EXCLUSIVE: Director John Curran is taking to the ice to direct Turk, a biopic based on the rise, fall and redemption story of 1970s Boston Bruins hockey star Derek Sanderson. The Chappaquiddick helmer is attached to direct a script written by Boston-based author Casey Sherman, who also wrote the book on which it was…
“Tragedy has a way of defining people” are the first words we hear in the new trailer for Entertainment Studios’ Chappaquiddick, the film based on the true story of the Ted Kennedy headline-making political scandal that involved a car accident and the death of Mary Jo Kopechne.
The trailer for the John Curran-directed…
EXCLUSIVE: Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios has closed a huge North American rights deal for Chappaquiddick, the John Curran-directed drama about the night Ted Kennedy drove his car off a bridge, ending the life of Mary Jo Kopechne and his chance at the White House. Allen has been all over this film: sources said…
EXCLUSIVE: John Curran is now in talks to develop and direct the TV series planned about Lou Pearlman, the manager/producer of *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys who was also running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors out of about $300M. Toby Jones (The Hunger Games franchise, The Coldest City) is attached to star in the…
EXCLUSIVE: Final negotiations are underway for John Curran (The Painted Veil) to direct the high-profile indie film Chappaquiddick with Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty, Everest) to star as the embattled Sen. Ted Kennedy.
Sam Taylor-Johnson (Fifty Shades Of Grey) was previously attached to direct but departed due to sche…