Exclusive: Producer Amy Williams has filed a breach of contract lawsuit against Waheed AlQawasmi, the writer and director of upcoming indie feature Jacir, starring Lorraine Bracco.
The suit also names WAFilms, the production company behind the film. AlQawasmi has hit back, describing the complaint as “without merit”.
In the complaint, filed in the Chancery Court for Shelby County, Tennessee, producer Williams claims that AlQawasmi wrongfully removed her name from the film as its lead producer and has failed to pay her the promised compensation for her work on the project. According to the filing, Williams says AlQawasmi approached her in 2016 to help produce the film originally titled My Friend Jacir.
The suit claims that Williams procured funding and cast members for the movie, including Bracco, who stars in the film’s lead role. The film completed production in December 2020, at which point the suit claims that AlQawasmi “manufactured” a contract...
The suit also names WAFilms, the production company behind the film. AlQawasmi has hit back, describing the complaint as “without merit”.
In the complaint, filed in the Chancery Court for Shelby County, Tennessee, producer Williams claims that AlQawasmi wrongfully removed her name from the film as its lead producer and has failed to pay her the promised compensation for her work on the project. According to the filing, Williams says AlQawasmi approached her in 2016 to help produce the film originally titled My Friend Jacir.
The suit claims that Williams procured funding and cast members for the movie, including Bracco, who stars in the film’s lead role. The film completed production in December 2020, at which point the suit claims that AlQawasmi “manufactured” a contract...
- 3/21/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Judd Hirsch never had much contact with Steven Spielberg or even knew anyone who had been in his movies before he got cast in the scene-stealing role of Uncle Boris in Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical feature “The Fabelmans.” “I had no idea why the hell he wanted me to do this part.” the 87-year-old Hirsch professes, “or what he might have seen me in. And to this day, I keep getting conflicting stories.” He said Spielberg told him that “this will be the movie that he would make without either aliens or dinosaurs. But by the time it was finished, I said, ‘I’m the alien dinosaur’.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.
Regardless of what inspired the filmmaker to settle on Hirsch, it worked out remarkably well. The role of the curmudgeonly family member earned him his second-ever Academy Award nomination for supporting actor, eclipsing by one year the Oscar...
Regardless of what inspired the filmmaker to settle on Hirsch, it worked out remarkably well. The role of the curmudgeonly family member earned him his second-ever Academy Award nomination for supporting actor, eclipsing by one year the Oscar...
- 2/21/2023
- by Ray Richmond and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: Aaron Magnani has optioned screen rights to Walker Percy’s New York Times bestseller The Second Coming, with plans to develop the novel for film.
He’s currently in search of a director for the adaptation and will produce via under his Aaron Magnani Productions banner. Peter Arneson adapted the script and will executive produce.
The story centers on a wealthy, suicidal widower who searches for proof of God but finds much more when he meets a young woman fugitive from a mental hospital. Influenced by the real-life suicides of Percy’s father and grandfather and suspected suicide of his mother, the plot combines comedy, tragedy and romance, with themes of alienation and redemption.
“This story is very relatable to the world we have been living in,” said Magnani. “And the adaptation is as much a director’s piece as an actor’s piece and incredible character study.”
Percy...
He’s currently in search of a director for the adaptation and will produce via under his Aaron Magnani Productions banner. Peter Arneson adapted the script and will executive produce.
The story centers on a wealthy, suicidal widower who searches for proof of God but finds much more when he meets a young woman fugitive from a mental hospital. Influenced by the real-life suicides of Percy’s father and grandfather and suspected suicide of his mother, the plot combines comedy, tragedy and romance, with themes of alienation and redemption.
“This story is very relatable to the world we have been living in,” said Magnani. “And the adaptation is as much a director’s piece as an actor’s piece and incredible character study.”
Percy...
- 3/17/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Aaron Magnani has optioned Laura Munson’s bestselling novel Willa’s Grove for film, setting screenwriter Sarah Hopkins to adapt it for the screen.
The story revolves around four women, each adrift in their own way, who discover the power of sisterhood as they converge in the wilds of Montana to figure out their next act. Its protagonist, Willa Silvester, is found reeling from the death of her beloved husband and the reality that she must say goodbye to the small mountain town they founded together. She then must face the tough question staring her in the face: So now what?
Magnani will produce the feature adaptation under his Aaron Magnani Productions banner, with Brendan Deneen and Josh Stanton of Blackstone serving as exec producers.
Munson also authored the New York Times bestseller This Is Not The Story You Think It Is, which chronicles her journey through her own midlife crossroads.
The story revolves around four women, each adrift in their own way, who discover the power of sisterhood as they converge in the wilds of Montana to figure out their next act. Its protagonist, Willa Silvester, is found reeling from the death of her beloved husband and the reality that she must say goodbye to the small mountain town they founded together. She then must face the tough question staring her in the face: So now what?
Magnani will produce the feature adaptation under his Aaron Magnani Productions banner, with Brendan Deneen and Josh Stanton of Blackstone serving as exec producers.
Munson also authored the New York Times bestseller This Is Not The Story You Think It Is, which chronicles her journey through her own midlife crossroads.
- 11/1/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Aaron Magnani has acquired rights to Capital Crimes, the 32-part crime thriller book series originated by President Harry S. Truman’s daughter Margaret Truman, with plans to adapt them into a TV series.
Magnani will develop and produce the series adaptation via his Aaron Magnani Productions.
The potential series will center on the books’ hero Robert Brixton, a rugged former cop and special operator who served with Sitqual, a private security arm of the State Department. Brixton’s skills, as one of the few internationally licensed private investigators, are put to use against an assortment of villains and plots seeking to do the country great harm; all the books are set in Washington, D.C. Tortured by witnessing the death of his daughter in a terrorist bombing there, Brixton is guided by an unrelenting desire to safeguard the innocent. He’s currently engaged to longtime fiancée Flo Combs, and...
Magnani will develop and produce the series adaptation via his Aaron Magnani Productions.
The potential series will center on the books’ hero Robert Brixton, a rugged former cop and special operator who served with Sitqual, a private security arm of the State Department. Brixton’s skills, as one of the few internationally licensed private investigators, are put to use against an assortment of villains and plots seeking to do the country great harm; all the books are set in Washington, D.C. Tortured by witnessing the death of his daughter in a terrorist bombing there, Brixton is guided by an unrelenting desire to safeguard the innocent. He’s currently engaged to longtime fiancée Flo Combs, and...
- 8/20/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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