EXCLUSIVE: Alibi Media has snapped up film rights to Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s acclaimed 2014 novel The Sound of Things Falling, tapping House of Gucci screenwriter Roberto Bentivegna to direct the project as his first feature, from his own script.
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EXCLUSIVE: Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel, which inspired Dirty Dancing and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, is getting its own feature doc treatment.
The Borscht Belt resort in upstate New York, which catered to a large Jewish clientele, is to be the subject of a new documentary from Bungalow Media + Entertainment.
It is one of a number of documentary and unscripted projects from the company founded by Robert Friedman, which is also behind Little Richard: I Am Everything, the Dee Rees-exec produced CNN feature doc that is premiering at Sundance, and Discovery+’s Serving The Hamptons.
The Grossinger’s project will be directed by Paula Eiselt, who directed 2022 Sundance darling Aftershock, which was picked up by Hulu. Harrison Solomon exec produces the project, which has just started production. Private equity investor David Moore, who is a minority investor in NBA team Atlanta Hawks, is funding the doc.
It will tell the story of the resort that saw Elizabeth Taylor marry her fourth husband there, where Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller vacationed and Rocky Marciano trained to become a heavyweight boxing champion, as well as many generations of families spending their holidays there.
It closed in 1986 and many of the resort buildings were demolished in 2018 with a fire raging through what’s left of it earlier this year.
Friedman, who secured the rights to Grossinger’s, tells Deadline that it’s important to tell the story now as “age is not necessarily on our side with some of the characters”. Some of those involved, such as Elaine Grossinger Etess, daughter of Jennie Grossinger, who co-founded the resort with her husband, are still alive.
“It’s a really interesting story, particularly with what’s going on in the world right now
EXCLUSIVE: Alibi Media has snapped up film rights to Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s acclaimed 2014 novel The Sound of Things Falling, tapping House of Gucci screenwriter Roberto Bentivegna to direct the project as his first feature, from his own script.
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