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Scott’s Pictures Unveils ‘Gimme Shelter’ As Upstart Film Company’s Second Project

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday August 30, 2012 @ 9:36am PDTTags: Gimme Shelter, Vanessa Hudgens
Mike Fleming

Scott Steindorff’s newly founded Scott’s Pictures has notched its second film project after setting the Lynne Ramsay-directed Natalie Portman-starrer Jane Got A Gun, which has Michael Fassbender circling the male lead. Vanessa Hudgen stars in the company’s second film, Gimme Shelter, alongside Rosario Dawson, James Earl Jones, Ann Dowd, Stephanie Szostak and Brendan Fraser. The film, which just wrapped, is based on a true story about sixteen-year-old Agnes “Apple” Bailey (Hudgens), a teenager who runs away from her abusive mother in search of a biological father she has never met. When he proves a disappointment, she embarks on a desperate journey of survival and self discovery and bonds with the girls at a special teen shelter. The film is inspired by a David and Goliath true story of Kathy DiFiore’s longstanding Several Sources Shelters. She accompanied by Mother Teresa in an effort to change the shelter laws in New Jersey. The film was written and directed by Ronald Krauss, best known for videos and commercials and who financed and produced through his Day Twenty- Eight Films banner with Krauss, Jeff Rice and Joshua Amir. Stone Village’s Scott Steindorff is exec producer and Dylan Russell is co-producer. The film will be shown to domestic distributors later in the month.

“We are very passionate about Ronald and his vision for this heartfelt and inspirational story that will resonate with a broad audience. It will be a welcome addition to our roster of quality movies”, says Steindorff. Like Jane Got A Gun, this will be handled under the SPI label through Exclusive Media.

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Brendan Fraser Kicks Career Into Overdrive Shooting ‘Four Kings’, ‘Escape From Planet Earth’ & ‘Gimme Shelter’ All This Summer

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday May 4, 2011 @ 12:07pm PDTTags: Brendan Fraser, Escape From Planet Earth, Gimme Shelter

EXCLUSIVE: You remember Brendan Fraser, right? Whose movie career has been in the witness protection program since CBS Films’ Extraordinary Measures and hasn’t had a major hit since 2008′s Journey To The Center Of The Earth 3D and The Mummy 3. But whose roles remain as eclectic as anyone’s in Hollywood? Well, he hasn’t changed his ways even though he’s been absent from the box office recently. Fraser will star in what’s being billed to me as a “sweeping epic historical drama” that starts production in Toronto in August. Four Kings is set against the French and Indian War that essentially divided North America. Executive produced by Todd Moyer and James Holt, the film is produced by Jeff Sackman (American Psycho) from a project developed by Telefilm Canada. Fraser, himself a Canadian-American, stars as Colonel Lord Francis Nicholson, a vastly wealthy Brit who self-finances the war in the hope of creating a utopian society in what is now Canada. Writer/director Damian Lee of Alchemist Entertainment is attached. 

Fraser will also voice the role of Scorch in The Weinstein Company’s much-delayed 3D animated film, Escape From Planet Earth, about a group of aliens plotting to escape that top-secret Nevada compound popular with conspiracists known as Area 51. It was first announced back in 2006, no kidding! The film is Read More »

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TNT Eyes John Wells’ Medical Drama ‘Gimme Shelter’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday March 28, 2011 @ 2:09pm PDTTags: CBS, Gimme Shelter, Hannah Shakespeare, John Wells, TNT
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: TNT already successfully rescued one John Wells-produced drama project passed over by a broadcast network: former NBC cop drama Southland, just renewed by TNT for a fourth season.

Now the cable network is looking to try and do … Read More »

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