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EXCLUSIVE: Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó has been tapped by Straight Up Films and Phoenix Pictures to direct a film about the life of Joseph Merrick, best known as The Elephant Man. The story will follow an unlikely love story between Joseph and the young woman assigned to his care at the Fawsley Hall Estate…

Catherine Hardwicke, who has directed such films as Twilight, Red Riding Hood, and Thirteen, has signed on to direct the fantasy film Dissonance for Straight Up Films and Envision Media Arts. Andrea Seigel (Laggies) is adapting the screenplay for the film, which is based on the 2014 book of the same name by Erica…

EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Renner and Don Handfield are producing the first animated film through their banner the Combine, along with Straight Up Films and Cinesite. I.F. (Imaginary Friend) is inspired by the song “Imaginary Friend” by two-time Grammy-nominated kid-hop artist Secret Agent 23 Skidoo from his album Perfect Quirk…

Kimberly Peirce has signed on to direct the film adaptation of Viktor Frankl's best selling Holocaust memoir, Man’s Search For Meaning for Straight Up Films. Production is scheduled to being next year with Kate Cohen and Marisa Polvino of SUP producing alongside Kevin Hall. Straight Up Films will be…

Straight Up Films has acquired rights to the Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, the iconic Holocaust memoir that recounts the soon-to-be psychiatrist’s life in Nazi death camps and lessons for spiritual survival. Frankl was in four camps including Auschwitz from 1942-45; his parents, brother and pregnant wife…

Straight Up Films is getting into the video game movie business and is producing a feature adaptation of the Square Enix video game series Thief, with Roy Lee and Adrian Askarieh also producing. Lee is producing under his Vertigo Entertainment banner. Sandra Condito, President of Production at Straight Up Films will…

Sandra Condito, a onetime Miramax/Dimension Films exec, has been hired as president of production at Straight Up Films. She most recently oversaw acquisitions, development and production at the Lionsgate-Televisa joint venture Pantelion Films. Los Angeles-based Straight Up is a production company focused on developing…

EXCLUSIVE: Straight Up Films has optioned the nonfiction bestseller Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story Of The Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar. Blacklist screenwriter Brandon Lee Tenney has been tapped write the screenplay. The book details the unsolved 1959 deaths of nine hikers in Russia’s Ural Mountains, in…