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CANNES (May 23, 2012) – Entertainment One ("eOne") announced today from the 2012 Cannes Film Festival that the company is acquiring all North American rights to director Charlie Matthau's homage to 1970s filmmaking, FREAKY DEAKY. Matthau also penned the screenplay, which is based on Elmore Leonard's 1988 novel of the…

Los Angeles, CA – April 23, 2012 – Morris Ruskin’s sales company has picked up international rights on FREAKY DEAKY following its sold-out premiere at Tribeca yesterday. Director/writer/producer Charles Matthau’s feature is based on the favorite novel of literary legend Elmore Leonard and filled with some of Leonard's…

EXCLUSIVE: As he gears up for Sunday’s Tribeca Film Festival premiere of his adaption of Elmore Leonard’s Freaky Deaky, director Charlie Matthau has set his next film. It will be The Sugar Shack, a farcicial comedy written by Kevin Fleming and Rob Janas. The storyline follows the most popular male stripper in Racine…

Matt Dillon, Brendan Fraser, William H. Macy and Craig Robinson are in talks to star in Freaky Deaky, the Charlie Matthau-directed adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel. Shooting starts June 27 in Detroit. The novel has caught the eye of numerous filmmakers over the years including Quentin Tarantino, but the premise…

EXCLUSIVE FROM TORONTO: William H. Macy has just committed to star in Freaky Deaky, the adaptation of the Elmore Leonard crime novel about 60s radicals who use their skills for blowing stuff up for entrepreneurial purposes in the 70s. Charlie Matthau wrote the script and is directing. Macy will play Woody Ricks, an…