"New York Times reporter Andrew Jacobs will direct "Four Seasons Lodge," a screen adaptation of his piece about a resort in upstate New York's once-bustling Catskills region. The story follows a resort where Holocaust survivors spend summers relaxing and sharing stories, but the resort will be sold after this summer as the members reach old age and Jacobs says he wants to "capture a piece of living history before it goes away". Cult documentarian Albert Maysles will serve as D.O.P. when it lenses this summer..." (full details)
"Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson and Rachel McAdams are heading to the altar for "Marriage," a 1940s-set drama written by Oren Moverman and Ira Sachs, with Sachs directing. Story concerns a married man who cheats; to spare his wife the shame of a divorce, he plots to kill her. Deals are still coming together for a July production start with MGM distributing and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment financing..." (full details)
"Bob Cooper's Landscape Entertainment is teaming with Chuck Weinstock to produce WWII drama "Bodyguard of Lies," based on the true story of double agent Juan Pujol. Pujol, who fabricated a network of nonexistent spies to deceive the Nazis, is credited with supplying false information that led German commanders to hold back troops from the area around the D-Day landings. Bill Wheeler ("The Hoax") penned the script..." (full details)







