EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Williams has been set by Amazon Studios to star in and produce This Is Jane, the true story of a Chicago woman who founded and ran the underground abortion service Jane. Kimberly Peirce is directing, and John Lesher, Williams and Peter Heller are producing. The drama penned by Dan Loflin is based…

Kimberly Peirce has come aboard to direct Amazon’s This Is Jane from writer Dan Loflin, which will be produced by John Lesher's Le Grisbi Productions. Based on Laura Kaplan's nonfiction book The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service, the story follows a Chicago woman who founded and…

Kimberly Peirce has signed on to direct the film adaptation of Viktor Frankl's best selling Holocaust memoir, Man’s Search For Meaning for Straight Up Films. Production is scheduled to being next year with Kate Cohen and Marisa Polvino of SUP producing alongside Kevin Hall. Straight Up Films will be…

In a competitive situation, A&E has bought Impact, a drama project from filmmaker Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry), journalist-turned-TV writer Jason George (Nashville) and All3Media America. The project, which has received a script order, is being laid off at A+E Studios. Based on the 2002 British film of the same…

EXCLUSIVE: Verve has signed Kimberly Peirce, the Boys Don’t Cry and Stop-Loss helmer who most recently directed the Carrie remake. She also signed with Britton Rizzio of Circle of Confusion as her manager, and stays with attorney Alan Wertheimer. She had been at CAA. The writer-director made her filmmaking debut with…

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Kimberly Peirce, director of this year’s Carrie reboot, has signed a first-look deal with ABC Studios. Under the pact, Peirce will direct and produce scripted television projects for network and cable. She may also direct ABC Studios pilots from other producers during the upcoming network pilot…

The documentary Matt Shepard Is A Friend Of Mine premieres in L.A. tomorrow, 15 years after the hate-crime murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard in a Wyoming field. That heinous act gave way to a national dialogue on hate crime and led to The Matthew Shepard and James E. Byrd Jr Hate Crime Prevention Act that…

EXCLUSIVE: Kimberly Peirce, who helmed Boys Don’t Cry and most recently the Sony/MGM remake Carrie with Chloe Moretz and Julianne Moore, is about as gutsy a female director as you’ll find this side of Kathryn Bigelow. She has signed on to tackle The Brand, a hard edged drama scripted by Alessandro Camon (The…

The original 2000 French film With A Friend Like Harry centers on a family man, Michel, who is joined on vacation by an old schoolmate, Harry, who he doesn't remember. At first Harry seems to be just what the family needs, but the friendlier he gets the more mysteriously menacing his effects become. Kimberly Peirce…

BREAKING: After meeting and reading a group of young actresses for Carrie, MGM, Screen Gems and director Kim Peirce have made their decision and made the formal offer today to Chloe Moretz. If negotiations work out, she’ll play the title role in the remake of the Brian DePalma original that was based on the 1974 Stephe…

EXCLUSIVE: Kimberly Peirce is in talks to direct Carrie, the remake of the Stephen King thriller about the telekinetic teenager who gets pushed too far at the prom and wreaks havoc on her fellow high school students. Peirce is best known for helming another troubled female coming-of-age tragedy, the Hilary…

At its upfront presentation in New York this evening, top-rated USA Network is set to unveil a development slate that underscores its commitment to get into the half-hour comedy business with five comedies in the works, including one starring Nathan Lane, one produced by Walter Parkes and Laurie Macdonald and one with…