Mark Wahlberg Drama ‘Good Joe Bell’ Acquired by Solstice Studios in $20 Million Deal

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Matthew López, the playwright behind the hit Broadway play The Inheritance, has signed an overall television deal with Amazon Studios.The streamer has signed up the writer, who also wrote on Aaron Sorkin’s HBO drama The Newsroom, to develop and create new projects.It is the latest overall deal for Amazon Studios, which in the last twelve months have signed up Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Steve McQueen, Gloria Calderon Kellett and Lena Waithe.López’s play The

Also Read: Tom Holland to Star in Heist Story 'Cherry' from Russo BrothersKelli Burglund (“Fosse/Verdon,” “Now Apocalypse”), Jack Reynor (“Midsommar”), Forrest Goodluck (“The Revenant”), Jeff Wahlberg (“Dora and the Lost City of Gold”), Michael Gandolfini (“The Deuce”), Kyle Harvey (“The After Party”) and Thomas Lennon (“Reno 911!,” “17 Again”) also star.“Cherry” is produced by AGBO Chairmen Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, AGBO Vice Chairman Mike Larocca, Chris Castaldi, as well as CEO Jonathan

Terry Curtin has joined Solstice Studios as executive vp of communications, reporting to head of marketing and strategy Vincnet Bruzzese. The veteran executive, who has held top jobs at a number of major Hollywood studios,will oversee all aspects of film publicity and promotion, as well as corporate communications for the company.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorTerry Curtin has joined Solstice Studios as EVP of Communications.She replaces Elissa Greer, who has segued to the role of lead communications consultant on the studio’s next release, the Mark Wahlberg drama Good Joe Bell, which Solstice recently snapped up at TIFF for $20M as Deadline first reported.Curtin will report to Vincent Bruzzese, Head of Marketing & Strategy, and will oversee all aspects of film publicity and promotion as well as

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterVeteran Hollywood executive Terry Curtin has joined Solstice Studios as executive vice president of communications.Curtin, who has previously held top jobs at Disney, Universal, and Fox, will report directly to Vincent Bruzzese, head of marketing and strategy at the upstart studio.

Solstice Studios has hired Terry Curtin, an industry veteran who has held top film communications jobs at Disney, Universal and Fox, as its EVP of Communications, it was announced Thursday.Curtin will report to Vincent Bruzzese, head of marketing and strategy, and she will oversee the newly launched distributor’s film publicity and promotion and its corporate communications.Curtin will replace Elissa Greer in the role, who will segue into the role of lead communications consultant on “Good Joe

Mark Wahlberg is giving back to teachers and students across the United States.

Mark Wahlberg‘s Performance Inspired brand has teamed up with Accelerate‘s active lifestyle marketplace and community LifeToGo to help out students and teachers amid the coronavirus pandemic.The companies announced on Tuesday, September 22, that they have already donated 1.3 million disposable face masks to schools in 13 different states.Wahlberg, 49, recorded a special video message thanking essential workers and teachers.“You guys have kept us healthy, safe and supplied us with all the

Solstice Studios has sealed a deal for worldwide rights to filmmaker Reinaldo Green Marcus' Good Joe Bell, a drama starring Mark Wahlberg and written by the Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain duo Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. The pact — valued at $20 million — comes on the heels of the film's Sept.

Dave McNary Film ReporterSolstice Studios has bought the worldwide rights to the drama “Good Joe Bell,” starring Mark Wahlberg, for about $20 million, a source has confirmed to Variety.“Good Joe Bell,” directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green, premiered Sept. 13 at the virtual Toronto International Film Festival.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Upstart Solstice Studios has won an auction for the Toronto buzz title Good Joe Bell, the Reinaldo Marcus Green-directed drama scripted by the Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain team of Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. The film stars Mark Wahlberg as the title character.

Mark Wahlberg is hard at work on his new movie!

Also Read: 'Good Joe Bell' Film Review: Mark Wahlberg Hits the Road to Make You CryMiller, who plays her son in the film, said he could relate to his character Jadin because he too felt like an outsider in his own school growing up.“I grew up in a few small towns that were very sports oriented, I don’t know if you can tell but I am very much not an athlete, and I was always interested in things that didn’t interest them, specifically the arts, filmmaking, and being creative in general wasn’t

The sprawling plains of Idaho and Utah, their tufted prairies dappled by cloud-filtered light and edged by craggy mountains, provide a spiritual setting for bruising personal reflection in Good Joe Bell.

Also Read: 'Concrete Cowboy' Film Review: Idris Elba Drama Finds Vibrant Life at Street-Corner StablesAn open-hearted, unapologetically emotional story of a man struggling to come to terms with what happened to his son and with his own complicity in it, “Good Joe Bell” makes good use of the Everyman appeal of Mark Wahlberg; if it doesn’t feel like a landmark the way Ossana and McMurtry’s “Brokeback Mountain” or McMurtry’s “The Last Picture Show” and “Terms of Endearment” were, it’s a quietly

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticThere are good movies, there are bad movies, and then there is “Good Joe Bell,” a uniquely terrible treatment of an important topic — broadly described as “inclusivity” and “tolerance” by the film’s wild-eyed protagonist (Mark Wahlberg) — whose hubristic title is the first clue that it’s not playing fair. Joe Bell was a man like any other, who attempted to turn tragedy into a teaching moment.

Near the beginning of the film is a scene where Joe Bell (Mark Wahlberg) stands in front of an assembled group of high schoolers to speak about bullying. The gruff father shares two points: Understanding begins at home and everything will be fine if you are true to yourself.