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Myriad Lands International On Julianne Moore-Michael Angarano ‘English Teacher’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday May 7, 2013 @ 6:06pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Cannes Wrap-Up, Julianne Moore, Myriad, The English Teacher
Mike Fleming

Myriad Pictures has acquired international distribution rights to The English Teacher, starring Julianne Moore (The Kids Are All Right; Crazy, Stupid, Love), Michael Angarano (Brass Teapot, The Forbidden Kingdom, Haywire), Greg Kinnear (Little Miss Sunshine, Baby Mama, Stuck in Love), Lily Collins (Mirror Mirror, Abduction, The Blind Side), and Nathan Lane (The Producers, Mirror Mirror, “Modern Family”). Following the film’s recent world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, Myriad will screen the film for the first time for buyers at this month’s Cannes Marche du Film. The English Teacher is the charming story of a small town teacher whose mundane routine is turned around when a former student returns after failing as a playwright in New York City. The film was written by Dan Chariton and Stacy Chariton and is an Artina Films production.

Linda Sinclair (Moore) is a forty-year-old unmarried high school English teacher in the small town of Kingston, Pennsylvania. She shares a small apartment with two Siamese cats and her rich collection of great literature, and she likes it that way. But Linda’s simple life turns an unexpected page when former star pupil Jason Sherwood (Angarano) returns to Kingston after trying to make it as a playwright in New York. Now in his 20s, Jason is on the verge of abandoning art, pressured by his overbearing father (Kinnear), to face reality and go to law school. Linda can’t stand the thought of Jason giving up on his dreams so she decides to mount his play – a dark, angst-ridden, ambitious work – as a Kingston High School production, with flamboyant drama teacher Carl Kapinas (Lane) directing. With the play, her reputation, and her teaching career on the line, Linda finds an unlikely ally in herself.

Said D’Amico, “The entire cast really shines in this fun and engaging film, and Julianne Moore delivers another brilliant and witty performance. We are thrilled to add The English Teacher to our lineup for Cannes.”

The English Teacher is an Artina Films production. Naomi Despres, Robert Salerno, Matthew E. Chausse and Ben LeClair served as producers. Philippe Chausse of Procinvest Sas and Aaron Gilbert of Media House Capital served as executive producers. The film premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival and will be theatrically released in the U.S. by Cinedigm on May 17, 2013.

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David Cronenberg’s ‘Maps To The Stars’ Finds Julianne Moore, John Cusack & EOne

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Thursday April 18, 2013 @ 7:15am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, David Cronenberg, Entertainment One, Julianne Moore, Robert Pattinson

Canadian giant Entertainment One will team with Martin Katz’s Prospero Pictures to back David Cronenberg‘s upcoming ensemble thriller Maps To The Stars. Julianne Moore, John Cusack, Robert Pattinson and Sarah Gadon are to … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Carrie’ Remake

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday April 4, 2013 @ 5:26pm PDTTags: Carrie, Chloe Moretz, Julianne Moore, MGM, Screen Gems

It’s a tough road to fully wipe clear the iconic images of Brian De Palma’s 1976 original, based on the Stephen King book about a loner high school girl whose crazy mom and the mean kids at school eventually get the brunt of her blossoming telekinetic powers. But this first … Read More »

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Cinedigm & Tribeca Team To Acquire ‘The English Teacher’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday February 12, 2013 @ 9:00am PSTTags: Cinedigm, Julianne Moore, The English Teacher, Tribeca Film

The English Teacher stars Julianne Moore, Nathan Lane, Greg Kinnear, Lily Collins and Michael Angarano and will be released this spring as part of a double-team rights deal between Cinedigm Entertainment Group and Tribeca Film. As … Read More »

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AFM: Al Pacino, Jeremy Renner, Julianne Moore Star In Dan Fogelman-Helmed ‘Imagine’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday October 23, 2012 @ 10:58am PDTTags: AFM, Al Pacino, Dan Fogelman, Jeremy Renner, Julianne Moore
Mike Fleming

Al Pacino Imagine MovieBREAKING: In what will be one of the hot packages at the upcoming AFM, Inimitable Pictures and Mister Smith Entertainment are teaming for Imagine. Dan Fogelman will direct his script and Al Pacino, Jeremy Renner and Julianne Moore will star. Denise DiNovi, who teamed with Fogelman on Crazy, Stupid, Love, will produce alongside Jessie Nelson and Nimitt Mankad, and Shivani Rawat exec producing.

Jeremy Renner Imagine MovieThis is the script that Fogelman originally sold for $3 million to Warner Bros with Steve Carell attached. It will instead be funded independently by Inimitable Pictures’ Mankad and Rawat through a film fund backed by Manoj Bhargava, founder of the 5 Hour Energy drink. Principal photography will commence late April/early May 2013.

Julianne Moore Imagine MovieDavid Garrett’s Mister Smith Entertainment will oversee international licensing and distribution for the film, starting at AFM. WME Global, which made the deal with the agreement with Mister Smith, will handle the domestic deal.

Pacino will play an aging 1970s rock star who is still packing arenas and living a decadent life with a girlfriend way too young for him. On his 64th birthday, he discovers an undelivered letter written to his 19-year-old self from his hero John Lennon. He decides to straighten out, stop making a living off by “selling out” and playing old anthems, and rediscover the music he originally set out to make. He also tries to reconnect with the 40-year-old son he’s never known (Renner). He moves into a small New Jersey hotel and befriends the hotel’s manager (Moore). The rocker’s hope: that despite the rough journey, Lennon’s message that love is all that matters will ring true at the end. Read More »

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EMMYS: Julianne Moore On ‘Game Change’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday June 26, 2012 @ 1:00am PDTTags: Emmy, Game Change, Julianne Moore

She’s considered one of the finest film actresses of this or any generation. Julianne Moore has garnered four Oscar nominations for such disparate roles in Boogie Nights, The End Of The Affair and in 2002 pulled off the rare feat of two nominations in both leading and supporting categories for Far From Heaven and TheBoardwalk Empire Hours. It seems only a matter of time before she finally nabs the Oscar itself  because Moore is deeply admired by her fellow actors as someone not afraid to take risks and go into dark places. This year she took another risk, not only diving into a TV film, albeit HBO but taking one of the most iconic, polarizing  and most recognizable  political figures of our time,  former vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin in the movie version of the best-selling book about that 2008 campaign, Game Change. Due to the uncanny portrayal by Moore she has catapulted herself  into the Emmy race. But it wouldn’t be her first. She started in TV soaps in the mid-80’s and won a Daytime Emmy for As The World Turns in 1988. Make no mistake, this year Moore is definitely ready to move up to the Primetime contest. I recently talked to her about the challenge of taking on Palin.

Related: EMMYS: Jay Roach On ‘Game Change’

PERFECTING PALIN: “This was extremely different (playing a real person who is still alive).  I mean, the people that I have played before have been deceased and not very well known.  They were not certainly well known, public figures.  This is somebody who is very, very much present in our lives, even now, so we didn’t even have a grace period of playing, even 10 years. There was no point at which she has faded from public view…So the responsibility to be accurate was really high.  So, the first thing I did was call a vocal coach.  And cleared my schedule of everything else I was doing because we only had two months to prep too. I wanted to devote as much time as I could to doing the research.  The great thing today is that everything is available.  Everything is on YouTube.  Literally everything (Sarah Palin) ever did during the (2008) campaign have been documented.  Because we were working specifically on that time period, those months leading up to the election, between her nomination and the concession speech.  That was what I focused on looking at.  So I looked at all of her appearances, all of the convention speeches, all of the press appearance, all of the debates and, listened to it over and over. Put it on my iPod, worked with my vocal coach and just did it.  My kids made fun of me: I had nothing else on my iPod except for Sarah Palin. [laughter] Literally, I took all the music off so I would never ever be tempted to listen to anything else.”

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Portia Doubleday, Judy Greer Join ‘Carrie’ Remake

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 14, 2012 @ 12:28pm PDTTags: Carrie, Chloe Moretz, Judy Greer, Julianne Moore, MGM, Screen Gems
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: MGM and Screen Gems have set Portia Doubleday to play bad girl Chris Hargensen and Judy Greer to play the gym teacher Miss Desjardin in the Kim Peirce-directed Carrie … Read More »

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MGM Sets Julianne Moore And Gabriella Wilde For ‘Carrie’ Remake

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday May 11, 2012 @ 5:29pm PDTTags: Carrie, Julianne Moore
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: MGM and Screen Gems has closed a deal with Julianne Moore to play the iconic Margaret White in Carrie, the remake that is being directed by Kimberly Peirce. Now the studio … Read More »

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MGM Offers Julianne Moore Iconic Mom Role In ‘Carrie’ Remake

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday April 27, 2012 @ 1:45pm PDTTags: Carrie, Julianne Moore, MGM, Stephen King
Mike Fleming

Julianne Moore Carrie MovieIt isn’t a big surprise, but MGM has formally offered Julianne Moore the nightmarish religious fanatic mother in the Kimberly Peirce-directed remake of the 1976 film Carrie. Chloe Moretz is already set to play … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: HBO’s ‘Game Change’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday January 31, 2012 @ 9:14pm PSTTags: Ed Harris, Game Change, HBO, Julianne Moore

HBO has released a full-length trailer for director Jay Roach’s Game Change with Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin, Ed Harris as John McCain and Woody Harrelson as McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt. Screenplay by Danny Strong, based on the book by John Heilman and Mark Halperin. It debuts March 10th.

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TV TEASER: Julianne Moore As Sarah Palin In HBO Film ‘Game Change’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday December 21, 2011 @ 3:23pm PSTTags: Game Change, HBO, Julianne Moore, Sarah Palin
Nellie Andreeva

HBO has released the first teaser for its upcoming film Game Change, which follows John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign from his selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate to their ultimate defeat in the general … Read More »

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HBO Turning ‘The Kids Are All Right’ Into Series Pilot

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 1:51pm PDTTags: Annette Bening, Celine Rattray, HBO, Josh Hutcherson, Julianne Moore, Lisa Cholodenko, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska, The Kids Are All Right
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: HBO has made a deal to develop  the Oscar-nominated comedy The Kids Are All Right as an hour-long series. Lisa Cholodenko, who co-wrote and directed the Focus Features release, will write the pilot script. I’m told that it will … Read More »

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Legendary Ups Jon Jashni To President

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday September 20, 2011 @ 10:05am PDTTags: Alex Proyas, Ashok Amritraj, Ben Barnes, Benjamin Walker, Bradley Cooper, Charlie Hunnam, Guillermo Del Toro, Idris Elba, Jeff Bridges, Jon Jashni, Julianne Moore, Legendary Entertainment, Thomas Tull
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Legendary Entertainment chairman and CEO Thomas Tull has promoted Jon Jashni to president, a new post. Jashni, a veteran executive and producer who joined Tull six years ago, will continue to function as chief creative officer and has been a big part of Legendary’s evolution from a co-financier of Warner Bros films to an enterprise that is generating its own films that are released by Warner Bros. Legendary’s rise has been fueled by being partner in such films as The Hangover, Clash of the Titans, the Chris Nolan Batman trilogy and Inception, as well as the upcoming Superman reboot Man of Steel. Tull’s company is generating its own tent pole films, including the Guillermo del Toro-directed alien-invasion film Pacific Rim that stars Charlie Hunnam and Idris Elba, and a reboot of Godzilla. Jashni is a producer on those films as well as the Alex Proyas-directed Paradise Lost that will star Bradley Cooper and Benjamin Walker, and the Sergey Bodrov-directed The Seventh Son, which stars Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore and Ben Barnes. Read More »

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Nathan Lane, Julianne Moore And Greg Kinnear In ‘The English Teacher’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 14, 2011 @ 2:25am PDTTags: Artina Films, Greg Kinnear, Julianne Moore, Nathan Lane, The English Teacher
Mike Fleming

Artina Films has set Nathan Lane to join Julianne Moore and Greg Kinnear in The English Teacher, a comedy that marks the feature directing debut of Craig Zisk, whose credits include The Big C, Nurse Jackie and Weeds. The Dan … Read More »

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HBO Reunites ‘Mildred Pierce’ Team For Drama Project That May Star Julianne Moore

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday August 15, 2011 @ 11:00am PDTTags: Christine Vachon, HBO, John Wells, Julianne Moore, Todd Haynes
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Mildred Pierce executive producer and director Todd Haynes has re-teamed with the HBO miniseries’ executive producers John Wells and Christine Vachon for another period HBO project … Read More »

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FilmDistrict Near U.S. Distribution Deal For Ryan Gosling-Nic Refn ‘Only God Forgives’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 29, 2011 @ 8:31pm PDTTags: Angelina Jolie, Anthony Mackie, Bob Berney, Bruce Willis, Chuck Russell, Derek Cianfrance, FilmDistrict, Gerard Butler, Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Josh Brolin, Julianne Moore, Liam Hemsworth, Logan's Run, Nicolas Winding Refn, Peter Schlessel, Ruben Fleischer, Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Steve Carell, Taylor Hackford
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: In a low-seven-figure minimum guarantee deal, FilmDistrict has acquired U.S. rights to Only God Forgives, a drama that will reteam Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn with Ryan Gosling. Several distributors were in the mix, but FilmDistrict’s Peter Schlessel had … Read More »

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Sam Claflin Crowned Prince For ‘Snow White And The Huntsman’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday May 4, 2011 @ 11:32am PDTTags: Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth, Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart, Rupert Sanders, Snow White and the Huntsman
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures is setting Sam Claflin to play the role of the prince in Snow White and the Huntsman, the Rupert Sanders-directed re-imagining of the fairy tale that stars Kristen Stewart as Snow White and Charlize Theron as the … Read More »

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Sarah Paulson And Peter MacNicol Join HBO’s Palin-McCain Movie ‘Game Change’, Julianne Moore As Sarah Palin Unveiled

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday April 27, 2011 @ 10:35am PDTTags: Game Change, HBO, Julianne Moore, Sarah Palin, Sarah Paulson
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Paulson and Peter MacNicol are set to co-star in the HBO film Game Change, produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman’s Playtone. The movie, directed by Jay Roach and written by Danny Strong, follows John McCain’s (Ed Harris) 2008 presidential campaign, from his selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (Julianne Moore) as his running mate to their ultimate defeat in the general election. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip alumna Paulson will play McCain’s senior campaign adviser Nicolle Wallace, described as attractive, wholesome, California-bred, smart, focused and an ambitious political writer and communications chief who worked for Jeb Bush and then McCain. Ally McBeal alum MacNicol will play McCain’s campaign manager Rick Davis, who oversaw the development and implementation of all campaign strategy and policy development.  Also cast in the film is Justin Gaston as Levi Johnston, who fathered the baby of Palin’s teenage daughter Bristol (Melissa Farman). ICM-repped Paulson stars in Kari Lizer’s comedy pilot for NBC as well as in the Sundance film Martha Marcy May Marlene, which has been picked up by Fox Searchlight for a release later this year and is now heading to Cannes. Emmy winner MacNicol has been recurring on Grey’s Anatomy. Gaston, repped by CAA and the Hofflund Co., next co-stars in the indie The Escapee. Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Crazy Stupid Love’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday April 6, 2011 @ 2:11pm PDTTags: Crazy Stupid Love, Emma Stone, Julianne Moore, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell, Trailers, Video, Warner Bros

The Warner Bros comedy starring Steve Carell, Julianne Moore, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone opens July 29.

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