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‘Glee’s Ryan Murphy Courted To Direct ‘Annie’ With Willow Smith

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 9, 2011 @ 1:55pm PSTTags: Annie, Eat Pray Love, Jada Pinkett Smith, Jaden Smith, James Lassiter, Jay-Z, Julia Roberts, Ken Stovitz, Ryan Murphy, Wicked, Will Smith, Willow Smith
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Glee creator Ryan Murphy is Sony Pictures’ top choice to direct a re-imagining of the Broadway musical Annie, with Willow Smith playing the lovable orphan. The project was recently set at Sony Pictures by Overbrook Entertainment partners James Lassiter, Ken Stovitz, Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith in the joint venture they formed with Jay-Z  to generate films. Sony Pictures has made the approach to Murphy, but it’s early days.

Though Willow Smith is a relative newcomer to  the screen (she has I Am Legend and Kitt Kittredge: An American Girl on her resume), she scored a hit record with Whip My Hair!, and Sony’s bet on her brother Jaden in the Overbrook-produced Karate Kid remake resulted in a big hit. Murphy is also well regarded at Sony, where he directed Eat, Pray, Love with Julia Roberts and made a $5 million deal to write and direct another picture with her. Murphy’s Glee success has turned him into a go-to guy on studio musicals, as he’s been courted by Fox for a Rocky Horror Picture Show remake, as well as to possibly turn the Broadway stage hit Wicked into a film at Universal.

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GUYS BEAT GAL: ‘Expendables’ $35M Wkd; ‘Eat Pray Love’ $23.7M; ‘Scott Pilgrim’ $10.5M

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Saturday August 14, 2010 @ 11:01pm PDTTags: Box Office, Eat Pray Love, Eat Pray Love Box Office, Julia Roberts, Michael Cera, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Sylvester Stallone, The Expendables, The Expendables Box Office

SUNDAY AM UPDATE: Weekend wonders never cease. Friday the Thirteenth weekend proved lucky for a pair of faded stars. Overall box office looks about $140M (about even with last year’s) and had something for everyone — men/women, old/young, romance/bromance, winners/losers/dropouts. It’s so competitive that The Expendables was marketing itself by pitting Sly Stallone against Pretty … Read More »

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Ryan Murphy Scores $5M To Re-Team With Julia Roberts On Sony Pictures Film

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday July 13, 2010 @ 3:23pm PDTTags: Amy Pascal, Brad Pitt, CAA, Dede Gardner, Eat Pray Love, Julia Roberts, Ryan Murphy, Ryan Murphy Glee, Sony Pictures
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Their first picture together, Eat Pray Love, based on the Elizabeth Gilbert bestseller, isn’t in theaters this ryan juliasummer until August 13th so Sony Pictures doesn’t know how it will fare yet. Nevertheless, the studio just made one of the year’s … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Eat Pray Love’

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Friday July 2, 2010 @ 7:39pm PDTTags: Eat Pray Love, Movie Trailers, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Trailers

Sony is playing this with the Twilight Saga: Eclipse:

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