

EXCLUSIVE: Sunrise Pictures and Pitbull Pictures are getting underway with The Trials of Cate McCall, with Kate Beckinsale, Nick Nolte and James Cromwell starring. Karen Moncrieff is directing her script and production has just started in Los Angeles with Sunrise Pictures’ Peter Schafer and Pitbull Pictures’ Moncrieff and Eric Karten producing and financing. Jim Klock and Joe Dain of Sunrise Pictures will act as executive producers. WME Global will be managing domestic sales.
“Cate McCall is a labor of love for us,” Karten said. “We’re thrilled to have partners who contribute not only their tremendous resources and expertise, but a level of passion that matches our own. Sunrise just plain rocks.”
Beckinsale plays a former hotshot prosecutor who threw her career away when she became an addict. Hoping to regain credibility and win custody of her estranged daughter, the lawyer takes on the appeal of a wrongly convicted murderess. She battles crooked cops, a broken system, and her own demons.


Karen Moncrieff is a bad-ass director. Can’t wait to see.
Sounds like all of Kate’s other movies (save the dire Underworld franchise): direct-to-DVD.
“Sounds like all of Kate’s other movies (save the dire Underworld franchise): direct-to-DVD.”
You’re an ignorant twat. Was Contraband with Mark Wahlberg, which debuted at #1, straight to DVD? Is Total Recall going to be straight to DVD? You really need to get a clue before you bring your dumb ass back into these comment sections. Or perhaps you should be kicked in the face until you stop moving.
How did Kate get into so many movies all of a sudden?
Are you really surprised? Kate has continually worked successfully in the film business for over two decades, not to mention she’s a very good actress when she’s not doing stuff like Underworld.
She sucks. this movie will not be good.
It’s unfortunate Rod Lurie’s “Nothing But the Truth” got entangled in the Yari mess, Kate was pretty good in it I thought — this role seems to be in the same ballpark for her.
She was great in it, and the film was very good.
Agreed. It sucks that the movie, and her performance (as well as that of David Schwimmer) was basically buried due to a company collapse. That’s gotta be every filmmaker’s nightmare.