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The mother of NFL star DeAndre Hopkins was blinded in a violent attack in 2002 -- but the way she heroically fought to stay alive and continue to raise her family is now the subject of a major Hollywood movie. Sabrina Greenlee has talked about the incident before ... she was ambushed by a woman who was the girlfriend of a guy Sabrina had only been dating for 3 months. Sabrina had no idea the man was in another relationship.

Bron Studios has partnered with Good Fear and Kituufu Films to develop and produce “Sabrina,” the story of NFL superstar DeAndre Hopkins’ mother, Sabrina Greenlee, as a feature film.

“My mom has always put everyone before herself and sacrificed things unimaginable. Now it’s time for people to see her true value and learn that giving up is not an option,” said Hopkins.

The pic will be directed by Sam Bailey with Kristen Buckley set to write the screenplay. Chris Bender and Jake Weiner will produce the film for Good Fear along with Humble Lukanga for Kituufu Films and Aaron L. Gilbert for Bron Studios.

Bron is financing the film in association with Creative Wealth Media, led by Jason Cloth, who is executive producing with Kristen Buckley. The studio’s Jordan Moldo championed the project and will serve as an executive. Endeavor Content is handling worldwide sales.

The film follows a young,...

The mother to NFL star athlete DeAndre Hopkins is the subject of a movie about being a survivor of domestic violence from an attack that left her blinded.

Bron Studios is partnering with Good Fear and Kituufu Films to develop and produce “Sabrina,” a feature film about the life of Sabrina Greenlee and her journey to becoming an activist, community leader and devoted mom, the companies announced Monday.

Sam Bailey, the co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series “Brown Girls,” will make her feature directorial debut on the project set to be written by Kristen Buckley (“How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days”).

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Jake Weiner and Chris Bender will produce for Good Fear along with Humble Lukanga for Kituufu Films and Aaron L. Gilbert for Bron Studios. Bron is financing the film in association with Creative Wealth Media, led by Jason Cloth,...

Sam Bailey, co-creator of HBO's Brown Girls comedy, is set to direct Sabrina, the story of NFL star DeAndre Hopkins’ mother, Sabrina Greenlee.

Kristen Buckley is penning the screenplay for the feature, which Bron Studios, Good Fear and Kitufu Films will develop and produce. The film is based on the true story of Sabrina Greenlee, who as a young, single mother was attacked and left for dead, only to find herself in a battle to change the course of the life she had created for herself and her four children.

"My mom has always put everyone before herself and ...

Sam Bailey, co-creator of HBO's Brown Girls comedy, is set to direct Sabrina, the story of NFL star DeAndre Hopkins’ mother, Sabrina Greenlee.

Kristen Buckley is penning the screenplay for the feature, which Bron Studios, Good Fear and Kitufu Films will develop and produce. The film is based on the true story of Sabrina Greenlee, who as a young, single mother was attacked and left for dead, only to find herself in a battle to change the course of the life she had created for herself and her four children.

"My mom has always put everyone before herself and ...

Good Fear Films is developing a film about the legal battle that followed the 1971 prisoner revolt at the Attica Correctional Facility.

The life rights to Elizabeth Fink, the lead counsel in the federal civil rights case, and ex-con Frank 'Big Black' Smith have been obtained by the company.

In 1974, Fink filed a $2.8 billion civil suit on behalf of inmates against prison guards for torture and abuse during the riot. The revolt left 33 prisoners, and 10 corrections officers and civil employees dead at the maximum-security state prison in western New York. Fink won a $12 million settlement from the state in 2000.

Kristen Buckley has been hired to adapt the script which will look at Fink and Smith's work to expose the state cover-up of prisoner abuse. The project will also have access to key players and documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Chris Bender and Jake Weiner set to produce.

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The Attica Prison riot in 1971 is one of the most well-known and significant prisoner uprisings in American history, as 1,000 inmates rioted and seized control of the prison, taking 42 hostages in the process, in order to demand better living conditions and political rights. When the uprising was over, 43 people were dead, including 10 correctional officers and 33 inmates, and the state began a massive cover up of the true events.

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Now, Deadline reports that Good Fear Film’s Chris Bender and Jake Weiner will bring the story of Attica and its aftermath to the big screen. The film will tell the story of Frank “Big Black” Smith, the coach of prison football team and was chief of inmate security during the riot; after the riot was over, Smith was implicated as a ring leader and was tortured by...

Exclusive: Good Fear Film’s Chris Bender and Jake Weiner have acquired life rights to Elizabeth Fink and Frank "Big Black" Smith to tell the story of the infamous 1971 Attica prison riots and its aftermath. Kristen Buckley (How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days) is set to adapt. The movie will follow the life of the 29-year-old radical lawyer, Fink, as she works with ex-con Smith to uncover the massive state cover-up following the riots. Smith, who died in 2004, was the coach of…...

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How lazy are we willing to allow filmmakers to be in the modern age? This is an era when an homage is a knife’s edge away from being a blatant rip-off, a time when remakes and reboots are so common that it would be news if there was an extended period when each movie opening in theaters was wholly original, at least in that it wasn’t based on a book, musical, TV show, board game, etc. Perhaps a more pointed question specific to this column would be, how lazy are we willing to let a remake of a beloved classic be? Remakes, in general, are a...

Best Christmas Pageant Ever snags Andy Fickman as helmer. Walden Media's set Fickman for the film which follows a mom who is lured into directing her town's Christmas pageant, and ends up stuck with the "worst kids in the world," reports Variety. Pic is based on the Barbara Robinson-written HarperCollins book with the same title, which Kristen Buckley and Brian Regan are adapting. The novela, originally published back in 1972 in McCall's magazine, was also turned into a TV movie and book. Gerald R. Molen, Chet Thomas and Darin McDaniel are producing Best Christmas Pageant Ever, while Betsy Sullenger, Kelly Charles Crabb and Fickman are serving as executive producers...

Best Christmas Pageant Ever snags Andy Fickman as helmer. Walden Media's set Fickman for the film which follows a mom who is lured into directing her town's Christmas pageant, and ends up stuck with the "worst kids in the world," reports Variety. Pic is based on the Barbara Robinson-written HarperCollins book with the same title, which Kristen Buckley and Brian Regan are adapting. The novela, originally published back in 1972 in McCall's magazine, was also turned into a TV movie and book. Gerald R. Molen, Chet Thomas and Darin McDaniel are producing Best Christmas Pageant Ever, while Betsy Sullenger, Kelly Charles Crabb and Fickman are serving as executive producers...

Best Christmas Pageant Ever snags Andy Fickman as helmer. Walden Media's set Fickman for the film which follows a mom who is lured into directing her town's Christmas pageant, and ends up stuck with the "worst kids in the world," reports Variety. Pic is based on the Barbara Robinson-written HarperCollins book with the same title, which Kristen Buckley and Brian Regan are adapting. The novela, originally published back in 1972 in McCall's magazine, was also turned into a TV movie and book. Gerald R. Molen, Chet Thomas and Darin McDaniel are producing Best Christmas Pageant Ever, while Betsy Sullenger, Kelly Charles Crabb and Fickman are serving as executive producers...

Exclusive Updated: ABC network has bought a comedy pitch inspired by an episode in the family life of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Tom Sherak who is in business with the network over the broadcasting of the Academy Awards. The comedy, We’ll Be Out By Christmas, is created and executive produced by High Fidelity scribe Steve Pink and Jeff Morris. It is based on real-life experiences of Sherak and his producer wife Madeleine when their daughter moved back into the family home with her three kids while her husband while getting his Mba. Madeleine Sherak (I Hate Valentine’s Day) will executive produce the hybrid comedy through her My Bench Prods., along with Tom’s son, producer William Sherak, and Jason Shuman through their Blue Star Entertainment. The Sheraks originally sold the idea as a feature to Paramount in 2009 with different writers, Kristen Buckley and Brian Regan.

Halle Berry is back! And this time, as an agoraphobic footwear lover in the upcoming Paul Weiland’s comedy Shoe Addicts Anonymous.

This project is an adaptation of the Beth Harbison novel with the same name, which centers around four Chicago women who bond over their love of footwear.

Or, if you prefer more detailed synopsis: “Four different women. One common shoe size. And a shared lust for fabulous footwear. Helene Zaharis’s politician husband keeps her on a tight leash and cancels her credit cards as a way of controlling her.

Lorna Rafferty is up to her eyeballs in debt and can’t stop her addiction to eBay. Sandra Vanderslice, battling agoraphobia, pays her shoe bills by working as a phone-sex operator. And Jocelyn Bowen is a nanny for the family from hell (who barely knows a sole from a heel but who will do anything to get out...

HollywoodNews.com: Oscar winner Halle Berry is scheduled to headline “Shoe Addicts Anonymous,” an adaptation of Beth Harbison’s novel.

The actress has been M.I.A. at the multiplex since bombing in the 2007 melo-drama “Things We Lost in the Fire.” “Shoes” brings Berry into the fold of chick pics.

Directed by Paul Weiland (“Made of Honor”), “Shoes” follows Berry’s character, an agoraphobic person, who is addicted to buying shoes online. She’ll be one of four Chicago women who have a fetish for size 7.5 shoes.

Kristen Buckley and Brian Regan of “How to Lose a Guy In 10 Days” fame wrote the screenplay. That 2003 Kate Hudson film generated over $177 million at the worldwide box office.

Film does not have a studio distributor as of yet and is being financed by Parallel.

Berry is expected to go before the cameras on “Shoes” before starring on Broadway in Katori Hall’s “The Mountaintop.

Halle Berry has joined the ensemble comedy "Shoe Addicts Anonymous" for Galgos Entertainment and Parallel Media reports Deadline.

An adaptation of Beth Harbison's bestselling novel, the story looks at the lives of four Chicago women from different ethnic backgrounds, bonded by their shoe addiction and the fact they wear the same size.

The quartet form a support group, a bond that eventually goes beyond footwear. Berry will play an agoraphobe who feeds her addiction with online footwear purchases.

Paul Weiland ("Made of Honor," "Mr. Bean") directs from a script by Kristen Buckley & Brian Regan ("How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days"). Russell Nuce, Mark Bozek, Raymond Markovich and Arcadiy Golubovich will produce.

Ladies, ever wish you could raid Halle Berry’s closet? (Of course, we’d all leave the Catwoman suit well enough alone, right?) Well, for some as-of-yet unannounced actresses, that dream will come true: Deadline reports that Berry is set to lead an ensemble cast in the film adaptation of Beth Harbison’s best-selling novel Shoe Addicts Anonymous. British director Paul Weiland will helm the movie, written by Kristen Buckley and Brian Regan (How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days).

The novel follows four Chicago women who all wear size 7.5 shoes and trade looks. Filming is set to start later this year,...

Halle Berry has been absent from cinema-screen’s since 2007′s Things We Lost in the Fire to concentrate on raising her newly born child. It seems she’s about to make an overdue comeback. Deadline are reporting that she’s been cast in the ensemble comedy, Shoe Addicts Anonymous. The film, an adaptation of Beth Harbison’s bestselling novel, will see Berry play “an agorophobe who feeds her addiction with online shoe purchases”.

Synopsis: The comedy looks at the lives of four Chicago women from different ethnic backgrounds, bonded by two things. They are shoe addicts who wear the same size. They form a support group, swap 7.5s and become—wait for it—sole sisters. Eventually their bond goes beyond footwear.

Paul Weiland (Made of Honour) will direct from a screenplay by Kristen Buckley and Brian Regan (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days). Filming is expected to start in the Autumn.

The projects for Ms Halle Berry just seem to keep piling on don’t they? From Hollywood to Broadway!

This time around, Ms Berry will reportedly star as the lead in an ensemble comedy adaptation of the best selling novel by Beth Harbison, titled Shoe Addicts Anonymous.

In the book, the story is set in Washington, D.C., and centers on 4 women of different socioeconomic backgrounds who are brought together by their shared passion for shoes. They meet weekly to talk and trade, in a kind of support group, and soon their bond grows and strengthens, evolving into something much more than just shared shoe fetishes. The women become fast friends, trusted advisers, and eventually business partners.

Halle will play an agoraphobe who maintains her addiction with online shoe purchases.

The script was written by Kristen Buckley & Brian Regan (How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days), and will be directed by Brit Paul Weiland.

John Aboud and Michael Colton, the writing duo who founded Modern Humorist, have inked with Principato-Young Entertainment and struck back-to-back deals with Fox Searchlight and 20th Century Fox. The duo has been tapped by Searchlight to write their first feature, The Comebacks, described as a sports movie spoof. Also under the 20th Century Fox umbrella, Aboud and Colton are finishing a rewrite of the teen gladiator comedy Gen CCX for Fox and producer Neal Moritz. Originally penned by Kristen Buckley and Brian Regan, the project is described as a period comedy in the vein of Monty Python films. Aside from feature film work, the duo recently sold a half-hour comedy to NBC Studios through Broadway Video based on Colton's experiences working as a reporter in Washington, and they recently co-produced VH1's Get Your Geek On and are serving as consultants for VH1's upcoming Big in '03 awards show. In addition to their new management at Principato-Young, Aboud and Colton are repped by CAA. Previous to founding Modern Humorist in 2000, Aboud and Colton worked as journalists and freelance comedy writers.