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Growing up in Boston, writer and director Matt Ruskin heard about the Boston Strangler most of his life. But it wasn’t until a few years ago while researching the complex case that he was inspired to write his latest film, Boston Strangler, from a different point of view…

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Studios has set Keira Knightley to star in Boston Strangler, a drama written and to be directed by Matt Ruskin, best known for Crown Heights. Ridley Scott and Kevin Walsh of Scott Free will produce alongside Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara of LuckyChap Entertainment. Pic begins shooting in…

Amazon Studios and IFC Films have released to the trailer to Matt Ruskin’s Sundance audience award winning drama Crown Heights, starring Atlanta actor Lakeith Stanfield as a man wrongfully imprisoned for over 20 years for a murder he didn't commit. Based on a podcast titled This American Life, the pic is set spring of…

Matt Ruskin’s Crown Heights became this year’s claimant of the Sundance U.S. Dramatic Audience Award tonight, after a powerful festival debut for the story – inspired by an episode of the This American Life podcast – about a man, wrongfully imprisoned for over 20 years for a murder he didn’t commit, and the people who…

Straight Outta Compton‘s Keith Stanfield has taken the lead role in director Matt Ruskin’s upcoming untitled film based on the story of wrongfully convicted prisoner Colin Warner. Warner was an 18-year-old kid in crime-ridden 1980 Brooklyn, was wrongly identified by a witness and ultimately sentenced to 15 years to…