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Director Mark Romanek Returns To Movies With ‘Mother Land’ At Lionsgate & 21 Laps
EXCLUSIVE: Mark Romanek will make a long-awaited return to feature filmmaking to direct the horror film Mother Land for Lionsgate and 21 Laps. 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy & Dan Cohen are producing, and the script is by Kevin Coughlin & Ryan Grassby.
The thriller deals with a family that has been haunted by an evil spirit for…
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Mark Romanek To Helm ‘Septillion To One’
EXCLUSIVE: Mark Romanek has been set to direct Septillion to One, the romantic comedy spec script by Adam R. Perlman and Graham Sack that is being made by STX Entertainment and OddLot Entertainment, the latter of which is financing. An overzealous former FBI agent who has been relegated to the fraud unit of the Texas…
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Mark Romanek To Direct ‘Norco’ Bank Heist True Story For MadRiver
Mark Romanek is in final negotiations to direct Norco, a thriller based on a script by Adair Cole that MadRiver Pictures will finance and produce. The pic is inspired by the true story of the 1980 Norco, CA, bank robbery where five robbers were heavily armed with assault rifles, shotguns and pipe bombs when they…
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Peter O’Fallon To Direct TNT Pilot ‘Agent X’; Mark Romanek To Helm ABC’s ‘The Visitors’
Peter O'Fallon has been tapped to direct TNT's action-drama pilot Agent X, starring Sharon Stone. Penned by William Blake Herron, it centers on America's first female Vice President, Natalie Maccabee (Stone), and her secret weapon, Agent X (Jeff Hephner). This marks the 14th pilot O'Fallon has directed, with 11 of the…
Mark Romanek Exiting Disney’s ‘Cinderella’
EXCLUSIVE: Disney and director Mark Romanek are parting ways on Cinderella, the revisionist fairy tale movie that has Cate Blanchett attached to star. It’s all going down now, but I’m told that Romanek and the studio have differing views on how to tell the story. Romanek’s is darker, and it’s too dark for this to turn…
Cate Blanchett Poised To Join Disney’s New ‘Cinderella’
Cinderella could soon have a new evil stepmother – played by Cate Blanchett. The Oscar-winning actress is in deep talks to join Disney's live action retelling of the glass slipper classic tale, Deadline has confirmed. Blanchett would be playing the Lady Tremaine role of the wicked stepmother in the Mark Romanek-directe…
Mark Romanek Frontrunner For Sony's 'The Lost Symbol'
EXCLUSIVE: Mark Romanek has emerged as frontrunner to direct The Lost Symbol, Sony Pictures’ third installment of the Dan Brown-penned thrillers focusing on symbologist Robert Langdon. After directing the global blockbusters The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, Ron Howard this summer opted out of directing a third…
Disney Courting Mark Romanek To Direct Re-Imagined 'Cinderella'
EXCLUSIVE: Disney is trying to fit the glass slipper on Mark Romanek. The studio is circling Romanek, the accomplished video director and helmer of the features Never Let Me Go and One Hour Photo, to steer a new version of Cinderella, based on the pitch that The Devil Wears Prada scribe Aline Brosh McKenna sold to…
CAA Signs Director Mark Romanek
Feature and video director Mark Romanek has signed with CAA. Romanek, who just directed the Fox Searchlight adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go with Andrew Garfield, Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley, had been repped by WME. Romanek previously directed One Hour Photo and Static, and has helmed music videos…
Miranda Otto To Star In Fox's 'Locke & Key'
EXCLUSIVE: Miranda Otto is set to headline Fox’s drama pilot Locke & Key, from producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. Based on Joe Hill’s comic, Locke & Key tells the story of Nina Locke (Otto) and her three children, Tyler, Kinsey, and Bode, who survive an unspeakable horror and attempt to rebuild their lives at…
Four Drama Pilots Land Directors
UPDATED: Four high-profile pilots have found directors. Mark Romanek is in negotiations to helm Fox’s Locke & Key, Jace Alexander is set to direct USA’s Eden, Jonas Pate has come on board to direct Syfy’s Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, while Jim Sadwith has closed a deal to direct TNT’s untitled Allan Loeb…
‘Never Let Me Go’ Opening London Festival
Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan are expected to make Red Carpet appearances on October 13th because their film Never Let Me Go is opening the London Film Festival. Mark Romanek (One Hour Photo) has directed Alex Garland's (Sunshine) adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel. Fox releases the film in the UK on January…
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