David Yates, the director of the “Harry Potter” films and the “Fantastic Beasts” franchise, is in talks to direct his next project at Sony Pictures, an individual with knowledge told TheWrap.
Plot details are being kept under wraps for what is still an untitled project at Sony. But the film is based on an original screenplay by Wells Tower, whose fiction and non-fiction works are well known in The New Yorker, GQ, Harper’s, McSweeney’s and more. And Deadline adds that the film is set within the world of pharmaceutical sales amid the opioid crisis and is in the vein of something like Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street.”
The film is being produced by Lawrence Grey through his Grey Matter Productions banner. David Yates is also co-producing through his company Wychwood Media. Ben Everard and Lewis Taylor are executive producing the film, and Cyrus Mojibi, Patrick Wade,...
Plot details are being kept under wraps for what is still an untitled project at Sony. But the film is based on an original screenplay by Wells Tower, whose fiction and non-fiction works are well known in The New Yorker, GQ, Harper’s, McSweeney’s and more. And Deadline adds that the film is set within the world of pharmaceutical sales amid the opioid crisis and is in the vein of something like Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street.”
The film is being produced by Lawrence Grey through his Grey Matter Productions banner. David Yates is also co-producing through his company Wychwood Media. Ben Everard and Lewis Taylor are executive producing the film, and Cyrus Mojibi, Patrick Wade,...
- 8/18/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
André Braugher has joined Universal-Annapurna-Plan B’s feature adaptation of New York Times bestseller She Said about Pulitzer Prize winners Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s investigative journalism into movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s history of sexual assault, which led to his conviction.
The Brooklyn Nine Nine star joins previously announced cast of Carey Mulligan, Zoe Kazan and Patricia Clarkson in the Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Ida) scripted movie which Maria Schrader is helming. Annapurna’s Megan Ellison is serving as EP with Sue Naegle. Oscar winners Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner are producing for Plan B. Universal’s VP of Production Lexi Barta will oversee the project for the studio.
Braugher is a 2x Primetime Emmy winner for Lead Actor in a Miniseries/Movie for 2006’s Thief and Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1998 for Homicide: Life on the Street. He stars as Captain Ray Holt...
The Brooklyn Nine Nine star joins previously announced cast of Carey Mulligan, Zoe Kazan and Patricia Clarkson in the Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Ida) scripted movie which Maria Schrader is helming. Annapurna’s Megan Ellison is serving as EP with Sue Naegle. Oscar winners Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner are producing for Plan B. Universal’s VP of Production Lexi Barta will oversee the project for the studio.
Braugher is a 2x Primetime Emmy winner for Lead Actor in a Miniseries/Movie for 2006’s Thief and Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1998 for Homicide: Life on the Street. He stars as Captain Ray Holt...
- 8/11/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
ReviewA classic case of good intentions gone horribly wrong, thanks to poor research. Sowmya RajendranAishwarya Rajesh's Thittam Irandu, directed by Vignesh Karthick, is one of those earnest films that hope to make news for saying all the right things and giving a "different" message. But unfortunately, in its eagerness to stand out, the film goes haywire and blunders into offensive depictions and dialogues. A classic case of good intentions gone horribly wrong, thanks to poor research. Aishwarya plays Inspector Aathira, a young woman moving to Chennai to take charge at her new posting. She meets Arjun (Subash Selvam), a fellow passenger on the bus to Chennai. Though she's a senior police officer, Aathira feels unsafe about sharing the co-sleeping space with a man, and he offers to move to a seat next to the driver. Needless to say, a romance blooms between the two of them. Meanwhile, Aathira's childhood bestie...
- 7/30/2021
- by Sowmya
- The News Minute
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