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Toronto: ‘West Of Memphis’ Helmer Amy Berg Gets Diane Lane And Elizabeth Banks For ‘Every Secret Thing’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday September 9, 2012 @ 4:32am PDTTags: Amy Berg, Diane Lane, Elizabeth Banks, Toronto Film Festival
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Amy Berg, who had Johnny Depp and Natalie Maines on hand here to launch her latest documentary West Of Memphis, will next helm Every Secret Thing, a Nicole Holofcener-scripted drama that will star Diane Lane and Elizabeth Banks.

The project is coming together with Anthony Bregman of Likely Story, Frances McDormand, Raj Singh of Merced Media Partners, Kevin Frakes of Palmstar Media Capital and Ashok Amritraj of Hyde Park Entertainment. Merced Media Partners, Palmstar Media Capital and Hyde Park Entertainment will finance the film that shoots in February. Film is based on the novel by Laura Lippman.The film will be produced by Bregman and Frances McDormand. Deadline readers might recall that McDormand optioned the book herself and attached Lane in 2010, and she has really turned this into something special here.

At 11-years-old, Ronnie and Alice were convicted for the murder of a baby and were incarcerated until they turned 18. Now newly released and replete with psychological problems, each attempts to adjust to life outside juvenile detention… when children start to go missing. As the police turn their attention to Ronnie and Alice, the mystery surrounding the original murder and their roles in it takes the fore.

Raj Singh, Stuart Brown, Kevin Frakes, Ashok Amritraj, and Stefanie Azpiazu. Hyde Park Entertainment will handle international sales out of the Toronto International Film Festival. Craig Emanuel of Loeb & Loeb and Alexis Garcia from WME negotiated the deal on behalf of the filmmakers.

“Great, female-driven crime movies are few and far between — and one this original and surprising is like a gift. It’s gratifying that so many talented and enthusiastic collaborators agree — from the creative to the financial sides and everywhere in between,” Bregman said.

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Ayelet Zurer Replacing Julia Ormond As Superman’s Krypton Mom

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday September 25, 2011 @ 3:54pm PDTTags: Amy Adams, Charles Roven, Chris Nolan, Diane Keaton, Diane Lane, Dianne Wiest, Emma Thomas, Henry Cavill, Julia Ormond, Kevin Costner, Lara Lor-Van, Lawrence Kasdan, Man of Steel, Michael Shannon, Russell Crowe, Superman, Zack Snyder
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Superman is getting a new mom. Ayelet Zurer, the Israeli actress who starred in Angels & Demons and who played the wife of Avner (Eric Bana) in Munich, has been set to play the role of Lara Lor-Van, Superman’s … Read More »

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First Look At Henry Cavill As ‘Man Of Steel’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday August 4, 2011 @ 8:44am PDTTags: Amy Adams, Antje Traue, Chris Meloni, Diane Lane, Henry Cavill, Julia Ormond, Kevin Costner, Laurence Fishburne, Man of Steel, Michael Shannon, Russell Crowe, Superman, Zack Snyder
Mike Fleming

Warner Bros today released a first photo of British actor Henry Cavill as Superman in Man of Steel, the franchise reboot that’s being directed by Zack Snyder and produced by Christopher Nolan. Cavill stars with Amy Adams, Diane Lane, Kevin Costner, Michael Shannon, Antje Traue, Julia Ormond, Russell Crowe, Chris Meloni, … Read More »

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Superman Won’t Soar Again Until Summer 2013

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 1:56pm PDTTags: Amy Adams, Diane Lane, Henry Cavill, Kevin Costner, Man of Steel, Michael Shannon, Russell Crowe, Superman, Zack Snyder
Mike Fleming

Warner Bros has pulled The Man of Steel from a planned late 2012 release date and has slotted it to open wide on June 14, 2013 release. The Zack Snyder-directed reboot of the Superman franchise feels like a summer film … Read More »

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Julia Ormond In Talks To Play Superman’s Mom

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 23, 2011 @ 11:56am PDTTags: Diane Lane, Dominic Cooper, Emma Watson, Henry Cavill, Julia Ormond, Kenneth Branagh, Kevin Costner, Lara Lor-Van, Man of Steel, Michelle Williams, Russell Crowe, Simon Curtis, Superman, Warner Bros, Zack Snyder
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros and Zack Snyder are in talks with Julia Ormond to play Superman’s Kryptonian mother, Lara Lor-Van, in Man of Steel. I expect the deal to make shortly. Russell Crowe has been offered the role of  Jor-El, the … Read More »

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Superman Takes Villain Focus: Michael Shannon Contender

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 24, 2011 @ 2:42pm PDTTags: Diane Lane, Henry Cavill, Kevin Costner, Michael Shannon, Superman: Man of Steel
Mike Fleming

After setting Henry Cavill for the lead role, and Diane Lane and Kevin Costner for Ma and Pa Kent, Warner Bros., Legendary Pictures and director Zack Snyder are working on a villain for Superman: Man of Steel. I’m … Read More »

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Kevin Costner Set For ‘Superman: Man Of Steel’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 17, 2011 @ 5:11pm PDTTags: Diane Lane, Henry Cavill, Kevin Costner, Legendary Pictures, Superman: Man of Steel, Warner Bros, Zack Snyder
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: It’s all over but the press release! Almost a month after Deadline revealed that Kevin Costner was in early talks for a lead role in Superman: Man of Steel, I hear that he has closed a deal to … Read More »

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Warner Bros Sets Diane Lane For Superman’s Adopted Mother, Martha Kent

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday March 2, 2011 @ 7:22pm PSTTags: Diane Lane, Henry Cavill, Movie Deals, Movies, Superman, Zack Snyder
Mike Fleming

BURBANK, CA, March 2, 2011 – Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures announced today that Oscar®-nominated actress Diane Lane will play Martha Kent, the only mother Clark Kent has ever known, in the new Superman movie to be directed

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Can ‘Secretariat’ Blindside Oscar Favorites?

By PETE HAMMOND | Thursday October 7, 2010 @ 8:29pm PDTTags: 83rd Academy Awards, Academy Awards, Diane Lane, Disney Secretariat, Movies, Oscar Buzz, Oscars, Randall Wallace, Secretariat
Pete Hammond

This same time last year, no one was seriously considering the awards prospects of a little Deep South sports-themed movie called The Blind Side. Not even after I saw the film at a small screening on the Warner Bros lot and wrote in early November 2009 that I thought Sandra Bullock  would, against all expectations at the time, become a major Oscar contender. Instead, commenters and bloggers vilified my prediction. Of course, she not only went on to win, the film received a Best Picture nomination. Now everyone in Oscar punditry is looking for the “next Blind Side” with many eyes focused on the feel-good Disney sports drama, Secretariat that was sneaked last weekend to pump up word of mouth and tracking before its Friday opening. In many ways, the comparisons are apt. Both are true stories about one woman’s singular cause: taking an athlete  from rags to riches. In this case, though, that athlete is a horse and the woman is owner Penny Chenery played by Diane Lane who, unlike Bullock at this point, has already made several  potential Best Actress nominee short lists. And, with 10 nominees to pick for Best Picture,  the “Blind Side slot” for an old-fashioned feel-good movie the Academy falls for as much as the general public, even if critics don’t, is not out of the question for a crowd pleaser like Secretariat. Providing it is first able to achieve hit status at the box office. Its Rotten Tomatoes rating currently stands at 63% fresh and Roger Ebert has called it “a great movie” although the basic critical consensus is mixed, just as it was for Blind Side. Hip factor and critics aside though, the Academy has already shown a predilection for this particular type of “stand up and cheer” movie by nominating Universal’s Seabiscuit for 7 Oscars including Best Pic in 2003 and that was when there were just a measly 5 nominees.

Secretariat director Randall Wallace has previous Oscar experience: he was a screenwriting nominee for the 1995 Best Picture winner Braveheart and is not drawing comparisons. “The Academy has a mind of its own. It’s interesting the whole notion of what makes something Oscar-worthy,” he told me in a phone conversation yesterday. “I’m in the Academy and my criteria has to do with how it affects my heart and whether something is authentic. I don’t know whether Braveheart was thought to be a frontrunner or a dark horse, but you don’t make these movies with the idea of winning awards. You win awards for making a powerful movie.” Read More »

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Frances McDormand Playing Producer Role

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 10, 2010 @ 4:10pm PDTTags: Diane Lane, Frances McDormand
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Appearing in a new role–producer–Frances McDormand has set at HBO a potential series adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Elizabeth Strout novel Olive Kitteridge. Separately, she has attached Diane Lane to star in a Nicole Holofcener-scripted feature adaptation of Laura … Read More »

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