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Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig And Chris Walken Circle Cryogenics Film

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday January 4, 2012 @ 11:40am PSTTags: Errol Morris, Kristen Wiig, Paul Rudd
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EXCLUSIVE: Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig, and Christopher Walken are circling Freezing People Is Easy, a script by Zach Helm (Stranger Than Fiction) that Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris will direct. Film Rites’ Steve Zaillian and Garrett Basch are producing with This American Life‘s Ira Glass and Alissa Shipp.

Inspired by the memoir We Froze The First Man and an episode of This American Life, the film tell the true story of Bob Nelson, a 1960s Los Angeles television repairman who tried to pioneer the field of cryogenics by freezing humans. He quickly discovered that it was more difficult than he imagined.

The cast is pretty much locked — Rudd has been attached for months to play Nelson — though Bridesmaids star Wiig is the variable: she’s completing her run on Saturday Night Live and poring over several offers. The producers and the film’s reps at WME and UTA are starting to talk up the film with financiers. The intention is to shoot for a mid-2012 start date. Wilson, Wiig and Zaillian are up for Golden Globes this year. WME reps Morris and Film Rites; UTA reps Rudd, Wilson, Wiig and This American Life; and ICM reps Walken.

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BAFTA Guru Launches To Advise On Industry Careers

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday November 4, 2011 @ 10:54am PDTTags: BAFTA, British Academy Of Film And Television Arts, Errol Morris, Quentin Tarantino

BAFTA Guru has kicked off with the aim of offering entertainment industry expertise via a library of interviews, lectures, master classes and debates culled from the UK academy’s access to “some of the best minds in film, TV and video games.” Its target is 18- to 30-year-olds looking for advice … Read More »

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Errol Morris Sued By Subject Of ‘Tabloid’ For Misrepresentation, Misappropriation, Defamation, Fraud, Emotional Distress

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday November 3, 2011 @ 7:51pm PDTTags: Errol Morris, IFC Films, Sundance Selects, Tabloid

Joyce McKinney, subject of Errol Morris’ documentary Tabloid, has filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court against the filmmaker and other individuals and associated companies such as Moxie Films, Sundance Select and IFC Films. McKinney alleges among other things misappropriation of likeness, defamation, misrepresentation, fraud, intentional infliction of emotional distress and breach of contract. McKinney asserts in the suit that she was approached in 2009 and led to believe that her cooperation in a project for a Showtime series would help clear her name in connection with a long-ago scandal. Instead, she claims, the resulting movie held her up to public ridicule and reinforced a false image of her as having kidnapped a Morman missionary in England in 1977 and holding him against his will and repeatedly raping him. She was arrested and British tabloids and TV had a field day with what became known as the “Manacled Mormon” story. McKinney maintains that she was rescuing her fiance from a cult. Read More »

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West Memphis 3 Freed After Plea Deal, And Toronto-Bound Docu Directors Need Ending Change

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday August 19, 2011 @ 10:20am PDTTags: Bruce Sinofsky, Damien Echols, Errol Morris, HBO, Jason Baldwin, Jessie Misskelley Jr, Joe Berlinger, Johnny Depp, Metallica, New York Film Festival, Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, Sheila Nevins, Stephen King, Toronto Film Festival, West Memphis 3
Mike Fleming

UPDATE: The West Memphis 3, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley were just freed in an Arkansas hearing after being in prison 18 years for the murder of three children in 1993. The three were freed after pleading guilty and drawing a sentence equal to the … Read More »

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Sundance Selects Errol Morris Docu ‘Tabloid’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday January 18, 2011 @ 12:04pm PSTTags: 2011 Sundance Film Festival, Errol Morris, Movie Deals, Movies, Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Selects
Mike Fleming

New York, NY (January 18, 2011) – Sundance Selects announced today that the company is acquiring North American rights to Errol Morris’ highly acclaimed documentary TABLOID. The dark, funny and altogether surreal film was one of the standout hits at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival winning indieWIRE’s critics

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