Tony Hale will appear in Anna Kendrick’s feature directorial debut, “The Dating Game.”
Details of the “Veep” alum’s character remain under wraps. He joins previously announced cast members Kendrick, Daniel Zovatto, Nicolette Robinson, Kathryn Gallagher, Kelley Jakle and Autumn Best.
While character descriptions for most of the cast have been kept quiet, Variety has learned Robinson (“One Night in Miami”) is expected to play one of the lead roles of Laura, a genuine and insightful young woman who cares deeply for her friends and family. After experiencing the death of a close friend, she rebuilds her life and settles into a new loving relationship. But the unimaginable comes to confront when she attends a popular game show and suddenly finds herself face to face with her friend’s potential murderer.
According to the film’s logline, “The Dating Game” follows the unsettling true story of serial killer Rodney Alcala,...
Details of the “Veep” alum’s character remain under wraps. He joins previously announced cast members Kendrick, Daniel Zovatto, Nicolette Robinson, Kathryn Gallagher, Kelley Jakle and Autumn Best.
While character descriptions for most of the cast have been kept quiet, Variety has learned Robinson (“One Night in Miami”) is expected to play one of the lead roles of Laura, a genuine and insightful young woman who cares deeply for her friends and family. After experiencing the death of a close friend, she rebuilds her life and settles into a new loving relationship. But the unimaginable comes to confront when she attends a popular game show and suddenly finds herself face to face with her friend’s potential murderer.
According to the film’s logline, “The Dating Game” follows the unsettling true story of serial killer Rodney Alcala,...
- 12/16/2022
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, Steven Zaillian’s script for “The Irishman” wins an award, MGM hires a trio of marketing execs, MTV Documentary Films sets three new projects; and “The Caretaker of Lorne Field” is becoming a movie.
Awards
Steven Zaillian’s screenplay for Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” will receive the best original screenplay award at the 24th annual Capri Hollywood International Film Festival.
The award will be presented to Zaillian during festival, which runs between Dec. 27 and Jan. 2.
Tony Renis, the festival’s honorary president, said, “‘The Irishman’ is considered to be one of Scorsese’s greatest films and Zaillian’s script is a true masterpiece. The talented writer is a long-time collaborator of the Italian-American maestro as well as many other great auteurs. His script is a perfect piece of work, which has resulted in remarkable performances brought to life by such movie stars as Robert De Niro,...
Awards
Steven Zaillian’s screenplay for Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” will receive the best original screenplay award at the 24th annual Capri Hollywood International Film Festival.
The award will be presented to Zaillian during festival, which runs between Dec. 27 and Jan. 2.
Tony Renis, the festival’s honorary president, said, “‘The Irishman’ is considered to be one of Scorsese’s greatest films and Zaillian’s script is a true masterpiece. The talented writer is a long-time collaborator of the Italian-American maestro as well as many other great auteurs. His script is a perfect piece of work, which has resulted in remarkable performances brought to life by such movie stars as Robert De Niro,...
- 11/19/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Updated With Full List Of Scripts, Writers, And Reps: Catherine The Great, about the rise and life of the famous (sometimes notorious) 18th-Century Russian monarch, was the top vote-getter among 70 scripts chosen for the 2014 Black List of the year’s best un-produced scripts. The screenplay, by Los Angeles writer and producer Kristina Lauren Anderson, was announced as part of an hour-plus process on Twitter and YouTube this morning.
Each of the 70 screenplays on this 10th annual list was chosen by a group of 250 development executives, agents and other Hollywood insiders as among the year’s best un-produced scripts in a process overseen by Franklin Leonard of http://www.blcklst.com. Anderson’s screenplay received 51 votes.
Other notables in the list include writer/actor/director Kenneth Lonergan with Manchester-By-The-Sea, which is being produced by Matt Damon and Chris Moore. Randall Green had two scripts make the list, The Swimsuit Issue and Cartoon Girl.
Each of the 70 screenplays on this 10th annual list was chosen by a group of 250 development executives, agents and other Hollywood insiders as among the year’s best un-produced scripts in a process overseen by Franklin Leonard of http://www.blcklst.com. Anderson’s screenplay received 51 votes.
Other notables in the list include writer/actor/director Kenneth Lonergan with Manchester-By-The-Sea, which is being produced by Matt Damon and Chris Moore. Randall Green had two scripts make the list, The Swimsuit Issue and Cartoon Girl.
- 12/15/2014
- by David Bloom and Jen Yamato
- Deadline
A Hollywood management firm has sued one of its ex-employees for allegedly instructing clients to stop paying commissions when they followed him to a new company. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Luber Roklin Entertainment claims that manager Stephen Crawford was employed by the company from 2007 through 2012, when he left to join rival Industry Entertainment. During his time at Luber Rokliln, Crawford represented clients including Jon Herman, Tiffany Paulsen, Adam Minarovich, David Digilio, Adam Kane and John P. Lavin, according to the lawsuit. Read the Complaint Here When Crawford switched firms, he
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- 2/7/2013
- by Matthew Belloni
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Warner Bros. and Silver Pictures have acquired Conviction , a spec script by screenwriter Jonathan Herman, reports Variety . The story follows a mastermind bank robber who serves five years in prison following a botched heist. He is forced by an FBI agent to entrap his protege, who's in the midst of a multimillion-dollar job. Joel Silver will produce with Andrew Rona. Alex Heineman will be an executive producer, along with Luber Roklin Entertainment's Stephen Crawford and Matt Luber.
- 2/10/2009
- Comingsoon.net
No, it’s not a sequel to Showgirls, but it might be just as fun! Variety reports that Basic Instinct director Paul Verhoeven is in talks to direct an untitled Wendy Miller erotic thriller for Relativity Media. The story centers on a college intern who finds himself trapped in a dangerous affair with the boss’s wife, described as Risky Business meets Fatal Attraction. Michael De Luca is producing via his Sony-based De Luca Prods. banner. Relativity’s Ryan Kavanaugh and Tucker Tooley are also producing. De Luca Prods.’ Alissa Phillips exec produces. Luber/Roklin Entertainment’s Stephen Crawford, who developed the project with tyro scribe Miller, also will exec produce alongside colleague Matt Luber. Relativity Media, which picked up the script in May, has fast-tracked the project and is eyeing a first-quarter 2009 start date. Miller is penning a rewrite under Verhoeven’s direction. De Luca most recently teamed with...
- 9/12/2008
- UGO Movies
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