"Carly Schroeder is set to star in the dolphin-themed family drama "Blue 14," now shooting on Grand Bahama Island. Thesp will play a 14-year-old who discovers she can communicate with dolphins. Katharine Ross plays her grandmother, and Adrian Dunbar ("Richard III") plays her father, a dolphin researcher. Pic reteams Schroeder with "Mean Creek" producer Susan Johnson, whose Braveart Films is co-producing with Michael Sellers' Quantum Entertainment. Sellers ("Vlad") is also directing the film, which he co-scripted with Wendell Morris..." (full details)
"Walt Disney Studios has picked up domestic distribution rights to director Lasse Hallstrom's upcoming drama "Hoax." The film, starring Richard Gere, centers on Clifford Irving, who wrote a bogus biography of Howard Hughes and sold it to McGraw-Hill in the early '70s. Alfred Molina will play Richard Suskind, Irving's accomplice in pulling off the media hoax, while Marcia Gay Harden will star as Irving's wife, Edith..." (full details)
"U.K.-based production company Number 9 Films is teaming with New York-based Killer Films to produce "The Lonely Doll," to be directed by Julian Schnabel. The project is based on the life story of Dare Wright, the author and photographer of the children's book "The Lonely Doll" and its sequels. Schnabel, the painter-turned-director whose credits include "Basquiat" and "Before Night Falls," will film a screen adaptation penned by Carl Lund. The movie will focus on the close relationship between the childlike Wright and her mother, a well-known portrait artist and single mom in the 1950s..." (full details)
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