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A Best Screenplay winner at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival and an Indie Spirit nominee, Amazon Studios’ deliciously entertaining and witty noir Blow the Man Down clearly is inspired by work of the Coen brothers, particularly Fargo and Blood Simple. The only catch is this one is strictly female-driven and reps the…

With their first feature, Blow the Man Down, Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy sought to pay tribute to their mothers, and all the important women in their lives. Awash with the salty grime of the Maine fishing village where it's set, the film centers on the Connolly Sisters—Priscilla (Sophie Lowe) and Mary Beth…

Thora Birch and Johnny Knoxville are set to join Jack Huston and Emilia Clarke in Phillip Noyce's Above Suspicion, a thriller that has been adapted from the book by New York Times columnist Joe Sharkey. The film actually reunited Birch with Noyce as he directed her previously as a kid in Patriot Games and Clear and Pre…

Starz subsidiary Anchor Bay Entertainment has acquired U.S. Rights, including Blu-ray/DVD, VOD and Digital HD, to What Lola Wants, a new crime drama from The Sheinberg's The Bubble Factory. What Lola Wants focuses on Lola, the 16-year old daughter of Hollywood royalty who fakes her own kidnapping to cover her running…

English-born Australian actress Sophie Lowe has landed the lead in ABC's Once Upon A Time spinoff project, which now has a title, Once: Wonderland. Also cast in the presentation, from Once Upon A Time creators Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz is Brit Peter Gadiot. Once: Wonderland is set  in pre-curse Wonderland. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Is it an exaggeration to say not since Gone with the Wind has the actress casting search for a studio film captured such attention? The decision on who’ll play Lisbeth Salander in Sony Pictures Entertainment’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo continues. Director David Fincher tested actresses this week and…

EXCLUSIVE… UPDATE: The plot is thickening on the David Fincher-directed adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, the internationally hot Stieg Larsson mystery novel. Of course, with the Swedish film version having made $100+M worldwide so far this year, many quarters are predicting that Sony Pictures will screw…