Logan Lerman, Nat Wolff and Liana Liberato are also added to the dramedy, starring Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Connelly.

Lily Collins, Logan Lerman, Nat Wolff, Liana Liberato and Kristen Bell have joined the cast of Writers, a feature film starring Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Connelly, which marks the feature directing debut of Josh Boone, who also wrote the project’s original screenplay.

With Kinnear playing a famous novelist obsessed with his ex-wife, played by Connelly, the dramedy interweaves the stories of various family members over the course of a year. Collins co-stars as their collegiate daughter Samantha who is pursued by fellow writing student (Lerman). Wolff will play her teenage brother, who is experiencing first love with Liberato’s character. Bell has been cast as a friend of the novelist who is trying to help him get over his ex-wife. Novelist Stephen King will appear as himself in a cameo, and other supporting cast members include Rusty Joiner and Patrick Schwarzenegger.

Principal photography begins March 12 in Wilmington, N.C. The film is being produced by Judy Cairo of Informant Media. Executive producers are Informant’s Michael A. Simpson and Eric Brenner along with Myles Nestel and Lisa Wilson of The Solution Entertainment Group, which is handling international sales while CAA handles U.S. rights. It being is produced in association with MICA Entertainment.

Collins will be next be seen in Mirror Mirror, the upcoming retelling of the Snow White tale. Lerman co-stars in the upcoming coming-of-age drama The Perks Of Being A Wallflower. Wolff co-stars in the upcoming Peace, Love & Misunderstanding. Liberato co-stars in the upcoming action thriller The Expatriate. Bell currently stars in the Showtime series House Of Lies.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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Solution seals deals for Kinnear, Connelly starrer

Lisa Wilson’s startup sales outfit the Solution Entertainment Group has locked a stack of deals for Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Connelly starrer Writers at the European Film Market.
So far pic has sold rights in all media to Australia (Becker Film Group), Canada (eOne), Germany and German-speaking Switzerland (Wild Bunch) and Spain (DeaPlaneta).

Additionally, pic has sold to the Middle East (Eagle Films), Turkey (Pinema), Latin America (California Filmes), Eastern Europe (SPI), Singapore (Shaw), India (PVR) and international airlines (Cinesky).

Pic, which is produced by Informant Media’s Judy Cairo (Crazy Heart), follows the story of the complicated relationships between a successful novelist and his ex-wife, college-age daughter and teenage son.

Josh Boone makes his directorial debut with the pic, which he also wrote.

Wilson and her Solution partner Myles Nestel exec produce alongside Informant’s Michael A. Simpson and Eric Brenner.

Lensing is expected to begin in North Carolina in March.

“I’ve been overwhelmed by the response to the material,” said Wilson on closing the deals.

Additional titles on the Solution’s slate include Hector And The Search For Happiness, Cities and A Little Something For Your Birthday.

Source: Variety

A movie starring Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Connelly will begin shooting in Wilmington next month.

Producer Judy Cairo confirmed Friday afternoon reports from national entertainment publications Variety and The Hollywood Reporter that the independent film Writers is on its way to the area.

“We’ll be filming in Wilmington in March, primarily around Wrightsville Beach,” Cairo said. “Greg Kinnear plays a famous novelist who lives in a beach community, thus the attraction of shooting in Wilmington. Jennifer Connelly plays his ex-wife, with whom he’s obsessed.”

The film, listed as a comedy and drama on IMDb, marks the feature directorial debut of Josh Boone, who also wrote the original screenplay.

Source: StarNewsOnline

Connelly told Women’s Wear Daily she was happy to be back. “I’ve had a long relationship with Shiseido — I worked with them in the 80s on an ad campaign, and have been using their products ever since. It’s nice to reconnect with them after so many years.”

And while we have no doubt Shiseido would love for us to focus on the fact that Connelly will also represent the 140-year-old company as global spokeswoman, we couldn’t help but start digging around for her old ads. Sadly, the beauty brand has been busy — no shortage of YouTube versions informed us that the video had been removed due to a copyright infringement claim filed by (you guessed it!) Shiseido. But that’s okay, because we found one, though it’s in Japanese. Enjoy!

Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Connelly are in talks to star in Writers, a family drama that follows the tricky relationship between a novelist (Kinnear) and his ex-wife (Connelly) over the course of a year. The indie will be directed by first-time filmmaker Josh Boone, from his original screenplay. Filming is due to start in March in Wilmington, N.C.

If the pairing sounds familiar, you’re right. Kinnear and Connelly have already played a rather troubled married couple, in the religious comedy Salvation Boulevard, which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.

Source: Inside Movies

Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Connelly to star in Writers

Writers, the indie feature debut by a fellow called Josh Boone, just scored two shiny stars in Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Connelly. Kinnear will play a big time novelist navigating tricky relationships with his ex-wife (Connelly) and their teen son and college-aged daughter. But how is that Writers pronounced? Ominously? Exasperated, like, “yeesh, writers!” Or just flatly? It’s gonna need some pizzazz to avoid being lumped in with the death of titles.

Source: Vulture

Following his Oscar win for penning Gus Van Sant’s poignant biopic Milk, screenwriter Dustin Lance Black decided to take to the director’s chair himself to helm his next script, What’s Wrong With Virginia. The drama, which co-stars Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris and Emma Roberts, was completed in 2010, and soon scored a spot at the Toronto International Film Festival. However, there it had a lackluster showing and was subsequently lost amid such high-profile productions as Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go, and John Cameron Mitchell’s Rabbit Hole. From there, it faded from the spotlight and was left with no promise of theatrical release. However, THR now reports that this has all changed thanks to the Toronto-based, indie distribution company Entertainment One, who has just purchased the rights to distribute the feature throughout North America.

The melodrama, now called simply Virginia, centers on the tumultuous relationship between a mentally unstable single-mom (Connelly) and her lonely teen son (Harrison Gilbertson), who is on a desperate quest to uncover the identity of the father he’s never known. Convinced his real dad is the local Sherriff (Harris), who is by all accounts and upstanding family man, the boy begins some amateur detective work that takes him into dangerous terrain as he falls for the Sherriff’s lovely daughter (Roberts). Toby Jones, Carrie Preston and Yeardley Smith co-star.

Entertainment One (also known as eOne) has announced plans to release Virginia as early as this spring. Dylan Wiley, eOne Films US vp of theatrical marketing and distribution, believes the drama will be a great fit, saying:

“We’re excited to add Virginia to our 2012 slate and thrilled to have found a film that complements both our Canadian and US line-ups so well.”

No specific release date has yet been announced.

Source: Cinema Blend

Paul Bettany thinks his wife Jennifer Connelly is “mesmerizing”.

The Broken Lines star — who has been married to the actress for eight years — explained while his spouse is “very beautiful”, he finds it frustrating that she always “moves at her own pace”.

He said: “My poor wife. She moves at her own pace — she’s sort of slightly in slow motion, it’s mesmerizing and very beautiful — and I’m like, ‘C’mon, c’mon, we’re going to be late.”

Paul explained his home life has changed since becoming a father to Stellan, eight, and seven-month-old Agnes, as well as raising Kai, Jennifer’s 14-year-old son from a previous relationship, as he turns down movie projects because his kids need to know he’ll be around.

He added in an interview with Observer Food Monthly magazine: “I don’t want to sound like it’s been a sacrifice for me. Sometimes you make decisions to not work and be with your family.

“I have children — they need to know dad’s going to come home.”

However, Paul admitted while as an actor he can make mistakes, the same cannot be said for being a parent.

He explained: “You can fudge a lot as an actor but you can’t fudge being a parent.”

Source: Winnipeg Free Press

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Illustrator Brian Froud, who worked on the cult children’s fantasy film, will oversee character design

New light is set to be cast on David Bowie’s enigmatic, tight-trousered portrayal of Jareth the Goblin King in Jim Henson’s cult children’s fantasy film Labyrinth through a graphic novel prequel out later this year.

A deal between the Jim Henson Company and comics publisher Archaia to publish graphic novels based on Henson’s creations has already seen adaptations of Fraggle Rock and The Dark Crystal. Now a long-rumoured Labyrinth comic is on the cards, with illustrator Brian Froud, who worked on the original film, to oversee character design and conception.

Released in 1986, Labyrinth told of young girl Sarah’s quest to rescue her baby brother Toby from the labyrinth of the Goblin King, after she wishes the goblins will take him away in a fit of anger. Jennifer Connelly played the part of Sarah, with a big-haired Bowie attempting to seduce her into staying with him in the labyrinth as the Goblin King Jareth: “I ask for so little. Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave,” he says to Sarah. The Archaia graphic novel, due out late this year, will cover Jareth’s past.

“It’s the story of how Jareth is brought into the Labyrinth for the first time. So, it doesn’t deal with Sarah, it doesn’t deal with Toby or anything like that,” Archaia editor-in-chief Stephen Christy told Entertainment Weekly.

“It’s a very tragic story that is the opposite of Sarah’s, which has triumph at the end. It’s a prequel, so we know what happens in the movie. We know how it’s going to end: Jareth is going to be the Goblin King… so we’re showing how he’s pulled into the labyrinth for the first time. It’s going to be cool. We’re switching up the dynamic of it, but what we’re doing is completely true to the spirit of the original.”

With Bowie performing songs for the original film — “You Remind Me Of The Babe” — Christy also hopes to include music in the prequel. “I don’t know if this will work out,” he told Entertainment Weekly, “but I want to do songs where they’re songs being sung (by characters) and we show the notes on the page, so you can actually play along.” And he says he’s “talking” with Bowie about the idea: “The budget to get Bowie to do one song would be the budget of all the books, but we’re talking to him to at least get his blessing or maybe an introduction or something.”

The graphic novel follows a series of manga sequels to Labyrinth, which featured an older Toby as he returned to the Labyrinth to become Jareth’s heir. Christy said that “a whole generation” grew up with the film, and that it was “a big deal to a lot” of people. “It was one of those movies that stays with you from your childhood. We can probably count on two hands the movies that really affected us when we were kids, and I think for a lot of people Labyrinth was one of them,” he said.