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EXCLUSIVE: Production gets underway next week in the U.S. on feature drama A Mouthful Of Air, starring Amanda Seyfried (Mamma Mia!), Finn Wittrock (American Horror Story), Amy Irving (Yentl), Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter) and Paul Giamatti (Sideways). Written and directed by Amy Koppelman (I Smile Back) and based on…

EXCLUSIVE: Liev Schreiber and Alex Wolff have been set to star in Human Capital, an adaptation of Stephen Amidon's 2005 novel about families who collide as they chase the American Dream. Paolo Virzì adapted the book into a 2013 Italian-language film. For this incarnation, Oren Moverman (The Messenger) penned the…

EXCLUSIVE: Maven Pictures has optioned rights to a biography of Winston Churchill’s influential wife Clementine, written by the youngest of their five children Mary Soames, and have set Emmy-winning writer Margaret Nagle to adapt it into a feature film. Maven principals Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray are partnering…

EXCLUSIVE: Momentum Pictures announced today that they have acquired the domestic distribution rights to the Maven Pictures horror Boarding School from Boaz Yakin. Written and directed by Yakin (Remember the Titans, Safe), the pic is  produced by Maven Pictures’ Trudie Styler (Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Stil…

EXCLUSIVE: Women helping other women, this is what it looks like: Maggie Gyllenhaal is set to star in The Kindergarten Teacher, a feature based on writer/director Nadav Lapid's acclaimed Israeli film of the same name that is being produced by Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray’s Maven Pictures and Pie Films. The film…

EXCLUSIVE: The biography The Secret Life of Dr. James Miranda Barry: Victorian England’s Most Eminent Surgeon from author Rachel Holmes has just been optioned by Maven Pictures and they have hired Nick Yarborough to adapt. Rachel Weisz, who previously co-starred in Maven’s The Whistleblower, is attached to star as the…

IM Global has acquired international rights to Boaz Yakin horror thriller Boarding School produced by Maven Pictures' co-founders (and prolific filmmakers) Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray and also produced by Scott Lochmus (The Joneses) and Jason Orans (Goodbye Solo). Currently in post, the film stars Will Patton (Rem…

EXCLUSIVE: Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray's Maven Pictures is teaming with Going Clear producer Jacqui Lewis to produce a film adaptation of Zelda la Grange's bestselling book Good Morning, Mr. Mandela. The story charts the unlikely but true story of la Grange’s friendship and career with former President Nelson Mand…

EXCLUSIVE: Stuart Ford’s sales and finance team IM Global is leaving Berlin with a bucketload of deals across the company’s diverse slate, including a major one with Japanese distributor Kadokawa Pictures for Martin Scorsese’s Silence, starring Andrew Garfield and Liam Neeson. That is a particularly significant deal…

UPDATE: Along with her production shingle news, Jessica Chastain is in early talks to star in Molly’s Game, playing the title role in the Aaron Sorkin-directed adaptation of Molly Bloom's memoir that Mark Gordon is producing with Amy Pascal. EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Chastain has launched Freckle Films, a new production…

EXCLUSIVE: Trudie Styler will produce and direct the film adaptation of James St. James best-seller Freak Show which already has Bette Midler, AnnaSophia Robb, Ian Nelson and Lorraine Toussaint on board. The film is in pre-production and is expected to roll before the cameras at month’s end. The lead role has not yet…

EXCLUSIVE: Stuart Blumberg has sold an original comedy pitch to New Line Cinema with Scott Stuber and Maven Pictures duo Celine Rattray and Trudie Styler producing. The untitled comedy centers around two very different families, one a blue-state liberal, the other a red-state conservative, who discover that they have…