Viggo Mortensen, Diane Lane, Mickey Rourke and Justin Timberlake are being rumored as the main cast for John Madden's big-screen adaptation of scribe Elmore Leonard's "Killshot." Thriller follows a woman and her blue-collar husband who become targets for killers after stumbling upon an extortion plot hatched by the baddies. Pic is a WeinsteinCo. roll out in which Disney has a stake. It will be released under the branded Quentin Tarantino Presents label..." (full details)
American filmmaker Ryan Eslinger has snagged Sharon Stone to star in his $2 million indie project "When a Man Falls in a Forest," and he's also penning a script for her to direct. In the as-yet-unfinanced pic, Stone is attached to play an unhappily married woman who shoplifts to relieve her suffering. The woman is one of four sad, middle-class characters living in a small town in the Midwest. Eslinger's first pic, "Madness and Genius," drew critical acclaim at the Toronto Film festival in 2003..." (full details)
Paramount Pictures will finance and distribute "Freedom Writers," a Richard LaGravenese-directed drama starring Hilary Swank. Project is based on "The Freedom Writer's Diaries" written by high school teacher Erin Gruwell and her students. Gruwell was a 23-year-old teacher assigned to a class of kids deemed unteachable and at risk. By using the writings of Anne Frank and "Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo," Gruwell was able to teach the kids tolerance. Teacher and class toured Amsterdam and Sarajevo, and each of Gruwell's students graduated high school..." (full details)
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