Vertical Entertainment and DirecTV have acquired North American distribution rights to Lying and Stealing, the Matt Aselton-directed crime drama starring Theo James and Emily Ratajkowski. A second-quarter 2019 day-and-date release is planned after a one-month exclusive bow on the satellite service. The deal comes as…

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired the U.S. and Canadian rights to Robert Siegel's romance drama Cruise, starring Emily Ratajkowski and Spencer Boldman. The pic will get a theatrical release this year. Siegel, who wrote an directed the film, penned the screenplays for The Wrestler and The Founder starring…

Emily Ratajkowski, The Get Down alum Shameik Moore, American Vandal‘s Calum Worthy and Jimmy Tatro and YouTube star Lilly Singh and are set to star in Bright Futures, NBC’s single-camera comedy from Black-ish creator Kenya Barris and spinoff Grown-ish writers Hale Rothstein, Danny Segal and Isaac Schamis…

EXCLUSIVE: Emily Ratajkowski is joining the Amy Schumer-starring comedy I Feel Pretty, which will mark the directorial debut of successful screenwriters Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein. The project, which begins shooting next month in Boston, is being distributed by STXfilms. Wonderland Sound and Vision's McG and Mary…

Producer Scott LaStaiti is partnering with Alex Garcia’s AG Capital to tell the real-life story of Stephen Flatow, the New Jersey-based lawyer whose daughter Alisa was killed by terrorists in a 1995 suicide bombing. After winning a historic judgment against his daughter's killers, Flatow uncovered an international…

EXCLUSIVE: Emily Ratajkowski has boarded the cast of Anthony Byrne's thriller In Darkness. The film stars Game Of Thrones’ Natalie Dormer, along with Deadpool‘s Ed Skrein and Stacy Martin (Nymphomanic Vol. 1). Dormer and Byrne co-wrote the script. The film is a psychological revenge thriller about blind musician…

Emily Ratajkowski (We Are Your Friends) and Spencer Boldman (Lab Rats) are set to star in the indie pic Cruise, a period youth-culture drama from writer-director Robert Siegel. Set during summer 1987, it centers on Gio Marchetti (Boldman), a working-class Italian-American who has little on his mind but racing cars and…

EXCLUSIVE: Emily Ratajkowski, who played Andie Fitzgerald in Gone Girl, has signed with UTA.  She was previously with Innovative Artists. Ratajkowski appeared in this summer's Entourage and miniseries The Spoils Before Dying and next will be seen in the role of Sophie in Warner Bros' We Are Your Friends opposite Zac…

EXCLUSIVE: Emily Ratajkowski, the model who parlayed a risque appearance in Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” video into a GQ cover stamping her the next big thing, and a lead role opposite Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike in David Fincher’s Gone Girl, will star alongside Zac Efron in We Are Your Friends, a film that will…