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WIGS Greenlights ‘Susanna’ Starring Anna Paquin And Maggie Grace

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday April 8, 2013 @ 3:44pm PDTTags: Anna Paquin, Maggie Grace, Susanna, WIGS

The YouTube channel has started production on the web series, a 12-episode scripted drama written and directed by WIGS co-founder Jon Avnet that is slated to premiere later this spring. Anna Paquin and Maggie Grace star in Susanna as two sisters, Katie (Paquin), the mother of a newborn, and her younger sister, Susanna (Grace), an investment banker on the rise who has no interest in becoming a mother. When Katie develops acute postpartum depression and is hospitalized, Susanna must take care of her sister and her sister’s child while trying to keep the biggest business opportunity of her life from being derailed by her sister’s illness. Virginia Madsen and Rob Benedict co-star.

The female-targeted WIGS in February formed a programming, marketing and distribution partnership with Fox, which aims at expanding WIGS’ offerings as well as testing and nurturing dramatic concepts and talent in the digital realm. The idea is to build content that can be programmed on the network and/or other channels. WIGS has more than 130,000 subs and its content has been viewed more than 30 million times. Its offerings include the Julia Stiles-starrer Blue, which premiered its season 2 on March 15; Serena, starring Jennifer Garner and Alfred Molina; and Jan, about a young woman who’s first job goes away starring Madsen, Paquin’s True Blood co-star Stephen Moyer and Caitlin Gerard.

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Potential ‘Californication’ Offshoot Starring Maggie Grace Not Going Forward

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday January 12, 2013 @ 5:55pm PSTTags: Californication, Maggie Grace
Nellie Andreeva

Lost alumna Maggie Grace’s major arc on the upcoming sixth season of Showtime’s dark comedy Californication will remain just that. I hear Showtime has scrapped plans to potentially spin off Grace’s character Faith into her own series. Showtime … Read More »

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Maggie Grace Set For Key ‘Californication’ Role That Could Lead To Her Own Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday May 11, 2012 @ 2:30pm PDTTags: Californication, Maggie Grace, Showtime
Nellie Andreeva

Lost alumna Maggie Grace is set for a major nine-episode arc on the upcoming sixth season of Showtime’s dark comedy Californication, playing the role of Faith. The part was designed as heavily recurring with a regular option behind it, so … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: Guy Pearce And Maggie Grace In ‘Lockout’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday January 27, 2012 @ 12:21am PSTTags: Lockout, Luc Besson, Maggie Grace

Wrongly convicted of espionage, Guy Pearce turns out to be the government’s go-to guy when the president’s daughter is trapped aboard an orbital maximum security prison. Maggie Grace also stars. Executive producer Luc Besson co-wrote with first-time feature directors James Mather and Stephen St. Leger. Known under other names abroad … Read More »

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Acting Teacher Larry Moss Makes Feature Directing Debut With Chekhov Adaptation

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday October 17, 2011 @ 9:49am PDTTags: David Duchovny, Helen Hunt, Hilary Swank, Jim Carrey, Justin Timberlake, Leonardo DiCaprio, Maggie Grace, Tea Leoni, Tobey Maguire
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Larry Moss has set Helen Hunt, David Duchovny, Maggie Grace, Joan Chen and John Robinson to star in Relative Insanity, a contemporary Hampons-set adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull. Pier 3 Pictures’ Michael Din and Juri Henley-Cohn wrote the … Read More »

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Film Casting Roundup

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday April 6, 2011 @ 2:54pm PDTTags: Carrie-Anne Moss, Cosmopolis, Film Casting, Freelancers, Jay Baruchel, Maggie Grace, Taken 2
Mike Fleming

Jay Baruchel has joined Robert Pattinson in the David Cronenberg-directed Cosmopolis. Pattinson plays a financial wiz kid who puts his life in danger by betting his entire fortune against the yen on a tumultous day in the adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel. Baruchel plays the shy guy who founded the company, and who acts as the trader’s conscience. Samantha Morton, Juliette Binoche, Paul Giamatti, Mathieu Amalric and Sarah Gadon also star. Baruchel just wrapped Goon, which he co-wrote with Evan Goldberg, and starred in and produced. He’s repped by CAA and Thruline. …

Maggie Grace has wrapped up her deal  with Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp to reprise the daughter role alongside Liam Neeson in Taken 2, the film that Transporter 3 helmer Olivier Megaton is poised to direct. Grace just completed Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn and Lockout, which Besson also produced, and which has been set for distribution with FilmDistrict. She’s repped by UTA and Global Creative. … Read More »

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FilmDistrict Nabs EuropaCorp Pic ‘Lockout’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday November 7, 2010 @ 3:00pm PSTTags: Europacorp, FilmDistrict, Guy Pearce, Lockout, Luc Besson, Maggie Grace, Movie Deals, Movies
Mike Fleming

NEW YORK, November 7, 2010 – FilmDistrict, the recently announced company founded by Graham King, Tim Headington and Peter Schlessel, has acquired all US rights to EuropaCorp’s sci-fi action adventure film, starring Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace. James Mather and Stephen St. Leger will direct LOCKOUT from their script

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‘Twilight Saga’: New Blood From ‘Taken’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday September 27, 2010 @ 2:57pm PDTTags: Bill Condon, Maggie Grace, Melissa Rosenberg, Movies, Summit Entertainment, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Casting, Vampires
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Maggie Grace will play a new vampire threat to Kristen Stewart’s Bella in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn.  Grace, who played Liam Neeson’s in-distress daughter in Taken, will play the role of Irina in the final installments of the … Read More »

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Maggie Grace In ‘Lockout’ Mode With Luc Besson

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 4, 2010 @ 5:21pm PDTTags: Europacorp, Lockout, Luc Besson, Maggie Grace, Movie Casting, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Frenchman Luc Besson has built Europacorp by hatching moderately priced thrillers, and populating them with casts, writers and directors he works with over and over. Maggie Grace, last seen as the kidnapped teenager in the Besson-Robert Mark Kamen collaboration Taken that launched director Pierre Morel’s star, has signed on for Lockout, a drama that Sony Pictures Entertainment is in talks to distribute. The picture transports a Taken-like premise to outer space. Besson hatched the script with directors James Mather and Stephen St. Leger. Guy Pearce
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