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Building onto their collaboration on an event series about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Bob Cooper's Landscape Entertainment has closed a first-look deal with TNT for limited and event series, sources say. Four-hour event series The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, which has been in the works at TNT for a year, tells the story of one of the biggest natural disasters in U.S. history. It is written by James Solomon. Landscape is producing the project with Entertainment…...

We've seen the lineups for the Main Slate and Projections, the Special Events and Revivals, and today: "Taken together, the twelve selections in this year’s Spotlight on Documentary represent the range and depth of nonfiction in our midst," says New York Film Festival Director Kent Jones. Highlights include new work from Laura Poitras, Frederick Wiseman, Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel, Pamela Yates, James Solomon, Carmen Castillo, Michael Camerini and Shari Robertson, Jacob Bernstein, Stig Björkman's doc on Ingrid Bergman, and Walter Salles's portrait of Jia Zhangke. »...

We've seen the lineups for the Main Slate and Projections, the Special Events and Revivals, and today: "Taken together, the twelve selections in this year’s Spotlight on Documentary represent the range and depth of nonfiction in our midst," says New York Film Festival Director Kent Jones. Highlights include new work from Laura Poitras, Frederick Wiseman, Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel, Pamela Yates, James Solomon, Carmen Castillo, Michael Camerini and Shari Robertson, Jacob Bernstein, Stig Björkman's doc on Ingrid Bergman, and Walter Salles's portrait of Jia Zhangke. »...

Apparently simply being someone’s assistant can help your chances of getting a film made.

24 Frames is reporting that Nick Saunders is set to produce a new thriller entitled High Wire, with stunt director Simon Crane aboard to helm the project. Penned by James Solomon, we don’t know much about the film, other than that it is produced by Saunders, former assistant to actor Orlando Bloom.

Read more on Grab Bag: High Wire gets a director; Goon eyed for Tiff; Cowboys & Aliens trailer premiering during “American Idol”...

Robert Redford has a fantastic cast for .The Conspirator,. the drama he is directing about the assassination of President Lincoln. James Solomon wrote the script.

James McAvoy will star as Frederick Aiken, the war hero who is assigned to defend Robin Wright Penn.s Mary Surratt, the only female charged in the conspiracy to kill the president. Justin Long, in his first dramatic role, will play McAvoy.s soldier friend who lost a limb in the Civil War.

Now, Tom Wilkinson, Evan Rachel Wood, Kevin Kline and Alexis Bledel are joining the production. Wilkinson will star as Reverdy Johnson, the former attorney general and mentor of McAvoy.s character.

Wood will play Surratt.s daughter, Anna, and Kline will star as Lincoln.s War Secretary Edwin Stanton. Bledel will lay Aiken.s wife, Sarah Weston.

Shooting is going on right now in Savannah, Ga.

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NEW YORK -- After a decade as a top indie film production and video distribution outfit, Hart Sharp Entertainment founders John Hart and Jeffrey Sharp are heading their separate ways. Hart is forming the new film and theater production company Evamere.

Evamere will launch production on two films this year: Todd Solondz's dark comedy of sexual obsession, Life During Wartime, and the James Solomon-penned biopic of a woman involved in the Abraham Lincoln assassination, The Conspirator.

Other new projects include Alice Goes to Harlem, a potential animated feature that finds Alice in Wonderland meeting such artists as The Nicholas Brothers and Whoopi Goldberg on a journey celebrating the Harlem Renaissance. Geoffrey Holder and Hilton Als are in talks to write the screenplay. Also set for 2008 is Come Like Shadows, a surreal period adaptation of Macbeth, with John Maybury in negotiations to direct.

Hart will oversee management of the company's existing private-equity funds, True Film Fund I and II, which will continue to finance Hart Sharp projects that Hart will now produce.