Month: October 2015

Nathan Ellison will be playing a role in the feature film, “Colossal“!!

Anne Hathaway is set to star in this project, which is sure to be one of the biggest curiosity factors at this year’s Cannes film market. Nacho Vigalondo (Timecrimes) is writing and directing for Voltage Pictures.

In the movie — described as Transformers versus Adaptation and Godzilla meets Being John Malkovich; Hathaway will play Gloria, an ordinary woman who, after losing her job and her fiancé, decides to leave her life in New York to move back to her hometown.

But when news reports surface that a giant lizard is destroying the city of Tokyo, Gloria gradually comes to realize that she is strangely connected to these far-off events via the power of her mind. In order to prevent further destruction, Gloria needs to determine why her seemingly insignificant existence has such a colossal effect on the fate of the world.

Tuesday Hofmann and Ava Frye book on Arrow!! (episodes #409 & #410).

The series takes a realistic look at the Green Arrow character, as well as other characters from the DC Comics universe. Although Oliver Queen/Green Arrow had been featured in the television series Smallville from 2006 to 2011, the producers decided to start clean and find a new actor (Amell) to portray the character. Arrow focuses on the humanity of Oliver Queen, and how he was changed by time spent shipwrecked on an island. Most episodes have flashback scenes to the five years in which Oliver was missing.

Tori Katongo books a role on “Un-Break my Heart”

Lifetime’s “Un-Break My Heart,” is an original movie based on singer Toni Braxton’s memoirs. The authorized film will follow Braxton’s ups and downs through severe chronic illness, financial troubles and divorce, while navigating her son’s autism and family struggles. Braxton will executive produce and appear in the film. “Un-Break My Heart” will also be executive produced by Craig Baumgarten, Erik Kritzer and Marcus Grant, and hails from Link Entertainment. The script was penned by Susan McMartin, with Vondie Curtis-Hall set to direct.

Debbi Morgan (“Power,” “All My Children”) will play Braxton’s mother, Evelyn, while Gavin Houston (“Guiding Light”) will play her frequent collaborator, producer Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds. Cortney Scott Wright, Skye P. Marshall (“Public Morals”) and LaToya Franklyn (“Subways”) have also been cast as Braxton’s sisters and fellow singers, Traci, Towanda and Trina Braxton. It was previously announced that Tiffany Hines (“Devious Maids”) would play Braxton’s other sister, singer Tamar Braxton, and that Lex Scott Davis would play Braxton herself.

Lyle Reginald gets a role on “Besties“, AKA “Untitled Kelly Fremon Craig“.

STX Entertainment continues to build up its development slate, adding a coming-of-age drama in the vein of a John Hughes film.

Teen star Hailee Steinfeld plays the lead role in the movie Besties about two BFFs with Bad Blood after one secretly dates the other’s older brother. Steinfeld is known for her Oscar-nominated role in True Grit, her star turn in Pitch Perfect 2 with Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson and her hit summer single and music video Love Myself. Blake Jenner of Glee, Woody Harrelson and Kyra Sedgwick co-star.

Kelly Fremon is directing the film based on her script and James L. Brooks is producing. Besties started filming in metro Vancouver on Wednesday, October 21st, and is expected to wrap December 1st.

Alex Pangburn has just completed shooting on feature film “Midnight Sun“.

Bella Thorne and Patrick Schwarzenegger have been cast as the leads of Midnight Sun, a young adult love story that will be financed by Boies/Schiller Film Group. Scott Speer (Step Up: Revolution) is set to direct the pic from a script by Eric Kirsten.

Based on a 2006 Japanese film, Midnight Sun centers on Katie (Thorne), a 17-year-old sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during the day by a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Fate intervenes when she meets Charlie (Schwarzenegger) and they embark on a summer romance.

John Rickard and Zack Schiller, who are collaborating on the Fletch redo with Jason Sudeikis at Relativity, are producing; David Boies, James McGough, Alan Ou, Hiroki Shirota and Speer are executive producing; Devin Andre will co-produce. WME Global is handling the domestic sale.

Naika Toussaint finishes filming a role on Motive, Season IV.

Motive is a Canadian police procedural drama television series that premiered on the CTV television network in the 2012–13 season.  On June 2, 2015, the series was renewed for a fourth season.  Motive is set in Vancouver, B.C., following the investigations of working class single mother Detective Angie Flynn (Kristin Lehman). Each episode reveals the killer and the victim at the beginning; and the rest of the episode details the ongoing investigation, the killer’s efforts to cover up the crime, and, via flashbacks, the events leading to the crime. This format is similar to that of the TV series Columbo.

Mike Li has landed a role on DC Legends Of Tomorrow, Episode #104, an upcoming American television series developed by Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim, who also executive produce with showrunner Phil Klemmer, Sarah Schechter and Chris Fedak. It is scheduled to air on The CW, debuting in 2016 during the 2015–16 season. The series is a spin-off from Arrow and The Flash.
Rip Hunter travels back in time to the present day where he brings together a team of heroes and villains in an attempt to prevent Vandal Savage from destroying the world and time itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXmSz2HQF-8

Gigi Jackman finishes filming a role in Drama/Thriller Pilot “HOME“.

“Home” delves into the secrets lingering behind the facade of a seemingly idyllic suburban family. The series revolves around Rose Altman, a newly pregnant woman who has a successful business as an accomplished designer and a wonderful home life with her husband Joe, a highly regarded prison psychologist, and his two sons, to whom she’s enjoying being their stepmother. But when she discovers long-buried secrets, Rose’s perfect family and life is shattered.

TNT has picked up the Jerry Bruckheimer show.

One Tree Hill and Dexter alum Bethany Joy Lenz has been tapped as the female lead opposite Andrew Buchan . Rounding out the cast of the thriller are Bruce Greenwood (Thirteen Days) and Benito Martinez (The Shield), Nicole Muñoz (Defiance), and Roberta Colindrez (Birdman). In addition to Buchan, they join previously announced JoBeth Williams, Harris Dickinson and Sawyer Barth.

Aron Eli Coleite wrote the pilot. The writer-producer‘s past credits include “Crossing Jordan,” “Hostages” and “Heroes,” on which he served as a writer and producer for the majority of its four-season run, eventually rising to co-exec producer.
Coleite will serve as an exec producer on “Home,” along with Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman (“CSI” franchise,” “Without a Trace,” “The Amazing Race”) and Brad Anderson (“Fringe”), who will direct. KristieAnne Reed (“Hostages,” “Dark Blue”) will serve as a co-exec producer. Jerry Bruckheimer Television and Warner Horizon Television will produce.

Darcy Fehr is busy shooting on the feature film “Considering Love And Other Magic“.

“Roger”, an awkward teenager, who discovers the meaning of life and death…

Dressed in a baggy black sweater, troubled teenager Jessie Wilson arrives at the home of Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Veronica Guest, the long forgotten literary darling of 1948, and close confidant to the very late Truman Capote. In desperate need of extra high school credits, Jessie agrees to tutor young Tommy Faber in science and math, but when the timid boy insists he hasn’t left Veronica’s mansion in more than sixty years, Jessie knows she’s bitten off more than she can chew. Tommy is convinced he’s fiction, a make believe boy conjured from the pages of a short story that first appeared in a 1952 edition of Woman’s Home Journal. Jessie is determined to make Tommy a real boy. The lesson is life. You can hide from the world, but not for long. Sometimes friendship is the only magic we really need.

Eric McCormack is set to star in the indie drama and Dave Schultz, a Canadian-born writer/director/producer, will be directing. His directing credits include the cult classic
Jet Boy (2002) and 45 RPM (2008). His writing credits number more than a dozen television movies, including screenplay adaptations of works by New York Times bestselling authors Joy Fielding and Daniel Kalla. Documentary credits include the six-part television series Rebels – A Journey Underground, narrated by Kiefer Sutherland. Schultz is currently in development on the suspense television series Starlight.

Naika Toussaint books a role in eOne series, “YOU ME HER“.

DirecTV has made a straight-to-series order for the Entertainment One TV comedy You Me Her, created by John Scott Shepherd and inspired by the Playboy Magazine article “Sugar on Top” by John H. Richardson. Ten half-hour episode series will air on DirecTV’s Audience Network. The series is described as a twist on the indie rom-com, a “polyromantic” comedy that centers on a three-way relationship — two of the parties a suburban married couple.