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Simon Curtis has lined up a quartet of stars for upcoming comedy “Encore” from “Twilight” banner Temple Hill Entertainment.

The film — announced by Protagonist Pictures, which is launching worldwide sales ahead of Cannes — will reunite eight-time Oscar nominee Glenn Close with Oscar winner Jeremy Irons 34 years after their critically acclaimed hit “Reversal of Fortune.” Henry Winkler and Don Johnson round out the ensemble cast.

Written by Academy Award nominee Robert Nelson Jacobs (“Chocolat”), “Encore” follows a group of retired actors as they attempt to reignite their passion for life. Former Broadway icons Marie (Close) and Nigel (Irons) are new residents of a retirement home, where they discover a community of forgotten talents. Motivated to revive Nigel’s passion for theater and embrace this new chapter in their life, Marie decides to stage a production with the residents, pulling everyone out of their past and into their present. This production will be their encore.

Simon Curtis’ upcoming comedy Encore, about a group of veteran actors whose passion for their profession is reignited through a retirement home production, has gathered a quartet of Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy winning stars for the ensemble cast.

The feature reunites eight-time Academy Award-nominee and three-time Emmy Award-winner Glenn Close and Academy Award-winner Jeremy Irons 34 years after their critically acclaimed hit, Reversal of Fortune.

Three-time Emmy-winner Henry Winkler and Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winner Don Johnson have also signed for the feature.

Close and Irons play former Broadway icons Marie and Nigel, who are new residents of a retirement home, where they discover a community of forgotten talents.

Motivated to revive Nigel’s passion for theatre and embrace this new chapter in their life, Marie decides to stage a production with the residents, pulling everyone out of their past and into their present.

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More than 30 years after Reversal of Fortune, Jeremy Irons and Glenn Close are ready for their Encore.

The pair, who faced off as Claus and Sunny von Bülow in the 1990 Oscar-winning thriller are set to reteam in the upcoming best-agers comedy, from British director Simon Curtis (My Week with Marilyn, Downton Abbey: A New Era).

Close and Irons, who also co-starred in Mike Nichols’ award-winning Broadway play The Real Thing, both winning Tony Awards for their performances, last shared the screen in 1993’s The House of Spirits. In Encore, they will play two former Broadway icons, Marie and Nigel, who become residents of a retirement home. Once there, they discover a community of forgotten talents and Marie decides to put on a show, hoping to revive Nigel’s passion for theatre and help him embrace this new chapter in their lives.

Henry Winkler (Barry, Arrested Development) and Don Johnson (Knives Out) are attached to co-star.

UK-based sales and finance company Protagonist Pictures has lined up Simon Curtis’ Encore for international sales ahead of Cannes, starring Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Henry Winkler and Don Johnson.

UTA Independent Film Group and CAA Media Finance are handling the US sale.

Producers are Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen and Isaac Klausner for Temple Hill Entertainment, the US outfit behind The Twilight Saga and The Maze Runner trilogy, which have grossed over $5.3bn and $949m worldwide respectively. Ryan Cunningham serves as co-producer. Robert Nelson Jacobs, whose credits include Chocolat, has written the script.

The comedy reunites Close and Irons 34 years after their hit Reversal Of Fortune.

Uli Edel will direct “Shadow Song,” the story of the bond between a Chinese music student and his Jewish classmate.

The film is a feature-length version of the 2017 short “A Children’s Song” and boasts a screenplay by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs (“Chocolat”). Edel is an Academy Award and Emmy Award-nominated filmmaker who previously directed “The Baader Meinhof Complex” and “Houdini.”

The feature film will be produced by Sid Ganis and Nancy Hult Ganis at Out of the Blue Entertainment, and The H Collective’s Kent Jianhui Huang and Mark Rau, who was recently named CEO of Thc Germany. Ganis, who is on the board of Thc, produced “A Children’s Song,” which won top awards at more than 20 film festivals worldwide.

“Shadow Song” was inspired by a true story and is set in contemporary times with flashbacks to World War II. It follows two music students who meet while attending a U.

In today’s film news roundup, Leslie Jones and Kristen Bell get roles in “Queenpins,” “Sing 2” gets a new date and Sid Ganis launches a U.S.-China project.

Castings

“Saturday Night Live” star Leslie Jones and Kristen Bell are attached to star as Phoenix housewives in “Queenpins.”

The story centers on creation of a scheme to counterfeit coupons, leaving the housewives with $40 million coupon cartel. The team of Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly, who directed “Beneath The Harvest Sky,” have been attached to direct from their own script.

Linda McDonough is producing. CAA is shopping the package. The news was first reported by Deadline Hollywood.

Date Changes

Universal has moved back Illumination’s “Sing 2” from Dec. 25, 2020, to July 2, 2021, and placed DreamWorks Animation’s “The Croods 2” on Dec. 23, 2020.

“Sing 2” is being directed again by Garth Jennings. Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson, Taron Egerton, Nick Kroll...

The H Collective has teamed with Out of the Blue Entertainment to develop a feature adaptation of the 2015 English and Chinese language short, A Children’s Song, which was inspired by the true story of how thousands of migrated to China to refuge during World War II.

Oscar-nominated screenwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs (Chocolat) is adapting the script for the feature. Producers are Sid Ganis, who produced the short, and Nancy Hult Ganis via Out of the Blue, alongside Kenneth Huang for The H Collective. The producers are currently out to potential directors as they aim to start production in the U.S. and China later this year.

Set in contemporary times with flashbacks to WWII, the story is about an aspiring Chinese music student who comes to the U.S. and befriends an equally talented young Jewish student at school. Everything changes when they are to perform an unpublished piece...

Production shceduled for Us, China later this year.

Chocolat Oscar-nominated screenwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs is adapting a feature version of the 2015 English and Chinese-language short A Children’s Song for Out of the Blue Entertainment and The H Collective.

Sid Ganis will produce with his Out of the Blue Entertainment partner Nancy Hult Ganis and Kenneth Huang of Los Angeles-based The H Collective. Nic Crawley and Kent Huang serve as executive producers with Fiona Yang of Shanghai Jinghang Puwan Entertainment.

The producers are currently out to potential directors ahead of a planned production start in the Us and China later this year.

Exclusive: Sophie Brooks is set to direct an adaptation of the Catherine Isaac bestseller You Me Everything for Lionsgate. Robert Nelson Jacobs, Oscar nominated for Chocolat, has written the script. Temple Hill is producing.

Pic is set in the French countryside during an idyllic summer vacation. Jess and her ten-year-old son William set off to spend the summer in the sunlit hills of the Dordogne where Jess’ ex-boyfriend and William’s father, Adam, runs a beautiful hotel in a restored castle. Adam and William don’t know of each other’s existence so Jess will have to find a way to reunite them but she has a secret of her own that she can’t let anyone discover, especially her son.

Brooks is an English-born filmmaker who graduated from NYU Tisch and made her feature debut on the Tribeca-Fest-winning The Boy Downstairs, starring Zosia Mamet and Matthew Shear. It was released by FilmRise.

Marvel surprised everybody recently with the unexpected revelation of a new Ant-Man and the Wasp movie (juggling around some release dates while it's at it).

But that wasn't all - snuck in with the big news was the announcement that it's also pegged three 2020 dates for more films (on May 1, July 10, and November 6). But what films? Thor 4? Iron Man and Pepper Pots? We have to know!

And while we wait impatiently, here are some educated guesses as to what Marvel might be cooking, and the odds of them coming to pass:

Doctor Strange 2, Guardians of the Galaxy 3 or another major film with a number at the end?

It seems almost impossible that at least one of these three films won't be a sequel, probably to one of the newer properties.

With Avengers: Infinity War, Captain Marvel and Black Panther fairly fresh out of the gate, Guardians of the Galaxy 3 seems a safe bet,...

Heading to the fall, few first-time feature filmmakers have as much clout as Ned Benson, whose ambitious romantic drama The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby will arrive in three different forms in the coming months (Them, which condenses the story of a relationship by using both viewpoints, arrives in September, to be followed by Him and Her, a duology telling the same story one perspective at a time). And despite all the work that went into that project, the up-and-comer isn’t resting on his laurels until Eleanor Rigby hits theaters – news has emerged that he’s just been hired by The Weinstein Company to rewrite its Starbucks movie, tentatively titled How Starbucks Saved My Life.

Based on the memoir of the same name by Michael Gates Gill, How Starbucks Saved My Life will tell the story of an advertising executive who, after losing his job and family, takes a job at Starbucks.

Filmmaker Ned Benson has been appointed by the Weinstein Company to work on How Starbucks Saved My Life.

According to The Wrap, the Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby director will rewrite the script for the adaptation of Michael Gates Gill's best-selling book.

How Starbucks Saved My Life tells the tale of an ageing advertising executive who loses his job and his family.

He rediscovers his lust for life after taking a job in a Starbucks coffee shop.

Chocolat writer Robert Nelson Jacobs signed up to work on the script for the memoir adaptation last year, and his first draft will now be reworked by Benson.

Benson's The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby stars Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy, and combines the separate Her and Him movies.

The Weinstein Company has hired Robert Nelson Jacobs (Chocolat) to adapt Michael Gates Gill's New York Times bestselling memoir How Starbucks Saved My Lifethat was published in 2007. Universal Pictures originally had the film rights to the book but TWC acquired them last September. In his fifties, Michael Gates Gill had it all: a mansion in the suburbs, a wife and loving children, a six-figure salary, and an Ivy League education. But in a few short years, he lost his job, got divorced, and was diagnosed with a brain tumor. With no money or health insurance, he was forced to get a job at Starbucks. Having gone from power lunches to scrubbing toilets, from being served to serving, Michael was a true fish out of water. But fate brings an unexpected teacher into his life who opens his eyes...

New photos including Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson in Saving Mr. Banks, Danny Trejo and Michelle Rodriguez in Machete Kills, Rene Russo and Natalie Portman in Thor: The Dark World, Christian Bale and Zoe Saldana in Out of the Furnace, Sandra Bullock in Gravity, Anton Yelchin in Odd Thomas, and Tilda Swinton amongst others in Snowpiercer.

Posters for The Seventh Son, Filth, Lovelace, Out of the Furnace, As I Lay Dying, Breaking the Girls, The Lifeguard, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, Open Grave, The Wolverine, Frozen, Wasteland, Runner Runner, The Boxtrolls, Machete Kills, Jobs, a billboard for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and the poster for Starz's The White Queen.

"Rumors are swirling that some 'Star Wars: Episode VII' actors may be making appearances during Disney's upcoming D23 Expo in August to confirm their participation…" (full details)

"Robert Rodriguez's 'Machete Kills'...

Robert Nelson Jacobs has signed on for How Starbucks Save My Life.

The Chocolat writer will work on the script for the Weinstein Company's memoir adaptation.

Michael Gates Gill's best-selling book tells the tale of the ageing advertising executive who lost his job and his family.

He rediscovered his lust for life after taking a job in a Starbucks coffee shop.

Jacobs was nominated for an Oscar for his adaptation of 2000's Chocolat.

How Starbucks Save My Life has been in development since 2006.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jacobs is the first writer to be hired to work on the script.

Robert Nelson Jacobs, who was nominated for an Oscar for adapting the 2000 movie Chocolat, has been tapped by The Weinstein Co. to write the script for How Starbucks Saved My Life. Based on The New York Times best-selling memoir by Michael Gates Gill, the book tells of an older advertising executive who loses his job and family and has to go work at Starbucks to pay the bills. He befriends a young manager at the coffee shop and learns about life and love. Polymorphic Pictures’ Polly Johnsen and Christy Ezzell are producing, with Dylan Sellers and Julie Oh

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Atlantis 7

Joe Ballarini has been hired to rewrite the graphic novel adaptation "Atlantis 7" for Walden Media which Dean Parisot is attached to direct and Shawn Levy to produce. Adam F. Goldberg and Robert Nelson Jacobs already worked on the screenplay.

The story follows a military code breaker in search of his absentee father and an elite military Navy Seal force who're in search of the mythical city of Atlantis. [Source: Deadline]

Playing Dirty

Image/Millennium has acquired Richard Blaney and Gregory Small's spec script "Playing Dirty". The story follows a young law student who learns to let loose after meeting a sexy and mysterious stranger.

Things go awry when he finds himself the target of her psychotic plans. [Source: Deadline]

P.O.V.

Millennium Films and Dobré Films are teaming up for Ric Roman Waugh's action-oriented psychological thriller "P.O.V."

Tony Mosher has been hired to do a re-write on Christian Parkes...

Exclusive: Joe Ballarini has been set by Walden Media to rewrite Atlantis 7, a thriller in which an elite military Navy Seal force attempts to find the mythical city of Atlantis. A military code breaker seeks out his absentee father, who may hold the secret to unlock the clues that make an Atlantis discovery possible, which is key to saving the world. Dean Parisot is attached to direct, and Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps is producing with The Gotham Group. Adam F. Goldberg wrote the first draft adaptation of M. Zachary Sherman’s graphic novel Seal Team 7 and Robert Nelson Jacobs did a rewrite. Ballarini sold the spec Lockdown At Franklin High to Sony, and has been a steady writer at Fox Animation on such films as Ice Age 4, Leafmen and others. He also scripted The Resident for producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Disney and Turbo at DreamWorks. Ballarini is repped...

Several attempts have been made to bring the story of the tragic sinking of the USS Indianapolis to cinemas. Here, Ti charts their often abortive progress…

“Eleven-hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail…”

The tragedy of the USS Indianapolis was famously recounted by Robert Shaw’s Quint in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, when he told the horrific tale of how the Us Navy ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in July 1945.

The USS Indianapolis had just delivered a highly secret cargo to Tinian island. Only a few members of the crew even knew it was a new, powerful weapon, and no one knew it would later be dropped on Hiroshima. On the ship’s return journey,...

Chicago – Hot on the heels of the return of the DVD Round-Up, we’re back with its fraternal twin, the Blu-Ray Round-Up, a collection of recently-released HD titles that could easily go ignored while you deal with the heat wave blanketing the country. Get out to the store. Pick one of these up. Come back to your A/C. Enjoy.

The Blu-Ray Round-Up is primarily for informational purposes but two of these recent releases are two of our favorites — “Amelie” and “Brazil.” The latter is depressingly bare-bones, especially when compared to the hard-to-find Criterion DVD release. Criterion, get on this. Get the rights back and release a Blu-ray. Until then, pick up this edition just to own one of Terry Gilliam’s best.

“Wake Wood” was released on July 5th, 2011.

“Brazil” was released on July 12th, 2011.

“Amelie,” “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,” “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” and “Chocolat” were released on July 19th,...

At its recent annual general meeting the Writers Guild Foundation elected Barbara Corday as its new President. Corday, who with her writing partner Barbara Avedon co-created the groundbreaking television series Cagney & Lacey, was the first woman to become president of a major television production entity (Columbia Pictures Television); she later become head of prime-time programs at CBS, again the first woman to do so. Most recently she was chair of the Film and Television production arm at the USC School of Cinema and Television. Corday replaces Chris Brancato, who has served the maximum number of terms. The board also elected seven new trustees to the board. The new trustees are: publicist Craig Bankey, screenwriter Lowell Ganz, agent Nancy Josephson, and television writer-producers Marta Kauffman, Bill Lawrence, Jan Oxenberg and David Shore. Trustees are elected for three year terms. Most Foundation trustees are members of the Writers Guild of America, west.

Vince Vaughn is not necessarily the first name you would expect to hear associated with a teenage witch fantasy series that hopes to take the place of Twilight (in the hearts and pocketbooks of young girls across the globe).

However, the actor’s production company, Wild West Picture Show Productions, will produce the upcoming adaptation of Cate Tiernan’s fantasy series Sweep.

Robert Nelson Jacobs (The Water Horse) will pen the adaptation with Wild West’s Vince Vaughn and Sandra J. Smith producing and Victoria Vaughn (Vaughn’s sister) overseeing the production. Alloy Entertainment (Gossip Girl) will co-produce with Leslie Morgenstein and executive producer Bob Levy.

Universal Pictures has picked up the rights to the series, which they undoubtedly hope will snatch up the money left behind when Breaking Dawn (the final installment in The Twilight Saga) and Harry…

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Vince Vaughn is embracing his inner teenage girl. His production company Wild West Picture Show is already making a teen movie about fairies (Wicked Lovely), now it's making a film about a 16-year old girl who realizes she's a witch from a long line of witches but must decide if she's going to be a good witch or a bad witch.

The adaptation of the young adult novel "Sweep" is getting a helping hand. Alloy Entertainment, the production company behind "Gossip Girl" and other teen entertainment like Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, is co-producing with Wild West for Universal. Robert Nelson Jacobs (The Water Horse) is writing the screenplay.

Source: Variety...

Robert Nelson Jacobs ("Chocolat," "The Water Horse") has been hired to pen a script for a film adaptation of Cate Tiernan's novel series "Sweep" at Universal Pictures according to Variety.

The story revolves around Morgan Rowlands, a sixteen-year-old girl who discovers she is descended from a long line of blood witches. She soon comes to question whether she should use her powers for good or evil.

Vince Vaughn, Sandra J. Smith and Bob Levy will produce. Tiernan is the pen name of American author and editor Gabrielle Charbonnet.

Yet another contender to fill the void that will be left upon the conclusion of The Twilight Saga has entered the ring. Variety reports Universal has picked up rights to Cate Tiernan's young adult fantasy series Sweep. Robert Nelson Jacobs will script the adaptation of the story (which spans 15 books) following a 16-year-old girl who discovers she's a blood witch, descended from an ancient and powerful line. Ultimately, she must decide whether to use her powers for good or evil. While every young adult series will undoubtedly be linked back to Twilight, the first book starts in an eerily familiar way for those who know the teen vampire novels. In the first installment, Book of Shadows, the 16 year-old Morgan finds herself a person of interest to a new senior student named Cal. Of course the love interest reveals that he and his mother are Wiccans (witches), and Morgan, ...

Universal Pictures is adapting Cate Tiernan's best-selling young adult fantasy series "Sweep" with Robert Nelson Jacobs attached to write the script. Alloy Entertainment is producing with Vince Vaughn's Wild West Picture Show Productions. The project centers "on a 16-year-old girl who discovers she's a blood witch, descended from an ancient and powerful line. Ultimately, she must decide whether to use her powers for good or evil." Vaughn is producing with Wild West's Sandra J. Smith and Alloy's Leslie Morgenstein. Alloy's Bob Levy is executive producing. Jacobs' credits include Chocolat , The Water Horse and Extraordinary Measures .

Chicago – A very subdued and scientific Harrison Ford recently spoke with HollywoodChicago.com and two other Chicago film critics on the subject of his new true-story film “Extraordinary Measures”. Ford stars in the film and served as its executive producer since inception.

At one point in our interview, the 67-year-old Chicago native calmly uttered a minor expletive and then reminded us that we have the choice about whether or not to print it. While the interview style of some actors can fall into the more eccentric bucket, the Ford experience on this day was decidedly professional, conservative and relatively serious.

Hollywood legend Harrison Ford poses for his hometown HollywoodChicago.com red-carpet portrait at

the premiere of “Extraordinary Measures” on Jan. 12, 2009 at the AMC River East movie theater in Chicago.

Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com

In other words, Ford clearly wasn’t wearing his extreme adventurer...

By Susan Granger - If this reminds you of a TV-disease-of-the-week tearjerker, that's because it's the first theatrical release from CBS Films, a division of the broadcast network that seems to be testing whether audiences will pay for cable-caliber melodramas at the box-office.

John Crowley (Brendan Fraser) is a pharmaceutical executive at Bristol-Myers Squibb. He and his wife Aileen (Keri Russell), have three children. Their oldest son (Sam M. Hall) is fine, but their two younger children, eight year-old Megan (Meredith Droeger), and six year-old Patrick (Diego Velazquez), suffer from a rare, genetic form of muscular dystrophy called Pompe's disease. They live on respirators and in wheelchairs. Medicine offers no treatment and no cure."Extraordinary Measures" (CBS Films)

Terrified that they may die at any moment, John's persistent Internet research leads him to an eccentric University of Nebraska professor, Dr. Robert Stonehill (Harrison Ford), who believes he has isolated an...

Whenever you have a movie that's based on a true story and is about the brave battle against some horrible disease, a large portion of the audience will be inspired and moved, no matter how brutally awful the movie is. And stepping up to critique the art of a bad movie inevitably sounds a little like critiquing the real-life heroes. This is never the case. I wouldn't take back the deeds of the real-life John Crowley for anything. But I imagine that his real-life battles amounted to not much more than a series of phone calls, meetings and conversations, none of which make for a very interesting movie. So for the new Extraordinary Measures, screenwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs and director Tom Vaughan (What Happens in Vegas) throw in a whole bunch of fictionalized arguments, chases and grand gestures to make it play more like a movie.

The problem with these...

Rating: 6/10

Writers: Robert Nelson Jacobs (screenplay), Geeta Anand (book)

Director: Tom Vaughn

Cast: Brendan Fraser, Harrison Ford, Keri Russell, Dee Wallace, Courtney B. Vance

Studio: CBS Films

Life. You start off an adorable chubby baby, grow into pimples, bullies, and puppy love at 13, then graduate college, get a good job, meet and marry a wonderful person, have adorable chubby babies of your own, and buy that white picket fenced house you’ve always wanted. Picture perfect, right? As you know, things like this normally never happen. There’s one little thing that comes in the way of that: life.

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Extraordinary Measures is inspired by the true story of John Crowley (Brendan Fraser), a man who defied conventional wisdom and great odds, and risked his family’s future to pursue a cure for his children’s life threatening disease. Directed by Tom Vaughan in the tradition of great inspirational dramas like the Academy Award nominated film Erin Brockovich and The Pursuit of Happyness, Extraordinary Measures is the first film to go into production for CBS films.

Supported by his wife Aileen (Keri Russell) and their three children, Crowley (Brendan Fraser) is on the fast track in corporate America. But just as his career is taking off, Crowley walks away from it all when his two youngest children, Megan and Patrick, are diagnosed with a fatal disease. Harnessing all of his skill and determination, Crowley teams up with a brilliant, but unappreciated and unconventional scientist, Dr. Robert Stonehill (Harrison Ford).

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See new clips from CBS Films' "Extraordinary Measures," starring Harrison Ford, Brendan Frnd Courtney B. Vance. Tom Vaughan directs from the drama by Robert Nelson Jacobs based on the book "The Cure" written by Geeta Anand. Michael Shamberg, Carla Shamberg and Stacey Sher produce. In the tradition of great inspirational dramas like the Academy Award nominated film “Erin Brockovich” and “The Pursuit of Happyness,” “Extraordinary Measures” is inspired by the true story of John Crowley, a man who defied conventional wisdom and great odds, and risked his family's future to pursue a cure for his children's life threatening disease. From his working class roots, John Crowley (Brendan Fraser) has finally begun to taste success in corporate America. Supported by his beautiful wife Aileen (Keri Russell) and their three children, John is on the fast track. But just as his career is taking off, Crowley walks away from it all when his two youngest children,...

An inspirational movement by CBS Films, via the Extraordinary Measures official site, has seen a remarkable response.

CBS Films, the feature film division of CBS Corporation (Nyse: CBS.A and CBS), reported today that its “Extraordinary Measures” digital Inspirational Quilt has been met with an overwhelming response since its launch just three weeks ago. The studio created the Inspirational Quilt in conjunction with its January 22, 2010 theatrical release “Extraordinary Measures” starring Brendan Fraser, Harrison Ford and Keri Russell.

The grassroots initiative has evolved into a national call to ‘endure and overcome’ and reflecting a spirit of ‘motivation and determination’ (these four words adorn the quilt’s periphery). National participation and global traffic has leaped past goals set at inception, surpassing traffic projections by 200%.

The quilt, which lives on the film’s official website (www.extraordinarymeasuresthemovie.com), consists of inspirational videos that serve as the ‘squares/patches.’ Through the quilt, charitable organizations and individuals can upload,...

Opening on January 22 is the Tom Vaughan (Starter for 10, What Happens in Vegas) film Extraordinary Measures. The movie is the first release from CBS Films and it’s inspired by the true story of John Crowley, someone who risked his family’s future to pursue a cure for his children’s life threatening disease. Playing Crowley is Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford stars as the brilliant but unconventional scientist who Crowley teams up with.

To help promote the film, we’ve been given six clips and they’re all after the jump - along with the official synopsis:

Here are the clips and further down is the full synopsis.

As always, are the clips are in the player below. Once you push play you might have to watch a pre-roll ad and then all the clips will play in order. Sorry about the pre-roll, it pays for the bandwidth.

Dinner for Schmucks

Opens: July 23rd 2010

Cast: Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Zach Galifianakis, Bruce Greenwood, David Walliams

Director: Jay Roach

Summary: A renowned publisher encourages his friends to invite the most pathetic guests possible for their weekly dinner party. Just as they find the most pathetic man yet, the host is injured and ends up trapped with the man all night long.

Analysis: A remake of director Francis Veber's 1998 César award-winning "Le Diner des cons", 'Schmucks' is one of the highest profile comedies of next year with one of the strongest casts for the genre in recent memory. It also marks the return of "Austin Powers" and "Meet the Parents" helmer Jay Roach who has produced several films in recent years but hasn't directed since 2004's "Meet the Fockers".

The question now lies not in the performers or director but the material itself and whether a Gallic comedy can...

Dinner for Schmucks

Opens: July 23rd 2010

Cast: Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Zach Galifianakis, Bruce Greenwood, David Walliams

Director: Jay Roach

Summary: A renowned publisher encourages his friends to invite the most pathetic guests possible for their weekly dinner party. Just as they find the most pathetic man yet, the host is injured and ends up trapped with the man all night long.

Analysis: A remake of director Francis Veber's 1998 César award-winning "Le Diner des cons", 'Schmucks' is one of the highest profile comedies of next year with one of the strongest casts for the genre in recent memory. It also marks the return of "Austin Powers" and "Meet the Parents" helmer Jay Roach who has produced several films in recent years but hasn't directed since 2004's "Meet the Fockers".

The question now lies not in the performers or director but the material itself and whether a Gallic comedy can...

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group has signed a three-year marketing and distribution deal with CBS Films, under which Sony Pictures will handle international theatrical distribution of CBS Films productions as well as service worldwide distribution of the unit's films in the home entertainment marketplace, it was announced today by Peter Schlessel, president, Worldwide Affairs for Sony Pictures, and Jeff Blake, chairman, Sony Pictures Worldwide Marketing & Distribution. CBS Films will handle domestic theatrical distribution of all titles and retains rights in a limited number of foreign territories.

CBS Films was established in 2007 and the division plans to develop and produce four to six movies a year spanning all genres, with production budgets up to $50 million per film.

The distribution pact builds on the strong relationship shared between CBS Films and Sony, as the two companies collaborate to produce Faster, an action-thriller starring Dwayne Johnson and Billy Bob Thornton, set to begin production in early 2010. The film,...

See the official trailer for CBS Films' "Extraordinary Measures," starring Brendan Fraser, Harrison Ford, Keri Russell and Courtney B. Vance. The drama sees release on January 22nd and is directed by Tom Vaughan from the screenplay penned by Robert Nelson Jacobs based on the book "The Cure" written by Geeta Anand. Michael Shamberg, Carla Shamberg and Stacey Sher produce. In the tradition of great inspirational dramas like the Academy Award nominated film “Erin Brockovich” and “The Pursuit of Happyness,” “Extraordinary Measures” is inspired by the true story of John Crowley, a man who defied conventional wisdom and great odds, and risked his family's future to pursue a cure for his children's life threatening disease. From his working class roots, John Crowley (Brendan Fraser) has finally begun to taste success in corporate America. Supported by his beautiful wife Aileen (Keri Russell) and their three children, John is on the fast track.

Harrison Ford is, and always will be, the man. Unfortunately, that doesn't change the fact that his career has been sputtering for some time now (Indiana Jones notwithstanding), and with his latest film Extraordinary Measures, it seems unlikely that he is going to reclaim the audience that has been slowly slipping away from him. The movie co-stars Brendan Fraser, and while I might have been interested if this was a buddy comedy (ha!), instead we have a serious drama about a father looking for someone to help him cure his children of a rare genetic disorder. Just look at that picture... even these guys can't believe they ended up in this movie. Extraordinary Measures is based on the true story of John Crowley as documented in the book The Cure: How a Father Raised $100 Million – And Bucked the Medical Establishment – In a Quest to Save His Children. The book was...

Cinematical has just received a poster and banner for CBS Films' Extraordinary Measures, which will be hitting theaters on January 22, 2010. Yes, folks, those determined faces are for real -- the action flicks and laughs are on hold as Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford are dipping into a little dramatic work, and this time it's to relay the true story of John Crowley and his efforts to cure his kids' life-threatening disease. Robert Nelson Jacobs adapted Geeta Anand's book (Cure), and Tom Vaughn (What Happened in Vegas) directed the feature.

Fraser stars as Crowley, a man working his way up in corporate America. He's got a loving family (Keri Russell plays his wife), and everything seems to be working out splendidly. But then his two children are diagnosed with a fatal disease. He quits his job, and devotes his time and efforts into saving his children by teaming up with "a brilliant,...

New images are available for CBS Films' "Extraordinary Measures" drama starring Robert Nelson Jacobs adapts the screenplay based on the book "The Cure" written by Geeta Anand. Michael Shamberg, Carla Shamberg and Stacey Sher produce. The film opens January 22nd next year. In the tradition of great inspirational dramas like the Academy Award nominated film “Erin Brockovich” and “The Pursuit of Happyness,” “Extraordinary Measures” is inspired by the true story of John Crowley, a man who defied conventional wisdom and great odds, and risked his family's future to pursue a cure for his children's life threatening disease...

See a touching featurette from CBS Films' "Extraordinary Measures" which sees theartres on March 19th, 2010. The screenplay is written by Robert Nelson Jacobs based on the book "The Cure" written by Geeta Anand. Tom Vaughan helms and Harrison Ford, Brendan Fraser, Keri Russell and Courtney B. Vance star. In the tradition of great inspirational dramas like the Academy Award nominated film “Erin Brockovich” and “The Pursuit of Happyness,” “Extraordinary Measures” is inspired by the true story of John Crowley, a man who defied conventional wisdom and great odds, and risked his family's future to pursue a cure for his children's life threatening disease.

CBS Films has sent over the first image and a first look featurette from director Tom Vaughan’s (”Starter for 10,” “What Happens in Vegas”) “Extraordinary Measures”. The film stars Harrison Ford, Brendan Fraser and Keri Russell and it’s inspired by the true story of John Crowley, a man who defied conventional wisdom and great odds, and risked his family’s future to pursue a cure for his children’s life threatening disease. While the featurette is mostly the real John Crowley talking about his story, at the end Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser say a few words. While this kind of movie might not appeal to all of you, with the cast involved, I thought it was worth sharing. I’m hoping with Tom Vaughan directing it’ll be more than a movie of the week. Take a look at the image and featurette after the jump. “Extraordinary Measures...

Courtney B. Vance (Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Hurricance Season," "Nothing but the Truth") has joined Brendan Frasier, Harrison Ford and Keri Russell in CBS Films' "Crowley." Tom Vaughan ("What Happens in Vegas") helms the project which Robert Nelson Jacobs is adapting based on the book by Geeta Anand.   Brendan Fraser will play John Crowley, a father of two children who is told that there is no cure for his children who have been diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder. He seeks help of an experimental doctor (played by Harrison Ford) who works on a way to perhaps save the children's lives. Keri Russell will play John's wife Aileen.   Michael Shamberg, Carla Shamberg and Stacey Sher produce the film.  ...

Courtney B. Vance (Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Hurricance Season," "Nothing but the Truth") has joined Brendan Frasier, Harrison Ford and Keri Russell in CBS Films' "Crowley." Tom Vaughan ("What Happens in Vegas") helms the project which Robert Nelson Jacobs is adapting based on the book by Geeta Anand. Brendan Fraser will play John Crowley, a father of two children who is told that there is no cure for his children who have been diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder. He seeks help of an experimental doctor (played by Harrison Ford) who works on a way to perhaps save the children's lives. Keri Russell will play John's wife...

Courtney B. Vance (Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Hurricance Season," "Nothing but the Truth") has joined Brendan Frasier, Harrison Ford and Keri Russell in CBS Films' "Crowley." Tom Vaughan ("What Happens in Vegas") helms the project which Robert Nelson Jacobs is adapting based on the book by Geeta Anand. Brendan Fraser will play John Crowley, a father of two children who is told that there is no cure for his children who have been diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder. He seeks help of an experimental doctor (played by Harrison Ford) who works on a way to perhaps save the children's lives. Keri Russell will play John's wife...

Courtney B. Vance is joining CBS Films' medical drama "Crowley," starring Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser.

Vance will play a father whose daughter has the same genetic disease as the children of Fraser's character.

Robert Nelson Jacobs penned the screenplay, inspired by a Wall Street Journal article and subsequent book "The Cure" by Geeta Anand. Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher are producing alongside Carla Shamberg.

Vance will next be seen in "Hurricane Season" alongside Forest Whitaker and is currently shooting the ensemble pilot "Flash Forward" for ABC and director David Goyer.

The actor, repped by Lighthouse Entertainment, was most recently seen in "Nothing But the Truth."...

Once again I bring you the best round-up of all the movie updates announced in this past week's trade reports. Some I reported on throughout the week others I held until now. Either way here is the lot. Check out the full list and links are available if the film is in the database already, and remember you can keep up with all new films added and updated on the site right here 24/7. Title: Untitled Crowley Project

Studio: CBS Films

Director: Tom Vaughan (What Happens in Vegas)

Screenwriter: Robert Nelson Jacobs

Cast: Harrison Ford, Brendan Fraser, Keri Russell

Storyline: Russell plays Aileen Crowley, a wife and mother who relentlessly builds a normal, loving home life for her children while her husband, John Crowley (Fraser), and an unconventional scientist (Ford) race against time to build a company that could rescue them. The film is inspired by a true story. Title: Wedlocked...

Keri Russell will be joining Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford in the untitled Crowley project for CBS Films. Tom Vaughan directs the drama.   Fraser will play John Crowley, a father of two children who is told that there is no cure for his children who have been diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder. He seeks help of an experimental doctor (played by Ford) who works on a way to perhaps save the children's lives.   Russell would play Aileeen Crowley, wife of John. Filming starts on April 6   Double Features' Michael Shamberg, Stacy Sher and Carla Shamberg will produce. Robert Nelson Jacobs wrote the screenplay based on the book "The Cure" written by Geeta Anand. This is based on a true story.  ...

CBS Films is ready to produce their first film! The movie is based on Geeta Anand's book "The Cure" from a script by Robert Nelson Jacobs.

Brendan Fraser will star opposite Harrison Ford in this medical drama to be directed by Tom Vaughan ("What Happens in Vegas"). Huh? Vaughan will go from a trifling comedy to a drama? Hhhmmmm, good luck!

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the plot of the film is:

Fraser will play John Crowley, the father of two children who were diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder for which he's told there is no cure. Unbowed, he seeks out the help of an experimental and sometimes irascible doctor (Ford) who works to find a way to save the children's lives. The roles of Fraser's wife and kids have not been cast in what CBS is calling its untitled Crowley project.

Fraser will be next seen on New Line's "Inkheart.