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Hot International Trailer: ‘On The Road’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday August 6, 2012 @ 5:43pm PDTTags: Garrett Hedlund, Jose Rivera, Kristen Stewart, On The Road, Sam Riley, Walter Salles

Here’s an international trailer for director Walter Salles’ take on Jack Kerouac’s On The Road. With a screenplay by Jose Rivera, the movie staring Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley and Garrett Hedlund had its world premiere at Cannes this year. IFC and Sundance Selects are distributing in the U.S. but haven’t settled on a date:

Related: Kerouac Book Finally Makes It To The Screen After 55 Years

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ICM Loses Jose Rivera As Movie/TV Client

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday September 14, 2011 @ 8:52am PDTTags: Hollywood agencies, ICM, Jose Rivera

UPDATE: ICM says it will still represent Academy Award-nominated writer Jose Rivera (The Motorcycle Diaries) in theater. But he left his movie/TV team at ICM in recent days. I hear it followed some drama when the agency dropped his … Read More »

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Chilean Miners Sell Story To Mike Medavoy, With Jose Rivera Set To Write Script

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday July 24, 2011 @ 4:42pm PDTTags: Chilean Miners, Jose Rivera, Mike Medavoy
Mike Fleming

LOS ANGELES, CA – (JULY 24, 2011) Academy Award-nominated producer Mike Medavoy and representatives of the 33 Chilean Miners, whose remarkable rescue from the San José Mine last year captivated the world’s attention, jointly announced today that they have entered into an agreement to bring the miners’ extraordinary story to the screen. Academy Award-nominated screenwriter José Rivera (MOTORCYCLE DIARIES) is set to adapt. The film will recount the events surrounding the mine’s collapse and the subsequent rescue efforts, which culminated in the emotional retrieval of all 33 miners after 69 days trapped half a mile beneath the surface.

“Like millions of people around the world, I was completely engrossed watching the rescue at Copiapó. At its heart, this is a story about the triumph of the human spirit and a testament to the courage and perseverance of the Chilean people. I can’t think of a better story than this one to bring to the screen,” said Medavoy.

“One year after the collapse of the mine, we consider this to be a great step towards the realization of a film based on our experience in the mine. This is the only official and authorized film about what we lived in the San José mine. Much of our story has never been told,” said miner Juan Andrés Illanes.

Mike Medavoy and Edward McGurn, Medavoy’s Vice-President at Phoenix Pictures, will produce through Medavoy’s recently formed Half Circle banner. Prominent Chilean entrepreneurs Carlos Eugenio Lavín and Leopoldo Enriquez will Executive Produce. Lavin is a childhood friend of Medavoy’s from his years in Chile, and Enriquez is a long time associate.

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Fox Searchlight Plots ‘La Corona’ With Jose Rivera And Rodrigo Garcia

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday December 7, 2010 @ 9:46am PSTTags: Fox Searchlight, Jose Rivera, Movie Deals, Movies, Rodrigo Garcia
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Fox Searchlight is turning the Oscar-nominated documentary La Corona into a feature film, and has set Jose Rivera to write the script and Rodrigo Garcia to direct. The 2008 Spanish language film was nominated in the Short Subject Documentary category.  The film depicted a prison pageant in which the … Read More »

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Amy Adams Joins Viggo Mortensen For ‘On The Road’ Trip

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 4, 2010 @ 3:23pm PDTTags: Amy Adams, Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Kerouac, Jose Rivera, Viggo Mortensen, Walter Salles
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Francis Ford Coppola has been working for 30 years to turn Jack Kerouac’s seminal Beat Generation novel On the Road into a movie. It is starting to look like … Read More »

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