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Julia Stiles, Scott Speedman Inhabit Haunted House Pic ‘Out Of The Dark’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday April 25, 2013 @ 10:30am PDTTags: Julia Stiles, Out Of The Dark, Participant Media, Scott Speedman, Stephen Rea
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BREAKING: Julia Stiles, Scott Speedman and Stephen Rea are starring in Out Of The Dark, a supernatural thriller just getting underway in Bogota, Colombia under Spanish helmer Lluis Quilez. Participant Media is backing with Image Nation and Colombia’s Dynamo and Spain’s Apaches Entertainment. Participant’s Jeff Skoll and Jonathan King and Nick Spicer of XYZ Films serve as executive producers. Alex & David Pastor and Javier Gullón wrote the script, about an American couple, Sarah and Paul Harriman, who move to Colombia with their young daughter, Hannah, to take over the manufacturing business owned by Sarah’s father, and soon realize that the house they’ve moved into is haunted.

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Web Channel Wigs Orders Julia Stiles Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday March 6, 2013 @ 11:07am PSTTags: Grace Gummer, Julia Stiles, Paloma, WIGS
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On the heels of closing a multi-year deal with Fox Broadcasting Co., YouTube’s scripted drama channel Wigs has announced a new drama, Paloma, written and directed by Julia Stiles, and starring Grace Gummer as a young woman dealing with the unpredictability of relationships, both in romance and in … Read More »

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Julia Stiles To Play Scribe Frances Marion In Mary Pickford Pic ‘The First’

By JEN YAMATO | Thursday January 31, 2013 @ 6:02pm PSTTags: Julia Stiles

Poverty Row has set Julia Stiles to play groundbreaking screenwriter Frances Marion in the Jennifer DeLia-directed Mary Pickford film The First, based on Eileen Whitfield’s biography Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood. Marion was the first woman … Read More »

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Julia Stiles To Star In NBC Drama Pilot ‘Midnight Sun’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 2, 2012 @ 5:17pm PSTTags: Julia Stiles, Midnight Sun
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EXCLUSIVE: Julia Stiles is set as the lead in NBC’s drama pilot Midnight Sun. The thriller, based on an Israeli format, follows the mysterious disappearance of Midnight Sun, a group living on a cult-like commune in Alaska. It centers on Leah … Read More »

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AFM: Myriad Acquires Mike Figgis-Directed ‘Seconds Of Pleasure’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday November 6, 2011 @ 10:39am PSTTags: Brendan Fraser, Christina Hendricks, Julia Stiles, Kristin Scott Thomas, Matt Dillon, Myriad Pictures, Neil LaBute
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Myriad Pictures has acquired worldwide rights outside the UK for the Neil LaBute-scripted Seconds Of Pleasure. Mike Figgis will direct a film that will star Matt Dillon, Julia Stiles, Brendan Fraser, Kristin Scott Thomas and Christina Hendricks. Seconds Of Pleasure explores a series of intimate and emotionally charged events that occur among a small group of people traveling together on a trans-Atlantic flight from Chicago to London. LaBute adapted it from his novel, which weaves together the intertwined yet separate stories of the six couples searching for those moments that make life worth living. Seconds Of Pleasure is a production of Scotland broadcasting giant STV. Margaret Enefer, STV Productions’ Head of Drama, Bill Shapter and LaBute are the producers. Read More »

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Julia Stiles Joins ‘Silver Linings Playbook’; Chris Tucker Closes Deal

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday October 5, 2011 @ 10:18am PDTTags: Chris Tucker, David O. Russell, Film Castings, Julia Stiles, The Weinstein Co

Julia Stiles is joining The Weinstein Co’s The Silver Linings Playbook, which stars Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence and is being directed by David O. Russell. Just … Read More »

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Julia Stiles & America Ferrera Book Indie Comedy ‘It’s A Disaster’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday July 14, 2011 @ 5:03pm PDTTags: America Ferrera, Film Castings, Julia Stiles

Julia Stiles and America Ferrera have signed on to star in writer-director Todd Berger’s It’s a Disaster, a Vacationeer Productions comedy about four couples who meet for Sunday brunch but get stranded in a house as the world may be about to end. Kevin M. Brennan, Jeff Grace, Blaise Miller and … Read More »

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Off-Broadway Play ‘Between Us’ Gets Screen Treatment

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday April 20, 2011 @ 12:48pm PDTTags: Julia Stiles, Melissa George
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Julia Stiles, Taye Diggs, Melissa George and David Harbour are attached to star in Between Us, the Dan Mirvish-directed adaption of the Joe Hortua off-Broadway play about two couples who … Read More »

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Christina Hendricks Uses ‘Mad Men’ Hiatus For ‘Seconds Of Pleasure’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday March 15, 2011 @ 10:14am PDTTags: Brendan Fraser, Christina Hendricks, Julia Stiles, Kristin Scott Thomas, Mad Men, Matt Dillon, Neil LaBute
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Mad Men‘s Christina Hendricks has signed on to star in Seconds of Pleasure, which Mike Figgis is directing from a Neil LaBute script. The story takes place on an airplane and connects the lives of people on the plane through … Read More »

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