Prime Video got off to a fast start this summer with the release of The Boys season 3 on June 3. Now, as we enter the dog days, Prime Video is set to keep the warm weather good times rolling with a new twist on an old classic. That’s right, Amazon’s list of new releases for August 2022 is highlighted by some good old-fashioned baseball.
A League of Their Own, the TV adaptation of Penny Marshall’s 1992 movie, is set to premiere on Aug. 12. Like the movie before it, the series will dramatize the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League which saw women playing America’s pastime while the major leagues were on pause for World War II. Abbi Jacobson (Broad City) co-created the show and will star as catcher Carson Shaw.
Other Prime Video Originals of note this month include season 2 of British comedy The Outlaws on and the Ron Howard-directed Thirteen Lives,...
A League of Their Own, the TV adaptation of Penny Marshall’s 1992 movie, is set to premiere on Aug. 12. Like the movie before it, the series will dramatize the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League which saw women playing America’s pastime while the major leagues were on pause for World War II. Abbi Jacobson (Broad City) co-created the show and will star as catcher Carson Shaw.
Other Prime Video Originals of note this month include season 2 of British comedy The Outlaws on and the Ron Howard-directed Thirteen Lives,...
- 8/1/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Prime Video will continue rolling out its summer slate in the month of August, releasing new original series, as well as a mix of suspenseful films, action movies and more.
Amazon’s series version of “A League of Their Own” will debut its eight-episode first season on Aug. 12, introducing new characters and stories set in the historical opening of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League (Aagpbl).
Ron Howard’s “Thirteen Lives” tells the real-life story of how a young boys’ soccer team was rescued from the Thai mountain cave where they got stuck for 10 days along with their coach.
Other new film arrivals include hits from earlier this summer, “The Lost City” starring Sandra Bullock, Daniel Radcliffe, Channing Tatum and Brad Pitt, as well as “Sonic the Hedgehog 2.” Academy Award-nominated film “Licorice Pizza” also arrives on Prime Video this month.
Freevee will also have new arrivals this month.
Amazon’s series version of “A League of Their Own” will debut its eight-episode first season on Aug. 12, introducing new characters and stories set in the historical opening of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League (Aagpbl).
Ron Howard’s “Thirteen Lives” tells the real-life story of how a young boys’ soccer team was rescued from the Thai mountain cave where they got stuck for 10 days along with their coach.
Other new film arrivals include hits from earlier this summer, “The Lost City” starring Sandra Bullock, Daniel Radcliffe, Channing Tatum and Brad Pitt, as well as “Sonic the Hedgehog 2.” Academy Award-nominated film “Licorice Pizza” also arrives on Prime Video this month.
Freevee will also have new arrivals this month.
- 7/30/2022
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
The “Game of Thrones” prequel pilot at HBO is taking shape.
Naomi Ackie, Denise Gough, Jamie Campbell Bower, Sheila Atim, Ivanno Jeremiah, Georgie Henley, Alex Sharp, and Toby Regbo have all joined the pilot in series regular roles. They join previously announced cast members Naomi Watts and Josh Whitehouse. As with all things “Game of Thrones,” the exact nature of each of their roles is being kept under wraps.
In addition, Sj Clarkson has signed on to direct the pilot in addition to serving as an executive producer. Clarkson was most recently selected to direct the next film in the rebooted “Star Trek” franchise. She also recently executive produced and directed the limited series “Collateral” for BBC and Netflix. Her other directing credits include: the Marvel-Netflix shows “The Defenders” and “Jessica Jones,” the Netflix series “Orange Is the New Black,” HBO’s “Vinyl” and “Succession,” and Showtime’s “Dexter.
Naomi Ackie, Denise Gough, Jamie Campbell Bower, Sheila Atim, Ivanno Jeremiah, Georgie Henley, Alex Sharp, and Toby Regbo have all joined the pilot in series regular roles. They join previously announced cast members Naomi Watts and Josh Whitehouse. As with all things “Game of Thrones,” the exact nature of each of their roles is being kept under wraps.
In addition, Sj Clarkson has signed on to direct the pilot in addition to serving as an executive producer. Clarkson was most recently selected to direct the next film in the rebooted “Star Trek” franchise. She also recently executive produced and directed the limited series “Collateral” for BBC and Netflix. Her other directing credits include: the Marvel-Netflix shows “The Defenders” and “Jessica Jones,” the Netflix series “Orange Is the New Black,” HBO’s “Vinyl” and “Succession,” and Showtime’s “Dexter.
- 1/8/2019
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Lotus Entertainment and Stan & Deliver Films have set Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner for Girl Who Fell From the Sky. Turner will star in the film and produce it, and the intention is for it to be her next feature vehicle. Stan Brooks (Perfect Sisters) will direct the film, and has adapted the script from the book by Juliane Koepcke & Beate Rygiert. The film package will be sold at Afm. Turner will play Koepcke, a high school senior and the sole survivor of…...
- 11/1/2017
- Deadline
Shooting has commenced on Access All Areas, a wild and uplifting pilgrimage undertaken by runaway teenagers to a magical island music festival. The film starts its shoot at Bestival on the Isle of Wight, which includes participation from live music acts, and then moves to Bristol to film on location for five weeks.
Access All Areas is described as an intoxicating and memorable journey in to the magic of music festivals and all the crazy and wonderful things that can happen in these other worlds.
Newcomer Edward Bluemel (represented by Hamilton Hodell) leads the cast as Heath, a young man trying to keep it together. Shackled by his wildly unpredictable mum, he can see no way out of his dead-end urban rut, and music is his only escape. This is Edward's screen debut, he graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama this year, and was the winner...
Access All Areas is described as an intoxicating and memorable journey in to the magic of music festivals and all the crazy and wonderful things that can happen in these other worlds.
Newcomer Edward Bluemel (represented by Hamilton Hodell) leads the cast as Heath, a young man trying to keep it together. Shackled by his wildly unpredictable mum, he can see no way out of his dead-end urban rut, and music is his only escape. This is Edward's screen debut, he graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama this year, and was the winner...
- 9/12/2015
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Little Miss Sunshine is all grown up…and now it's official! Abigail Breslin turns 18 today! Although the young actress has displayed that she's way beyond her years, she is now a young adult. From innocent and heartwarming roles in films like Little Miss Sunshine to playing a teenage accomplice to murder in Perfect Sisters, we've seen major transformations from the former child star. Growing up before our eyes, we've witnessed the maturing of this actress both on and off screen. At age 16, Breslin shocked all of us with her risqué and sexy photo shoot with Tyler Shields and, and she did so again at age 17 when she posed provocatively for his The Dirty Side of Glamour author's...
- 4/14/2014
- E! Online
After 30 years of producing movies and television shows, Stanley M. Brooks finally makes his directorial debut with Perfect Sisters. Based on a true story, it stars Georgie Henley and Abigail Breslin as Beth and Sandra, two sisters who are as close as siblings can be. We soon learn that their bond is so strong because their mother, Linda (Mira Sorvino), is an alcoholic who keeps falling off the wagon and constantly gets involved with the wrong men, which forces both of the girls to grow up a lot sooner than any child should.
When Linda gets involved with an incredibly abusive man, Beth and Sandra start thinking that maybe she would be better off dead. While the idea starts off as a harmless fantasy of killing their mother, it soon turns into a real life nightmare that shocks an entire community.
At the recent La press day for Perfect Sisters,...
When Linda gets involved with an incredibly abusive man, Beth and Sandra start thinking that maybe she would be better off dead. While the idea starts off as a harmless fantasy of killing their mother, it soon turns into a real life nightmare that shocks an entire community.
At the recent La press day for Perfect Sisters,...
- 4/11/2014
- by Ben Kenber
- We Got This Covered
Sister, My Sister: Brooks’ Uneven Debut Fumbles
Producer Stanley M. Brooks makes his directorial debut with Perfect Sisters, one of those tawdry sounding stories about familial dysfunction concerning a pair of teenage sisters that decided to kill their mother in 2006. There’s something perversely shocking about matricide, even by today’s glib standards, and the cinema is rife with similar examples, particularly in exploitation efforts and/or other morose endeavors. Brooks’ film will most likely recall Peter Jackson’s exceptional debut, 1994’s Heavenly Creatures, itself taken from the true life account of a woman that would grow up into author Ann Perry. However, Brooks’ isn’t quite as adept as Jackson with this tonally awkward exercise that is particularly grating until its second half, when the film actually manages to balance a murder with chilling detail, speckled with dark humor an a surprising alacrity considering the groan worthy extravaganza that came before.
Producer Stanley M. Brooks makes his directorial debut with Perfect Sisters, one of those tawdry sounding stories about familial dysfunction concerning a pair of teenage sisters that decided to kill their mother in 2006. There’s something perversely shocking about matricide, even by today’s glib standards, and the cinema is rife with similar examples, particularly in exploitation efforts and/or other morose endeavors. Brooks’ film will most likely recall Peter Jackson’s exceptional debut, 1994’s Heavenly Creatures, itself taken from the true life account of a woman that would grow up into author Ann Perry. However, Brooks’ isn’t quite as adept as Jackson with this tonally awkward exercise that is particularly grating until its second half, when the film actually manages to balance a murder with chilling detail, speckled with dark humor an a surprising alacrity considering the groan worthy extravaganza that came before.
- 4/11/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Perfect Sisters stumbles through a plot of moments haphazardly strung together that sounds absolutely unrealistic — except that it's based on the true story of the Bathtub Girls, the case that rocked Toronto in 2004.
Truth proves stranger than we'd put up with in fiction when two close-as-can-be sisters, Sandra (Abigail Breslin) and Beth (Georgie Henley), plot to murder their alcoholic mess of a mother, Linda (Mira Sorvino), after their younger brother suffers one slap too many from her abusive boyfriend (James Russo).
Older sister Sandra plays mother to Linda and their younger brother at home, yet is the attention-seeking pathological liar at school; Beth is the Goth whose uncanny resemblance to Nancy of The Craft goes right down to the manic gaze....
Truth proves stranger than we'd put up with in fiction when two close-as-can-be sisters, Sandra (Abigail Breslin) and Beth (Georgie Henley), plot to murder their alcoholic mess of a mother, Linda (Mira Sorvino), after their younger brother suffers one slap too many from her abusive boyfriend (James Russo).
Older sister Sandra plays mother to Linda and their younger brother at home, yet is the attention-seeking pathological liar at school; Beth is the Goth whose uncanny resemblance to Nancy of The Craft goes right down to the manic gaze....
- 4/9/2014
- Village Voice
The "perfect murder"—one that you can commit without leaving a trace of evidence or suspicion—is one that has tripped up many would-be killers. There is always an element of unpredictability, or a chance for something to go awry that gums up the game. But in the forthcoming "Perfect Sisters," two young women will again try and get away with murder, plotting the kill out in the open. Starring Abigail Breslin, Georgie Henley, and Mira Sorvino, and based on a true story, the Stan Brooks directed film follows sisters Sandra and Beth, who decide to kill their mother after she plans to move in with her abusive boyfriend. And as you'll see in this exclusive clip, the girls for a Murder Club at school where they plan and research the murder, something that seems like morose fun at first, but quickly turns deadly serious—just how serious the other...
- 4/8/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Abigail Breslin and Georgie Henley have shed their innocent child star pasts and gone for a more teen angst-filled route as seen in the new clip for the Stanley M. Brooks-directed “Perfect Sisters.” The film is based on a 2008 book by former Toronto Star reporter and crime writer Bob Mitchell, titled “The Class Project: How to Kill a Mother,” which tells the true story of the infamous “Bathtub Girls.” Breslin and Henley play teenage sisters from Mississauga, Ontario, who in 2005 were both found guilty in the murder of their drug-addicted mother (played by Mira Sorvino), who was overdosed [...]
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- 4/3/2014
- by Alfonso Espina
- UpandComers
Gravitas Ventures has provided ComingSoon.net with an exclusive clip from the crime thriller Perfect Sisters , starring Abigail Breslin, Georgie Henley ("The Chronicles of Narnia") and Mira Sorvino. Based on the true-crime murder mystery known as the "Bathtub Girls" case, Breslin and Henley play sisters Sandra and Beth, a pair of neglected teen girls whose addict mother (Sorvino) moves them in with her abusive boyfriend, giving them no other recourse but to make plans to murder her. After achieving that goal, their guilt and ego has them talking to their friends which finally gets them on the list of suspects. The clip below shows the duo putting on make-up and having a bit of girl talk about "Twilight" and becoming famous, something we assume...
- 4/3/2014
- Comingsoon.net
Abigail Breslin's Little Miss Sunshine days seem like a distant memory now! In Perfect Sisters, the 17-year-old actress and The Chronicles of Narnia star Georgie Henley almost get away with murdering their alcoholic mother, played by Mira Sorvino. The film is actually based on the true story of Toronto's media-dubbed "Bathtub Girls," two sisters who reportedly used prescription pills and alcohol to kill their mom in the bathtub in 1998. The Perfect Sisters trailer, which premiered Monday on Yahoo Movies, shows Abigail and 18-year-old Georgie's characters trapped in what appears to be a hopeless situation. First their parents split, and then their mother loses her job and enters into a...
- 3/12/2014
- E! Online
Our resident VOD expert tells you what's new to rent and own this week on the various streaming services such as cable Movies On Demand, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, and, of course, Netflix. Cable Movies On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pretheatrical exclusives for rent, priced from $3-$10, in 24- or 48-hour periods Homefront (action; Jason Statham, James Franco; rated R) Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen brothers-directed period drama; Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan; rated R) Out of the Furnace (drama; Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Willem Dafoe, Woody Harrelson; rated R) Perfect Sisters (horror; Abigail Breslin, Mira Sorvino; pretheatrical release available now; not rated) A Birder's Guide to Everything (comedy; Ben Kingsley, Kodi...
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- 3/12/2014
- by Robert B. DeSalvo
- Movies.com
Today we have the trailer for the upcoming "Perfect Sisters," which is based on the notorious Toronto "Bathtub Girls" case and stars Abigail Breslin (Zombieland), Georgie Henley (The Chronicles of Narnia) and Mira Sorvino. Check it out below. Plot: Sisters Sandra and Beth learned early in life that they had no one to depend on but each other, but when their addict mother Linda makes plans to move the girls in with her abusive lover, the girls' situation becomes unbearable. Seeing no other way out, Sandra and Beth recruit their classmates to help them plan their mother's murder. When the girls' guilt spins out of control and they compulsively confess their involvement to friends, rumors that they are cold-blooded killers reach the ears of the authorities. The new movie is directed by Stan Brooks and is set to get a limited release on April 11th. Trailer:...
- 3/11/2014
- WorstPreviews.com
Gravitas Ventures has debuted, via Yahoo! Movies , the trailer for director Stan Brooks' Perfect Sisters , starring Abigail Breslin ( Zombieland ) and Georgie Henley ( The Chronicles of Narnia ). Check it out in the player below! In Perfect Sisters , a riveting true-crime thriller based on the notorious Toronto .Bathtub Girls. case, a pair of abused and neglected teenage girls almost get away with murder. Sisters Sandra and Beth learned early in life that they had no one to depend on but each other, but when their addict mother Linda makes plans to move the girls in with her lecherous and abusive lover, the girls. situation becomes unbearable. Seeing no other way out, Sandra and Beth recruit their classmates to help them plan their mother.s murder. When the girls. guilt spins...
- 3/10/2014
- Comingsoon.net
Gravitas Ventures announced today that their Perfect Sisters will be released in select cities including New York, Los Angeles and Toronto on Friday, April 11, 2014. Marking the directorial debut of Stan Brooks, the film stars Academy Award Nominee Abigail Breslin ( The Call , Little Miss Sunshine ), Georgie Henley ( The Chronicles of Narnia Series) and Academy Award Winner Mira Sorvino ( Mighty Aphrodite , Romy and Michele.s High School Reunion ). In Perfect Sisters , a riveting true-crime thriller based on the notorious Toronto .Bathtub Girls. case, a pair of abused and neglected teenage girls almost get away with murder. Sisters Sandra and Beth learned early in life that they had no one to depend on but each other, but when their addict mother Linda makes plans to move...
- 2/10/2014
- Comingsoon.net
Exclusive: The case of Los Angeles’ notorious “Grim Sleeper” serial killer is getting a TV movie treatment with Lifetime‘s The Grim Sleeper starring Dreama Walker (Don’t Trust The B—-) and co-starring actress-singer Macy Gray (Training Day), Ernie Hudson (Call Me Crazy), and Michael O’Neill (Dallas Buyers Club). It will be directed by Stanley M. Brooks in the veteran TV movie producer’s return to the genre. In 2010, Brooks left the TV movie business after 21 years when he filed for bankruptcy as a result of a dispute with AFTRA, WGA and DGA over residuals from the Logo series Sordid Lives. Since then, he quietly took on a new career as a director with horror indie Perfect Sisters, which is awaiting release. It is fitting that Brooks’ return to the TV movie business is via Lifetime where he was a top telefilm supplier until severing ties with the...
- 12/6/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Osiris Entertainment has launched Paragon Pictures, a new distribution company. Paragon has signed for representation with Gersh’s Jay Cohen as the distributor becomes a new player in the acquisitions market. Osiris’ CEO Evan Crooke will head the venture. The company starts with a three-film slate of films headed for theatrical release: Perfect Sisters, a thriller that stars Abigail Breslin and Georgie Henley as sisters who plot to kill their abusive mother, to be released in February; Bottled Up, a drama about over-the-counter drug abuse that stars Melissa Leo and Josh Hamilton and will be released in early 2014; and Twenty8K, a UK-set drama that stars Parminder Narga, Michael Socha and Kaya Scodelario, about a young man accused in the death of a teen boy outside a nightclub and when his sister returns home to clear her sibling’s name, she uncovers a larger conspiracy. Latter film will be released at year’s end.
- 9/18/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Abigail Breslin is keeping her CV nicely eclectic at the moment, with roles in blockbusters (Ender's Game), dramas (August: Osage County) and kids' movies (The Wild Bunch) all on the horizon. But there's a definite recurring horror thriller theme to her work lately - Perfect Sisters, Final Girl, The Call, Wicked Blood, and upcoming Schwarzenegger zombie flick Maggie - and for a glimpse of how her scream queen chops have developed since Zombieland, here's the trailer for Haunter, directed by Vincenzo Natali.As the title suggests, it's a ghost story, and it's Breslin who's the ghost. Suddenly realising that she's in some sort of supernatural Groundhog Day scenario, she makes a connection with the new incumbent of the house she's been spectrally trapped in, and finds that she's by no means alone. Turns out that the reason for her predicament is the unpleasant Edgar Mullins, a craggy killer played by...
- 8/1/2013
- EmpireOnline
Because, looking forward, 2013 promises to be such a fruitful cornucopia of cinema, we were excited to be able to easily list an additional 100 titles we are eagerly looking forward to catching in the new year. From these 200-101 titles, we’re happy to list several projects featuring the extremely busy Isabelle Huppert, include two English language projects, Ned Benson’s split film project The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby His/Hers and the Niels Arden Oplev film, Dead Man Down (and don’t forget her French projects, a starring turn in Serge Bozon’s followup, Tip Top as well as Guillaume Nicloux’s The Religious).
Additionally, the horror genre should be extremely noteworthy in the coming year, with new projects from Neil Marshall (The Descent), Alexandre Aja (High Tension), Fabrice Du Welz (Calvaire), Lucky McKee (May) and directing team Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury (Inside). We’ve got two Australian beauties playing...
Additionally, the horror genre should be extremely noteworthy in the coming year, with new projects from Neil Marshall (The Descent), Alexandre Aja (High Tension), Fabrice Du Welz (Calvaire), Lucky McKee (May) and directing team Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury (Inside). We’ve got two Australian beauties playing...
- 1/10/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Chronicles of Narnia star Georgie Henley is set to star in a new feature film The Sisterhood Of Night, alongside Moonrise Kingdom’s Kara Hayward.
17 year old Georgie (represented in the UK by Hamilton Hodell), who found fame as Lucy Pevensie in the Chronicles Of Narnia films, has been cast as the main character Mary in the movie, Deadline reports.
Written by Steven Millhauser, based on his own short story, the film is an Internet-age retelling of the Salem Witch Trials set in Fairview, New Jersey. Caryn Waechter is set to direct the film, for Evenstar Films.
Last year Georgie filmed Perfect Sisters (previously known as The Class Project), which also stars Little Miss Sunshine actress Abigail Breslin.
Here's the official synopsis:
When the high school's gossip girl exposes a secret society called The Sisterhood of Night, the quiet town of Fairview is thrown into the public eye and blogosphere.
17 year old Georgie (represented in the UK by Hamilton Hodell), who found fame as Lucy Pevensie in the Chronicles Of Narnia films, has been cast as the main character Mary in the movie, Deadline reports.
Written by Steven Millhauser, based on his own short story, the film is an Internet-age retelling of the Salem Witch Trials set in Fairview, New Jersey. Caryn Waechter is set to direct the film, for Evenstar Films.
Last year Georgie filmed Perfect Sisters (previously known as The Class Project), which also stars Little Miss Sunshine actress Abigail Breslin.
Here's the official synopsis:
When the high school's gossip girl exposes a secret society called The Sisterhood of Night, the quiet town of Fairview is thrown into the public eye and blogosphere.
- 10/26/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
It was a quiet 2011 for Abigail Breslin, having lent her voice to “Rango“ and pure name recognition to “New Years Eve,” but recently the young actress has lined up high-profile projects left and right, and we can now add Brad Anderson's “The Hive” to the list.
Breslin, having just wrapped crime drama “Perfect Sisters,” and currently shooting the much-anticipated “Ender's Game,” has clearly aimed her career in a darker direction, which “The Hive” and others exemplify. The maneuver could be considered obvious, but Breslin has shown the chops needed to handle such adult material with ease, even early on in her already impressive filmography.
Behind the scenes, Anderson revived “The Hive” after Joel Schumacher was fired and replaced by the “Session 9” director, who also landed Halle Berry to headline the film once scheduling got worked out. Berry, who initially dropped out but is now back on board, plays...
Breslin, having just wrapped crime drama “Perfect Sisters,” and currently shooting the much-anticipated “Ender's Game,” has clearly aimed her career in a darker direction, which “The Hive” and others exemplify. The maneuver could be considered obvious, but Breslin has shown the chops needed to handle such adult material with ease, even early on in her already impressive filmography.
Behind the scenes, Anderson revived “The Hive” after Joel Schumacher was fired and replaced by the “Session 9” director, who also landed Halle Berry to headline the film once scheduling got worked out. Berry, who initially dropped out but is now back on board, plays...
- 3/22/2012
- by Charlie Schmidlin
- The Playlist
Abigail Breslin sure has an affinity for horror movies. She was that quiet little girl leaving glasses of water everywhere in M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs in 2002, then had a starring role alongside Homeland star Damien Lewis in Keane, and co-starred with Emma Stone in Zombieland. And now she will star alongside Halle Berry in another horror flick called The Hive.
Variety says that Breslin will star in Brad Anderson’s newest movie, The Hive, which follows a 9-1-1 operator (Berry) who must work to save a young girl (Breslin), who is being attacked by a serial killer. The movie was to be directed by Joel Schumacher, but he was replaced by Anderson. The Hive was written by Rich D’Ovidio.
Breslin was last seen in Garry Marshall’s New Year’s Eve and has two films coming out this year: Stanley M. Brooks’s Perfect Sisters and Wayne Thornley’s animated Zambezia.
Variety says that Breslin will star in Brad Anderson’s newest movie, The Hive, which follows a 9-1-1 operator (Berry) who must work to save a young girl (Breslin), who is being attacked by a serial killer. The movie was to be directed by Joel Schumacher, but he was replaced by Anderson. The Hive was written by Rich D’Ovidio.
Breslin was last seen in Garry Marshall’s New Year’s Eve and has two films coming out this year: Stanley M. Brooks’s Perfect Sisters and Wayne Thornley’s animated Zambezia.
- 3/22/2012
- by Mike Lee
- FusedFilm
Abigail Breslin (pictured below; Zombieland, Little Miss Sunshine) is the latest to join Troika Pictures' thriller The Hive, which Brad Anderson will direct this summer. She had previously stated that she had been wanting to pursue darker material. Per Variety "Abigail Breslin, the Oscar-nominated 'Little Miss Sunshine' star who just wrapped the crime drama 'Perfect Sisters', will continue to explore dark material, as she's set to join Halle Berry in Troika Pictures' thriller 'The Hive'." In the film, "Set against the backdrop of a 911 call center, fast-paced suspense pic will find Berry playing a 911 emergency operator who must face her own fears in order to save a teenage girl from a disturbed killer."...
- 3/22/2012
- bloody-disgusting.com
Mira Sorvino has landed a lead role in The Class Project. The Union Square actress will play a Canadian murder victim in the Stanley M Brooks true crime movie, reports Coming Soon. The film will also feature Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) and Georgie Henley (The Chronicles of Narnia) as sisters suffering at the hands of their alcoholic mother (Sorvino) and abusive father. The pair decide to take matters into their own hands by (more)...
- 9/28/2011
- by By Hugh Armitage
- Digital Spy
Cloud Atlas
James D'Arcy has signed on for the Wachowski and Tom Tykwer's ambitious ensemble "Cloud Atlas" adapted from David Mitchell's novel.
D'Arcy role is unspecified at present. He joins a cast that includes Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Hugh Grant, Susan Sarandon, Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent, and Jim Sturgess. [Source: Variety]
Pitch Perfect
Brittany Snow has joined the cast of Jason Moore's a cappella singing comedy "Pitch Perfect" at Universal Pictures.
Anna Kendrick plays the new singer of the Divisi, an a cappella group determined to beat their male counterpart The Treblemakers. Snow plays Chloe, one of the singers with a hardened personality. [Source: Risky Biz BLog]
The Class Project
Mira Sorvino has joined the cast of Stanley M. Brooks' true crime story "The Class Project" currently shooting in Winnipeg from a script by Fab Filippo and Adam Till.
Abigail Breslin and Georgie Henley play Canadian sisters who...
James D'Arcy has signed on for the Wachowski and Tom Tykwer's ambitious ensemble "Cloud Atlas" adapted from David Mitchell's novel.
D'Arcy role is unspecified at present. He joins a cast that includes Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Hugh Grant, Susan Sarandon, Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent, and Jim Sturgess. [Source: Variety]
Pitch Perfect
Brittany Snow has joined the cast of Jason Moore's a cappella singing comedy "Pitch Perfect" at Universal Pictures.
Anna Kendrick plays the new singer of the Divisi, an a cappella group determined to beat their male counterpart The Treblemakers. Snow plays Chloe, one of the singers with a hardened personality. [Source: Risky Biz BLog]
The Class Project
Mira Sorvino has joined the cast of Stanley M. Brooks' true crime story "The Class Project" currently shooting in Winnipeg from a script by Fab Filippo and Adam Till.
Abigail Breslin and Georgie Henley play Canadian sisters who...
- 9/28/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Everything looked spectacular for Mira Sorvino in 1996. She'd just won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in Woody Allen's "Mighty Aphrodite", she was beautiful, and a slew of high-profile offers soon followed. Unfortunately, the majority of those projects were considered commercial flops on release, and her star quickly faded from view. Nevertheless, while her time as an A-lister proved woefully brief, Sorvino has continued working steadily in independent projects, despite the fact that you've probably never heard of most of them. ("Attack on Leningrad", anyone? "Like Dandelion Dust"?) Her next film, entitled "The Class Project", will see the actress...
- 9/28/2011
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
Many people may off-handedly say they want to kill their mother, but the two sisters who were the subject of Toronto Star reporter Bob Mitchell’s book “The Class Project: How to Kill a Mother: The True Story of Canada’s Infamous Bathtub Girls,” well, they were pretty serious about it. The book tells the story of a pair of girls whose lives had been torturous for as long as they could remember due to the various abuses committed against them by their alcoholic mom and her string of sleazy boyfriends, so they hatched a scheme to rub mommy out and collect the insurance money. First time director Stanley M. Brooks has already got Abigail Breslin (Zombieland) and Georgie Henley (The Chronicles of Narnia) signed on to play the sisters in a film adaptation, and now Variety is reporting that Oscar winning actress Mira Sorvino has just joined the cast in the role of the abusive...
- 9/27/2011
- by Nathan Adams
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Robert Zemeckis is getting ready to make Flight, in which Denzel Washington plays a booze- and drug-addled pilot who heroically saves a troubled flight, only to face an investigation into his role in the flight's troubles. Kelly Reilly plays another addict who comes into his life, and Don Cheadle and Bruce Greenwood are in talks for roles [1]. Now Brian Geraghty (The Hurt Locker) is in talks to play the flight's co-pilot, "who finds religion after the crash." John Gatins scripted. [THR [2]] After the break, the Tom Cruise thriller One Shot gets one more and Mira Sorvino is in a sordid tale of true crime. Christopher McQuarrie's adaptation of Lee Child's novel One Shot just added [3] Richard Jenkins last week, and has now brought on Alexia Fast as part of the thriller's cast. She'll play Sandy, a local girl who has an encounter with ex-mp Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) as...
- 9/27/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Abigail Breslin and Georgie Henley of the Chronicles of Narnia franchise are so adorable. Why would anybody want to torture and psychologically abuse them? We.re going to have to ask Mira Sorvino, who has been cast in Stan Brooks. The Class Project as the wicked mother who makes life a living hell for these sisters. Brooks. film, penned by Fab Filippo and Adam Till, is a ripped-from-the-headlines true crime thriller about young girls who grow tired of their alcoholic mother.s abusive ways. All of their lives they.ve suffered at the hands of their parent and her endless streak of horrible boyfriends. But the girls, played by Breslin and Henley, reach a breaking point and reportedly plot to knock off their mom and live off the life insurance payout. Variety reports that Class Project takes its cues from "The Class Project: How To Kill a Mother: The...
- 9/27/2011
- cinemablend.com
Mira Sorvino has landed the lead in the upcoming true crime tale, The Class Project , to be directed by Stanley M. Brooks. The film features Abigail Breslin and Georgie Henley ( The Chronicles of Narnia ) as Canadian sisters who have been at the mercy of their alcoholic mother (Sorvino) and her abusive boyfriends for as far back as they can remember. The duo decides to take matters into their own hands and plot to kill her in order to collect the insurance money. The film, scripted by Fabrizio Filippo and Adam Till, is adapted from Toronto Star reporter Bob Mitchell's 2008 book "The Class Project: How To Kill a Mother: The True Story of Canada's Infamous Bathtub Girls." Michael Rotenberg ( Extract ) is producing the indie drama with Damian Ganczewski and Juliette...
- 9/27/2011
- Comingsoon.net
First murder, now sex… It would appear that Abigail Breslin is looking to make her teenage cinematic years the time that she well and truly breaks out of the good girl mould. Her latest effort in that direction? Signing on to Beth Schacter’s indie comedy A Virgin Mary.Schacter wrote and will direct the film, which finds Breslin as teenager Mary, who makes a pact with her best male pal (Carter Jenkins) that they’ll have sex if they’re both still virgins by the time they hit their 18th birthdays.The pair is starring alongside Akeelah and the Bee’s Keke Palmer and Spy Kids veteran Daryl Sabara. Schacter aims to kick off shooting early next year.Before she reports to the set, Breslin will star in true crime indie The Class Project, which finds her as one of two sisters who decide to off their abusive, booze-happy mother.
- 9/7/2011
- EmpireOnline
Despite many naysayers, including myself, thinking that Abigail Breslin would be a flash in the pan after breaking out as a child actor in the indie dark comedy Little Miss Sunshine, the now teenage actress has maintained a steady course for her career and proved all the Negative Nancies wrong. As is always the case in situations like this, I couldn’t be happier to be made to look like a fool. Just before the release of her abandoned daughter drama Janie Jones, and fresh off the heels of signing onto a crime pic called The Class Project, Breslin has now agreed to also star in a new teen comedy called A Virgin Mary. Why is this newsworthy? Well in addition to having the talents of a now proven young actress in Abigail Breslin, A Virgin Mary is also a teen comedy that is being described as “a coming of age story in the tradition of Sixteen Candles...
- 9/6/2011
- by Nathan Adams
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Abigail Breslin continues to make the move toward more adult roles. Variety reports that she is set to lead Beth Schacter's indie comedy A Virgin Mary. Earlier we reported that Breslin was to lead the adult-themed true crime pic The Class Project. Mary was written by Schacter (Normal Adolescent Behavior), and it's described as "a coming-of-age story in the tradition of Sixteen Candles."
Breslin (15) will star "as a teen who vows to have sex with her best male friend if they're still virgins by the time they turn 18." Carter Jenkins (Valentine's Day) will star opposite Breslin, while Keke Palmer (Akeelah and the Bee) will play her best friend. Daryl Sabara will also star in the film. The project is being produced by Black Sheep Entertainment partners Jordana Mollick and Brendan Bragg along with Steakhaus Prods. Cotty Chubb (Appaloosa) is serving as exec producer on the film that is slated...
Breslin (15) will star "as a teen who vows to have sex with her best male friend if they're still virgins by the time they turn 18." Carter Jenkins (Valentine's Day) will star opposite Breslin, while Keke Palmer (Akeelah and the Bee) will play her best friend. Daryl Sabara will also star in the film. The project is being produced by Black Sheep Entertainment partners Jordana Mollick and Brendan Bragg along with Steakhaus Prods. Cotty Chubb (Appaloosa) is serving as exec producer on the film that is slated...
- 9/6/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Chronicles of Narnia star, 16 year old Georgie Henley (represented by Hamilton Hodell) is to play a killer in her new film The Class Project.
She will star alongside American teen star Abigail Breslin - who earned an Oscar nomination at just 10 for comedy Little Miss Sunshine - in the true story of two Canadian sisters who, fed up of living with their alcoholic mother and her abusive boyfriends, plot to kill her. After the sisters murdered their mother, it was more than a year before their crime was discovered.
Adapted from the 2008 book “The Class Project: How To Kill a Mother: The True Story of Canada’s Infamous Bathtub Girls”, the indie drama will be directed by Stan Brooks.
Filming has already started in Winnipeg, and the film is scheduled for a 2012 release.
She will star alongside American teen star Abigail Breslin - who earned an Oscar nomination at just 10 for comedy Little Miss Sunshine - in the true story of two Canadian sisters who, fed up of living with their alcoholic mother and her abusive boyfriends, plot to kill her. After the sisters murdered their mother, it was more than a year before their crime was discovered.
Adapted from the 2008 book “The Class Project: How To Kill a Mother: The True Story of Canada’s Infamous Bathtub Girls”, the indie drama will be directed by Stan Brooks.
Filming has already started in Winnipeg, and the film is scheduled for a 2012 release.
- 9/4/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
In an attempt to wean herself from roles such as the adorable unconventional pageant girl in “Little Miss Sunshine,” Abigail Breslin will take audiences through her transformation into adult roles in the new film, "The Class Project: How To Kill A Mother: The True Story of Canada's Infamous Bathtub Girls." The Oscar nominated actress will play the lead role in the movie adaptation of “Infamous Bathtub Girls," a story by Canadian journalist Bob Mitchell. The film is based on the true-life story of two Canadian sisters who drown their alcoholic mother in the bathtub and with the help of their friends. ------------- Read More: An apology to ‘Glee Project’s’ Damian McGinty from his No. 1 fan - Videos Gerard Depardieu thrown off Dublin flight after urinating on carpet Sneaky Steppers channel Banksy in new YouTube video ------------- The sisters, who were tired of their mother’s alcoholic ways and abusive boyfriends,...
- 8/18/2011
- IrishCentral
"Little Miss Sunshine" actress Abigail Breslin will star in The Class Project indie drama for director Stan Brooks. Fabrizio Filippo and Adam Till wrote the script for the film which has two sisters who grow tired of their mother's alcoholic tendencies and abusive boyfriends and decide to take matters into their own hands and kill her. Producing The Class Project are Michael Rotenberg of Extract as well as Juliette Hagopian and Damian Gaczewski. Production starts late August. Aside from The Class Project, Breslin is up next in Janie Jones with Alessandro Nicola which finds release via Tribeca Films on October 28th. The actress was also with Johnny Depp, providing voice talents for Gore Verbinski's "Rango."...
- 8/17/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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