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Cannes: Hailee Steinfeld To Star Opposite Sam Worthington In ‘For The Dogs’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday May 13, 2013 @ 1:11pm PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Wrap-Up, For The Dogs, Hailee Steinfeld
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Hailee Steinfeld has come aboard For The Dogs, the Phillip Noyce-directed pic that has Sam Worthington attached to star. Oren Moverman wrote the script based on an adaptation of the Kevin Wignall novel by Paul Leyden. Sierra/Affinity is selling international and CAA and Paradigm domestic beginning this week at Cannes. The pic centers on a solitary assassin (Worthington) who agrees to help a precocious teenager (Steinfeld) exact revenge on those who murdered her parents and younger brother. His guidance unleashes events that ultimately stoke her thirst for vengeance while he desperately seeks peace and absolution. The pic is being produced by Anthony Rhulen and Navid McIlhargey via FilmEngine Entertainment; Worthington, John Schwarz and Michael Schwarz for Full Clip Productions; and Leyden, who wrote the script after optioning rights out of his own pocket. Steinfeld, who just appeared in the first trailer for Summit’s November 1 pic Ender’s Game, also has the upcoming 3 Days To Kill opposite Kevin Costner. She is repped by ICM Partners, Coast to Coast and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof + Fishman.

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2013 Women In Film Honorees Include Laura Linney, Hailee Steinfeld, Sofia Coppola

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday April 29, 2013 @ 10:32am PDTTags: Crystal Lucy Awards, Hailee Steinfeld, Laura Linney, Women In Film

Women In Film has announced recipients of the 2013 Crystal + Lucy Awards honoring exemplary women in the entertainment industry. Laura Linney will receive the 2013 Crystal Award for Excellence in Film. The Lucy Award for Excellence in … Read More »

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Hailee Steinfeld To Star In Indie Pic ‘Barely Lethal’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday April 18, 2013 @ 8:43am PDTTags: Barely Lethal, Big Deals Film, Hailee Steinfeld

EXCLUSIVE: Hailee Steinfeld will headline the Brett Ratner-produced Barely Lethal, which Kyle Newman is directing from a script by John D’Arco. Steinfeld, nominated for an Oscar for True Grit, plays Megan, who is raised at a boarding school … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Romeo And Juliet’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday April 12, 2013 @ 12:03pm PDTTags: Hailee Steinfeld, Julian Fellowes, Romeo And Juliet

Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes penned the script for this newest adaptation of William Shakespeare’s classic Romeo And Juliet which stars Hailee Steinfeld and Douglas Booth as the doomed teenage lovers. Cast also includes Ed Westwick, Paul Giamatti, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgard, Damian Lewis and Lesley Manville. Carlo … Read More »

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Hailee Steinfeld Joins Tommy Lee Jones Frontier Pic ‘The Homesman’

By JEN YAMATO | Wednesday April 10, 2013 @ 4:14pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Hailee Steinfeld, The Homesman, Tommy Lee Jones

EXCLUSIVE: Hailee Steinfeld held her own among a cast of grizzled veterans in True Grit and earned an Oscar nod for it. Now she’s set to return to the frontier in The Homesman, opposite Tommy Lee Jones who is director, co-writer, producer and star on the period project. Steinfeld joins Meryl Streep, Hilary Swank, James Spader, John Lithgow, and Tim Blake Nelson in the pic, about a man (Jones) who teams up with a pioneer woman (Swank) to escort three insane women across the prairie back to civilization. The 16-year-old will play a poor, simple, and barefooted teenager named Tabitha Hutchinson. Read More »

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McG’s Kevin Costner Thriller Officially Adds Hailee Steinfeld; Amber Heard & Connie Nielsen Also Join

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday January 7, 2013 @ 2:16pm PSTTags: Amber Heard, Hailee Steinfeld, McG

We told you back in November that Hailee Steinfeld was boarding McG’s untitled action thriller starring Kevin Costner. Now Relativity Media and EuropaCorp are confirming that Steinfeld has … Read More »

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‘True Grit’s Hailee Steinfeld Lands Lead In Kevin Costner’s Relativity Media Thriller

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday November 29, 2012 @ 8:25am PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Hailee Steinfeld, Kevin Costner, Relativity Media
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Hailee Steinfeld, who burst on the scene with an Oscar-nominated turn in True Grit, has landed the lead role opposite Kevin Costner in the untitled action film that McG will direct for Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp and Relativity Media. Scripted by Besson and Adi Hasak under the title Three Days To Kill, the film stars Costner as a Service agent who discovers he’s dying. Before he goes, he attempts to complete a final mission, and reconnect with his estranged daughter. He’s also taking an experimental drug that could prolong his life, and that adds complexity to the ticking clock because of the drug’s hallucinatory side effects. Besson and Virginie Besson-Silla are producing with Hasak and Relativity CEO Ryan Kavanaugh. Tucker Tooley’s exec producer. Read More »

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Hailee Steinfeld To Star In Fox 2000 Comedy ‘Why We Broke Up’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday May 22, 2012 @ 5:34pm PDTTags: Beth McCarthy Miller, Big Deals Film, Hailee Steinfeld
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Hailee Steinfeld is in negotiations to star as the lead in Why We Broke Up, the Fox 2000 comedy that will be directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller. It is based on the book by Daniel Handler, who … Read More »

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‘True Grit’ Teen Hailee Steinfeld Attached To ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Spec Script

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday March 29, 2011 @ 1:14pm PDTTags: Armie Hammer, Channing Tatum, Charlize Theron, Hailee Steinfeld, Jeremy Renner, Julia Roberts, Kristen Stewart, Sleeping Beauty
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: True Grit star Hailee Steinfeld is attached to Sleeping Beauty, a spec package that is going out to buyers as we speak. Screenwriter Lindsay Devlin has written a revisionist take on the fairy tale that will give Steinfeld a … Read More »

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Jennifer Lawrence Close To ‘Hunger Games’ Lead

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday March 11, 2011 @ 7:31pm PSTTags: Abigail Breslin, Don Winslow, Gary Ross, Hailee Steinfeld, Jennifer Lawrence, Lionsgate, Oliver Stone, Shane Salerno, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Mike Fleming

I’m hearing that Winter’s Bone star Jennifer Lawrence has emerged as the front-runner for the lead role of Katniss Everdeen in Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games, the first installment of the novel trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Neither her reps nor Lionsgate … Read More »

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Paramount Crafts ‘Forgotten’ For Its ‘True Grit’ Discovery Hailee Steinfeld

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday February 18, 2011 @ 8:25am PSTTags: Ethan Coen, Fake Empire, Hailee Steinfeld, ICM, Joel Coen, Josh Schwartz, Movie Deals, Movies, Paramount Pictures, Stephanie Savage
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: When you come out of nowhere and turn in an Oscar nominated breakout performance like Hailee Steinfeld did as Mattie Ross in the Joel and Ethan Coen-directed True Grit, it’s natural for the studio involved to do its best … Read More »

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OSCAR: Hammond Analyzes BAFTA Impact

By PETE HAMMOND | Sunday February 13, 2011 @ 6:54pm PSTTags: 83rd Academy Awards, Aaron Sorkin, Academy Awards, BAFTA, BAFTA Awards, Colin Firth, David Fincher, David Seidler, Hailee Steinfeld, Helena Bonham Carter, Melissa Leo, Movies, Pete Hammond Oscar Coverage, The King's Speech, Tom Hooper, UK Films
Pete Hammond

Ever since the British Academy of Film and Television Arts several years ago moved their honors ceremony to coincide with Hollywood’s awards season, it’s been hit and miss as a predictor of the Oscars. Even though there is probably a … Read More »

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OSCAR: Supporting Actor/Actress Q&As – Part 1: Damon, Douglas, Renner, Steinfeld

By MIKE FLEMING JR. AND PETE HAMMOND | Friday January 14, 2011 @ 3:08am PSTTags: 83rd Academy Awards, Academy Awards, Hailee Steinfeld, Jeremy Renner, Matt Damon, Michael Douglas, Movies, Oscar Best Supporting Actor Category, Oscar Best Supporting Actress, Oscars

Matt Damon, True Grit – He was the leading man starring in his Invictus director Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter. But his best chance at an Oscar is thought to be Joel and Ethan Coen’s True Grit in the supporting role of … Read More »

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OSCAR: Joel And Ethan Coen Q&A On ‘True Grit’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday December 22, 2010 @ 3:21pm PSTTags: 83rd Academy Awards, Academy Awards, Coen Brothers True Grit, Hailee Steinfeld, Jeff Bridges, Joel and Ethan Coen, Movies, No Country For Old Men, Oscar Best Picture Category, Oscar Contenders, Oscars, The Coen Brothers, True Grit
Mike Fleming

Considering they’ve rubbed out characters memorably by feeding them through a wood chipper (Fargo) or with a pneumatic cattle slaughtering gun (No Country For Old Men), setting Joel and Ethan Coen loose with a revenge story in the Old West seems a recipe for mayhem. In fact, True Grit turns out to be the most mainstream audience-friendly film they have made in years. Sticking close to the 42-year Charles Portis novel and not even watching the first movie that won John Wayne his Oscar in 1969, the Coens have made a PG-13 adventure film that gives the starring role to teenager Hailee Steinfeld, and surrounds her with such seasoned actors as Jeff Bridges as salty U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn, Matt Damon as the blowhard Texas Ranger LaBeouf, and Josh Brolin and Barry Pepper as the ornery outlaws they are chasing. The film opens today, and could add intrigue to the Oscar race.

DEADLINE: How did you find your way to a 40 year old book you’d have been hard pressed to find in a bookstore?
ETHAN COEN: We both knew the book, and we’d both read it, amongst other Charles Portis novels. A few years ago I read it out loud to my son and that was the point we began talking about it, thinking this might be interesting to do.
JOEL COEN: Fully aware there of course there had been this previous movie. But we hadn’t seen that since it came out, and didn’t really remember it very well.

DEADLINE: The book focuses more squarely than the film did on young Mattie, the bright, headstrong teenager determined to see the man who shot her father swing from a rope. What potential did you see in that that overcame the inevitable comparison to a film considered somewhat iconic?
ETHAN COEN: That is what we liked about the book, that it was told in the first person narrative told by the 14-year old character, Mattie Ross. It’s just a very funny book. It has three really great, really vivid characters. Her, Rooster Cogburn and LaBeouf, the Texas Ranger. And it’s a simple pursuit revenge story. It all just seemed promising material for a movie. Which might sound funny because, as you say, there was this iconic movie. Which we were aware of but which we didn’t remember very well.
JOEL COEN: We didn’t revisit it, either.
ETHAN COEN: And in the course of remaking the movie, we didn’t watch the first one. We weren’t much worried about it, though. You say it’s iconic, and that’s very true. But on the other hand, I must say it’s probably iconic for people our age and older. And we’re not the moviegoing demographic anymore. I don’t think younger people have much of a connection to John Wayne, at all. So it didn’t feel like we were trespassing and we didn’t worry about it. We just had this enthusiasm for the novel.

DEADLINE: I should qualify iconic. It’s called that because John Wayne won an Oscar, but many feel that statue was a reward for a career and not that role.
JOEL COEN: That’s what I’ve read about it too, that it was a kind of valedictory thing.
ETHAN COEN: You’ve been around a long time, we love you, here’s an award.

DEADLINE: How did adapting a book like True Grit compare with adapting Cormac McCarthy’s No Country For Old Men?
ETHAN COEN: Not dissimilar, actually. In the Cormac book that we did, we had this similar issue. Read More »

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ChiTown Crix Like ‘The Social Network’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday December 22, 2010 @ 10:15am PSTTags: Awards, Chicago Film Critics Association, Christian Bale, Colin Firth, David Fincher, Hailee Steinfeld, Movies, The Social Network
Mike Fleming

The Chicago Film Critics Association chose The Social Network for its Best Picture and Best Director honors for David Fincher and Best Adapted Screenplay for Aaron Sorkin. I’m not sure how important Monday’s results from the Chicago contingent figures in the larger Oscar picture, but it certainly bolsters my prognosticating … Read More »

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‘True Grit’ To Open Berlin Fest

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday December 8, 2010 @ 8:33am PSTTags: Coen Brothers True Grit, Hailee Steinfeld, Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin, Matt Damon, Movies, The Coen Brothers, True Grit, True Grit Remake
Mike Fleming

Joel and Ethan Coen’s True Grit, the most prominent Oscar contender that didn’t get a festival launch, has  one now. The film is scheduled for an international premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 10. The picture, which stars Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin and newcomer Hailee … Read More »

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