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DreamWorks Moves Up ‘The Help’ To Aug. 10

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 30, 2011 @ 2:14pm PDTTags: Disney, DreamWorks, Emma Stone, Kathryn Stockett, Tate Taylor, The Help, Viola Davis
Mike Fleming

DreamWorks and Disney have moved the opening of the Kathryn Stockett bestselling novel adaptation The Help to Aug. 10. They’ll open it Wednesday instead of its original Aug. 12 Friday date to make a long weekend out of it and take advantage of word of mouth. The Tate Taylor-directed film stars Emma Stone and Viola Davis.

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Chris Columbus And 1492 Acquire ‘The Cypress House’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 2, 2011 @ 11:57am PDTTags: Chris Columbus, Kathryn Stockett, Tate Taylor
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Columbus and 1492 Pictures have acquired screen rights to The Cypress House, a Michael Koryta novel that Columbus will write the script for and produce with 1492 partners Michael Barnathan and Mark Radcliffe. The story is set along … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘The Help’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday April 18, 2011 @ 4:48pm PDTTags: DreamWorks, Kathryn Stockett, The Help
Mike Fleming

DreamWorks has released a new trailer for The Help, the Tate Taylor-directed adaptation of the Kathryn Stockett novel about life in pre-Civil Rights era Mississippi. The film, a co-production between DreamWorks and Participant Media, stars Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard and Emma Stone. It hits theaters Aug. 12.

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