EXCLUSIVE: Married actors Lena Headey (Sport of Thrones) and Mark Menchaca (Ozark) have been set to star in Lengthy Pork, a revenge thriller quick helmed by up-and-comer Iris Dukatt, who additionally wrote the screenplay.
Produced by Madhouse Movies, the rising feminine led-production firm based by Katherine Romans and Charlie Sarah Traisman, in addition to Elizabeth Valenti, the movie takes place in a future post-Roe America the place all reproductive rights have been banned. Headey performs Lily Williams, grasp chef on the famend Foal’s Steakhouse, who misplaced her solely daughter to pressured delivery underneath the federal ban. When Lily learns that Philip Anderson (Menchaca), the decide chargeable for denying her daughter’s abortion request, is coming to dine at Foal’s, she enlists her staff of cooks to precise bloody revenge, setting the stage for revolution.
Additionally starring within the pic, meant as a proof of idea for a function, embody Catherine Curtin, Lorna Courtney, Zoe Cipres, and T.L. Thompson. Headey is repped by CAA and TMT Leisure Group; Menchaca by Unbiased Artist Group and TMT Leisure Group.
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AnnaSophia Robb, Jay Pharoah and James Scully
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EXCLUSIVE: AnnaSophia Robb (Insurgent Ridge), Jay Pharoah (The Blackening) and James Scully (Problemista) have been set to topline ESC, a brief impressed by actual occasions from Mercedes Bryce Morgan (Fixation), which tackles the topic of cyberbullying.
Morgan and Katrina Kudlick’s script follows a lady (Robb) combating for redemption and survival towards the infamous hate group she unintentionally created, with solely minutes left to forestall a mass taking pictures. The proof of idea for a function to return subsequent yr, it’s produced by Kudlick of Fever Dream Studios, and Jacob Robinson and Dylan Gross of Pollywog Movies (Sparring Accomplice), in addition to frequent collaborators Siena Oberman and Greg Lauritano (Fairyland).
Robb is represented by CAA, Untitled Leisure, and Schreck Rose Dapello; Pharoah by CAA, supervisor Shaina Farrow, Levity Leisure, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller; Scully by Artists & Representatives and Circle of Confusion; and Morgan by UTA, Sugar23 and Donaldson & Callif.
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Freestyle Digital Media
EXCLUSIVE: Freestyle Digital Media has acquired international VOD rights to the Israeli coming-of-age function Burning Land, slating it for launch on December 26, 2023.
Exploring the basis causes of the century-long Israeli/Palestinian battle, the movie follows Yair (Asaf Hertz), a uncared for teenager from Haifa who escapes to the outskirts of the contested Samaria area, the place he finds companionship amongst a gang of settler teenage runaways, often called The Baladim. The Baladim welcome Yair and enroll him in a Yeshiva led by Rabbi Grunberg (Nathan Ravitz), a secret supporter of their radical ideology. On this utopia, Yair finds all he ever needed, however a floor friction with the Palestinians and native regulation enforcement imperils his newfound house.
Liran Shitrit directed and produced alongside co-writer Stav Shalev. Riki Blich, Yael Levental, Barak Friedman, Lior Mashiach, Itzik Seidoff, and Eitan Saad additionally star. The deal was negotiated between Freestyle, Shalev and Conan Leisure. View the trailer for Burning Land under.
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EXCLUSIVE: Broadway veteran Lamar Richardson has come aboard Bleecker Road comedy The Fabulous 4 as co-producer, becoming a member of a producing staff that features Richard Barton Lewis’ Southpaw Leisure and Lauren Hantz of Hantz Movement Photos. The challenge marks Richardson’s first foray into movie producing by way of his Ivy Lion Productions banner and comes on the heels of his latest Tony Award win as co-producer of New York, New York.
Written and directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, The Fabulous 4 follows three life-long buddies (Susan Sarandon, Megan Mullally, and Sheryl Lee Ralph) who journey to Key West, Florida to be bridesmaids in a shock marriage ceremony of their school girlfriend Marilyn (Bette Midler). As soon as there, sisterhoods are rekindled, the previous rises up once more in all its glory, and there are sufficient sparks, drinks and romance to alter all their lives in methods they by no means anticipated. Timothy V. Murphy, and Bruce Greenwood co-star.
Presently on Broadway with Merrily We Roll Alongside starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff, and Lindsay Mendez, which he co-produced, Richardson made his Broadway debut as co-producer of final fall’s Loss of life of a Salesman revival starring Wendell Pierce, Sharon D. Clarke, and André De Shields. Up subsequent for him on the Nice White Manner is a revival of The Wiz starring Deborah Cox and Wayne Brady, which debuts this spring.
