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Cannes Briefs: Williams Sisters Doc Sells In UK; David Lynch’s Duran Duran Movie; Zac Efron Takes ‘Autobahn’; ‘Vatican Tapes’ Records Sales

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Thursday May 16, 2013 @ 1:13am PDTTags: Autobahn, Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Wrap-Up, Zac Efron

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UK distributor Kaleidoscope has picked up Maiken Baird and Michelle Major’s Venus & Serena from K5 International. The documentary follows the tennis-playing Williams sisters through a year of their lives. The film will get a release timed to the 2013 Wimbledon Championship in June. The BBC will also broadcast it this summer. The film is exec produced by Alex Gibney with music by Wyclef Jean. Magnolia is releasing in the U.S. this summer.

Duran Duran will be in town next week to headline Amfar’s 20th anniversary Cinema Against Aids benefit, and they’ve also got a movie screening in the market. Arclight Films, in collaboration with Little Studio Films, is selling international rights to Duran Duran Unstaged. The David Lynch-helmed concert film previously had a one-light live online stream on YouTube and Vevo but the special director’s cut has never before been released to the public. READ MORE »

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Zac Efron & Seth Rogen & Danny McBride Get Raunchy On MTV Awards Show

By JEN YAMATO | Sunday April 14, 2013 @ 10:45pm PDTTags: Danny McBride, MTV Movie Awards, Seth Rogen, Zac Efron

Basic cable experienced a raunchy night as the MTV Movie Awards were held live. Host Rebel Wilson kicked off the night with an “Iron Mangina” sketch. Then Universal’s Townies co-stars Zac Efron, Seth Rogen, and Danny McBride took the stage for a … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘At Any Price’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday January 18, 2013 @ 9:25pm PSTTags: At Any Price, Dennis Quaid, Zac Efron

Zac Efron, Dennis Quaid, Kim Dickens, Heather Graham and Maika Monroe star in this father-son drama set in Midwest farm country. Ramin Bahrani directed and co-wrote with Hallie Elizabeth Newton. Sony Pictures Classics picked … Read More »

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‘Cult’s Jessica Lucas Joins ‘Are We Officially Dating?’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Saturday January 12, 2013 @ 10:59am PSTTags: Are We Officially Dating?, Jessica Lucas, the CW, Zac Efron

Jessica Lucas has signed on to Are We Officially Dating? The former Melrose Place reboot star replaces Deborah Ann Woll in the romantic comedy. After joining the movie last October, the True Blood star dropped out … Read More »

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Zac Efron, Marcia Gay Harden Join Paul Giamatti, Billy Bob Thornton And Jacki Weaver In JFK Conspiracy Pic ‘Parkland’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday December 19, 2012 @ 11:52am PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Marcia Gay Harden, Parkland, Peter Landesman, Zac Efron
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Marcia Gay HardenZac EfronBREAKING: Zac Efron and Marcia Gay Harden have joined Paul Giamatti, Billy Bob Thornton and Jacki Weaver in Parkland, which Peter Landesman wrote and will direct based on Vincent Bugliosi’s book Reclaiming History: The Assassination Of President John F. Kennedy. The film is produced by Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman and also is being produced and financed by Exclusive Media and its co-chairmen Nigel Sinclair and Guy East.

Bugliosi’s mammoth book, which Playtone and Landesman originally set up at HBO, refuted the conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination that were embraced in the Oliver Stone-directed JFK. The film does not address the conspiracy aspect and focuses only on what happened at Parkland Hospital in Dallas on the day Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. The film, to be shot in Austin, is destined for a 2013 U.S. theatrical release around the 50th anniversary of the assassination.

Related:  Paul Giamatti, Billy Bob Thornton and Jacki Weaver Set For ‘Parkland’ Read More »

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Venice: Zac Efron Draws Crowds To The Lido

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Friday August 31, 2012 @ 12:11pm PDTTags: At Any Price, Venice Film Festival, Zac Efron

Clouds rolled into Venice on Friday, but that didn’t stop the crowds from finally turning up. After a few sluggish days in sky-high temperatures and a sort of meh attitude towards the films, the Lido was awash in fans lining … Read More »

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Zac Efron To Star In ‘Are We Officially Dating?’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday August 31, 2012 @ 9:27am PDTTags: Are We Officially Dating?, Tom Gormican, Zac Efron
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Zac Efron will star in the romantic comedy Are We Officially Dating, which Tom Gormican wrote and will direct for TreeHouse Pictures. Script, which made the 2010 Black List, concerns three friends in New York City who make a pact … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Liberal Arts’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday August 6, 2012 @ 5:43pm PDTTags: Allison Janney, Elizabeth Olsen, Josh Radnor, Liberal Arts, Zac Efron

Directed and written by and starring Josh Radnor (How I Met Your Mother), Liberal Arts has an international trailer that just surfaced. The Sundance hit also stars Elizabeth Olsen, Zac Efron, Richard Jenkins, Allison Janney, John Magaro and Elizabeth Reaser. IFC Films opens the movie September 14 … Read More »

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Jason Bateman, Zac Efron, Goldie Hawn, Leslie Mann Eye ‘This Is Where I Leave You’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday May 29, 2012 @ 1:08pm PDTTags: Adam Shankman, Big Deals Film, Goldie Hawn, Jason Bateman, Leslie Mann, Warner Bros, Zac Efron
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EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is in talks with Jason Bateman, Zac Efron, Goldie Hawn, and Leslie Mann to headline the ensemble of This Is Where I Leave You, the Adam Shankman-directed … Read More »

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Cannes Conflicted Over ‘The Paperboy’ As All-Star Cast Hits Town For Premiere

By PETE HAMMOND | Thursday May 24, 2012 @ 8:49am PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, Lee Daniels, Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy, Zac Efron
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Some press and critics at the Cannes Film Festival are already having a field day hurling invectives (a favorite pastime here) against The Paperboy, director Lee Daniels’ first filmMatthew McConaughey Nicole Kidman Zac Efron since his Oscar-nominated work on Precious. This one is based on a well-regarded book by Pete Dexter, who wrote the screenplay with Daniels. It’s about a man (Zac Efron) who tries to help his journalist brother (Matthew McConaughey) investigate the possible wrongful conviction of a man on death row (John Cusack). Nicole Kidman co-stars as a Southern tart who likes her men behind bars and singer Macy Gray is the maid in this 1960′s civil rights era-set wallow that takes place mostly in Florida swamp country (but shot in Louisiana).

At Tuesday morning’s buyers screening and today after the first press screening, reactions seem to be vivid. One critic said “it could be so bad it’s good”. Another compared it to the kind of exploitation pictures Roger Corman regularly turned out. For me, it’s one of those movies that is just dripping with Southern sweat and sleaze — you can smell the place. If it’s an over-the-top wallow into the Deep Deep South of the period, it’s a fun one. You either go with it or you don’t. Tennessee Williams this is not, but it’s fascinating material on many levels and all these actors took a kind of risk and just jumped in without a life preserver; they didn’t do this indie for the money. Avi Lerner’s Millennium and Nu Image produced and the film is up for distribution, as Deadline previously reported, although Lerner could decide to distribute it himself if the deal isn’t right. One top distrib who was at Tuesday’s screening told me they didn’t care for Paperboy, while at least two others said the complete opposite. With a starry cast, exploitable subject matter and scenes already being tweeted all over the place — Kidman peeing on Efron to relieve his jellyfish stings is getting lots of action on the net and the Croisette —  in the end it may not matter what any of the auteur-mad critics here have to say. Unlike Precious this is not really a critics kind of movie. It is in fact the commercially oriented Millennium’s first competition entry ever. Read More »

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Cannes Film Festival: Actors To Watch

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Thursday May 17, 2012 @ 12:03am PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, The Paperboy, Zac Efron

Last year, silence truly was golden as the cast of The Artist established themselves as the hit of the festival without having to say, or bark, anything. Below is a rundown of the actors folks are buzzing about this year, out loud:

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Super Bowl Spot: ‘Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday February 5, 2012 @ 4:08pm PSTTags: Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, Taylor Swift, Zac Efron

Danny DeVito voices the title character and Zac Efron, Taylor Swift voice the kids in Universal’s Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax. It opens March 2.

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Hot Trailer: ‘The Lucky One’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday December 8, 2011 @ 11:25pm PSTTags: Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One, Zac Efron

Australian director Scott Hicks (Snow Falling On Cedars, Shine) tackles this romantic drama based a Nicholas Sparks novel, The Lucky One, about an Iraq war veteran who travels to North Carolina in search of the woman in a photo he thinks is a lucky charm that saved his life. Zac … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘New Year’s Eve’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday September 28, 2011 @ 9:02pm PDTTags: Ashton Kutcher, Garry Marshall, Halle Berry, Jessica Biel, Lea Michele, Movie Trailers, New Line Cinema, New Year's Eve, Sarah Jessica Parker, Zac Efron

Garry Marshall’s romantic comedy New Year’s Eve from New Line has a new trailer showing its ensemble cast preparing for the big night. Ashton Kutcher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Zac Efron, Sarah Jessica Parker and Halle Berry are seriously ready to get this party started on Dec. 9.

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Warner Bros Sets Date For Zac Efron-Starrer ‘The Lucky One’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday August 26, 2011 @ 12:50pm PDTTags: Film Release Date, Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One, Warner Bros, Zac Efron

Warner Bros said today that it has found a place for its Zac Efron movie The Lucky One, which will be released Aug. 24, 2012. The romantic drama based on Nicholas Sparks’ novel stars Efron as a Marine who survives … Read More »

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Adam Scott Stars In Indie Comedy ‘A.C.O.D.’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 16, 2011 @ 5:41pm PDTTags: Adam Scott, Barbra Streisand, Ben Karlin, Dennis Quaid, Isla Fisher, Jon Hamm, Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Caplan, Seth Rogen, Stuart Zicherman, Zac Efron
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Adam Scott has been set to star in A.C.O.D., with Stuart Zicherman making his directorial debut on a script he wrote with Ben Karlin. The project is being financed and produced by Black Bear Pictures, which is currently in production with an untitled Ramin Bahrani-directed pic that stars Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid.

The title, A.C.O.D., is an acronym for Adult Children of Divorce, and Scott plays a thirty-ish man who was forced at an early age to be the adult of his family when his parents split bitterly. Fed up dealing with his parents’ long running feud, he must get his folks together once more time and keep from blowing a gasket after his younger brother unexpectedly decides to get married. Black Bear’s Teddy Schwarzman is producing with Karlin (who co-created The Colbert Report) and Tim Perell. The film will shoot in March, and Scott will work it into his schedule starring in the NBC sitcom Parks and Rec. Read More »

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Russell Brand Names New Warner Bros Company And The Kind Of Movies He’ll Make

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 8, 2011 @ 4:20pm PDTTags: Adam Shankman, Ben Affleck, Branded Entertainment, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Russell Brand, Steve Carell, Warner Bros, Zac Efron
Mike Fleming

Deadline broke the news in April that Russell Brand was making a first-look producing deal at Warner Bros, a studio that has stocked the lot with star-based companies featuring the likes of Robert Downey Jr, Ben Affleck/Matt Damon, Zac … Read More »

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Universal Lands 7-Figure Pitch Deal For R-Rated Seth Rogen-Zac Efron Comedy

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday July 22, 2011 @ 4:24pm PDTTags: Evan Goldberg, Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen, Universal Pictures, Zac Efron
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EXCLUSIVE: After a feverish day-long bidding battle, I’m hearing that Universal Pictures is closing a 7-figure deal for an untitled comedy that will have Seth Rogen and Zac Efron attached … Read More »

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‘Treme’s Kim Dickens Moving To ‘Heartland’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday July 13, 2011 @ 5:27pm PDTTags: Dennis Quaid, Film Casting, Killer Films, Zac Efron

EXCLUSIVE: Kim Dickens has been cast in a lead role alongside Dennis Quaid and Zac Efron in Killer Films’ Heartland, which revolves around a traditional father (Quaid) who wishes for his race-car driver son (Efron) to take over the … Read More »

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