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Tarsem, Ryan Reynolds In ‘Selfless’ Talks

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday April 24, 2013 @ 6:05pm PDTTags: Ryan Reynolds, Selfless, Tarsem
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Tarsem and Ryan Reynolds are in talks to team on Selfless, the co-production between Endgame Entertainment and FilmDistrict. Based on a script by Carriers scribes Alex and David Pastor, the thriller focuses on a wealthy older man who discovers he’s dying and pays to have his mind transplanted into a younger man’s body. Turns out that body is a cadaver whose previous inhabitant was murdered. Soon, he’s hunted by killers as he tries to get to the bottom of who took him out in the first place. Tarsem most recently helmed Immortals and Mirror, Mirror, and this sounds like the kind of heady subject the visualist does well. Reynolds, coming off Safe House, grounds the film with a sympathetic protagonist. Both are repped by CAA, and Tarsem is lawyered by Linda Lichter and Reynolds by David Weber. Endgame chief James D. Stern and FilmDistrict’s Peter Schlessel will produce alongside Ram Bergman. They teamed on Looper, a similarly quirky premise.

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Mireille Enos And Scott Speedman Join Ryan Reynolds In ‘Queen Of The Night’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday December 14, 2012 @ 11:47am PSTTags: Atom Egoyan, Mireille Enos, Queen Of The Night, Ryan Reynolds
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Mireille Enos and Scott Speedman have been set to star alongside Ryan Reynolds in Queen Of The Night, a psychological thriller that Atom Egoyan will direct early next year in Ontario. Egoyan wrote the story and scripted the film with David Fraser. Reynolds committed in August to play a father who discovers a series of disturbing clues eight years after his daughter is abducted, a trail that leads him to believe the now 17-year-old girl is alive.

Enos will play his wife, who dutifully checks in with police each year on her daughter’s birthday, and realizes that disturbing memorabilia left at her workplace is not merely there to taunt her but could offer clues to her daughter’s whereabouts. Enos was drafted for the role by Egoyan after she played a small role in Devil’s Knot, the film he just completed about the bogus triple murder conviction of the West Memphis 3 in Arkansas, despite the lack of any physical evidence.

Speedman is also reuniting with Egoyan. In Queen Of The Night, he will play the cop searching the his missing daughter. Speedman previously worked with Egoyan on the film Adoration. He is coming off the ABC series Last Resort and stars opposite Evan Rachel Wood in the upcoming feature Barefoot. Read More »

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Juan Carlos Fresnadillo Exits Summit’s ‘Highlander’ Remake

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday November 30, 2012 @ 4:21pm PSTTags: Highlander, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Ryan Reynolds, Summit Entertainment
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: When it comes to directors on the movie Highlander, there can be only one. But it won’t be Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. The 28 Weeks Later helmer has exited Summit’s reboot of the film, which still has … Read More »

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New Regency Revs ‘Battle For Bonneville’ With Ryan Reynolds And Jon Favreau

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday October 12, 2012 @ 1:34pm PDTTags: Jon Favreau, New Regency, Ryan Reynolds
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: New Regency is in final negotiations to acquire Battle For Bonneville, a package that comes with Ryan Reynolds attached to star and Jon Favreau to direct the story of Art and Walt Arfons. The half-brothers … Read More »

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Ryan Reynolds Circling ‘The Voices’ For Mandalay Vision

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday October 9, 2012 @ 4:58pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Mandalay Vision, Marjane Satrapi, Ryan Reynolds, The Voices
Mike Fleming

Ryan ReynoldsEXCLUSIVE: Mandalay Vision and Vertigo Entertainment are in early talks with Ryan Reynolds to star in The Voices, a psychological thriller that will be directed by Marjane Satrapi from a script by Paranormal Activity’s Michael R. Perry. The script made the Black List, and Satrapi got an Oscar nom for Best Animated Feature for her first film Persepolis, adapted from her semi-autobiographical novel. Read More »

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Gambling Comedy From Allan Loeb & Ryan Reynolds Gets Put Pilot Commitment At Fox

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday September 6, 2012 @ 10:16am PDTTags: All In, Allan Loeb, Ryan Reynolds
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Fox went All In, handing a put pilot commitment to a single-camera comedy written by Allan Loeb, who is executive producing with his producing partner Ryan Reynolds. All In, from 20th Century Fox TV and Loeb and Reynolds’ studio-based DarkFire TV, is a character-driven comedy centering on Tommy Vigorish, a compulsive gambler trying to get back in the game with the help of his family… as long as that game does not involve the exchange of money. Reynolds and Loeb executive produce the project with DarkFire TV’s two other principals, Jonathon Komack Martin and Steven Pearl. Read More »

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Universal Sets Scribe For Potential ‘Safe House’ Sequel

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 5, 2012 @ 6:05pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, David Guggenheim, Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Safe House, Universal
Mike Fleming

Universal has hired scribe David Guggenheim to try drafting a sequel to Safe House, the hit drama that Daniel Espinosa directed with Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds. It’s far from a sure thing, as Washington isn’t really a sequels guy. … Read More »

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ABC Buys Mother-Daughter Gumshoe Dramedy Produced By Ryan Reynolds

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday August 21, 2012 @ 5:59pm PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Maria Maggenti, Ryan Reynolds
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Maria MaggentiRyan ReynoldsEXCLUSIVE: ABC has put in development Between Park & Lex, a dramedy written by Maria Maggenti (Monte Carlo) and produced by ABC Studios and Ryan … Read More »

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Ryan Reynolds Teams With Atom Egoyan In Kidnap Thriller ‘Queen Of The Night’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 8, 2012 @ 8:30am PDTTags: Atom Egoyan, Big Deals Film, Ryan Reynolds, Safe House
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Reynolds has been set to star in Queen Of The Night, a psychological thriller that Atom Egoyan will direct next February in Ontario. Egoyan wrote the story, and scripted the film with David Fraser. Reynolds … Read More »

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Ryan Reynolds’ Company Sells Live-Action And Animated Comedy Projects To Fox

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday July 30, 2012 @ 9:00am PDTTags: Allan Loeb, DarkFire, Ryan Reynolds
Nellie Andreeva

Ryan Reynolds DarkFireRyan Reynolds and Allan Loeb’s company DarkFire has set two comedy projects at Fox: a live-action half-hour from writers Matt Manfredi and Phil Hay (Clash Of The Titans) and an animated show from writers Mark Torgove & Paul Kaplan (NBC’s Outsourced) and Ash Brannon (Surf’s Up). Both shows are produced by 20th Century Fox TV. Read More »

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Ryan Reynolds Tops Cast For DreamWorks Animation’s ‘Turbo’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday February 24, 2012 @ 9:21am PSTTags: DreamWorks Animation, Paul Giamatti, Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Turbo

GLENDALE, Calif., Feb. 24, 2012 — DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (Nasdaq: DWA) today announced that Ryan Reynolds will lead an all-star cast including Paul Giamatti, Michael Pena, Luis Guzman, Bill Hader, Richard Jenkins, Ken Jeong, Michelle Rodriguez, Maya Rudolph, Ben Schwartz, Kurtwood Smith, Snoop Dogg and Samuel L. Jackson in the Company’s upcoming original film Turbo, which tells the story of an ordinary garden snail with dreams of racing greatness. Turbo is scheduled to come to the big screen on July 19, 2013.

David Soren (Merry Madagascar), a DreamWorks Animation veteran as a story artist, voice actor and director, is set to direct the film based on his own original concept. Soren is co-writing the script with Robert Siegel (The Wrestler) and Darren Lemke (Shrek Forever After). Lisa Stewart (Monsters vs. Aliens, Almost Famous) is producing with Susan Rogers serving as co-producer.

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Indie ‘Big Eyes’ To Star Reese Witherspoon And Ryan Reynolds

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday January 22, 2012 @ 1:30pm PSTTags: Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Reynolds
Mike Fleming

Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Reynolds will star in Big Eyes, the film that Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski wrote and will direct this spring.

Witherspoon and Reynolds will play Margaret and Walter Keane, whose paintings of large eyed children became one … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Safe House’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday November 3, 2011 @ 1:49pm PDTTags: Denzel Washington, Movie Trailers, Ryan Reynolds, Safe House, Universal Pictures

Universal has released a trailer for the spy thriller Safe House, which stars Denzel Washington as a rogue CIA agent and Ryan Reynolds as the guy trying to keep him alive. It looks like it could be fun watching Washington play a tough guy with a bit of bad in … Read More »

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Brendan Gleeson In Robert Redford’s ‘The Company You Keep’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday October 28, 2011 @ 7:32am PDTTags: Anna Kendrick, Brendan Gleeson, Brit Marling, Chris Cooper, Denzel Washington, Glenn Close, John Cusack, Julie Christie, Nick Nolte, Robert Redford, Ryan Reynolds, Shia LaBeouf, Susan Sarandon
Mike Fleming

The Guard star Brendan Gleeson has joined Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Nick Nolte, Chris Cooper, Susan Sarandon, Julie Christie, Brit Marling and Anna Kendrick in the Redford-directed The Company You Keep. Gleeson will next be seen opposite Glenn Close in … Read More »

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McG Eyes Summit’s ‘Puzzle Palace’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday October 25, 2011 @ 5:32pm PDTTags: Chris Pine, David Guggenheim, Denzel Washington, McG, Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Reynolds, Summit Entertainment, Tom Hardy
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Summit Entertainment is in talks with McG to direct Puzzle Palace, the cop drama script by David Guggenheim. Summit acquired the project at a pitch early last year from Guggenheim after the scribe sold the spec script Safe … Read More »

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‘Zombieland’ Scribe Team Tackles Hasbro’s ‘Micronauts’ For JJ Abrams And Paramount

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday October 17, 2011 @ 4:03pm PDTTags: Brian Goldner, Bruce Willis, Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson, JJ Abrams, Jon M. Chu, Paramount, Paul Wernick, Rhett Reese, Ryan Reynolds
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese are getting the job turning the Hasbro toyline Micronauts into a feature film for JJ Abrams and Paramount Pictures. Along with the prospect of another Transformers film, Micronauts was one of the Hasbro brands … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Fireflies In The Garden’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday August 29, 2011 @ 10:22am PDTTags: Dennis Lee, Fireflies In The Garden, Julie Roberts, Movie Trailer, Ryan Reynolds

Fireflies in the Garden premiered at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival and screened in a few overseas territories but never found a U.S. distributor — until last week, when it was revealed that the Dennis Lee drama will be shown in select cities Oct. 14. Julia Roberts and Ryan … Read More »

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Ryan Reynolds & Sandra Bullock Plot TV Reunion: Co-Starring In Fox Animated Comedy Written By Reynolds & Allan Loeb

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday August 26, 2011 @ 3:06pm PDTTags: Ryan Reynolds, Sandra Bullock, Steven Pearl
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: The Proposal co-stars and good friends Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock are teaming again, this time in television. Reynolds and Bullock are expected to lead the voice cast of And Then There Was Gordon, an animated comedy from Reynolds and Allan Loeb’s recently launched TV company DarkFire, which has received a presentation order from Fox. Reynolds and Allan Loeb will co-write the script together, with Reynolds also voicing a character. Bullock is in talks to join the project as an executive producer and a lead cast member. And Then There Was Gordon centers on an ordinary child surrounded by his prodigy siblings and brilliant, but neurotic mother, a role I hear Bullock is eyed for. 20th Century Fox TV, where DarkFire has a first-look deal, is producing. Bullock would executive produce alongside DarkFire principals Reynolds, Loeb, Steven Pearl and Jonathon Komack Martin, all repped by CAA. And Then There Was Gordon seems to be the polar opposite to Fox/20th TV’s upcoming animated series Allen Gregory, which centers on a boy prodigy surrounded by average kids. This marks the writing debut for Reynolds, while Loeb’s writing credits include features Just Go With It and Wall Street 2. Read More »

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Julia Roberts-Ryan Reynolds Family Drama ‘Fireflies’ Will Finally Have U.S. Bow

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday August 25, 2011 @ 9:13pm PDTTags: Dennis Lee, Fireflies In The Garden, Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds

UPDATE: The feature film Fireflies in the Garden was shot in 2007 and had been languishing. But today producers Vanessa Coifman, Marco Weber, and Sukee Chew said they’ll finally release the film domestically. Written and directed by Dennis Lee, the semi-autobiographical R-rated Fireflies will be … Read More »

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