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Sam Shepard To Star In Discovery Channel’s ‘Klondike’ Miniseries

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday April 3, 2013 @ 8:25am PDTTags: Discovery Channel, Klondike, Sam Shepard
Nellie Andreeva

Sam Shepard has joined the cast of Discovery Channel’s miniseries Klondike, which marks the channel’s first scripted project. Shepard replaces Chris Cooper, who pulled out last week to attend to a personal matter. Based on Charlotte Gray’s novel Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich In The Klondike, the mini tells the story of six strangers and their collective fight for survival and wealth in a small frontier town in the remote Klondike. Shepard will play Father Judge, who has come to Klondike to atone for his violent past on a mission to save souls. Scott Free Prods, Discovery Entertainment One and Nomadic Pictures produce the mini, which is in production in Alberta, Canada. ICM Partners-repped Shepard will next be seen in the movies Mud, August: Osage County and Out Of The Furnace.

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Relativity Sets Cast For ‘Out Of The Furnace’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday April 5, 2012 @ 3:08pm PDTTags: Casey Affleck, Christian Bale, Out Of The Furnace, Sam Shepard

Relativity Media has firmed up casting for Out Of The Furnace with Sam Shepard joining Christian Bale, Casey Affleck and Zoe Saldana as the production directed by Scott Cooper gets under way later this month. Cooper also wrote the script based on an initial version by Brad Inglesby titled The … Read More »

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Jeff Nichols Adds Michael Shannon, Sam Shepard, Sarah Paulson to ‘Mud’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday September 26, 2011 @ 5:09pm PDTTags: Jeff Nichols, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Shannon, Reese Witherspoon, Sam Shepard, Sarah Paulson
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Director Jeff Nichols has added his Take Shelter star Michael Shannon, Sam Shepard, Sarah Paulson, Ray McKinnon, Joe Don Baker and Paul Sparks to Mud, the drama that stars Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon and Tye Sheridan. Production began today … Read More »

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Sam Shepard Western ‘Blackthorn’ Acquired By Magnolia

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday April 28, 2011 @ 12:00pm PDTTags: Acquisition, Blackthorn, Magnolia Pictures, Sam Shepard, Stephen Rea
Mike Fleming

Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to Blackthorn, a Western about the final days of Butch Cassidy. Pic stars Sam Shepard, Stephen Rea, Eduardo Noriega and Nicolaj Coster-Waldau. Mateo Gil directed it from script by Miguel Barros. Ibon Cormenzana and Andres Santana produced. Pic premiered last week in downtown … Read More »

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Vera Farmiga Joins Thriller ‘Safe House’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday April 25, 2011 @ 9:53am PDTTags: Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Espinosa, Denzel Washington, Robert Patrick, Ryan Reynolds, Sam Shepard, Scott Stuber, Vera Farmiga
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has set Vera Farmiga to star with Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds in Safe House, the Daniel Espinosa-directed drama. Production is already under way, with Reynolds playing a young agent assigned to escort a dangerous criminal to … Read More »

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Butch Cassidy Sequel Finds UK Investor

By TIM ADLER in London | Thursday October 14, 2010 @ 1:24am PDTTags: Blackthorn, Movie Deals, Movies, Sam Shepard

EXCLUSIVE: Quickfire is co-financing Blackthorn, a Spanish film which imagines what happened to Butch Cassidy after the notorious 1908 shootout at the climax of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Sam Shepard plays Cassidy.  In … Read More »

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Epix Axes Nashville Drama ‘Tough Trade’ But Says It Will Stay In The Series Business

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 5, 2010 @ 7:15pm PDTTags: Cable TV, Cary Elwes, Sam Shepard, TV
Nellie Andreeva

Is Epix ready to commit to a scripted series order? That is what creative types have been pondering in the past few days, following the demise of the fledging premium cable channel/broadband service’s first scripted pilot Tough Trade. It was groomed to be Epix’s first original scripted series. But 20 months after originally greenlighting it, Epix, a partnership of Lionsgate, Viacom and MGM, has pulled the plug on the project. The show, created by Chris Offutt and produced by Lionsgate TV, revolved around three generations of a Nashvile music dynasty and starred Sam Shepard, Trace Adkins, Cary Elwes, Lucas Black and Joey Lauren Adams. The project, which was once set up at TNT, also boasted big names behind the camera: Weeds creator Jenji Kohan was executive producer/showrunner, Gavin Hood directed the pilot, T-Bone Burnett served as executive musical producer, and Sean and Bryan Furst also executive produced. Read More »

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