As the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy approaches next year, award-winning director Stephen Gyllenhaal has signed on to the feature film The Kennedy Detail as Screenwriter and Director. The motion picture focuses on the men of the Secret Service protective detail assigned to President John F. Kennedy. The project is targeted for a November, 2013 release, coinciding with the tragic anniversary.
.This is the project of a lifetime and I could not be more excited to be part of it,. said Gyllenhaal. .Everyone knows how this story ends, but the true stories told through the eyes of this extraordinary band of brothers, from JFK.s election to that awful day in Dallas, have never been told. It is time to share their perspective with the world..
Gyllenhaal has begun work on the script with his research including interviews with many of the surviving members of President...
.This is the project of a lifetime and I could not be more excited to be part of it,. said Gyllenhaal. .Everyone knows how this story ends, but the true stories told through the eyes of this extraordinary band of brothers, from JFK.s election to that awful day in Dallas, have never been told. It is time to share their perspective with the world..
Gyllenhaal has begun work on the script with his research including interviews with many of the surviving members of President...
- 8/27/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Atchity Entertainment and Ramos and Sparks Group announced today they plan to turn former Secret Service agent Gerald Blaine’s bestselling book The Kennedy Detail into a feature film. The plan is for a late 2013 release to coincide with the assassination of Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Blaine’s 2010 book, written with Lisa McCubbin, tells the tale of JFK’s presidency from the perspective of the men who guarded his life while in office and on that day in Dallas. Discovery aired a Martin Sheen-narrated documentary based on The Kennedy Detail on December 2, 2010. The Emmy-nominated doc was executive produced by Ken Atchity and Chi-Li Wong. Blaine and McCubbin served as producers.
- 4/16/2012
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
Universal Pictures has found Three Men Seeking Monsters, a cryptozoological travelogue by Nick Redfern. Jon, Doug and Dan Heder are producing through their Universal-based Greasy Entertainment as is Ken Atchity via his Atchity Entertainment International.
Published in 2004 by Paraview, "Three Men Seeking Monsters: Six Weeks in Pursuit of Werewolves, Lake Monsters, Giant Cats, Ghostly Devil Dogs, and Ape-Men" tells how the author, a baldheaded punker, and his two friends -- a goth herpetologist who dresses like a pirate and a 6-foot-6-inch, 400-pound behemoth who wears a Sherlock Holmes cap -- set off on a six-week, alcohol-infused road trip investigating monster myths around Great Britain.
Scott Bernstein is overseeing for Universal.
AEI's Chi-li Wong will act as executive producer, while Mike Kuciak, who found the book for Atchity, will be co-producer.
AEI has a slew of adventure-themed projects set up around town, including Demon Keeper at Fox 2000; Ripley's Believe It or Not at Paramount, with Jim Carrey attached to star and Tim Burton attached to direct; and Meg at New Line.
Published in 2004 by Paraview, "Three Men Seeking Monsters: Six Weeks in Pursuit of Werewolves, Lake Monsters, Giant Cats, Ghostly Devil Dogs, and Ape-Men" tells how the author, a baldheaded punker, and his two friends -- a goth herpetologist who dresses like a pirate and a 6-foot-6-inch, 400-pound behemoth who wears a Sherlock Holmes cap -- set off on a six-week, alcohol-infused road trip investigating monster myths around Great Britain.
Scott Bernstein is overseeing for Universal.
AEI's Chi-li Wong will act as executive producer, while Mike Kuciak, who found the book for Atchity, will be co-producer.
AEI has a slew of adventure-themed projects set up around town, including Demon Keeper at Fox 2000; Ripley's Believe It or Not at Paramount, with Jim Carrey attached to star and Tim Burton attached to direct; and Meg at New Line.
Variety reports that director Barry Levinson is in negotiations with New Line to helm Henry's List of Wrongs, based on the novel by John Scott Shepherd. Set to be produced by Ken Atchity and Chi-Li Wong, Henry centers around a young man who asks the girl of his dreams to the prom, only to have her dump him the night of the dance. Fueled by his anger at the rejection, he becomes a ruthless corporate player, and eventually goes back to confront the girl . only to find out she rejected him because she was dying and did not want him to suffer the emotional consequences. Realizing his life's been built on a misunderstanding, Henry works to set aright all the evil that he has done.
- 7/2/2003
- IMDbPro News
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