'Shameless' Star Emma Greenwell to Get 'Wild' for Radiant Films International

May, 17, 2013 12:35 pm | Comments On #Movies

Radiant Films International has acquired international rights to Vivienne DeCourcy's uplifting dramedy "Wild," which stars up-and-coming actress Emma Greenwell ("Shameless") and Tom Hughes.

DeCourcy is making her feature directorial debut with the comedic drama, which she also wrote. Jay Cohen from the Gersh Agency is handling U.S rights.

In the vein of "Billy Elliot" and similar underdog tales, "Wild" follows a visionary young garden designer (Greenwell) who puts everything on the line in order to compete in the Chelsea Flower show, which is considered the Olympics of gardening. Hughes will play an idealistic environmentalist who she enlists to...

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Terry Crews, Kevin Nealon Join Adam Sandler Comedy (Exclusive)

May, 17, 2013 12:28 pm | Comments On #Adam Sandler, Deal Central, Drew Barrymore, Joel McHale

Terry Crews and Kevin Nealon have joined the cast of “Blended,” a romantic comedy that will star Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, several individuals with knowledge of the production told TheWrap.

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The film centers on a couple whose disastrous blind date finds them at a family resort with their children from previous marriages. Sandler and Barrymore play the couple, while Joe McHale will play Barrymore’s former husband.

Nealon, who was a "Saturday Night Live" regular with Sandler, will play a man staying at the resort with his very attractive younger wife and their son. Crews will play...

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'Endless Love' Remake Seduces Rising Stars Rhys Wakefield and Emma Rigby (Exclusive)

May, 17, 2013 11:44 am | Comments On #Movies

Rising stars Rhys Wakefield and Emma Rigby have joined the cast of Universal Pictures' remake of romantic drama "Endless Love."

Shana Feste ("Country Strong") is directing the film, which stars Alex Pettyfer and Gabriella Wilde as teenage lovers from opposite backgrounds.

Bruce Greenwood and Robert Patrick play Wilde and Pettyfer's fathers, respectively.

Wakefield will play Wilde's older brother who is under pressure to live up to the legacy of his late older brother.

Scott Stuber and Pam...

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Gabrielle Union to Play Chris Rock’s Fiancée in His 'Finally Famous' (Exclusive)

May, 17, 2013 10:19 am | Comments On #Movies

Gabrielle Union has joined the cast of Chris Rock’s new movie, "Finally Famous," playing a reality-TV star engaged to Rock’s character, multiple individuals with knowledge of the deal have told TheWrap

Rock wrote and will direct the film, his third behind the camera.

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Rock plays a comedian-turned-film-star who tries to reinvent himself as a serious actor. He’s also a recovering alcoholic who owes his sobriety to his fiancée (Union). Her character, eager to be more famous, ties to convince Rock to get married on her show.

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Spike Lee Attached to Direct Former Michael Mann Movie 'Gold' (Exclusive)

May, 16, 2013 5:11 pm | Comments On #Movies

With Michael Mann gearing up to start production on an untitled thriller involving cyber crime, Spike Lee has come on to direct the rags-to-riches tale "Gold," which Teddy Schwarzman's Black Bear Pictures will finance and produce with Paul Haggis and Michael Nozik of Hwy 61.

Written by Patrick Massett and John Zinman and based on a true story about the 1993 Bre-X Mineral Corporation mining scandal, "Gold" follows a rough-around-the-edges prospector who stumbles onto one of the largest gold mines in the world in the Indonesian jungle.

While Lee is listed as the director of "Gold" on Black Bear's website...

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'The Good Wife' Star Christine Baranski to Reteam With 'Chicago' Director on Disney's 'Into the Woods' (Exclusive)

May, 16, 2013 3:10 pm | Comments On #Movies

"The Good Wife" star Christine Baranski is in talks to join the starry ensemble of Disney's adaptation of the Broadway musical "Into the Woods," TheWrap has learned.

Meryl Streep and Johnny Depp have closed deals, while Emily Blunt is in negotiations for the female lead. James Corden has been rumored for the male lead but has not officially been cast.

Rob Marshall, who is renowned for his prowess with musicals, is directing the darkly comic mash-up of classic fairy tales.

Story follows the Baker and his wife (Blunt) as they venture into the woods to confront the witch (Streep) responsible for putting a family curse on the childless couple...

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Cannes: ‘Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon’ Sequel Books Famous Director, Uma Thurman to Play Anita Bryant

May, 16, 2013 1:06 pm | Comments On #crouching tiger hidden dragon, Michelle Yeoh, Movies, oscars, weinstein company

Yuen Wo Ping will direct “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon II – The Green Destiny,” the sequel to Ang Lee’s Oscar-winning film. Wo Ping is a renowned martial arts director and chroreographer, having directed more than two dozen Chinese-language films and advised or choreographed more than a dozen American actions movies including "The Matrix" trilogy, the "Kill Bill" films and the first "Crouching Tiger."

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Michelle Yeoh (left), who starred in the first movie, will reprise her role as Yu Shu Lien and Chinese martial artist and actor Donnie Yen will...

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Gerard Butler in Negotiations to Star in 'The Raven' for Universal, Gold Circle

May, 16, 2013 10:28 am | Comments On #Movies

Olympus may have fallen but Gerard Butler's career as an action star continues to take off, as the "300" hero is in negotiations to topline Ricardo de Montreuil's "The Raven" for Universal Pictures and Gold Circle Films.

Universal, which acquired rights to the director's popular short film in December 2010, will handle worldwide distribution and co-finance with Gold Circle, which will also produce.

Liam Hemsworth had initially been rumored to star, but those reports proved premature.

Now Butler is making a deal to play a man with remarkable powers who is being sought by both the government and the military.

Paul Brooks will produce for Gold Circle, whose...

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'Tron: Legacy' Star Garrett Hedlund to Join Oscar Isaac in William Monahan's 'Mojave' Movie

May, 16, 2013 9:32 am | Comments On #Movies, movies deal central

Garrett Hedlund is set to join his "Inside Llewyn Davis" co-star Oscar Isaac in William Monahan's original thriller "Mojave," which Atlas Independent is producing with the filmmaker’s Henceforth Pictures banner.

Getty ImagesHedlund replaces Jason Clarke in the two-hander, which follows a near-suicidal artist (Hedlund) who escapes into the desert to take an existential crisis head-on, only to encounter a doppelganger-like antagonist in the form of a brilliant, homicidal drifter (Isaac).

In addition to writing and directing, Monahan also will produce, alongside William Green of Atlas Independent, whose Andy Horwitz will exec-produce with Justine Suzanne Jones of Henceforth...

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Zac Efron, Amber Heard to Race Cars on the 'Autobahn'

May, 15, 2013 11:13 pm | Comments On #Amber Heard, autobahn, IM Global, Movies, Zac Efron

Zac Efron and Amber Heard will star in “Autobahn,” a thriller about an American backpacker (Efron) whose life takes a turn for the worse after joining a scam on behalf of a Turkish gang, IM Global announced on Thursday.

IM Global is financing the film, which will shoot in Germany in the fall. Eran Creevy, who wrote and directed “Welcome to the Punch,” is directing from a script he co-wrote with F. Scott Frazier.

Heard will play Efron's American girlfriend. As he flees his pursuers in and around Munich, he must protect her as they seek to free themselves from any perilous entanglements.

Efron, represented by CAA, manager Jason Barrett and attorney Patti Felker is currently shooting Universal’s “Townies,” which also star Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne. He will next be seen in the JFK drama “Parkland...

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