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Pacific Rim: Uprising actress Cailee Spaeny is in talks for the lead role in Blumhouse/Sony’s The Craft remake, Deadline has confirmed. Zoe Lister-Jones is attached to write and direct the project, which is based on the 1996 original, which followed a newcomer at a Catholic prep high school who falls in with a trio of…

Blumhouse and Columbia Pictures have officially announced that Zoe Lister-Jones is writing and directing the new rendition of The Craft.  The original 1996 movie, which starred Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, Christine Taylor, Rachel True, and Skeet Ulrich followed a newcomer at a Catholic prep high school…

New Girl alum Mary Elizabeth Ellis and sketch comic Tawny Newsome (Bajillion Dollar Propertie$) have been set as the leads in Women Up, ABC’s comedy pilot from Life in Pieces star Zoe Lister-Jones. The project hails from Lister-Jones, who is writing, directing and executive producing the pilot via her Ms. Lister Films…

Life in Pieces star Zoe Lister-Jones is set to direct Woman Up, her single camera comedy which recently received a pilot order at ABC. The project hails from Lister-Jones, Single Parents co-creator Liz Meriwether, Jason Winer and Single Parents producer 20th Century Fox TV where Lister-Jones, Meriwether and Winer are…

ABC has greenlighted Woman Up, a single camera comedy from Life in Pieces star Zoe Lister-Jones, Single Parents co-creator Liz Meriwether and Jason Winer (Life in Pieces, Single Parents). Life In Pieces and Single Parents producer 20th Century Fox TV, where Lister-Jones, Meriwether and Winer are under overall deals…

ABC has given a put pilot commitment to Woman Up, a single camera comedy from Life in Pieces star Zoe Lister-Jones, New Girl creator Liz Meriwether, Jason Winer (Life in Pieces, Singe Parents). Life In Pieces producer 20th Century Fox TV, where Lister-Jones, Meriwether and Winer are under an overall deals, is the…

Zoe Lister-Jones’ feature directorial comedy Band Aid will be opening on June 2. IFC took North American rights to this Sundance Film Festival comedy about a feuding couple who start a band to reconcile their marriage per the suggestion of their therapist. Lister-Jones stars as Anna and Adam Pally plays her husband…

IFC Films has acquired North American rights to Band Aid, the debut feature from Zoe Lister-Jones that just played in competition at the Sundance Film Festival. Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions meanwhile snagged rights outside of North America as part of the pickup. Jones wrote, helmed and stars with Adam Pally in…

EXCLUSIVE: “Let’s make a list of our top 10 fights of all time.” So begins a clip of Band Aid, dropped ahead of its world premiere Tuesday at the Sundance Film Festival. Directed, written by and starring Zoe Lister-Jones, Band Aid is the story of a couple, Anna (Lister-Jones) and Ben (Adam Pally), who can’t stop…

Women In Film today announced winners of the organization’s 31st annual Film Finishing Fund grant program. Four narrative features and six documentary films have been selected out of more than 250 submissions from 22 countries. The fund provides cash grants and in-kind production services to complete films that fit…

EXCLUSIVE: Zoe Lister-Jones has joined HBO’s upcoming movie Confirmation in a recasting for injured Cobie Smulders. Lister-Jones will take on the role of Harriet Grant, Chief Counsel, Judiciary Committee Nominations Unit, for the committee's chairman, Sen. Joe Biden (Greg Kinnear). Smulders, who was initially cast in…

Dianne Wiest and Zoe Lister Jones are set to co-star opposite Colin Hanks and Betsy Brandt in Life in Pieces, CBS' single-camera comedy pilot from 20th TV and Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment. Written on spec by Justin Adler, the project is about one family as told through the separate stories of its different…