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It’s the beginning of the road for a feature biopic about the R&b group Boyz II Men, who dominated airwaves in the 1990s.

The group has partnered with Compelling Pictures and Primary Wave to develop a movie about the musical act that is composed of members Nathan Morris, Shawn Stockman and Wanyá Morris. (Michael McCary left the group in 2003 due to health issues.) Producers have begun talks with potential writers and directors for the film.

Boyz II Men formed in 1985 and became a dominant musical voice in the ’90s thanks to such hits as “Motownphilly,” “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday,” “End of the Road,” “I’ll Make Love to You” and “On Bended Knee.” They were also featured on the Mariah Carey track “One Sweet Day.”

Producers for the movie include Denis O’Sullivan and Jeff Kalligheri for Compelling; Larry Mestel for Primary Wave; Joe Mulvihill...

Legendary R&b group Boyz II Men are developing a feature film biopic that will chronicle their 30-year career, which has spawned such hits as “End of the Road”, “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday”, “On Bended Knee,” “One Sweet Day” and “Motownphilly.”

The four-time Grammy-winning group has partnered with production and financing companies Compelling Pictures and Primary Wave to develop the narrative feature film, with Boyz II Men’s Nathan Morris, Shawn Stockman and Wanya Morris executive producing the project. Compelling will also begin production on a long-form documentary project about the group’s dominance in the 1990s and 2000s and continued success today.

“We’ve been waiting to find the right partners who understand our story and are willing to tell it all,” said Nathan Morris in a statement on behalf of the group. “Denis and Jeff at Compelling Pictures understood us day 1.”

Producers, including...

The team behind opioid crime thriller “King Ivory” had a somewhat unorthodox journey to the Venice Film Festival this year.

When a delayed flight from New York meant they missed their connection by a matter of minutes, the group of six — including stars Ben Foster and Melissa Leo, plus producer Jeremy Rosen and writer/director John Swab — found themselves in Munich on a long waitlist for the only other plane going to Venice that day.

Thinking that the chances of them all getting seats were fairly slim, Rosen made what he describes as an “executive decision,” hiring a Mercedes Sprinter van for a seven-hour drive that took them from Germany into Italy through the Austrian Alps.

“It was truly like a camp trip… a camp trip for privileged children,” he notes. There was also a hint of danger — Swab claims that about halfway into the ride, he spotted Rosen “falling asleep at the wheel.

Indie filmmaker John Swab’s action thriller King Ivory, a multi-faceted dive into the U.S. fentanyl crisis that weaves together storylines from various angles of the war on drugs, had its world premiere in the Horizons Extra strand at the Venice Film Festival this week. Much of the main cast was on hand to reunite on the Lido after having shot the movie under an interim agreement last year in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The story follows Tulsa drug cop, Layne West (James Badge Dale), who is battling the local criminal element, which hits too close to home when his son gets hooked on fentanyl. West makes it his mission to take down those responsible, including the Mexican cartel’s local shot-caller, Ramón Garza (Michael Mando), Indian Brotherhood War Chief, Holt Lightfeather (Graham Greene), who controls state-wide trafficking while serving life inside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester and the local Irish Mob family outfit,...

TriStar plant ein Biopic über den Sänger der 1980er Jahre Kultband Culture Club und hat aktuell einen Drehbuchautor engagiert.

Boy George, hier bei einem Konzert der Culture-Club-Tour im vergangenen Jahr, bekommt ein Biopic (Credit: Imago / Cover-Images)

TriStar plant ein Biopic über Boy George, Sänger der 1980er Jahre Kultband Culture Club, und hat mit J.C. Lee aktuell einen Drehbuchautor verpflichtet. Wie US-Branchenmedien berichten, wird Lee das Script auf der Basis von Boy Georges Autobiografien „Take It Like A Man“, „Straight“ und „Karma“ schreiben und sich dabei auf die erfolgreichen Jahre von Culture Club konzentrieren. Wer Regie führen soll, steht noch nicht fest.

Als Produzenten des Biopics fungieren Cathy Schulman, Paul Kemsley, der Manager von Boy George, Jeremy M. Rosen und Kevin King Templeton. Boy George selbst wird als Executive Producer an Bord sein.

Culture Club frontman Boy George is to be the subject of a feature film, which appears to be back in development. More here.

George Alan O’Dowd, better known as Boy George, shot to fame in the 1980s as the flamboyant lead singer of Culture Club (website pictured), co-writing six albums which spawned hits like Karma Chameleon and Do You Really Want to Hurt Me. He went on to have a successful solo career, and has sold over 100 million records. He recently headlined the Broadway production Moulin Rouge! The Musical

According to Deadline, a biopic is in development. Or more to the point, back in development. It was all the way back in 2019 that this particular project first surfaced.

The screenplay will be written by Jc Lee, adapted from George’s autobiographies Take It Like A Man, Straight and Karma. It will be produced by Oscar winning producer Cathy Schulman, George’s manager Paul Kemsley,...

Musical biopics have picked up in activity as of late. Recently, the Bob Marley movie One Love encapsulated a notable story from the Raggae icon’s life. This year has seen the release of Back to Black, which told the story of Amy Winehouse. And this Christmas will see the premiere of A Complete Unknown, which brings James Mangold back to the music world with Timothée Chalamet occupying the shoes of Bob Dylan. Not to mention, in the future, we’re getting a Bruce Springsteen film with Jeremy Allen White as The Boss, and Sam Mendes is bringing The Beatles’ story to theaters across four feature films.

Deadline is now reporting that a Boy George biopic is now in development over at TriStar. It’s still in the early stages, but the movie is set to be written by scribe J.C. Lee, who co-wrote the film adaptation of his own play Luce.

Exclusive: Another 80s music icon is getting the biopic treatment as TriStar has set J.C. Lee to write the screenplay for TriStar Pictures’ Boy George biopic that is currently in development. The pic will be produced by Oscar winning producer Cathy Schulman, George’s manager Paul Kemsley, Jeremy M. Rosen and Kevin King Templeton along with Primary Wave Music. Boy George will executive producer.

Still in early development, the film will include music from Boy George and Culture Club, to which Primary Wave Music owns the rights. Lee will adapt the screenplay from Boy George’s autobiographies, Take It Like A Man, Straight and Karma and focus on the smash success years of Culture Club.

Boy George rose to fame as lead singer of the iconic band, Culture Club, achieving seven UK Top 10 singles, nine U.S. Top 10 singles (including Karma Chameleon and Do You Really Want to Hurt Me...

As Hollywood waits to see what may come out of Friday’s meeting between the WGA and the AMPTP, filmmakers and producers at all levels have been engaged in a complex dialogue on the lightning-rod topic that has emerged during the concurrent actors strike: the SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement.

As of Tuesday, a total of 123 interim agreements have been handed out in both film and TV since the guild’s strike began, to projects from “truly independent producers” that have agreed to abide by the terms of the new contract SAG-AFTRA is pushing for with the studios and streamers.

The topic of the interim agreements, which are being studied and handed out by a group within the actors union, are being discussed, dissected and debated on the picket lines and social media, with actors such as Sarah Silverman voicing their concern that such a policy could prolong the strike.

Exclusive: After being forced to halt production with the launch of the SAG-AFTRA strike, the crime drama King Ivory from writer-director John Swab (Ida Red) is back up and running once again, in and around Tulsa, Ok, having been named just recently as one of 39 productions that will benefit from a SAG Interim Agreement.

Previously unannounced actors who have been able to return to set, pursuant to the agreement, include James Badge Dale (The Departed), Ben Foster (Hell or High Water), Michael Mando (Better Call Saul), Rory Cochrane (Black Mass), Ritchie Coster (The Dark Knight), George Carroll (The Town), Sam Quartin (Candy Land), Academy Award nominee Graham Greene (Dances with Wolves) and Academy Award winner Melissa Leo (The Fighter).

While production on the majority of studio projects has been shuttered, amidst a dual strike by SAG-AFTRA and the WGA, the actors guild is offering interim agreements to the projects of “truly independent producers,...

Director and producer Kevin Shulman was awarded $1.9 million after a jury found that he was cheated out of a producer credit in Manson family murders movie Charlie Says.

The decision by the jury in Los Angeles County, which came on Feb. 9 after less than a day of deliberations, included $1 million in punitive damages for fraud. The case is one of the few business disputes concerning producer titles that have gone to trial, with most being resolved in arbitration or settling, and could inform the valuation of such posts in future legal battles.

The jury concluded that Kevin Shulman’s contract was breached when he was blindsided by an eleventh-hour deal reducing his role to co-producer and fee to $15,000 after working on the movie for eight years, including when he was undergoing treatment for cancer. Damages were calculated, in part, by determining work that would’ve come his way if he...

Little Dixie is now available to purchase and rent on-demand from Paramount Pictures. The new crime thriller comes from John Swab and aims to be a throwback to gritty 70s films where the lines between good and evil is blurred. Recently, the stars of Little Dixie, Frank Grillo and Annabeth Gish sat down with us and speak on the inspirations for this movie and how differently tropes are handled in this film.

This is such an unrelenting movie, like gritty 70s films. What influences did you take to prepare yourself for this?

Fg: Whenever I do movie like this, specifically with John Swab, you know, [Sam] Peckinpah and Charlie Bronson movies are not only big influences with us, but with John Swab too. Which I love cause he’s only in his early 30s. He’s got a great repertoire of old films that he loves and old directors that he loves that he borrows from.

A breach of contract suit over claims that producer and director Kevin Shulman was shut out of Manson family murder movie Charlie Says goes to trial on Monday, setting the stage for a showdown on whether he was cheated out of a producer credit and the fees to go along with it.

Shulman and Jeremy Rosen allegedly entered into an oral agreement in 2010 to develop and produce a film based on the Mason family murders. Together, they optioned the rights to Ed Sanders’ 1971 novel The Family and set out to assemble a team of investors and crew. They drafted producer Dana Guerin and reunited screenwriter Guinevere Turner and director Mary Harron, known for their work on American Psycho.

Under their deal, Shulman and Rosen agreed to equally share all producer fees, as well as any back-end fees and participation, to be no less than five percent of the 5.5 million budget,...

It’s the first week of a new year, and 2023 is going to be absolutely loaded with new horror. As always, we’ll be providing you with week-by-week previews of what’s being released.

Let’s get right into things, shall we?

Here are the first four horror releases of 2023, which are all out Now!

The 2023 horror season kicks off with the critically acclaimed M3GAN (read Meagan’s review), which is now playing in theaters. The premise? It’s essentially Annabelle meets Terminator!

M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a life-like doll programmed to be a child’s greatest companion and a parent’s greatest ally. Designed by brilliant toy-company roboticist Gemma (Get Out’s Allison Williams), M3GAN can listen and watch and learn as she becomes friend and teacher, playmate and protector, for the child she is bonded to.

When Gemma suddenly becomes the caretaker of her orphaned 8-year-old niece,...

Quiver Distribution has unveiled a trailer for Candy Land, the truck stop slasher they’ll be giving a theatrical and VOD release in North America on January 6th, and you can check it out in the embed above!

Written and directed by John Swab (Ida Red), Candy Land sees Luccardi taking on the role of Remy, a seemingly naive and devout young woman, who finds herself cast out from her religious cult. With no place to turn, she immerses herself in the underground world of truck stop sex workers a.k.a. “lot lizards,” courtesy of her hosts, Sadie, Riley, Liv, and Levi. Under the watchful eye of their matriarch, Nora, and enigmatic local lawman, Sheriff Rex, Remy navigates between her strained belief system and the lot lizard code to find her true calling in life.

Olivia Luccardi of It Follows and Go/Don’t Go stars and is joined...

Little Dixie Trailer — John Swab‘s Little Dixie (2023) movie trailer has been released by Paramount Movies. The Little Dixie trailer stars Frank Grillo, Eric Dane, Beau Knapp, Annabeth Gish, Peter Greene, Thomas Dekker, Mercedes Mason, and Maurice Compte. Crew “Produced by Robert Ogden Barnum, Jeremy M. Rosen, John Swab.” Plot Synopsis Little Dixie‘s plot synopsis: “Frank Grillo [...]

Continue reading: Little Dixie (2023) Movie Trailer: Frank Grillo takes on a Mexican drug cartel to Protect His Family...

Olivia Luccardi of It Follows and Go/Don’t Go stars in the truck stop slasher Candy Land – and Deadline reports we’re going to have the chance to watch the horror thriller in just two months. Quiver Distribution has picked up the North American distribution rights to Candy Land and are planning to give the film a theatrical and VOD release on January 6th.

Written and directed by John Swab (Ida Red), Candy Land sees Luccardi taking on the role of Remy, a seemingly naive and devout young woman, who finds herself cast out from her religious cult. With no place to turn, she immerses herself in the underground world of truck stop sex workers a.k.a. “lot lizards,” courtesy of her hosts, Sadie, Riley, Liv, and Levi. Under the watchful eye of their matriarch, Nora, and enigmatic local lawman, Sheriff Rex, Remy navigates between her strained belief...

Written and directed by John Swab (Ida Red), the horror movie Candy Land has just been acquired by Quiver Distribution for domestic release, Deadline reports this afternoon.

The film will be released in theaters and on demand on January 6, 2023.

“Candy Land follows Remy (Olivia Luccardi), a seemingly naïve and devout young woman, who finds herself cast out from her religious cult. With no place to turn, she immerses herself in the underground world of truck stop sex workers a.k.a. “lot lizards,” courtesy of her hosts, Sadie (Sam Quartin), Riley (Eden Brolin), Liv (Virginia Rand) and Levi (Owen Campbell).

“Under the watchful eye of their matriarch, Nora (Guinevere Turner), and enigmatic local lawman, Sheriff Rex (Billy Baldwin), Remy navigates between her strained belief system and the lot lizard code to find her true calling in life.”

John Swab and Jeremy M. Rosen (Ida Red) produced the upcoming Candy Land,...

Exclusive: Quiver Distribution has taken North American rights to the horror-thriller Candy Land, written and directed by John Swab (Ida Red), slating it for release in theaters and on demand on January 6.

Candy Land follows Remy (Olivia Luccardi), a seemingly naive and devout young woman, who finds herself cast out from her religious cult. With no place to turn, she immerses herself in the underground world of truck stop sex workers a.k.a. “lot lizards,” courtesy of her hosts, Sadie (Sam Quartin), Riley (Eden Brolin), Liv (Virginia Rand) and Levi (Owen Campbell). Under the watchful eye of their matriarch, Nora (Guinevere Turner), and enigmatic local lawman, Sheriff Rex (Billy Baldwin), Remy navigates between her strained belief system and the lot lizard code to find her true calling in life.

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Exclusive: Grindstone Entertainment Group has acquired North American rights to the crime drama One Day as a Lion, written by and starring Scott Caan (Hawaii Five-0), from Roxwell Films. The film currently in production in Oklahoma boasts a starry ensemble that also includes Academy Award winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash), Frank Grillo (Captain America and Purge franchises), Michael Carmen Pitt (Boardwalk Empire), Marianne Rendón (Charlie Says), Taryn Manning (Orange Is the New Black) and Academy Award nominee Virginia Madsen (Sideways).

One Day as a Lion finds Jackie Powers (Caan) down on his luck and desperate to save his son from juvenile delinquency, a fate he knows all too well. Jackie handles collections for Dom Lorenzo (Pitt) and mob outfit boss Pauly Russo (Grillo); not what he envisioned for his life. Failing to collect from local cowboy legend, Walter Boggs (Simmons), he finds himself on the run with waitress turned hostage, Lola...

Paramount Pictures has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Little Dixie, an action thriller from writer-director John Swab, which stars Frank Grillo. Deadline hears that the studio will look to release the film in the second half of this year.

In the Roxwell Films title, Grillo portrays Doc, who facilitates a fragile truce between the Governor and a cartel, trading prosecutorial leniency for finance. When this truce dissolves, Doc is left to fend for himself and protect the one untainted thing in his life: his daughter, Little Dixie.

The actioner also stars Eric Dane, Beau Knapp and Annabeth Gish (Midnight Mass). Jeremy M. Rosen cast the project and produced with Swab and Robert Ogden Barnum for Roxwell Films, in association with Three Point Capital.

Exclusive: Vertical Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to the comedy Unplugging, starring Eva Longoria (Sylvie’s Love), Matt Walsh (Veep), Lea Thompson (J. Edgar), Keith David (Greenleaf) and Nicole Byer (Nailed It!), with plans to release it in theaters nationwide next spring.

In the feature directorial debut of veteran film editor Debra Neil-Fisher, husband and wife Dan (Walsh) and Jeanine (Longoria) plan a weekend getaway of “digital detox” without kids, phones, or social media. They need—or think they need—only clean fresh air and alone time together to rekindle their romance. But once they forego Gps to guide them and disconnect from the internet, can they reconnect their own internal servers to spark their marriage?

Johnny Pemberton (Superstore), Al Madrigal (Morbius), Joel Kim Booster (Sunnyside), and Nancy Friedrich (Pen15) round out the cast of the film, scripted by Walsh and Brad Morris.

Saban Films has acquired the North American and UK rights to “Ida Red” starring Frank Grillo, Melissa Leo and Josh Hartnett, the distributor announced on Thursday.

John Swab wrote and directed the action thriller, and the supporting cast includes Sofia Hublitz, William Forsythe, Deborah Ann Woll and George “Slaine” Carroll.

Jeremy M. Rosen produced along with Robert Ogden Barnum and Swab for Roxwell Films, in association with Bondit Media Capital.

According to Swab, “Ida Red” is “the Neo-Western story of an American crime family in the Oklahoma heartland.” It follows Ida “Red” Walker (Leo), who may not survive her 20-year prison sentence for armed robbery. She turns to her son (Hartnett) for one last job to regain her freedom.

The film wrapped production amid the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. It will make its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival on Aug. 11.

“John Swab is an incredible talent whose films speak...

Roxwell Films has cast Olivia Luccardi, Eden Brolin, Sam Quartin, Owen Campbell and Billy Baldwin in the upcoming gritty horror-thriller “Candy Land.”

Written and directed by John Swab, the film follows a young disciple of a religious cult, Remy (Luccardi), who stumbles upon a rag-tag group of truck stop sex workers known as “lot lizards” who take her under their wing. As Remy immerses herself in this new underground world, her true colors are revealed in a way that neither her former family nor new family could have ever imagined. The film has commenced principal photography in Southwestern Montana. It will also star Guinevere Turner, Virginia Rand and Brad Carter.

Robert Ogden Barnum and Michael Reiser serve as executive producers on “Candy Land,” which marks the fourth feature film collaboration between producers Swab and Jeremy M. Rosen. The duo recently released “Body Brokers,” which is a narrative expose about the...

Exclusive: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Body Brokers, a new crime thriller written and directed by Run with the Hunted helmer John Swab and starring Jack Kilmer and Alice Englert. A release in select theaters nationwide is set for February 19, 2021.

The film follows two junkies in Ohio as they take up an opportunity to head to Los Angeles for drug treatment. But while on the road to sobriety, the two challenge the rehab process and begin to see it as a cover for a predatory business. Michael K. Williams, Melissa Leo, Frank Grillo, Jessica Rothe, Peter Greene, Owen Campbell, Sam Quartin and Thomas Dekker co-star.

“Body Brokers is an astonishing story that breaks down the seemingly altruistic rehabilitation industry affecting the millions of people suffering in the opiate epidemic,” said Rich Goldberg, co-president of Vertical Entertainment. “We’re excited to be partnering with John and Jeremy again...

Exclusive: Frank Grillo (Captain America), Melissa Leo (The Fighter), Josh Hartnett (Black Hawk Down), and William Forsythe (The Rock) lead cast in crime action-thriller Ida Red, which has been filming in Oklahoma during the pandemic.

Also starring are Sofia Hublitz (Ozark), Deborah Ann Woll (True Blood), Mark Boone Junior (Sons of Anarchy), Beau Knapp (The Nice Guys), Slaine (The Town) and Nicholas Cirillo (Outer Banks).

Written and directed by John Swab (Body Brokers), the film follows career criminal Ida ‘Red’ Walker (Leo) who is battling a terminal illness while serving a 25-year prison sentence in Oklahoma. Under Ida’s tutelage, her son, Wyatt Walker (Hartnett) has sustained the family business, alongside his uncle, Dallas Walker (Grillo). When a job goes awry, local detective and Wyatt’s brother-in-law, Bodie Collier (Slaine), is joined by FBI agent Lawrence Twilley (William Forsythe), to track down the responsible party.

The movie is wrapping production in and around Tulsa,...

Exclusive: John Swab’s the opioid-epidemic crime thriller Body Brokers has added Jessica Rothe, Owen Campbell, Thomas Dekker, Peter Greene and Sam Quartin to the cast that includes the previously announced stars Melissa Leo, Michael K. Williams, Frank Grillo, Alice Englert and Jack Kilmer.

Body Brokers is the true and untold story of the multibillion-dollar drug and alcohol treatment scheme where former drug addicts and dealers become millionaires as fly-by-night “body brokers”, recruiting other addicts to seek treatment and selling these patients off to facilities paying the highest price.

Rothe will play a treatment center technician and new love interest of Utah (Kilmer). Campbell, Dekker, Greene and Quartin will...

Alice Englert and her ‘Them That Follow’ co-star Thomas Mann.

Alice Englert’s Hollywood career is rocketing with roles in the Netflix series Ratched, horror movie Them That Follow and the upcoming crime thriller Body Brokers.

The 25-year-old daughter of Jane Campion and Colin Englert, Alice has a recurring role in Ratched, the prequel to Miloš Forman’s Oscar-winning 1975 movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which starred Louise Fletcher and Jack Nicholson.

Set in 1947, the series co-created and produced by Ryan Murphy follows the murderous journey of nurse Mildred Ratched (Sarah Paulson) through the mental health care system.

The cast includes Sharon Stone, Rosanna Arquette, Cynthia Nixon, Finn Wittrock, Judy Davis, Jon Jon Briones, Charlie Carver, Harriet Harris and Amanda Plummer. Englert plays a character named Dolly.

First-time directors Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage’s Them That Follow, which premiered in Sundance, opens in the Us on...

John Swab’s forthcoming crime thriller Body Brokers has set an impressive roster for its cast including Academy Award-winning actress Melissa Leo, Emmy nominated actor Michael K. Williams, Frank Grillo Alice Englert and Jack Kilmer.

Written and directed by Swab, Body Brokers is the true and untold story of the multibillion-dollar drug and alcohol treatment scheme where former drug addicts and dealers become millionaires as fly-by-night “body brokers”, recruiting other addicts to seek treatment and selling these patients off to facilities paying the highest price. Utah (Kilmer) and his girlfriend Opal (Englert) are drug addicts living on the streets in rural Ohio. After getting recruited by a body broker, Wood (Williams), and offered treatment in Los Angeles, Wood takes Utah under...

Melissa Leo, Michael K. Williams, Jack Kilmer, Frank Grillo and Alice Englert are starring in the independent crime thriller “Body Brokers.”

John Swab is directing from his own script about a multibillion dollar drug and alcohol treatment scheme involving former drug addicts and dealers who become millionaires as fly-by-night “body brokers.” Those brokers then recruit other addicts to seek treatment, before selling them off to facilities paying the highest price.

The film is being produced by Jeremy M. Rosen (“Dog Eat Dog”), Robert Ogden Barnum (“All Is Lost”) and Swab for Roxwell Films. The latest Roxwell Films’ release, “Charlie Says,” (directed by Mary Harron and starring Hannah Murray and Matt Smith), premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and was released domestically by IFC Films.

Leo won an Academy Award for her supporting actress role in “The Fighter.” She was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress for “Wind River” and...

CAA Media Finance represents Us rights on latest crime story from John Swab.

Melissa Leo and Michael K. Williams have joined Frank Grillo, Alice Englert and Jack Kilmer in Body Brokers, a crime thriller inspired by sinister actual events that Voltage Pictures represents for internatonal sales.

John Swab will direct from his screenplay about a multibillion dollar drug and alcohol treatment scheme whereby former drug addicts and dealers become rich as fly-by-night ‘body brokers’, recruiting other addicts to seek treatment and selling those patients on to facilities paying the highest price.

Kilmer (The Nice Guys) and Englert (Beautiful Creatures) play drug addicts Utah and Opal,...

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The Crown’s Matt Smith and Assassination Nation’s Suki Waterhouse have signed up to star in Mary Harron’s forthcoming Charles Manson feature Charlie Says.

Smith, who has given up his throne as Prince Phillip in Netflix’s The Crown to make room for a later version of Phillip in the life of Queen Elizabeth, will play Manson. Hannah Murray (Game of Thrones, Detroit), Odessa Young (Assassination Nation) Marianne Rendon (Imposters, Gemini), Carla Gugino (Sin City, Watchmen), Kaylie Carter (Godless, Rings) and the Emmy-winning Merritt Wever (Godless, Nurse Jackie) also join the cast.

Based on Ed Sanders’ 1971 best-selling book The Family, as well as The Long Prison Journey of Leslie Van Houten, Charlie Says will focus on the three young women (Murray, Young and Rendon) who were sentenced to death following the infamous murder case of Manson (Smith). When the death penalty was lifted, their sentence became life imprisonment.

Fortitude International handles non-us sales in Berlin.

Matt Smith, Hannah Murray, Odessa Young and Marianne Rendón have joined the cast of Mary Harron’s Charles Manson drama Charlie Says, which Fortitude International is selling at the Efm in Berlin.

The new additions joined previously announced alongside Merritt Wever, Carla Gugino, Kayli Carter, and Suki Waterhouse, who stars in Sundance hit Assassination Nation.

Harron reunites with her American Psycho writing partner Guinevere Turner on the tale of a graduate student sent to teach three young women involved with Manson who had been sentenced to death.

Turner wrote the screenplay based on source material from Ed Sanders’ 1971 best-selling book The Family, as well as The Long Prison Journey Of Leslie Van Houten, written by Karlene Faith.

Roxwell Films’ Jeremy M. Rosen produces with Kevin Shulman. Dana Guerin, Michael Guerin, David Hillary and Ed Sanders serve as executive producers.

“Guinevere Turner’s script brings a fresh and unique perspective to the infamous...

Tony Sokol Jan 17, 2018

Former Doctor Who Matt Smith's next project will team him with American Psycho's Mary Harron...

The creative team behind the film American Psycho will be taking on another psychotic episode of Americana, the aftermath of the Charles Manson family murders. Former punk rock journalist Mary Harron, who directed and co-wrote American Psycho and the 1996 film I Shot Andy Warhol, is reteaming with screenwriter Guinevere Turner for the film adaptation of Ed Sanders’s best-selling 1971 Charles Manson novel, The Family.

Former Doctor Who Matt Smith is reportedly in talks to star as Manson, according to the Tracking Board.

The upcoming film will also add elements from the book The Long Prison Journey Of Leslie van Houten: Life Beyond The Cult, which gave a first hand account of Karlene Faith, who was appointed as van Houten’s social worker at the women’s prison she was incarcerated at.

Following last year's release of their original film Fender Bender, Shout! Factory now has more new content on the way, as they have acquired global rights to a new, untitled horror film from Kevin Shulman, with a cast that includes Bill Moseley and William Forsythe.

Press Release: Los Angeles, Calif., March 21, 2017 – Shout! Factory, a multi-platform media company, has acquired worldwide rights to writer/director Kevin Shulman’s new feature film, Untitled Shulman Horror Project, starring Eoin Macken (Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, NBC’s The Night Shift), Kristina Klebe (Dementia, Proxy, Halloween), Bill Moseley (House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil’s Rejects), Faran Tahir (Iron Man, Star Trek, Escape Plan) and William Forsythe (The Rock, The Bronx Bull, Raising Arizona). The film is developed, produced and co-financed by Jeremy M. Rosen and Kevin Shulman for Roxwell Films, and co-financed and executive produced by Shout! Factory for its horror genre entertainment imprint,...

Shout! Factory has acquired the worldwide rights for Kevin Shulman's untitled horror project (working title Sara's Cell), according to Deadline. The project was being developed, produced and co-financed by Jeremy M. Rosen and Shulman for Roxwell Films. Shout! Factory now co-financing and executive producing the title for their Scream Factory Films label.   The untitled horror project joins a growing list of what-did-we-kidnap-films and will be "...about a well-known reporter who is held captive by terrorists who are threatening to behead her. However, they have no idea what terror awaits them from her". One cannot help but wonder if there is a connection with his 2007 short film The Eyes of Samir. It certainly seems to have grown from that premise.    The film stars Eoin...

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"American Psycho" film director Mary Harron and screenwriter Guinevere Turner are set to re-team on "The Family," a new project about the followers of Charles Manson that has been setup at Roxwell Films.

The procedural feature will look at the infamous Manson Family murders through the eyes of graduate student Karlene Faith as she works with three young, brainwashed women who were part of the cult.

Initially given the death penalty for their involvement in the nine murders, their sentences ultimately were commuted to life imprisonment. We'll see Faith's time attempting to teach the three women to grasp the reality of their crimes.

Turner is adapting Faith's non-fiction work "The Long Prison Journey of Leslie van Houten" and Ed Sanders' 1971 novel "The Family" for the script. Jeremy M. Rosen and Kevin Shulman will produce.

Casting is underway with shooting tentatively planned for summer in Los Angeles.

Source: Deadline...

Tony Sokol Joseph Baxter Mar 14, 2019

Former Doctor Who star Matt Smith plays Charles Manson in the crime drama, Charlie Says.

Charlie Says is one of two upcoming films to chronicle the historical homicidal Manson Family and its namesake, Charles Manson – whether or not that’s a good thing remains to be seen. While the oxygen in the proverbial Manson movie room will be hogged this summer by Quentin Tarantino’s star-studded cinematic release, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, another offering is getting the jump on things, this May’s Charlie Says, in which the former bow-tie-brandishing wielder of all things timey-wimey, former Eleventh Doctor Who, Matt Smith, will play the stabby Svengali.

The creative team behind American Psycho takes on another psychotic episode of Americana, the aftermath of the Charles Manson family murders. Charlie Says was directed by former punk rock journalist Mary Harron, who also directed the 1996 film I Shot Andy Warhol.