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EXCLUSIVE: Ray Liotta has been cast in the indie film Cutman for producer-director Michael Mailer (Blind). The script, written by Tiffany Heath (Cut Her Out), follows a retired boxer who is dying of cancer and working also as an enforcer for various low-level mobsters. He is haunted by the death of his “cutman” and…

EDITORS NOTE: Over the past two weeks, a controversy has been brewing over the casting of Alec Baldwin as a blind man in the Michael Mailer-directed indie Blind. Led by the Ruderman Foundation — a non-profit that advocates for the full inclusion of people with disabilities in all aspects of life — the issue was raised …

EDITORS NOTE: Michael Mailer, director of the Alec Baldwin-starring film Blind that opens today, was criticized this month by the nonprofit Ruderman Family Foundation for casting an actor who was not actually blind as the lead. (In the Vertical Entertainment film, Baldwin plays Bill Oakland, a novelist who lost both…

Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Michael Mailer's Blind, a romantic drama starring Alec Baldwin, Demi Moore, and Dylan McDermott. Vertical is targeting a late summer/early fall 2017 theatrical release. Foresight Unlimited will be selling the international rights to Blind at the Berlin…

EXCLUSIVE: Alec Baldwin, Demi Moore and Dylan McDermott are starring in Blind, an independently funded drama that Michael Mailer is directing, and he’s producing with Diane Fisher, Jennifer Gelfer and Pamela Thur. John Mailer wrote the script from a story by Fisher. Baldwin and Mallory Schwartz are exec producers. The…