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Henry Aaron’s Pursuit Of Babe Ruth Home Run Record Amid Racist Death Threats To Get Movie By Oscar-Winning ‘Precious’ Scribe Geoffrey Fletcher, Mandalay Sports Media & Bluestone
EXCLUSIVE: The attempt by Atlanta Braves slugger Henry Aaron to break Babe Ruth's hallowed record of 714 career home runs, and the armed guard from the Atlanta police department assigned to keep him safe 24/7 amidst racist hate mail and death threats, will be turned into a feature film.
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Geoffrey Fletcher To Write Remake Of Vietnamese Horror Pic ‘The Housemaid’
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher has been tapped to write the screenplay for CJ Entertainment’s English-language remake of Derek Nguyen’s Vietnamese gothic horror pic The Housemaid.
Fletcher, whose screenplay for the Lee Daniels-directed Precious won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay in…
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Geoffrey Fletcher Set To Pen ‘I Am A Man’ About Historic Memphis Sanitation Strike
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning Precious scribe Geoffrey Fletcher has been set to write I Am a Man, a feature film adaptation in the works from Sycamore Pictures based on Michael K. Honey’s 2007 book about the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike that became a turning point in the U.S. civil rights movement.
The strike…
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Jack O’Connell, Laura Dern Star For Ed Zwick In ‘Trial By Fire’
EXCLUSIVE: Jack O’Connell and Laura Dern have been set to star in Trial by Fire, a fact-based drama that Ed Zwick will direct. Oscar-winning Precious scribe Geoffrey Fletcher wrote the script, adapted from the 2009 article in The New Yorker that won David Grann the Polk Award. Zwick will produce through his Bedford…
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Geoffrey Fletcher Scripts 'Attica,' Stanley Tucci To Play Blind Sportswriter, And Stan Lee Hatches Green Superhero
Two Lefts Don't Make A Right Productions’ Elliot Abbott and S2BN Entertainment’s Michael Cohl are working on a trio of films.
* Oscar-winning Precious scribe Geoffrey Fletcher is scripting Attica, with Doug Liman attached to direct a look at the 1971 Attica state prison riot, the bloodiest prison uprising in U.S…
AFM: Wild Bunch Acquires Overseas On Toronto Title 'Violet & Daisy'
Wild Bunch acquired overseas rights to Violet & Daisy, the directorial debut of Precious scribe Geoffrey Fletcher that was screened as a work in progress at Toronto. Wild Bunch will sell at AFM while CAA handles domestic rights. Fletcher wrote the script and produced with Bonnie Timmerman. The film stars Saoirse…
Toronto Recap: No Drunken Spending A Good Sign For Indie Film Resurgence
Was the 2011 Toronto Film Festival a good one for dealmaking? Even after organizers announced a 20% uptick in film deals last Friday (the festival includes foreign territories in its count), the sales kept coming. A long-expected deal with Lionsgate on the Jennifer Westfeldt-directed comedy Friends With Kids finally…
2011 Toronto: 'Shame' Will Start Dealmaking Flurry, But Buyers Wait To Be Blown Away
Last year’s Toronto Film Festival started slow for acquisitions, but finished with a flurry of modest distribution deals that served notice the specialty film business had finally pulled out of its nosedive. This year’s festival hasn’t started and already there are fireworks. Deadline broke news yesterday that Harvey…
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