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HBO & Playtone Set ‘Olive Kitteridge’ Miniseries With Lisa Cholodenko Helming Frances McDormand And Richard Jenkins

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday May 1, 2013 @ 3:59pm PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Frances McDormand, HBO, Lisa Cholodenko, Olive Kitteridge, Richard Jenkins
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EXCLUSIVE: HBO has set The Kids Are All Right helmer Lisa Cholodenko to direct and Frances McDormand and Richard Jenkins to star in a miniseries adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Elizabeth Strout novel Olive Kitteridge. Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman will be executive producers along with McDormand and her As Is banner and Jane Anderson. Anderson adapted the book into the four-hour mini. David Coatsworth is producing.

Olive Kitteridge tells the alternately poignantly sweet, acerbically funny, and devastatingly tragic story of a seemingly placid New England town wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and a staunch moral center. McDormand plays the title character and Jenkins plays her husband, Henry.

Getting this cast, director and a four-hour commitment from HBO is a real testament for McDormand. I’ve been following this one for years, and it started when McDormand fell in love with the book before it won the Pulitzer. She bought it with her own money, and drafted Anderson to write the script. Her gamble has paid off in this being a nice star vehicle for the Oscar-winning Fargo star. She’s repped by WME and Circle Of Confusion, Jenkins by Gersh and Bill Treusch, and Cholodenko by ICM Partners and Partizan.

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Hot Trailer: ‘This Must Be The Place’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday September 2, 2012 @ 12:30pm PDTTags: Frances McDormand, Sean Penn, This Must Be The Place

The Weinstein Company has debuted the domestic trailer for director Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must Be The Place starring Sean Penn, Frances McDormand and Judd Hirsch. Penn plays a bored ex-rock star who at age 50 lives off his royalties in Dublin until family drama starts him on a quest across America. Release date … Read More »

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‘Transformers 3′ Crosses $1 Billion Worldwide

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday August 2, 2011 @ 11:00pm PDTTags: Brad Grey, Brian Goldner, Don Murphy, Frances McDormand, Ian Bryce, John Malkovich, John Turturro, Josh Duhamel, Julie White, Kevin Dunn, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian, Michael Bay, Paramount Pictures, Patrick Dempsey, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Shia LaBeouf, Steven Spielberg, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Tyrese Gibson

HOLLYWOOD, CA (August 3, 2011) – Worldwide box office receipts for TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON, have hit $1 billion, Paramount Pictures announced today. To date, the third installment of the hit Transformers franchise, and the first shot in 3-D, has grossed $338 million in U.S. (through Monday) and $663 million internationally (through Tuesday).

“TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON is the first billion dollar grossing movie in the history of Paramount Pictures, marking a substantial milestone in the 99 year life of this legendary studio,” said Brad Grey, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Paramount Pictures. “We are grateful for the extraordinary work of  Michael Bay and his film-making team, executive producer Steven Spielberg, and everyone at Paramount around the globe who played a part in helping make this latest TRANSFORMERS one of the 10 highest grossing films worldwide of all time.”

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Wes Anderson Attracts Killer Cast For ‘Moon Rise Kingdom’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday November 10, 2010 @ 12:15pm PSTTags: Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Mark Roybal, Moon Rise Kingdom, Movie Deals, Movies, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, Tilda Swinton, Wes Anderson
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Frances McDormand Playing Producer Role

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 10, 2010 @ 4:10pm PDTTags: Diane Lane, Frances McDormand
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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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Italian Bank Makes First Film Investment

By TIM ADLER in London | Tuesday July 13, 2010 @ 2:05am PDTTags: Frances McDormand, Sean Penn

seanpenn 100Milan-based Intesa Sanpaolo has made a groundbreaking investment in Sean Penn’s next project This Must Be the Place. It has become the first Italian company to use the country’s new film tax credit system. The bank is investing €2.5 … Read More »

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Frances McDormand Makes NY Stage Date

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday July 7, 2010 @ 2:58pm PDTTags: David Lindsay-Abaire, Frances McDormand, New York, New York Theater, Theater
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69199366_ph1Fargo star Frances McDormand has become the latest film star to make stage plans. She’s committed to star in the Manhattan Theatre Club’s world premiere production of Good People, a play written by David Lindsay-Abaire and directed by Daniel Sullivan. The … Read More »

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