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Danny Huston, Rosemarie Dewitt, Zoey Deutch, Devon Terrell and Odessa Young also join cast.

The first image of Johnny Depp on the set of Richard Says Goodbye has been released (see above, full image below).

Shooting has started on location in Vancouver on the comedy drama, which is written and directed by Wayne Roberts (Katie Says Goodbye).

Danny Huston (Wonder Woman), Rosemarie DeWitt (La La Land), Zoey Deutch (Everybody Wants Some!!), Devon Terrell (Barry), and Odessa Young (Looking For Grace) have also joined the cast.

In the film Depp plays Richard, a world-weary college professor who is given a life-changing diagnosis and decides to abandon conventions and live his life as freely as possible.

Richard Says Goodbye is co-financed by Im Global and Cirrina Studios with additional financing from Leeding Media. Im Global is also handling international sales with CAA repping domestic rights.

Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Sinister, Midnight Special) of Automatik Entertainment and Im Global’s President of Production...

Principal photography started on location in Vancouver on Richard Says Goodbye starring three-time Academy Award® nominee Johnny Depp, it was announced today by Im Global Founder and CEO Stuart Ford.

Golden Globe® nominee Danny Huston (Wonder Woman, X-Men Origins: Wolverine), Rosemarie DeWitt (La La Land, Rachel’s Getting Married), Zoey Deutch (Everybody Wants Some!!, upcoming The Disaster Artist), Devon Terrell (Barry), and Odessa Young (Looking for Grace, The Daughter) have joined the cast of the comedy drama, which is written and directed by Wayne Roberts (Katie Says Goodbye).

Im Global and Cirrina Studios are co-financing the film with additional financing from Leeding Media.

Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Sinister, Midnight Special) of Automatik Entertainment and Im Global’s President of Production Greg Shapiro (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) are producing the film. Ford and Miguel Palos of Im Global, Karine Martin, David Lipman and Jim Pesoli of Cirrina Studios, David U. Lee...

Cirrina Studios has announced that they are producing an animated adaptation of Veronica Cossanteli’s young adult novel The Extincts. The film is being adapted by David Lipman, president of production at Cirrina, and will be directed by William Joyce. Pre-production… Continue Reading →

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The recently launched studio plans a 2019 release for their first animated feature.

Cirrina Studios, the recently launched entertainment finance, development and production company has announced its first animated feature film The Extincts.

Based on British writer Veronica Cossanteli’s novel of the same name, The Extincts centres on George Drake, a boy who goes to work on a farm hidden deep in the woods where he discovers a hidden cache of extinct and mythological creatures, one of which escapes and terrorizes the town in which he lives.

The novel is published by Chicken House/Scholastic in the UK and in the United States by Henry Holt and worldwide in translation.

William “Bill” Joyce is set to direct the film, while David Lipman, president of production at Cirrina Studios, will write the adaptation.

The film will be the first Cirrina Studios feature to start production at Dwarf Animation Studio in Montpellier, France.

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An animated adaptation of British writer Veronica Cossanteli's popular middle grade novel The Extincts is in the works at the recently launched entertainment finance, development and production company Cirrina Studios.

David Lipman (producer of Shrek 2) will adapt the project for the big screen, with Oscar-winning filmmaker and author/illustrator William “Bill” Joyce helming. Lipman will also produce with Michael Siegel. Jane Startz and Barry Cunningham will executive produce alongside Jim Pesoli and Karine Martin of Cirrina Studios.

The Extincts follows the madcap adventures of George Drake, a boy who goes to work on a farm hidden deep in the woods...

Exclusive: Jim Pesoli, Karine Martin, David Lipman and Jeff Stentz have launched Cirrina Studios, a new entertainment finance, development and production outfit based in Santa Monica. The new studio will focus on creating commercially viable film and TV projects, as well as other media. The banner, inspired by the octopus after which it is named, will be a collection of companies with numerous business arms that will emanate from a common center. Said veteran…...

As Summer is coming to an end and Fall is fast approaching, Universal Pictures have let out their complete Fall Preview Line Up. The list contains a diverse selection of movies from based-on-true story drama "Flash of Genius" to children fantasy book adaptation "The Tale of Despereaux".

All of the information of those six films can be viewed below.

Flash of Genius

Based on The New Yorker Article Flash of Genius by: John Seabrook

Release date: October 3, 2008

Rating: PG-13

Genre: Drama

Cast: Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham, Dermot Mulroney, Alan Alda

Directed by: Marc Abraham

Written by: Philip Railsback

Produced by: Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, Michael Lieber

Executive Producers: Jon Glickman, J. Miles Dale, Eric Newman, Tom Bliss

Official Site: www.flashofgenius.net

Synopsis:

Based on the true story of college professor and part-time inventor Robert Kearns' (Greg Kinnear) long battle with the U.S. automobile industry, Flash of Genius...