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HBO & Playtone Set ‘Olive Kitteridge’ Miniseries With Lisa Cholodenko Helming Frances McDormand And Richard Jenkins

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday May 1, 2013 @ 3:59pm PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Frances McDormand, HBO, Lisa Cholodenko, Olive Kitteridge, Richard Jenkins
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: HBO has set The Kids Are All Right helmer Lisa Cholodenko to direct and Frances McDormand and Richard Jenkins to star in a miniseries adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Elizabeth Strout novel Olive Kitteridge. Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman will be executive producers along with McDormand and her As Is banner and Jane Anderson. Anderson adapted the book into the four-hour mini. David Coatsworth is producing.

Olive Kitteridge tells the alternately poignantly sweet, acerbically funny, and devastatingly tragic story of a seemingly placid New England town wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and a staunch moral center. McDormand plays the title character and Jenkins plays her husband, Henry.

Getting this cast, director and a four-hour commitment from HBO is a real testament for McDormand. I’ve been following this one for years, and it started when McDormand fell in love with the book before it won the Pulitzer. She bought it with her own money, and drafted Anderson to write the script. Her gamble has paid off in this being a nice star vehicle for the Oscar-winning Fargo star. She’s repped by WME and Circle Of Confusion, Jenkins by Gersh and Bill Treusch, and Cholodenko by ICM Partners and Partizan.

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Richard Jenkins Joins Divorce Comedy ‘A.C.O.D.’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday December 7, 2011 @ 8:03am PSTTags: A.C.O.D., Adam Scott, Ben Karlin, Richard Jenkins, Stuart Zicherman
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Richard Jenkins has joined A.C.O.D. (Adult Children Of Divorce), the Stuart Zicherman-directed film for Black Bear Pictures. Ben Karlin (50/50) wrote the script with Zicherman and Teddy Schwarzman, Karlin and Tim Perell are producing. The film centers on a … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘The Cabin In The Woods’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday December 5, 2011 @ 3:08pm PSTTags: Bradley Whitford, Chris Hemsworth, Drew Goddard, Jodelle Ferland, Joss Whedon, Lionsgate, Richard Jenkins, The Cabin in the Woods

The trailer for The Cabin In The Woods went online today. The horror thriller that stars Chris Hemsworth was finished before his breakthrough as Thor. Directed by Cloverfield scribe Drew Goddard, who co-wrote it with Joss Whedon, the MGM project stalled because of that company’s financial problems and Lionsgate made … Read More »

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Susan Sarandon, Julie Christie, And Richard Jenkins Keep ‘Company’ With Robert Redford

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday August 11, 2011 @ 3:40pm PDTTags: Brit Marling, Julie Christie, Nick Nolte, Nicolas Chartier, Richard Jenkins, Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Susan Sarandon
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Redford has set Susan Sarandon, Julie Christie and Richard Jenkins to star in The Company You Keep, the drama Redford is directing and starring … Read More »

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Joss Whedon’s ‘Cabin In The Woods’ With ‘Thor’s Chris Hemsworth Going To Lionsgate

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday April 28, 2011 @ 4:15pm PDTTags: Adrianne Palicki, Bradley Whitford, Chris Hemsworth, Drew Goddard, Josh Hutcherson, Joss Whedon, Lionsgate, MGM, Richard Jenkins
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate is making a deal with MGM to distribute The Cabin in the Woods, putting an end to an unexpectedly long shelf life for a horror film that has a terrific creative pedigree and a high degree of fanboy wanna-see. Cloverfield writer Drew Goddard directed the film and co-wrote it with Joss Whedon. The film’s cast includes Chris Hemsworth, who made it before he was set to star as the title character in Marvel’s Thor. Ironically, Whedon and Hemsworth are reuniting, with Whedon directing The Avengers, and Hemsworth reprising his hammer-swinging role. It’s unclear when Lionsgate will release the film, but October is a good bet.

The delay has little to do with the quality of the film. It was once slated to be released by MGM on Oct. 23, 2009, but was pulled back because it was going to be converted to 3D. Then, everything froze at MGM because of the strangling debt load, and The Cabin in the Woods was among several pictures that languished. By the time the picture is released, Thor will have established Hemsworth’s star value, which will certainly help a film that also stars Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford.

That leaves the remake of Red Dawn as the last holdover MGM film seeking a distributor. That picture also stands to gain from having sat on a shelf. Read More »

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