adapt Michelle Chalfoun’s 1997 debut novel about a modern day female circus roustabout. Ryder also will […]
Variety – Helena Bonham Carter in FIGHT CLUB (by Chris Petrikin)
Helena Bonham Carter is set to take the female lead opposite Brad Pitt and Edward Norton in David Fincher’s “The Fight Club” for Fox 2000. The actress, who recently earned an Oscar nomination for her role in Iain Softley’s “The Wings of the Dove,” will begin work on the film in early June in Los […]
Variety – Gore Verbinski reaches for New Lines’ ‘Sky’
The “Sky Is Falling” at New Line Cinema has attracted “Mouse Hunt” helmer Gore Verbinski, who has signed on to direct the futuristic actioner previously been set up at TriStar Pictures. Ross Grayson Bell will produce the project, which was originally scripted by Eric Singer and Howard Roth. Singer is penning a rewrite and also […]
Variety – Fox Grabs LAMBS OF GOD for Winona Ryder
Lining up its second film project with actress Winona Ryder, Fox 2000 has optioned Aussie novelist Marele Day’s upcoming “Lambs of God,” which the actress will topline and co- produce. The novel was brought to Fox 2000 by producer Ross Grayson Bell under his exclusive deal with the Fox film division. Bell will produce with […]
Variety – Fincher set to helm Fox ‘s FIGHT CLUB
David Fincher, the director of “Seven” and “Alien3,” is set to direct “Fight Club” for Laura Ziskin’s Fox 2000 and producer Ross Grayson Bell. Fincher is currently finishing work on Propaganda’s “The Game,” which stars Michael Douglas and Sean Penn. There is no start date set for “Fight Club,” but sources close to Fincher suggest […]
‘SKY’ falls on Fincher
David Fincher, helmer of New Line Cinema’s upcoming thriller “Seven,” is in final negotiations with TriStar Pictures to bring the actioner “The Sky Is Falling” to the screen, the studio confirmed. Fincher will direct the futuristic pic about two clerics on an archaeological dig who discover proof of God. When they take the proof with […]