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Pierce Brosnan To Show ‘How To Make Love Like An Englishman’ (Isn’t He Irish?)

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday May 8, 2013 @ 3:00pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Cannes Wrap-Up, How To Make Love Like An Englishman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Pierce Brosnan
Mike Fleming

Pierce Brosnan's How To Make Love Like An EnglishmanPierce Brosnan, Jessica Alba and Kristin Scott Thomas will star in the Tom Vaughan-helmed sexually charged romantic comedy How To Make Love Like An Englishman, the Matthew Newman-scripted film that is backed by Southpaw Entertainment’s Richard B. Lewis, Irish Dreamtime’s Beau St. Clair and Envision Entertainment’s Grant Cramer. Solution Entertainment will sell the film in Cannes. Brosnan plays a Cambridge University professor who is forced to reexamine his hedonistic lifestyle after meeting a great gal (Thomas). Things get complicated when he impregnates her grad student stepsister (Alba). Pic will shoot in September, financed by Envision and Merced Media Partners, and will be Executive Produced by Stepan Martirosyan and Remington Chase of Envision, Raj Brinder Singh and Kevin Scott Frakes of Merced Media Partners, Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel of The Solution, and Jon Amiel. CAA represents the U.S. distribution rights.

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Hot Trailer: ‘Love Is All You Need’

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Wednesday February 20, 2013 @ 3:00am PSTTags: Pierce Brosnan, Susanne Bier

Danish director Susanne Bier‘s Love Is All You Need, the follow-up to her 2011 Oscar winner In A Better World, releases in the UK on April 19 via Arrow Films. Sony Pictures Classics has U.S. rights with a May 3 release date. Trine Dyrholm and … Read More »

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Pierce Brosnan Outfit Inks Deal With Solution, First Pic ‘November Man’: Cannes

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday May 15, 2012 @ 10:21am PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brosnan’s production company Irish DreamTime has signed a multi-picture financing and distribution deal with Solution Entertainment Group. The first film in the arrangement will be the espionage thriller November Man, starring Brosnan and … Read More »

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Michelle Monaghan Joins Owen Wilson, Pierce Brosnan In ‘The Coup’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday May 11, 2012 @ 12:02pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Crime Scene Pictures, Michelle Monaghan, Owen Wilson, Pierce Brosnan, The Coup
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Michelle Monaghan will star with Owen Wilson and Pierce Brosnan in The Coup, a thriller centered on an American family who moves to Southeast Asia and finds themselves entangled in a violent coup with merciless rebels attacking the city. Devil … Read More »

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Pierce Brosnan Joins ‘The Coup’ Cast

By PATRICK HIPES, Managing Editor | Tuesday May 1, 2012 @ 1:28pm PDTTags: Crime Scene Pictures, Owen Wilson, Pierce Brosnan, The Coup

Pierce Brosnan The CoupPierce Brosnan will star alongside Owen Wilson in John Erick Dowdle’s The Coup, the Crime Scene Pictures thriller that begins production in October. The film, written by … Read More »

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EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK: A&E’s ‘Stephen King’s Bag of Bones’ Miniseries

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 9:29am PDTTags: A&E, Bag of Bones, Pierce Brosnan
Nellie Andreeva

Here is the first teaser for A&E Network’ upcoming  Stephen King’s Bag of Bones, a two-night, four-hour mini-series starring Pierce Brosnan. The teaser for the mini will debut during the second season premiere of AMC’s The Walking Dead on Sunday. Based on King’s bestselling novel, the Sony TV-produced project … Read More »

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A&E Greenlights ‘Stephen King’s Bag Of Bones’ Miniseries Starring Pierce Brosnan

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday July 22, 2011 @ 9:57am PDTTags: A&E, Bag of Bones, Mick Garris, Pierce Brosnan
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: A&E Network has greenlighted for production Stephen King’s Bag of Bones, a two-night, four-hour mini-series starring Pierce Brosnan. Annabeth Gish will co-star in the project, based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel. Kelly Rowland also is expected to join the cast of the mini, from Sony Pictures Television, which will premiere on A&E in the fourth quarter of 2011. Mick Garris will direct from a script by Matt Venne. Filming is scheduled to begin next month in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Bag of Bones centers on bestselling novelist Mike Noonan (Brosnan), who is unable to stop grieving after the sudden death of his wife Jo (Gish). A dream inspires him to return to the couple’s lakeside retreat in western Maine where he becomes involved in a custody battle between the daughter of an attractive young widow and the child’s enormously wealthy grandfather, the mysterious ghostly visitations, the ever-escalating nightmares and the realization that his late wife still has something to tell him.

Bag of Bones is executive produced by Mark Sennett for Mark Sennet Entertainment, Mick Garris for Nice Guy Prods., Stewart Mackinnon for Headline Pictures and Craig Sheftell. Brian Gary and David Davoli are the co-executive producers. Garris, Sennett and Venne had been working on a Bag of Bones adaptation for several years, originally as a feature and then as a mini.

This is the second high-profile miniseries fronted by a movie star to be greenlighted at a A&E Network over the past couple of months. Read More »

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Sundance: IFC, Sony Worldwide Acquisitions Take ‘Salvation Boulevard’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday January 27, 2011 @ 6:22pm PSTTags: 2011 Sundance Film Festival, Ed Harris, Greg Kinnear, Movie Deals, Movies, Pierce Brosnan, Sundance Film Deals, Sundance Film Festival
Mike Fleming

IFC Films and Sony Pictures Worldwide teamed for North American rights to Salvation Boulevard, the George Ratliff-directed film that stars Pierce Brosnan, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Greg Kinnear, Jim Gaffigan and Marisa Tomei. Brosnan plays a charismatic preacher who captivates … Read More »

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OSCAR: No T-Day Slowdown For Contenders

By PETE HAMMOND | Tuesday November 23, 2010 @ 6:51pm PSTTags: 83rd Academy Awards, Aaron Sorkin, Academy Awards, American Cinematheque, Andrew Garfield, Armie Hammer, Deadline Hollywood Pete Hammond, Disney Tangled, Jusrin Timberlake, Movies, Oscar Buzz, Oscar Screenings, Oscars, Pete Hammond, Pierce Brosnan, Tangled, The Ghost Writer, The Social Network
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Traditionally, most Hollywood businesses grind to a halt for the 5-day Thanksgiving holiday. But not this wide-open awards season. Tangled had its official Academy screening last Sunday morning but only drew about 200 people. Instead, the holidays actually seem like a good time to push an animated Disney musical. So Disney isn’t even taking Turkey Day off: instead, the studio has skedded screenings of Tangled at the DGA open to all Guild and Academy members. This isn’t actually a new practice. In the past, Oscar hopefuls like Dreamgirls, The Lord Of The Rings, and others have done the same thing at the DGA theater drawing surprisingly strong crowds of potential voters on a day most people are thought to stay at home. Disney also sent a note warning some early voting groups that they wouldn’t be able to send screeners of the film before deadlines for ballots (piracy concerns are part of that problem), so the T-Day screenings take on even greater import.

Tangled aside, distributors have been rushing to get screeners in as many voter hands as possible before Thanksgiving when they think people will have more time on their hands to pop a DVD in the player before the real crunch comes in December. Among those sent in the last few days are The Social Network, Made In Dagenham, Inside Job, Stone, Let Me In, 127 Hours, Black Swan, Conviction, Never Let Me Go, Toy Story 3, Winter’s Bone, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1,  The Town, Inception, Hereafter, Legends Of The Guardians: The Owls of Ga’hoole, and The Ghost Writer.

Meanwhile, campaign season continues. Over the weekend, American Cinematheque also proved why it can be a very useful tool during awards season by hosting two sold-out events  for Oscar hopefuls. Saturday night, there was a tribute to Pierce Brosnan at the Aero in Santa Monica with a double feature of Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer and Matador. Inbetween, Pierce appeared for a nearly hour-long Q&A (I moderated) in which he discussed his career from TV’s Remington Steele to James Bond to an Roman Polanski’s Ghost Writer in which he plays ex-British Prime Minister (Tony Blair, anyone?) now writing his controversial memoir. Summit Entertainment is hoping the pic will land him in the Best Supporting Actor conversation. Its early February release is a hindrance but by having a toney organization like American Cinematheque create these little tribute evenings, studios believe they can get the “right” kind of association for their contenders.

It was completely sold out, as was the next night at the same venue which hosted a Q&A session with writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield and Armie Hammer following a special screening of Sony Pictures’ The Social Network. All were talking about the genius of Director David Fincher (away on location in Sweden shooting The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo remake) and the number of takes he would require of his actors. “Sometimes there would be 99 of them, but not 100, never 100,” Timberlake said. In an encouraging sign for writerly respect, most of the audience questions from the predominantly young crowd were surprisingly directed at Sorkin who said dialogue-heavy movie might have been written by Paddy Chayefsky in another era. Not bad company to be in since Paddy won no less than three screenwriting Oscars. Some are asking if there is any way Sorkin can lose the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar this year? Especially after The Social Network opened to near-unanimous acclaim and strong business for a drama.

Other Best Picture competitors were also active over the weekend Read More »

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James Bond’s Pierce Brosnan Headed To TV

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday November 17, 2010 @ 1:15pm PSTTags: Jack Orman, Pierce Brosnan, Sony Pictures TV, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

Pierce Brosnan is returning to television with an investigative thriller from veteran ER writer-producer Jack Orman and Sony Pictures Television that will likely go straight to series. Orman has written a pilot script for the ex-007′s project, which Sony is shopping to international broadcasters with the goal to land pre-sales elsewhere before taking it to U.S. networks. The untitled drama centers on a “fixer,” private investigator specializing in international crisis intervention who is called in to help solve homicides, abductions, financial schemes and other crimes anywhere in the world. It is largely based on Read More »

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