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FLAVIA DE LUCE: Murder Mystery Family Adventure Finds Cast, Protagonist To Launch Sales At Cannes

Newcomer Isla Gie (“The Sandman,” “The Outlaws”) is set to play the titular 11-year-old Flavia De Luce for the family crime caper. She joins Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, Black Panther, Sherlock), and director Bharat Nalluri (The Man Who Invented Christmas, Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day), for a feature adaptation of the New York Times bestselling novel “The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia De Luce Mystery,” which is the first book from Alan Bradley’s acclaimed “Flavia De Luce” mystery novel series that to date have sold over four million copies worldwide. Susan Coyne (“Daisy Jones and the Six,” The Man Who Invented Christmas, Mozart in the Jungle, “Anne of Green Gables”), adapted the bestseller with a script that follows the adventures of Flavia de Luce. Amateur Detective. Master Poisoner. Eleven Years Old. When she finds a dead body at her family’s decaying British manor house and […]

EFM 2015: Iraq War Espionage Thriller, OFFICIAL SECRETS, Set To Film This Summer

Lee B. Golden III

Former President George W. Bush’s Iraq War was a pretty damming event in world history, and one that still stings to this day in more ways than several. For the field of film, however, it’s also great source material to magnify stories that would otherwise be overlooked in due time, and such a story belongs to whistleblower, Katherine Gun who is now the center of a new espionage thriller set to begin filming in the U.K. in May. For this and with the European Film Market set to kick off on February 11, The Solution Group is poised to bring its share of titles to the table, including the new espionage thriller, Official Secrets. Deadline has confirmed roles for an ensemble cast headlining actress Natalie Dormer, and actors Paul Bettany, Martin Freeman, Anthony Hopkins and Harrison Ford all based on people and events inked in the 2008 publication, “The Spy Who […]

Tina Fey Leads The Most American White Lady Story You've Ever Heard In The New Trailer For WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT

Lee B. Golden III

So what’s a girl gotta do for a lifestyle change nowadays? Well, here to answer that question are directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa with a script by Robert Carlock for Whiskey Tango Foxtrot which opens on March 4. The new trailer is out for the film based on author Kim Parker’s 2011 publication, “The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days In Afghanistan And Pakistan” with none other than SNL mainstay, actress and comedian Tina Fey spearheading the antics, and not knowingly as a direct response to the overall grim nature of news coverage on all the things happening in the Middle East to date, but this is surely a film that adds a touch of brightness and much-needed laughter in the process. No argument here. An adaptation of journalist Kim Barker’s wartime memoir. The film tells of Barker’s arrival as a fish-out-of-water in Kabul, filing stories about militants, being a woman […]

SDCC 2014: Peter Jackson Introduces THE HOBBIT FAN FELLOWSHIP CONTEST!

Lee B. Golden III

The forthcoming finale of director Peter Jackson‘s cinematic middle-Earth adventure, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies got to unveil its latest exclusive teaser for San Diego Comic-Con attendees on Saturday at the behest of Warner Bros. in the company of a star-studded panel. Several sites have a description of the teaser which you can now read about while the first trailer footage is yet to be revealed until October as Jackson continues the post-production process. In the meantime, Jackson is inviting hardcore fans to explore the live-action realm inspired by author J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic book series going into the previous The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, with a new contest to grant a lucky handful of moviegoers a chance for a fully interactive experience. And to boot, page has already been set up with all the deets you need. THE HOBBIT FAN FELLOWSHIP CONTEST A ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME CHANCE TO […]