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EXCLUSIVE: Following the $100M worldwide success of I Feel Pretty, Voltage Pictures and McG’s Wonderland are re-teaming for the gritty action drama Guardian and have set Shauna Duggins, the first Emmy-winning female stunt coordinator to direct. Duggins won an Emmy last year for her work on Netflix’s Glow.  Guardian…

Voltage Pictures has announced a huge ensemble joining Elisabeth Moss in the punk rock pic Her Smell including Cara Delevingne, Dan Stevens, Eric Stoltz, Virginia Madsen, Dylan Gelula and Eka Darville. They also join Amber Heard, Ashley Benson, Agyness Deyn and Gayle Rankin who were previously announced. Moss stars as…

EXCLUSIVE: Amy Schumer, whose highly anticipated comedy I Feel Pretty opens this weekend wide from STX, is now circling another Voltage Pictures project. Written and to be directed by Katherine Fugate (Valentine’s Day), Christy Martin is a true story about the world champion boxer of the same name who had to fight…

Lily Collins has landed the highly coveted role of the former girlfriend of notorious serial killer Ted Bundy in Voltage Picture’s Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile. She will star opposite Zac Efron, who was announced to play Bundy in Joe Berlinger’s thriller during Cannes. The film is told from Elizabeth's…

Morgan Creek Productions said today that Voltage Pictures will handle foreign rights to the Tupac Shakur biopic All Eyez on Me, starting this week at AFM in Santa Monica. Domestic distribution talks are underway. The deal was negotiated by Brian Robinson and Jessica VanderYacht of Morgan Creek; Glen Mastroberte of…

Voltage Pictures has come on board to co-finance and handle foreign sales on the Constantin Film/Don Carmody co-production Unwind, directed by Pulp Fiction Oscar winner Roger Avary.  He and his daughter Gala Avary also wrote the screenplay. Unwind is based on Neal Shusterman's award-winning novel, which imagines a…

Focus Features’ multiplatform label Focus World has acquired U.S. rights to Natalie Portman’s feature directorial debut, A Tale Of Love And Darkness, which premiered at Cannes last year. Focus World will open the movie in a platform theatrical release later this year in contention for the Oscars. The film is based on…

Voltage Pictures is handling foreign sales on Bedeviled, a horror film by Nicholl Fellowship winners Abel and Burlee Vang, and is currently showing footage to Berlin buyers. Deadline broke the news about the project back in November when we visited the downtown L.A. Washington Blvd set. Bedeviled has been described as…

EXCLUSIVE: Bruce Willis is re-teaming with Cop Out writers Mark and Robb Cullen for an untitled comedy about a down-but-not-out L.A-based private investigator whose professional and personal worlds collide when his loving pet Buddy is stolen by a notorious gang.  A series of bizarre circumstances find him doing the…

EXCLUSIVE: Anna Friel will play Pierce Brosnan’s wife and James Frecheville is his nemesis in I.T., a revenge techno-thriller from director John Moore. Brosnan plays Mike Ryan, a self-made businessman whose company is on the verge of changing the aircraft-leasing business when his relationship with a young tech…

ChristophWaltz is to make his directorial debut with true crime drama Worst Marriage in Georgetown. The film, based on Franklin Foer’s New York Times Magazine article, tells the true story of Albrect Muth (played by Waltz), an eccentric social climber who seduced and married a wealthy older widow, Viola Drath. Voltage…

EXCLUSIVE: Stuart Beattie has been set by Voltage Films to script the fact-based film about the controversial private military contracting firm Blackwater and its founder Erik Prince. Beattie will tell the story using Prince's autobiography, Civilian Warriors, and the Adam Ciralsky Vanity Fair exposé article about…