Zac Efron in talks for ‘This Is Where I Leave You’
Jason Bateman, Zac Efron, Goldie Hawn, Leslie Mann
Eye ‘This Is Where I Leave You’
From Deadline - Warner Bros is in talks with Jason Bateman, Zac Efron, Goldie Hawn, and Leslie Mann to headline the ensemble of This Is Where I Leave You, the Adam Shankman-directed adaptation of the Jonathan Tropper comic novel about four siblings who come home to sit ‘shiva’ for their deceased father. They are trapped in the house for seven days, and all the skeletons are bared. Tropper, who memorably adapted Harvey into a script that once had Steven Spielberg committed to direct, adapted his own novel. It is a script that is drawing interest from a lot of talent, with other stars expected to step up for other roles in the ensemble. Spring Creek’s Paula Weinstein and Jeff Levine are producing with Shankman’s Offspring Entertainment partner Jennifer Gibgot. Hawn, who last starred in 2002′s The Banger Sisters, is in talks to play the clan’s mother. Bateman, Efron (whom Shankman directed in Hairspray) and Mann will play siblings. The intention is to begin production in early September. Shankman just directed the musical Rock of Ages, with Tom Cruise starring.
Zac Efron to star in an untitled Ramin Bahrani film
Quaid, Efron on Bankside farm team
EXCLUSIVE– Dennis Quaid and Zac Efron have boarded an untitled Ramin Bahrani pic, which London-based international sales and production outfit Bankside Films is shopping in Cannes.
Pic, which is to lense in summer, tells the story of a farmer whose manic expansion alienates his sons and devoted wife.
Pic, which comes out of Bankside’s development deal with Christine Vachon and Pam Koffler’s Killer Films, is being shopped domestically by CAA
KillerMoxie’s Justin Nappi and Brian Young produces and Andrew Levitas co-produces.
Financiers and executive producers attached to the project include Bankside Films’ Phil Hunt; Michael Benaroya and Rose Ganguzza of Benaroya Pictures; Moe Al Turki and Ron Curtis.
Bankside is also shopping Famke Janssen’s directorial debut “Bringing up Bobby,” which screened to a packed crowd Thursday, Michael Winterbottom’s “Trishna,” and “The Door,” helmed by Istvan Szabo.
Contact Diana Lodderhose at diana.lodderhose@variety.com
Source: Variety
Zac Efron to Star in ‘The Paperboy’
Matthew McConaughey, Tobey Maguire, Sofia Vergara, Zac Efron to Star in ‘The Paperboy’ (Cannes)
Pedro Almodovar developed the sexual thriller, which Lee Daniels is set to direct.
CANNES – Matthew McConaughey, Tobey Maguire, Sofia Vergara and Zac Efron will star in an adaptation of the 1995 Pete Dexter novel The Paperboy for Millennium Films.
Lee Daniels is set to direct the sexual thriller, which follows a Miami Times reporter as he returns to his Florida hometown to investigate the imprisonment of a death row inmate. Pedro Almodovar developed a feature project with Dexter for more than a decade before Daniels became involved early this year.
Hilary Shor is producing with Daniels. Avi Lerner, Trevor Short and Danny Dimbort are executive producers.
“This is a good film for us,” said Lerner, “a project that has Pedro Almodovar attached, is set in the steamy South, directed by Lee Daniels, Hilary Shor producing, and with the incredible cast of Matthew, Tobey, Sofia and Zac.”
CAA’s Roeg Sutherland and Maha Dakhil put the package together. Nu Image is repping foreign sales.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Zac Efron’s Action Romance Movie Director Confirmed
Zac Efron Action Romance Lands Director
Commercial and music video helmer Fredrik Bond has boarded Mandate’s untitled film project, which firms up Efron’s commitment.
Commercial and music video directorFredrik Bond has been tapped to helm Mandate’s untitled romantic action movie written by Matt Drake that is serving as a starring vehicle for Zac Efron.
The project was originally titled The Necessary Death of Charlie Countrymanand had been on the 2007 Black List. Efron has been circling the project for quite some time but, with the boarding of Bond, has now committed to the project.
According to Mandate, Efron will play a suburban kid who travels to Eastern Europe to find himself and falls for a young woman. The only thing standing between them is her charismatic, dangerous ex from a criminal underworld. Armed with little more than his wit and naive charm, Efron endures one bruising beatdown after another in order to woo the girl he loves and achieve salvation.
Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa of Bona Fide Prods. will produce along with William Horberg. Mandate’s Nathan Kahane and Dean Parisot are executive producing. Carlo Martinelli will serve as a co-producer.
Lawrence Grey will oversee for Mandate.
CAA- and Management 360-repped Bond, a multi-commercial directing nominee by the DGA, has been searching to make his feature debut for some time, with his name associated with projects such as Hovercar Racer and remakes of horror movies The Host and The Hunger.
Source: THR
