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Locomotive Selling Danny DeVito-Directed Thriller At Cannes

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday May 11, 2012 @ 1:19pm PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, Danny DeVito

 

Los Angeles – May 11, 2012 - Shangri-La Entertainment announced today that Danny DeVito has wrapped shooting on his apocalyptic thriller and is now in post-production. Directed by DeVito, the currently untitled project stars William Fichtner (THE DARK KNIGHT, BLACK HAWK DOWN and THE PERFECT STORM) soon to be seen in THE LONE RANGER, playing the nemesis to Johnny Depp’s Tonto; Lance Reddick, the imposing Lieutenant Daniels on hit series THE WIRE and currently starring in JJ Abrams’ popular THE FRINGE; and Constance Zimmer, the offbeat sex symbol Dana Gordon on award-winning HBO series ENTOURAGE.

Confirming the announcement, DeVito commented: “I was truly excited about getting behind the camera on this one. It is my first foray into the thriller genre and I’ve enjoyed the challenge of making an 89 minute edge-of-your-seater…”

Locomotive’s Colleen Seldin will commence sales of the Jersey Films and Shangri-La Entertainment-produced project at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival.

The film revolves around a wounded cop, a wounded murderer and a sultry nurse. The three are thrust together, as war rages outside the only possible safe house, an abandoned City Hospital. With no doctors and only a few poor decrepit souls as witnesses, it becomes a rats’ maze as the antagonistic trio get separated, and we find out the real reason they are there.

On acquiring the film for international sales, Seldin commented “Danny is an extremely talented and experienced filmmaker with a unique gift for connecting with the audience, whether in front of, or behind the camera. I am excited and honoured to be bringing this new film to international buyers.”

Danny DeVito, who will make his West End stage debut in The Sunshine Boys, won both a Golden Globe® and an Emmy® award for his portrayal of Louie De Palma in the US hit comedy TAXI, a role he played for five years. As a director, DeVito’s credits include MATILDA, THE WAR OF THE ROSES, THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN and HOFFA. His extensive acting credits include Martini in ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST, a role he also played on stage, TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, ROMANCING THE STONE, THE JEWEL OF THE NILE, JUNIOR, TWINS and RUTHLESS PEOPLE. He appeared as the Penguin opposite Michael Keaton’s Batman in Tim Burton’s BATMAN RETURNS and recently voiced the title character in Universal Pictures’ animated feature THE LORAX, based on the book of the same name by Dr. Seuss.  This autumn, DeVito returns as Frank Reynolds in the eighth season of the acclaimed American cult comedy, IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA.

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Sierra Club Starts New Showbiz Initiative: Hires Hollywood Publicist To Enlist Stars

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday October 28, 2011 @ 6:04pm PDTTags: Danny DeVito, Stan Rosenfield

Deadline team member Anthony D’Alessandro files this report:

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Melissa Sun, VP of Stan Rosenfield and Associates, will be moving into a new position at the Sierra Club where she’ll be linking up the entertainment industry with the national environmental group. Her new role is the Sierra Club’s Senior Strategist for Entertainment Relations, based in Los Angeles. Sun is tasked with creating meaningful opportunities for celebrities to help Sierra Club protect clean air, water and open spaces. The group wants celebs to help pressure the Obama Administration to reject granting a permit for a 1,700-mile oil pipeline running from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico as well as push the Environmental Protection Agency to limit the standard on mercury emissions especially from coal plants. Sun was courted by the Sierra Club to launch its new entertainment branding and strategy initiative, according to Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune, who told Deadline: “Melissa caught our eye with her background, making her a person we could not do without. She understands how the entertainment industry operates and has a passion to find people who can help the Sierra Club in developing projects, campaigns and strategies.” Read More »

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Hot Teaser Trailer: ‘Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday October 27, 2011 @ 9:58am PDTTags: Chris Meledandri, Danny DeVito, Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, Illumination Entertainment, Movie Trailers, Universal Pictures
Mike Fleming

Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment have posted the first teaser trailer for Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, the third film by Chris Meledandri’s Universal-based family film division. Meledandri cultivated a relationship with Audrey Geisel, the widow of Theodor Geisel, when he ran Fox Animation and they turned Horton Hears a Who … Read More »

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Obama Steps Up 2012 Hollywood Fundraising

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday September 27, 2011 @ 11:58am PDTTags: Aaron Sorkin, Barack Obama, Danny DeVito, Eva Longoria, Jack Black, Jamie Foxx, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jon Landau, Judd Apatow, Modern Family, Rhea Perlman

GOP Candidates Seeking Hollywood Help

“We were discussing the new season of Glee,” tweeted Modern Family‘s Jesse Tyler Ferguson about what he and President Obama said to one another last night at the Sunset Strip’s House of Blues. It’s where the actor emceed one of two Hollywood fundraisers for Obama’s re-election campaign Monday. According to a White House pool report, Obama greeted Ferguson, turned to the microphone, and said, “I was telling him that Michelle and the girls love them some Modern Family.” Some in the crowd chanted “Four more years”. Roughly 900 people paid ticket prices starting at $250 and as much as $10,000 (to secure a photo with the president).

The second fundraiser cost $17,900 for each of the 120 people in attendance at Melrose Avenue’s Fig & Olive restaurant. The private event’s co-hosts included Hollywood producer Jeffrey Katzenberg, his longtime political adviser Andy Spahn, and Tennis Channel CEO Ken Solomon. “I’m going to need your help, so don’t get tired on me now,” Obama was quoted by a pool report as telling showbiz attendees like Judd Apatow, Aaron Sorkin, Jamie Foxx, Jack Black, Eva Longoria, Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, and Jon Landau (producer of Avatar and Titanic). “I urge some of you to watch the Republican debates,” Obama added.

Obama received a standing ovation from the industry types seated at round tables with white table linens. But news of the president’s impending Hollywood fundraising was punctuated by several media articles proclaiming that Tinseltown support for him had eroded greatly since 2008. Recently Democratic activists like Robert Redford, Matt Damon, and Michael Moore have criticized Obama’s inability to stay the liberal course. Katzenberg seemed to address that disappointment when he introduced Obama by saying, “We must keep fighting for him so he can keep fighting for us.” Katzenberg also noted, “I have a dependency on President Obama. He inherited a crashing economy and two wars and opponents who questioned if he was even born (in the U.S.). Yet he kept us moving forward. He was dealt adversity on all fronts, but he maintained his stature.” Read More »

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2011 Comic-Con: ‘Always Sunny In Philly’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday July 25, 2011 @ 3:05am PDTTags: (Rob McElhenney, 2011 Comic-Con, Charlie Day, Danny DeVito, FX, Glenn Howerton, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Deadline Comic-Con TV corresondent Gary Hodges files:

One of the last panels of the day in Hall H was It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (FX) started a bit late, pushed back by panels like Doctor Who (BBC America) and The Cleveland … Read More »

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‘A Walk Among The Tombstones’ Resurrected With DJ Caruso At Helm

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 30, 2011 @ 3:04pm PDTTags: Brian Oliver, Cross Creek Pictures, Danny DeVito, Darren Aronofsky, DJ Caruso, George Clooney, Geyer Kosinski, Harrison Ford, Michael Shamberg, Roeg Sutherland, Scott Frank, Stacey Sher
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Cross Creek Pictures has stepped up to finance A Walk Among the Tombstones, an adaptation of the Lawrence Block novel that seemed to have been put to rest more than a decade ago. DJ Caruso is in discussions to direct a script by Scott Frank. It is one of two pictures Caruso is considering for his next film. The other is Preacher, the John August-scripted film for Sony Pictures and producer Neal Moritz.

Double Feature partners Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher are producing with Danny DeVito and Cross Creek president Brian Oliver. Shamberg, Sher and DeVito first got Frank to write a script while they were partners in Jersey Films. It had been set at Universal and once had Harrison Ford interested in playing Matthew Scudder, an alcoholic former cop who spends his retirement doing favors for friends, the kind that take him deep into the underbelly of New York City. In A Walk Among the Tombstones, a heroin kingpin’s wife is kidnapped and those kidnappers begin to send her back in pieces. The Scudder character was previously seen in 8 Million Ways To Die. Read More »

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Taylor Swift, Danny DeVito Lead Voice Cast For Animated ‘The Lorax’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 17, 2011 @ 10:52am PDTTags: Betty White, Danny DeVito, Dr. Seuss, Ed Helms, Illumination Entertainment, Rob Riggle, Universal Pictures, Zac Efron
Mike Fleming

Taylor Swift, Danny DeVito, Ed Helms, Zac Efron, Rob Riggle and Betty White will provide the principal voices for The Lorax, the Illumination Entertainment 3D CGI animated film. The pic is based on the Dr. Seuss tale that follows the … Read More »

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Kasdan Starts Pic, Gutierrez Finishes Pic

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 22, 2010 @ 8:01am PDTTags: Danny DeVito, Darling Companion, Diane Keaton, Movies, Rosario Dawson
Mike Fleming

Nice to see Larry Kasdan will be back behind the camera directing Darling Companion, an indie that stars Diane Keaton as a wife who loves her dog more than her husband, and Kasdan regular Kevin Kline as the husband who … Read More »

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