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EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max Films has snapped up the spec script Black Choke written by Doug Simon with Lawrence Michael Levine set to direct. The script is billed as a neo-noir about a bank robbery gone wrong. Tracey Nyberg, Michael Costigan and Jason Bateman of Aggregate Films are attached to produce. Simon is currently…

EXCLUSIVE: Escalating a relationship at Jason Blum’s Blumhouse, Carla Hacken has signed her Paper Pictures banner to a two-year first look producing deal. Among the films that Hacken will produce at Blumhouse is Coming Around Again, a romantic drama that Sophia Takal will direct from a script by Lawrence Michael…

Momentum Pictures has picked up the U.S. distribution rights the Aubrey Plaza-Christopher Abbott-Sarah Gadon starring film, Black Bear, the suspenseful meta-drama written and directed by Lawrence Michael Levine. The pic, which premiered earlier this year at Sundance, follows an expecting couple confronted with an out…

Black Bear writer-director Lawrence Michael Levine said that he wanted to explore his personal fears and anxieties he has when it comes to loss and breaking up of marriage in his new dramatic thriller that debuted at Sundance — and it came about in a very interesting way. “I wanted to do something more unusual and…

EXCLUSIVE: Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott and Sarah Gadon are set to star in Black Bear, a suspenseful meta-drama written and directed by Lawrence Michael Levine. Currently shooting in the Adirondack Mountains in Long Lake, NY, the film hails from Productivity Media and Oakhurst Entertainment. Productivity is…