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‘Transcendence’ Outfit Straight Up, Author Tony Robbins & ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’ Scribe Team On Holocaust Drama ‘Man’s Search For Meaning’
EXCLUSIVE: Transcendence outfit Straight Up Films has been joined by author Tony Robbins and screenwriter Angela Workman (The Zookeeper's Wife) on feature project Man’s Search For Meaning about the experience of Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist and author Viktor Frankl.
Frankl’s grandson Alexander Vesely is also…
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Sobini Films, NAACP Team For Shields Green Biopic ‘Emperor’ Release; Freestyle Digital Acquires ‘The Real Exorcist’; Straight Up Films Tackling Youth Mental Health Crisis – Film Briefs
Sobini Films, the production company behind soon-to-released Shields Green biopic Emperor, said it will donate $1 for every digital transaction during the first month of film’s release to the NAACP. Set for a digital release on August 18, via Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, the film is based on the inspiring…
Kornél Mundruczó To Helm Feature About The Elephant Man From ‘Black Swan’ & ‘Transcendence’ Producers
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…
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Catherine Hardwick To Direct ‘Dissonance’ Adaptation With Andrea Seigel Scripting
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…
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo Song Inspires First Animated Film From Jeremy Renner & Don Handfield’s The Combine
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…
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‘Boys Don’t Cry’ Director Kimberly Peirce Set To Helm ‘Man’s Search For Meaning’
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…
‘Man’s Search For Meaning’ Holocaust Memoir In Works As Movie
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…
Film Adaptation Of ‘Thief’ Video Game Series Coming From Straight Up Films
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…
Straight Up Films Names Sandra Condito Production President
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…
Straight Up Films Options ‘Dead Mountain’; Nonfiction Book Examines Soviet-Era Hiking Disaster
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…
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