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Vince Vaughn Joins ‘Lay The Favorite’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday May 5, 2011 @ 7:22pm PDTTags: Beth Raymer, Bruce Willis, Lay The Favorite, Stephen Frears, Vince Vaughn
Mike Fleming

Vince Vaughn has joined the cast of the Stephen Frears-directed Lay The Favorite. Emmett Furla Films and Wild Bunch are financing the Random House Films project, which has just gotten underway. Stephen Frears is directing the adaptation of the Beth Raymer gambling memoir, with Bruce Willis, Rebecca Hall, and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Anthony Bregman’s Likely Story, Emmett Furla partners Randall Emmett and George Furla and Ruby Films’ Paul Trijbits are producing, with Curtis Jackson exec producing.

Zeta-Jones will play the wife of a legendary gambler (Willis). Hall plays a young woman who becomes involved with the guy as he figures out how to gain an edge on the Vegas sports book system. Vaughn plays the role of Rosie, a Long Island bookie that Raymor once worked for. D.V. De Vincentis wrote the script and is also producing. Vaughn’s repped by CAA.

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Pathe And Emmett Furla Replace Focus On ‘Lay The Favorite,’ With Catherine Zeta-Jones Joining The Gambling Film

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 3, 2011 @ 1:35pm PSTTags: Beth Raymer, Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lay The Favorite, Rebecca Hall, Stephen Frears
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features has been scratched before getting to the start gate on Lay The Favorite, but I’m told that Pathe and Emmett Furla Films have come to the rescue as co-financiers. Not only that, but Catherine Zeta-Jones is in … Read More »

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Lay The Favorite On Bruce Willis And Rebecca Hall For Gambling Memoir

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday November 11, 2010 @ 2:00pm PSTTags: Beth Raymer, Bruce Willis, D.V. De Vincentis, Lay The Favorite, Movie Deals, Movies, Rebecca Hall, Stephen Frears
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: If you’re handicapping Lay The Favorite – the Stephen Frears movie adaptation of the Beth Raymer gambling memoir — take Bruce Willis and The Town‘s Rebecca Hall. I’ve heard … Read More »

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