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John Cusack Is Eyeing Rush Limbaugh Film, Actor’s Prod. Company Confirms

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Sunday November 4, 2012 @ 12:14pm PSTTags: Clear Channel, John Cusack, Rush Limbaugh

John Cusack is attached to a film about talk radio host Rush Limbaugh but it is very early yet, according to his production company. “New Crime Productions and John Cusack are currently considering a project about the larger-than-life radio personality, Rush Limbaugh. Betty Thomas, who covered similar terrain in her portrait of Howard Stern, is interested in directing.  The script would explore the rise and reinvention of American Talk Radio, and Limbaugh’s continued influence and impact over the last three decades in that world,” said True Crimes Productions today. Cusack would play Limbaugh in the proposed movie. Thomas directed the 1997 Stern biopic Private Parts. The Rush film would not be a liberal take on the conservative Clear Channel radio host but take a non-partisan approach, an individual close to Cusack’s production company tells Deadline. A constant critic of George W. Bush’s administration, Cusack has never made any secret of his politically liberal POV. This whole thing first bubbled up late last week when director and former Hill Street Blues actress Thomas told the Associated Press  a Rush project just required some “finishing touches” and would go into production next year. Thomas exaggerated how far along the Rush film actually is, says a source. “It is very early days and I don’t even think there is a finished script and even then it could certainly change,” the individual said. Cusack is repped by CAA.

Related: Rush Limbaugh: Batman Villain Was Named “Bane” To Hurt Mitt Romney

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AFM: Solution’s Synchronicity To Back New Elijah Wood, John Cusack Films

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday October 30, 2012 @ 6:56pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Elijah Wood, John Cusack

The Solution Entertainment Group will help finance the horror pic Cooties starring Elijah Wood and the John Cusack thriller Due Process. The new genre film production and international sales label launched by Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel’s The Solution Entertainment Group will introduce the films to buyers at the American Film Market set to get underway tomorrow in Santa Monica. Synchronicity also will shop the completed psychological thriller Smiley. Cooties was co-written by Leigh Whannell (Insidious) and Glee co-creator Ian Brennan and directed by Ace Norton. Read More »

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Serial Killer Pic ‘Frozen Ground’: Photos

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday July 18, 2012 @ 10:52am PDTTags: John Cusack, Nicolas Cage, The Frozen Ground, Vanessa Hudgens

Frozen Ground Movie Photos
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a first look at stills from Frozen Ground, the based-on-a-true-story thriller starring John Cusack, Nicolas Cage and Vanessa Hudgens. The movie written and directed by Scott Walker revolves around … Read More »

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Hyde Park International Boards ‘Adult World’ For Global Sales

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Friday April 27, 2012 @ 1:26pm PDTTags: Adult World, Emma Roberts, John Cusack

EXCLUSIVE: Hyde Park International will launch worldwide sales on Scott Coffey’s Adult World in Cannes next month. The coming-of-age comedy stars Emma Roberts as a post-grad setting out to become a famous poet. But loan debt and … Read More »

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Shannon Woodward To Star Opposite Emma Roberts In ‘Adult World’

By BRIAN BROOKS | Tuesday February 21, 2012 @ 2:55pm PSTTags: Adult World, Emma Roberts, John Cusack

Shannon Woodward will play Candace, a punk/goth anarchist sporting a nose ring and a Ramones shirt. Deadline previously reported that Emma Roberts, John Cusack and Evan Peters were cast in Adult World, which began production this month in … Read More »

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John Cusack and Evan Peters Join Emma Roberts In ‘Adult World’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday February 9, 2012 @ 1:02pm PSTTags: Adult World, Emma Roberts, Evan Peters, John Cusack, Scott Coffey
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: John Cusack and Evan Peters have joined Emma Roberts in Adult World, a film that has just begun production in upstate New York through TreeHouse Pictures and Anonymous Content. Scott Coffey (Elle Parker) directs from the script by Andrew Cochran. “Adult World examines the contemporary state of post-graduate life in America,” said TreeHouse Pictures president Justin Nappi. “This is a smart satirical comedy that will resonate with a lot of people.” Read More »

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David Oyelowo Joins Steven Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday November 17, 2011 @ 6:38pm PSTTags: Christopher McQuarrie, George Lucas, John Cusack, Lee Daniels, Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman, Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: David Oyelowo has joined the cast of Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln. He has headed to Virginia and will play the role of a cavalryman. Oyelowo takes the job while he’s concurrently shooting the Christopher McQuarrie-directed One Shot with Tom Cruise … Read More »

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Brendan Gleeson In Robert Redford’s ‘The Company You Keep’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday October 28, 2011 @ 7:32am PDTTags: Anna Kendrick, Brendan Gleeson, Brit Marling, Chris Cooper, Denzel Washington, Glenn Close, John Cusack, Julie Christie, Nick Nolte, Robert Redford, Ryan Reynolds, Shia LaBeouf, Susan Sarandon
Mike Fleming

The Guard star Brendan Gleeson has joined Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Nick Nolte, Chris Cooper, Susan Sarandon, Julie Christie, Brit Marling and Anna Kendrick in the Redford-directed The Company You Keep. Gleeson will next be seen opposite Glenn Close in … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘The Raven’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday October 8, 2011 @ 9:35am PDTTags: James McTeigue, John Cusack, Movie Trailer, Relativity Media, The Raven

This is the first trailer for Relativity’s period thriller The Raven. The James McTeigue-directed thriller stars John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe, who joins with a Baltimore detective (Luke Evans) to hunt down a serial killer using Poe’s works as the basis for a string of brutal murders — a … Read More »

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Agencies Hot For ‘Frozen Ground’ Helmer; WME Signs Scott Walker

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday October 3, 2011 @ 1:48pm PDTTags: John Cusack, Nicolas Cage, Scott Walker, The Frozen Ground, Vanessa Hudgens, WME
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Scott Walker, who took time from prepping his next film, The Frozen Ground, to meet with the major agencies last week. Walker is making his directorial debut on his scripted drama about the hunt for … Read More »

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‘Broken City’ Scribe Brian Tucker Sells Spec ‘Expiration’ To Emmett/Furla Films

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday September 29, 2011 @ 2:08pm PDTTags: Allen Hughes, Brian Tucker, George Furla, John Cusack, Mark Wahlberg, Nicolas Cage, Randall Emmett, Remington Chase, Russell Crowe, Vanessa Hudgens
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: In a mid-six-figure against seven-figure deal, Emmett/Furla Films has acquired Expiration, an action script by Brian Tucker. He scripted Broken City, a drama that EFF is financing for a November 7 start date with Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe starring … Read More »

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Toronto: Vanessa Hudgens Set For ‘Frozen Ground’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday September 12, 2011 @ 6:49am PDTTags: George Furla, Jane Fleming, John Cusack, Mark Ordesky, Nicolas Cage, Randall Emmett, Remington Chase, Robert Hansen, Scott Walker, Vanessa Hudgens
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: In a departure from her High School Musical past, Vanessa Hudgens has been set to star alongside Nicolas Cage and John Cusack in Frozen Ground, the Emmett/Furla Films thriller that is being sold here in Toronto, with … Read More »

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Toronto: Emmett-Furla And Envision Set $250 Million Film Fund

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday September 9, 2011 @ 4:00am PDTTags: Allen Hughes, Anna Kendrick, Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Curtis Jackson, David Ayer, Forest Whitaker, George Furla, Jake Gyllenhaal, John Cusack, Mark Wahlberg, Nicolas Cage, Randall Emmett, Rebecca Hall, Remington Chase, Robert De Niro, Russell Crowe, Stephen Frears, Vince Vaughn
Mike Fleming

Emmett/Furla Films, a company that has been growing more ambitious in the film financing and production arena, has teamed with Stepan Martirosyan and Remington Chase’s Envision Entertainment to establish a new $250 million revolving equity and debt fund to finance a new slate of star-driven commercial films. The fund was announced as EFF principal Randall Emmett comes to Toronto to make deals on films that include the Allen Hughes-directed political corruption drama Broken City, which stars Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe, and Frozen Ground, the fact-based thriller about a serial killer in Alaska that will star Nicolas Cage and John Cusack. Martirosyan and Chase are executive producers on the latter.

The fund carries no set restrictions on how and where capital is allocated, but it will continue EFF’s momentum. The company recently financed the Stephen Frears-directed Lay The Favorite — with a cast that includes Bruce Willis, Rebecca Hall, Vince Vaughn and Catherine Zeta-Jones — with films in the works that include the David Ayer-directed crime drama End of Watch with Jake Gyllenhaal and Anna Kendrick; Fire with Josh Duhamel, Willis and Rosario Dawson; and Freelancers, a drama that stars Robert De Niro, Forest Whitaker and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. EFF’s Emmett continues to be Jackson’s partner in Cheetah Vision Films, which has a deal at Lionsgate. EFF will make nine films this year. Read More »

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Relativity Media Hiring James McTeigue On Period Crime Drama ‘Ness/Capone’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday September 8, 2011 @ 2:10pm PDTTags: Al Capone, James McTeigue, John Cusack, Oliver Butcher, Relativity Media, Ryan Kavanaugh, Stephen Cornwell
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: James McTeigue, who just completed the John Cusack-starrer The Raven for Relativity Media, is getting back in business with Ryan Kavanaugh. I’m told that McTeigue is making a deal to direct Ness/Capone, the Grant Pierce Myers script that … Read More »

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FilmNation Grabs Mike Jones Spec ‘In The Event Of A Moon Disaster’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 22, 2011 @ 11:38am PDTTags: Aaron Ryder, Edgar Allan Poe, FilmNation Entertainment, Glen Basner, Hugh Laurie, James McTeigue, Jeff Nichols, Jennifer Lawrence, John Cusack, Matthew McConaughey, Pedro Almodovar, Reese Witherspoon, Salman Rushdie
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: In competitive bidding, FilmNation Entertainment has acquired In the Event of a Moon Disaster, a Mike Jones spec script that re-imagines the first moon mission. In this version, disaster strikes and the astronauts find themselves up against … Read More »

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Russell Crowe Signs On For Mayoral Run In ‘Broken City’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 8, 2011 @ 11:10am PDTTags: Allen Hughes, Brian Tucker, Broken City, Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Curtis Jackson, David Ayer, George Furla, Jake Gyllenhaal, John Cusack, Josh Duhamel, Mark Wahlberg, Nicolas Cage, Randall Emmett, Rebecca Hall, Russell Crowe, Scott Walker, Stephen Frears, Stephen Levinson, Vince Vaughn
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Russell Crowe is set to star alongside Mark Wahlberg in the Allen Hughes-directed independently financed noir drama Broken City. Production begins in November. Wahlberg plays an ex-cop-turned-private detective who is hired by the mayor (the role Crowe will play) to see if his wife is cheating on him. The private eye confirms those suspicions, and when the mayor’s wife’s cheating partner ends up dead, the private eye immerses himself in the mayor’s business and uncovers a real estate scandal that involves the pol dealing himself choice city-owned properties. The script by Brian Tucker made the 2008 Black List. The $60 million film will be financed by Emmett/Furla Films.

Wahlberg is producing through his Closest to the Hole banner; Stephen Levinson through Leverage; and Randall Emmett, George Furla and Hughes are also producing. Wahlberg and Levinson, partners on Entourage and Boardwalk Empire, just wrapped the drama Contraband. Crowe is costarring as Jor-El in the Superman reboot Man of Steel and just wrapped The Man With The Iron Fists. Read More »

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It’s Not MLK, But David Oyelowo Teams With Lee Daniels For ‘The Paperboy’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday July 28, 2011 @ 5:18am PDTTags: John Cusack, Lee Daniels, Martin Luther King Jr., Matthew McConaughey, Pedro Almodovar, Pete Dexter
Mike Fleming

Director Lee Daniels had long planned for David Oyelowo to play Martin Luther King Jr in Selma, until that film suffered a series of setbacks. Daniels instead just set Oyelowo to play the role of Yardley in The Paperboy. He’ll … Read More »

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Nicolas Cage, John Cusack In Talks For ‘The Frozen Ground’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday July 26, 2011 @ 5:38pm PDTTags: John Cusack, Nicolas Cage, Robert Hansen, Scott Walker, The Frozen Ground
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Nicolas Cage and John Cusack are in talks to star in The Frozen Ground, a drama to shoot this fall in Anchorage, Alaska. It will mark the feature directing debut of Scott Walker, who wrote the script. Pic is based on true events surrounding Alaska’s most notorious serial predator, Robert Hansen. Cusack is in talks to play a respected family man who for over 12 years abducted more than 24 women and flew them into the Alaskan wilderness to be hunted. Cage is in talks to play a principled and dedicated Alaskan State Trooper who finds Hansen’s only surviving teen victim alive on the street. The trooper and the young girl finally bring Hansen to justice.

The pic’s produced by Emmett Furla Films’ Randall Emmett and George Furla and Amber Entertainment’s Jane Fleming and Mark Ordesky. Pic will be exec produced by Envision Entertainment’s Stephan Martirosyan and Remington William Chase, and Curtis Jackson. Financing is by Emmett Furla and Voltage will handle international sales. Emmett Furla just finished Fire With Fire and the Stephen Frears-directed Lay the Favorite and is gearing up for production on Broken City and the David Ayer-directed End of Watch with Jake Gyllenhaal. Read More »

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‘The Raven’ Wings Its Way To Relativity

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday January 20, 2011 @ 9:00am PSTTags: Edgar Allan Poe, John Cusack, Relativity, The Raven
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Relativity Media has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to The Raven, the Intrepid Pictures’ thriller that stars John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe. James McTiegue directed, and Luke Evans, Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson and Oliver Jackson-Cohen also star. Scripted … Read More »

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