After landing the coveted title role in Baz Luhrmann’s musical drama Elvis, Austin Butler barely slept for two years.
01.11.2022 - 22:41 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: In-demand actress Emma Roberts is in final talks to join Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush in action-comedy Verona Spies, which will be directed by comedy veteran Frank Coraci, known for movies including The Wedding Singer and The Waterboy.
Luminosity Entertainment is handling world sales, co-financing and launching the project at the AFM this week.
Roberts, currently in production on Sony’s Spider Man spinoff Madame Web, will play the title role of Verona, “a loveable hot mess” who, through a case of mistaken identity, is hired as an escort/assassin. Her mission: to seduce a pharmaceutical executive and steal his formula for a revolutionary new drug that can change the world. When she meets her charmingly handsome target, sparks fly. Instead of killing him they decide to team up and flee for their lives as Big Pharma and hired killers come gunning for them. Casting for the pharma exec-come-lover is under way. Rush will play the exec’s boss, the head of the pharmaceutical company.
Producers are Slava Vladimirov for Aperture Media Productions (The Trial Of The Chicago 7), Monella Kaplan (See You Soon) and Vincent Newman (We’re The Millers). Z. LaPorte Airey and Bryan Okamoto are the writers. Filming is being lined up for spring 2023.
American Horror Story star Roberts is also in production on Amazon’s Space Cadet and is in post on rom-com Maybe I Do for Fifth Season. She is a producer on Hulu show Tell Me Lies.
Oscar, Emmy, SAG, BAFTA and Tony winner Rush is well known for The King’s Speech, Shakespeare in Love, Shine and Disney’s blockbuster franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean, in which he starred as Captain Barbosa. He will next be seen playing Groucho Marx in the Oren Moverman film Raised Eyebrows.
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After landing the coveted title role in Baz Luhrmann’s musical drama Elvis, Austin Butler barely slept for two years.
EXCLUSIVE: The packages keep coming in before the Thanksgiving holiday as Deadline is hearing Keke Palmer is attached to the action comedy Moxie with Bert on board to direct. Heather Quinn penned the script with Palmer, Peter Lawson and Kate Churchill producing. The package hit the marketplace this week and already has interest from several studios and streamers.
Bradley Cooper is set to star in a previously announced Steven Spielberg “Bullitt” project, which is in development, according to an individual with knowledge of the project.Josh Singer will write the screenplay. The film will not be a remake but a new story with the Bullitt character at the center.Spielberg will direct.McQueen originally starred as Frank Bullitt in the the 1968 classic “Bullitt,” which followed a cop who is on the hunt for a mob kingpin that killed a witness.
EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has secured North American rights to the horror feature Lullaby, directed by Annabelle‘s John R. Leonetti, from its financier Alcon Entertainment, slating it for release in select theaters and on VOD on December 16. (Watch Lullaby‘s new trailer, unveiled this morning, by clicking above.)
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American audiences might not know author Kōtarō Isaka by name. However, you are probably familiar with the newest film based on one of his novels.
American audiences might not know author Kōtarō Isaka by name. However, you are probably familiar with the newest film based on one of his novels.
EXCLUSIVE: The stacked multi-generational romantic comedy Maybe I Do, starring a host of A-listers including Diane Keaton and Susan Sarandon, has sold to a bunch of key international territories.
EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to the multi-generational romantic comedy Maybe I Do, starring Diane Keaton (Mack & Rita), Richard Gere (Arbitrage), Susan Sarandon (Monarch), William H. Macy (The Conners), Emma Roberts (About Fate) and Luke Bracey (Elvis), from the global film and television studio Fifth Season, formerly known as Endeavor Content.
EXCLUSIVE: Emile Hirsch is set to star in Past Life, a psychological thriller scheduled to start shooting in March 2023. LA-based company Disrupting Influence will launch worldwide sales next month at AFM.
A change of plans. Emma Roberts revealed she would be missing out on trick or treating with her son this Halloween due to work obligations.