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EXCLUSIVE: Female-empowered content is rising in the faith-based arena. Third Coast Content, an Endeavor Content-backed production company overseen by long-time faith film executive, Ben Howard (Facing the Giants, Fireproof, Courageous, War Room and I Can Only Imagine) and indie production company Sycamore Pictures (Th…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning Precious scribe Geoffrey Fletcher has been set to write I Am a Man, a feature film adaptation in the works from Sycamore Pictures based on Michael K. Honey’s 2007 book about the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike that became a turning point in the U.S. civil rights movement. The strike…

The Goldbergs star Wendi McLendon-Covey has joined the cast of Sycamore Pictures' teen comedy Speech & Debate. The film follows a misfit trio of high school students who, frustrated by the hypocrisy of their authority figures, revive their school’s long since shut-down speech and debate club. Blogging, blackmail and…

UPDATE, 7:30 A.M.: Sarah Steele also stars in the world premiere of  Karam’s The Humans, slated to begin performances September 30 at the Roundabout Theatre Company’s off-Broadway mainstage, the Laura Pels Theatre. Directed by Tony winner Joe Mantello, the play’s cast also includes Cassie Beck, Reed Birney, Jayne…

The filmmaker is set to helm his first feature since the 2010 Jennifer Aniston-Gerard Butler vehicle The Bounty Hunter. Andy Tennant will direct 13th Grade, about a disillusioned NYC journalist who is passed up for a promotion and abandoned by his girlfriend, forcing him to move back to his mother's house in suburban…

EXCLUSIVE: OddLot Entertainment is partnering with Sycamore Pictures to co-finance The Way, Way Back, the comedic drama written and being directed by Oscar-winning The Descendants co-scribes Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. Production kicked off yesterday in Massachusetts on the film, which stars Steve Carell, Toni Collette…