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The slate of Phyllis Nagy is getting a massive showing of support from some of the biggest names in film and television. More than 300 writers of all levels in the film and TV business, from up-and-comers to superstars, have signed an open letter endorsing Nagy, who is running for president of WGA West, as well as her slate of Craig Mazin, who’s running for vice president, and Nick Jones Jr., up for secretary-treasurer.

Those who have signed the letter include heavyweights Shonda Rhimes, Greg Berlanti, Ryan Murphy, Ava DuVernay, Dan Fogelman, Kenya Barris, Steve Levitan, Damien Chazelle, Courtney Kemp, Aaron Sorkin, David E. Kelley, Akiva Goldsman, Lena Waithe, Phil Lord, Chris Miller, Allan Heinberg, David Benioff, Db Weiss, Alex Kurtzman, Sarah Treem,, Darren Star, Nic Pizzolatto, Scott Frank, Eric Kripke and Alex Gibney.

The list also includes top showrunner John Wells, one of the most respected leaders in the...

Exclusive: Warner Bros. has picked up Brad Desch’s multi-generational romantic comedy spec Wink from Safehouse Pictures, a Cyrano de Bergerac-like tale of what happens when you take over your mother’s social media profiles.

The story was inspired by Safehouse producer Tory Tunnell’s own experience of taking over her mom’s online profiles and emailing potential suitors as mom. Wink will take an emotional look at what modern dating means for all ages.

Desch wrote the 2015 Russell Crowe-Amanda Seyfried drama Fathers and Daughters and is currently adapting Love Canal starring Patricia Arquette for TriStar and Safehouse. He is repped by ICM, 3 Arts and Gang, Tyre Ramer.

Tunnell, Joby Harold and Lucy Barzun Donnelly will produce Wink with Alexandra Kerry and Matt Schwartz executive producing. Niija Kuykendall and Shelia Wolcott at Warner Bros. are supervising the project at Warners.

Safehouse Pictures is executive producing Lionsgate’s upcoming...

Patricia Arquette is ready to make her directorial debut with TriStar's Love Canal, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

The Oscar winner will step behind the camera for the 1970s drama, which centers on a group of working-class housewives who live in the titular upstate New York neighborhood where massive amounts of toxic chemicals had been dumped. With no training or support, they took on the chemical industry, the government and the President himself.

Brad Desch wrote the script, based on Will Battersby documentary The Canal. Safe House’s Tory Tunnell is producing with Battersby, Arquette and 3 Arts’ Richard Abate. Joby Harold and Molly Madden...

Exclusive: Oscar winning actress Patricia Arquette will make her directorial debut at TriStar on Love Canal, a drama based on the Will Battersby documentary The Canal. Scripted by Brad Desch (Fathers and Daughters), the drama will focus on extraordinary group of working class housewives from Love Canal, New York who took on the government and the chemical industry in the 70s. With no training or support, they got the President himself to move their families from homes…...

The works of director Gabriele Muccino aren’t for everyone. I can’t speak on his Italian films, but the American ones are unavoidably cloying and sentimental in a way that must be accepted or ignored to find resonance. Despite being the one showered with praise, The Pursuit of Happyness didn’t quite do enough for me. I appreciated the story and performances, but felt the artifice. For Seven Pounds, however, I didn’t care. The entire film proved one giant manipulative contrivance yet it unexpectedly hit me with depth and power just the same. So when the opportunity to watch his latest Fathers and Daughters arrived, I was optimistic. It looked ripe for that same emotional catharsis and as such possessed the potential to also crash and burn magnificently.

It’s reality lies somewhere in the middle. Brad Desch‘s script is everything that detractors say it is, but...

Fathers And DAUGHTERSVertical Entertainment Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B- Director: Gabriele Muccino Written by: Brad Desch Cast: Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Aaron Paul, Diane Kruger, Quvenzhané Wallis, Bruce Greenwood, Kyle Rogers, Janet McTeer, Octavia Spencer, Jane Fonda Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 5/5/16 Opens: July 8, 2016 Gabriele Muccino, whose “Welcome to Happyness” finds a struggling salesman who takes custody of his son, delivers Brad Desch’s script for “Fathers and Daughters” which includes a custody battle as well. This being the case, you might expect a soap opera, and “Fathers and Daughters” does have a soap quality. But it’s a well-acted drama with an outstanding cast and a [ Read More ]

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Exclusively on Directv Now and in Theatres July 8 is the film Fathers And Daughters.

The film stars Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Aaron Paul, Diane Kruger, Quvenzhané Wallis, Bruce Greenwood, Kyle Rogers, Janet McTeer, Octavia Spencer, and Jane Fonda.

Written by Brad Desch and directed by Gabriele Muccino, here’s a new clip from the movie.

Jake Davis (Russell Crowe), a Pulitzer-winning novelist, finds himself fighting the world when a fatal car crash leaves him alone to raise his 5-year-old daughter, Katie. Overcome with guilt from the loss of his wife, he struggles with the daily routine of raising his daughter compounded by his overbearing relatives’ intent on taking her from him.

As the narrative sweeps back and forth between the 1980s and present day, we come to learn how 30-year-old Katie (Amanda Seyfried) battles the demons that stem from her troubled childhood while simultaneously watching Jake fight to hold on...

Russell Crowe fails to convince as a novelist struggling with stress and parenthood

Russell Crowe is a Pulitzer prize-winning novelist who… no, stop there, I don’t buy it. Just like I don’t buy Crowe’s am-dram post-traumatic stress seizures (something for the Oscar judges, sir?), his brow-furrowing typing, his cutesy-goofy parenting (“you’re my potato chip”) or, indeed, any other part of this ludicrously overegged symphony of phoniness from Gabriele Muccino, director of the equally fatuous Seven Pounds.

“It’s about life, about death, loss, about love and fear to lose the person you love,” burbles Muccino of Brad Desch’s unaccountably Black List-approved script, which splits its time between dad-slash-author Jake (Crowe) raising young daughter Katie, and grown-up Katie (Amanda Seyfried) wrestling with lovelorn daddy issues.

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It’s all rather implausible and hugely melodramatic as it milks ham-fisted histrionics from high soap opera. A pitiable excuse for a movie. I’m “biast” (pro): really like Russell Crowe…

I’m “biast” (con): …though he’s been trying my patience lately

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

In 1989 New York (or, well, Pittsburgh standing in, unconvincingly, for New York), Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jake Davis (Russell Crowe: The Water Diviner, Noah) and his young daughter (Kylie Rogers) stumble through their grief over losing his wife, her mother in a car accident. The crash has left Jake with a combination of manic depression, palsy, and seizures brought on, apparently, by guilt (he was driving and distracted) and brain injury. It’s rather implausible and hugely melodramatic, which is all this pitiable excuse for a movie is concerned with: milking ham-fisted histrionics from high soap opera.

Russell Crowe reunites with his Les Miserables co-star Amanda Seyfried in the first trailer from Voltage Pictures' Fathers and Daughters. The studio still has not issued a release date for this upcoming drama, directed by Gabriele Muccino (The Pursuit of Happyness), but it is expected to be released by the end of this year for Academy Awards season consideration. While we wait for that announcement, you can check out the first footage from this upcoming drama.

Jake Davis (Russell Crowe), a Pulitzer-winning novelist, finds himself fighting against the world when a fatal car accident leaves him to raise his 5-year-old daughter, Katie, all on his own. Overcome with guilt from the loss of his wife, he struggles with the daily routine of raising a child compounded by his overbearing relatives intent on taking her away from him. As the narrative weaves back and forth between the 1980s, and present day,...

Director Gabriele Muccino often plays with the themes of family struggles in his movies, and Fathers And Daughters looks to explore another take on dealing with those closest to you – or not, in some cases. The first trailer for the drama has arrived. The film, written by Brad Desch, finds Russell Crowe as a successful, widowed writer caring for his young daughter Katie (Kylie Rogers). Initially it seems they have a strong bond, but when he falls seriously ill and has to send the girl to live with family (Bruce Greenwood and Diane Kruger), their connection is severely tested.Running parallel to that is the story of the grown Katie (Amanda Seyfried), who is still dealing with the fallout from her troubled childhood, and has problems maintaining relationships. Which is where Aaron Paul’s Cameron comes in: he’s a fan of her dad’s writing and falls for Katie,...

After having a brief bromance with Will Smith, working with the actor on "The Pursuit Of Happyness" and "Seven Pounds," Italian filmmaker Gabriele Muccino hasn't quite hit the same heights since in Hollywood. His last effort was the Gerard Butler effort "Playing For Keeps" and now comes "Fathers And Daughters" which has some decent names attached, but as this first international trailer reveals, maybe not the most promising results. Starring Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, and Aaron Paul, with a Black List approved script by Brad Desch, this is time-jumping tale about the relationship between a widower novelist and his daughter, with the story told through her eyes, in a narrative that spans decades. Here's the official synopsis:  Jake Davis, a Pulitzer-winning novelist, finds himself fighting against the world when a fatal car accident leaves him to raise his 5-year-old daughter, Katie, all on his own. Overcome with...

Normally, Nicholas Sparks adaptations are nothing to get excited about, but the cast that is coming together for The Longest Ride, Fox’s latest attempt to find Notebook-style success with a tearjerker from the prolific author, is unusually interesting. We previously reported that Scott Eastwood (yes, son of Clint), Boardwalk Empire actor Jack Huston and acting veteran Alan Alda had boarded the project in leading roles, joining Game of Thrones actress Oona Chaplin and Under the Dome star Britt Robertson, and now we’ve learned that Lolita Davidovich has also signed on.

Davidovich, who recently appeared alongside the late James Gandolfini in HBO original movie Cinema Verite, will play the protective mother of Eastwood’s character, a cowboy who goes out during a blizzard in a race against time to save his family ranch and the love of his life (Robertson). His path intersects with that of an imperiled older...

• Rosa Salazar (Parenthood) has joined the cast of Insurgent as Lynn. Currently filming in Atlanta, the Divergent follow-up from director Robert Schwentke (R.I.P.D.) will again star Shailene Woodley (The Fault in Our Stars), Theo James (Underworld: Awakening), Miles Teller (The Spectacular Now), Ansel Elgort (The Fault in Our Stars), Kate Winslet (Labor Day), Jai Courtney (Jack Reacher), and Zoe Kravitz (After Earth), as well as newcomers to the series Naomi Watts (The Impossible), Daniel Dae Kim (Lost), and Octavia Spencer (The Help). In the book, Lynn is described as a bitter Dauntless-born initiate with a shaved head, eyebrow piercing, a tough attitude,...

Lolita Davidovich has joined the cast of Fox 2000's The Longest Ride. Scott Eastwood, Britt Robertson and Oona Chaplin already have boarded the George Tillman Jr.-helmed drama, which is based on Nicholas Sparks' best-selling novel of the same name. The story follows a young couple whose lives intertwine with that of a much older man as he reflects on a lost love while he's trapped in an automobile crash. Craig Bolotin, Brad Desch, Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber adapted the screenplay. Story: Scott Eastwood to Star in Nicholas Sparks Adaptation 'The Longest Ride' Davidovich will play the protective mother of Eastwood's

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We’ve really missed seeing living legend Alan Alda (M*A*S*H) at the movies. Outside of playing the antagonist in the forgettable Ben Stiller/Eddie Murphy caper Tower Heist and taking a small supporting role in the also dreary Wanderlust, Alda has been largely absent from the big screen. Luckily, that’s changing now that he has booked the lead role in Nicholas Sparks adaptation The Longest Ride.

In the film, a romantic drama set up over at Fox 2000, Alda will play a man stuck in his car after crashing on an isolated road during a heavy snowstorm. Fighting to stay conscious as he awaits rescuers, the man sees visions of the love of his life, who previously passed away. Meanwhile, outside of the car, there is another romance playing out between a young art history major and a handsome bull rider, who fall in love despite their different personalities,...

Here’s a guy you never get tired of seeing. Fox 2000 has set Alan Alda to star in The Longest Ride, the George Tillman Jr-directed adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks bestselling novel. The Fault In Our Stars‘ Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen at Temple Hill are producing with Theresa Park. Scripted by Craig Bolotin, Brad Desch, Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber, the story opens as a man snowbound and stuck in his car after a major crash on an isolated road. As he drifts in and out of consciousness awaiting rescue, the man sees visions of his life’s love, who died earlier. There is another romance between a young art history major and a handsome bull rider who fall in love despite coming from completely different backgrounds. Each has aspirations and dreams, and the cowboy is fighting the clock and should not be riding due to past injuries, but...

Here’s a guy you never get tired of seeing. Fox 2000 has set Alan Alda to star in The Longest Ride, the George Tillman Jr-directed adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks bestselling novel. The Fault In Our Stars‘ Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen at Temple Hill are producing with Theresa Park. Scripted by Craig Bolotin, Brad Desch, Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber, the story opens as a man snowbound and stuck in his car after a major crash on an isolated road. As he drifts in and out of consciousness awaiting rescue, the man sees visions of his life’s love, who died earlier. There is another romance between a young art history major and a handsome bull rider who fall in love despite coming from completely different backgrounds. Each has aspirations and dreams, and the cowboy is fighting the clock and should not be riding due to past injuries, but...

Young star of Boardwalk Empire, Jack Huston, has been cast as co-lead in the upcoming adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel, The Longest Ride. It came as no surprise when Fox 2000 snapped up the rights to the book when it was published in 2013, as previous works by Sparks – including The Notebook, Dear John and Safe Haven – have proved extremely popular in the romantic drama genre. The Longest Ride looks like it will be no exception.

The story begins with an elderly man, trapped in a car following a crash on a snowbound highway. Awaiting rescue, the steadily weakening man reflects on the years he spent with his beloved, but deceased, wife. Elsewhere, as the elderly man reminisces, an Art History college senior is busy finding unlikely love with a bull rider. Eventually, a strange occurrence causes the two stories to intertwine.

Jack Huston will play the younger version of the...

Exclusive: Boardwalk Empire’s Jack Huston has been set to star in The Longest Ride, Fox 2000′s adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks tale that will be directed by George Tillman and produced by Temple Hill’s Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey along with Theresa Park. Huston will play the young Ira in a tale that brings together two intertwining love stories. Pic has an April 3 release date. Scripted by Craig Bolotin, Brad Desch, Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber, the story opens with a 90-year-old man snowbound and stuck in his car after a major crash on an isolated road. As he drifts in and out of consciousness awaiting rescue, the man sees visions of his life’s love, who died earlier. Together they reminisce about their life together, including his difficulty in returning from WWII and being unable to have children with her because of a war wound. They become renowned...

Today, we have two more names to add to the already impressive cast of Gabriele Muccino’s upcoming film, Fathers and Daughters. Deadline reports that Jane Fonda and Bruce Greenwood have joined the generation-spanning drama, which also stars Russell Crowe, Aaron Paul, Amanda Seyfried, Diane Kruger, Quvenzhane Wallis, Haley Bennet and Octavia Spencer.

The film was written by newcomer Brad Desch and is described as “a love story between a troubled father and his daughter.” Crowe plays Jake Davis, a famous writer and widower who struggles with mental illness while trying to raise his 5 year-old daughter Katie. The story spans 25 years, from the 1980′s to the present day, and has Seyfried playing Katie as an adult, who eventually has demons of her own that were caused by her troubled upbringing.

Fonda will play Davis’ longtime friend and literary agent, while Greenwood will portray his brother-in-law, who wages a legal battle...

Deadline is reporting that Haley Bennett will be joining Gabriele Muccino’s Fathers and Daughters, which already stars a pretty impressive cast that consists of Russell Crowe, Aaron Paul, Amanda Seyfried, Octavia Spencer, Quvenzhane Wallis and Diane Kruger.

Scripted by Brad Desch, the film details “the bond between a father and daughter living in New York.” The story will move between the 1980s and present day as it follows Jake Davis (Crowe), a famous writer and widower who “struggles with mental illness” as he tries to raise his 5-year-old daughter Katie.

Growing up with a troubled childhood, Katie (Amanda Seyfried) eventually has demons of her own that she has to deal with when she’s older and that’s what the present day portion of the story focuses on.

Having loved Muccino’s The Pursuit of Happyness, I’m definitely looking forward to seeing what he can do with Fathers and Daughters.

Octavia Spencer, Quvenzhane Wallis and Diane Kruger will join Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, and Aaron Paul in Gabriele Muccino's romance epic "Fathers and Daughters" for Voltage Pictures.

The film deals with two different time periods in the lives of a father and daughter who live in Manhattan. The first period is in the 1980s in which a famous novelist and widower (Russell Crowe) struggles with mental illness as he tries to raise his 5-year old daughter.

The second follows that now 30-year old daughter (Amanda Seyfried) who battles her own turbulent childhood demons in contemporary New York.

Spencer will play the head of the psychiatric clinic where Seyfried counsels troubled children. Wallis will play a patient who has been mute since her mother was murdered.

Kruger will play the sister-in law of Crowe’s character, who blames him for the death of her sister.

Brad Desch penned the Black...

Octavia Spencer and Quvenzhane Wallis have both joined the cast of the drama, Fathers and Daughters, which is based on a Black List script penned by Brad Desch. The actresses will co-star in the film alongside Russell Crowe, Diane Kruger, Amanda Seyfried, and Aaron Paul, in what Variety calls "a love story between a father and daughter living 25 years apart in New York City." Gabriele Muccino (Pursuit Of Happyness) is attached to direct the Voltage Pictures project, which is heading to the European Film Market in Berlin this month, to be sold. Octavia Spencer will play the head of the psych clinic where Seyfried’s character counsels troubled children, while Quvenzhane Wallis...

A flurry of casting announcements last autumn saw Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried and Aaron Paul signing up for Gabriele Muccino's ensemble drama Fathers And Daughters. After a quieter couple of months, the film now has some new additions. Quvenzhane Wallis, Diane Kruger and Octavia Spencer will all be making appearances.The script, written by Brad Desch, follows a parental relationship across 25 troubled years, with Crowe playing a novelist and widower struggling with mental illness as he raises his five year-old daughter. The story also shows the daughter as an adult (Seyfried) working through the problems rooted in her difficult childhood. Paul, not for the first time (following HBO drama Big Love), is playing Seyfried's boyfriend.Kruger has signed on to play Crowe's estranged sister-in-law, while the rest of the new cast belong to the psychiatric clinic where Seyfried's character is a child counsellor. Spencer is the clinic's "spirited" head,...

Take a look at today's latest casting news: Octavia Spencer (Fruitvale Station), Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild), and Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds) have joined Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried and Aaron Paul in Gabriele Muccino's Fathers and Daughters. Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) has signed on to James Kent's Testament to Youth, starring opposite Alicia Vikander. Alexandra Daddario (Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters) has landed the female lead opposite Dwayne Johnson in Brad Peyton's natural disaster-thriller, San Andreas. Hit the jump for more on each project. News out of Berlin, via Variety, has Spencer, Wallis and Kruger joining Fathers and Daughters. Scripted by Black List scribe Brad Desch, the story follows a father (Crowe) and daughter (Seyfried) living 25 years apart in New York City; the picture is currently in pre-production in Pittsburgh. Spencer will play "the spirited head of the psychiatric clinic where Seyfried’s character counsels troubled children.

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Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul is set to star alongside Russell Crowe and Amanda Seyfried in a drama called Fathers and Daughters. The movie comes from an original script written by Brad Desch, which was featured on the Black List.

The story follows "a father and daughter living 25 years apart in New York City. Crowe will portray a famous novelist and widower struggling with mental illness as he tries to raise his 5-year-old daughter. Seyfried will portray the now-grown daughter in present-day Manhattan as she battles the aftermath of her troubled childhood."

Paul will be playing Seyfried’s love interest in the film. This would be the second project that Paul and Seyfried have worked on together. They previously starred together in HBO’s Big Love. Paul is a great young actor that has a great career ahead of him. The next thing we'll see him in is DreamWorks' Need For Speed.

Breaking Bad‘s Aaron Paul has signed on to star in the generation-spanning drama Fathers and Daughters, alongside Amanda Seyfried and Russell Crowe.

The film, set to be directed by The Pursuit of Happyness helmer Gabriele Muccino, will follow two characters living 25 years apart in New York City. In one plot thread, Crowe will portray a novelist struggling to raise his five-year-old daughter while simultaneously combatting mental illness. The other half of Fathers and Daughters will focus on the grown-up daughter (Seyfried), who attempts to deal with childhood trauma and hold onto her first serious relationship.

Fathers and Daughters sounds like a real tearjerker, as well as catnip to Oscar voters, so I’m excited to see how this project turns out. No word yet on Paul’s role, though it’s likely safe to assume that he’ll act as the love interest for Seyfried’s character. The pair...

Aaron Paul has signed on for Gabriele Muccino's romance epic "Fathers And Daughters" at Voltage Pictures, Busted Shark Prods., Fear of God Films and Leone Films.

The film deals with two different time periods in the lives of a father and daughter who live in Manhattan.

The first period is in the 1980s in which a famous novelist and widower (Russell Crowe) struggles with mental illness as he tries to raise his 5-year old daughter.

The second follows that now 30-year old daughter (Amanda Seyfried) who battles her own turbulent childhood demons in contemporary New York.

Brad Desch ("Shotgun Lovesongs") penned the script, while Craig J. Flores, Nicolas Chartier, and Sherryl Clark will produce. Pre-production is scheduled to commence in December.

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“Breaking Bad” bad-ass Aaron Paul is getting in touch with his softer side, as he’s set to reunite with his “Big Love” co-star Amanda Seyfried in Voltage Films’ “Fathers and Daughters,” an individual familiar with the project has told TheWrap. Russell Crowe stars in the movie, which Gabriele Muccino will direct from a Black List script by Brad Desch. The film is a love story between a father and daughter living in New York City 25 years apart. Crowe will play a famous novelist and widower who struggles with mental illness as he tries to raise his five year-old daughter Katie.

Aaron Paul has been doing his very best to capitalize on all of the success that has come from the award-winning hit Breaking Bad, and as a result we will be seeing plenty of him on the big screen soon. Today we add yet another title to his "Upcoming" pile. According to Variety, the Emmy-winning actor has now signed a deal to come aboard Fathers & Daughters, a new drama that already has Russell Crowe and Amanda Seyfried. Based on a script by Brad Desch that was previously featured on the Black List (the annual list of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood), the film tells a story set in two time periods 25 years apart. The trade says that Crowe will play "a famous novelist and widower struggling with mental illness as he tries to raise his 5-year-old daughter." Seyfried, meanwhile, will play that same daughter all grown up and trying...

Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul has signed on for a role in the upcoming drama Fathers and Daughters, which already has Russell Crowe and Amanda Seyfried attached.

The story is set in two different time periods, 25 years apart, in New York City. Russell Crowe plays a famous novelist who is struggling to raise his five-year-old daughter while battling with his own mental illness. Amanda Seyfried is playing the adult daughter in present-day Manhattan, who is still coming to grips with her troubled childhood.

No character details were given for Aaron Paul's character, although it is possible that he may play the daughter's love interest, which would be fitting since he played Amanda Seyfried's love interest on the HBO TV series Big Love.

Gabriele Muccino is directing from a screenplay by Brad Desch, which was featured on the Black List in 2012. Craig J. Flores, Nicolas Chartier and Sherryl Clark are producing.

Aaron Paul has signed on to Voltage’s epic romance Fathers And Daughters starring previously announced Russell Crowe and Amanda Seyfried.

Gabriele Muccino will direct from Brad Desch’s dual timeline Black List screenplay spanning a quarter-century about the lives of a father and daughter in New York.

Voltage Pictures is financing the project and introduced to Afm buyers earlier this month. Pre-production is scheduled to commence in December.

Los Angeles-based Voltage Productions and Busted Shark are producing with Rome’s Andrea Leone Films and Crowe and Keith Rodger’s Sydney-based Fear Of God Films.

Sherryl Clark developed the screenplay with Desch as one of the first projects through her new company Busted Shark Productions.

Voltage acquired the screenplay and Clark and Voltage’s Craig Flores attached Muccino to direct.

Clark produces with Voltage Productions’ Flores and Nicolas Chartier. Crowe and Rodger will serve as executive producers alongside Romilda De Luca. Andrea Leone is co-producer...

Things are clearly moving quickly on the casting front for Gabriele Muccino’s new drama, Fathers And Daughters. He scored Russell Crowe for one of the central roles a month ago and is adding Aaron Paul and Amanda Seyfried to the ensemble.With the script, written by Brad Desch, following a parental relationship across 25 troubled years, Crowe will play a novelist and widower struggling with mental illness as he raises his five year-old daughter. The story will also show the daughter as a grown up (Seyfried) as she faces the problems causes by her difficult childhood.Paul, who has some experience romancing Seyfried after their roles on HBO drama Big Love, will play her boyfriend. Crowe is acting as executive producer on the film, but there’s no word yet on when it’ll start shooting.Seyfried was last seen in The Big Wedding and has worked on Seth MacFarlane...

Jesse Pinkman continues his post Breaking Bad career trajectory! Aaron Paul is set to co-star with Russell Crowe and Amanda Seyfried in Fathers And Daughters for director Gabriele Muccino (Seven Pounds), based on the blacklist script by Brad Desch. It's unknown what role Paul would be playing the film, but the speculation is that it would be a love interest for Seyfried, which is ironic as he played her love interest on the HBO show Big Love. Here's the story breakdown from Variety:...

With AMC's "Breaking Bad" coming to an end two months ago, actor Aaron Paul, who won multiple Emmys for the show, is in more demand than ever, and Variety reports that he's just signed onto co-star with Russell Crowe and Amanda Seyfried in Gabriele Muccinio's drama Fathers and Daughters . Produced by Voltage Pictures and Busted Shark Productions from Brad Desch's "Black List" screenplay, the film tells the story of a father (Crowe), a famous novelist struggling with mental illness while trying to raise his daughter in New York City. Seyfried plays the daughter 25 years later trying to cope with her troubled childhood. It wasn't reported what part Paul might be playing although he already played Seyfried's love interest once when they both appeared on HBO's...

Last winter Amanda Seyfried and Russell Crowe shared the screen on Tom Hooper's ambitious adaptation of the Broadway musical Les Miserables, and now they're set to reunite in the drama Fathers and Daughters. Deadline reports Seyfried has signed on to play the titular daughter opposite Crowe as the titular father. The screenplay, which earned scribe Brad Desch a coveted spot of the 2012 Black List of Hollywood's best unproduced screenplays, centers on the problematic relationship between a famous but mentally ill author named Jack Davis and his daughter Katie. The story vacillates between his attempt at single-fatherhood following the death of his wife when Katie was just five years old, and her life as a thirty-year-old woman living in modern-day New York and struggling to overcome the scars of her past. We expect this drama will veer into tearjerker territory, as it is to be helmed by Gabriele Muccino, the...

Amanda Seyfried is to appear opposite Russell Crowe as his on-screen daughter in an upcoming drama.

Fathers and Daughters will be directed by Gabriele Muccino, with Crowe executive producing with Keith Rodger.

Written by Brad Desch, the film focuses on the relationship between a father and daughter living 25 years apart in New York.

Crowe plays a successful novelist and widower dealing with mental illness while trying to raise his 5-year-old daughter.

Seyfried will play the daughter in present-day Manhattan as she battles with the effects of her difficult childhood.

Russell Crowe and Amanda Seyfried previously starred opposite each other in 2012's Les Misérables.

Amanda Seyfried most recently starred in the erotic biopic Lovelace. Watch Seyfried discuss the film with Digital Spy below:...

Joining up with "The Pursuit of Happiness" director,Gabriele Muccino, Amanda Seyfried joins the cast for "Fathers and Daughters," opposite Russell Crowe, as a father-daughter duo estranged by separation.

Although very few details have been released, we know that "Fathers and Daughters" is run by "Voltage Films," and is coming at us from a blacklisted script written by "Shotgun Lovesongs"' acclaimed wrtter, Brad Desch. Voltage Pictures is handling foreign sales and will be selling “Fathers and Daughters” at the American Film Market. The flick is currently scheduled for pre-production in December.

Per the movie's synopsis, "Fathers and Daughters" characterizes the love story between a father and daughter who live in Manhattan 25 years apart. The story moves back and forth between the 1980s where a famous novelist and widower struggles with mental illness as he tries to raise his 5-year old daughter; then it shows that daughter as a 30-year...

Amanda Seyfried has signed on as the female lead opposite Russell Crowe in Fathers And Daughters, the epic romance that Voltage Pictures will introduce to Afm buyers next month.

Gabriele Muccino will direct Fathers And Daughters, a drama about a father and daughter in New York that spans 25 years.

Voltage is financing the project and produces with Busted Shark Productions of Los Angeles, Crowe’s Fear Of God Films from Sydney, Australia, and Italy’s Leone Films, which will also handle Italian distribution.

Brad Desch will direct. Sherryl Clark developed the Blacklist screenplay with Desch as one of the first projects through her new company Busted Shark Productions.

Voltage acquired the screenplay and Clark and Voltage’s Craig Flores attached Muccino to direct. Dominic Rustam negotiated the Crowe deal on behalf of Voltage.

Clark produces with Voltage Productions’ Flores and Nicolas Chartier. Crowe and his Fear Of God partner Keith Rodger will serve as executive producers alongside...

Amanda Seyfried has signed on as the female lead opposite Russell Crowe in Fathers And Daughters, the epic romance that Voltage Pictures will introduce to Afm buyers next month.

Gabriele Muccino will direct Fathers And Daughters, a drama about a father and daughter in New York that spans 25 years.

Voltage is financing the project and produces with Busted Shark Productions of Los Angeles, Crowe’s Fear Of God Films from Sydney, Australia, and Italy’s Leone Films, which will also handle Italian distribution.

Brad Desch will direct. Sherryl Clark developed the Blacklist screenplay with Desch as one of the first projects through her new company Busted Shark Productions.

Voltage acquired the screenplay and Clark and Voltage’s Craig Flores attached Muccino to direct. Dominic Rustam negotiated the Crowe deal on behalf of Voltage.

Clark produces with Voltage Productions’ Flores and Nicolas Chartier. Crowe and his Fear Of God partner Keith Rodger will serve as executive producers alongside...

Amanda Seyfried has signed on as the female lead opposite Russell Crowe in Fathers And Daughters, the epic romance that Voltage Pictures will introduce to Afm buyers next month.

Gabriele Muccino will direct Fathers And Daughters, a drama about a father and daughter in New York that spans 25 years.

Voltage is financing the project and produces with Busted Shark Productions of Los Angeles, Crowe’s Fear Of God Films from Sydney, Australia, and Italy’s Leone Films, which will also handle Italian distribution.

Brad Desch will direct. Sherryl Clark developed the Blacklist screenplay with Desch as one of the first projects through her new company Busted Shark Productions.

Voltage acquired the screenplay and Clark and Voltage’s Craig Flores attached Muccino to direct. Dominic Rustam negotiated the Crowe deal on behalf of Voltage.

Clark produces with Voltage Productions’ Flores and Nicolas Chartier. Crowe and his Fear Of God partner Keith Rodger will serve as executive producers alongside...

Are you able to spot any similarities between Amanda Seyfried’s smooth, porcelain doll features and the worn and weathered face of longtime Hollywood tough guy Russell Crowe? Director Gabriele Muccino (The Pursuit of Happyness, Seven Pounds) seems to be able to, because Variety is reporting that he’s just cast her as Crowe’s adult daughter in his next film, appropriately titled Fathers and Daughters. Maybe it’s got something to do with the fact that they both have piercing blue eyes. Or maybe it’s just because they’re both famous actors. Fathers and Daughters comes from a Black List script that was penned by Brad Desch, and it tells two New York-set stories that take place 25 years apart. The first features Crowe as a famous novelist and widower who is struggling with mental illness and the task of trying to raise his five-year-old daughter on his own. The...

Just days after Russell Crowe signed on to play the dad in Fathers and Daughters, Voltage Pictures has brought on Amanda Seyfried to play the daughter.

The story, written by Brad Desch, is split between the 1980s and present-day Manhattan. The plot centers on Katie (Amanda Seyfried), a woman confronting the demons that stem from childhood issues with her father (Russell Crowe), a famous novelist and widow who suffers from a mental illness.

Gabriele Muccino (The Pursuit of Happyness) is directing, with Voltage's Nicolas Chartier and Craig J. Flores producing. Busted Shark Productions' Sherryl Clark, who developed the script with Brad Desch, is also producing. No production schedule was given.

Amanda Seyfried most recently starred in Les Miserables, alongside Russell Crowe, and the biopic Lovelace. She will next be seen in the Western comedy A Million Ways to Die in the West from director Seth MacFarlane.

Fathers and Daughters...

Amanda Seyfried will re-team with her "Les Miserables" co-star Russell Crowe for Gabriele Muccino's drama "Fathers and Daughters" at Voltage Pictures, Busted Shark Prods., Fear of God Films and Leone Films.

The film deals with two different time periods in the lives of a father and daughter who live in Manhattan.

The first period is in the 1980s in which a famous novelist and widower (Crowe) struggles with mental illness as he tries to raise his 5-year old daughter.

The second follows that now 30-year old daughter (Seyfried) who battles her own turbulent childhood demons in contemporary New York.

Brad Desch ("Shotgun Lovesongs") penned the script, while Craig J. Flores, Nicolas Chartier, and Sherryl Clark will produce. Pre-production aims to begin in December.

Source: Variety...

Breaking: Voltage Films has cast Amanda Seyfried to play the daughter role opposite Russell Crowe in the Gabriele Muccino-directed film Fathers And Daughters, which Brad Desch scripted. Pic is a love story detailing the bond between a father and daughter living in New York. The story moves back and forth between the 1980s where Jake Davis, a famous novelist and widower, struggles with mental illness as he tries to raise his 5-year-old daughter, Katie, and 30-year-old Katie’s life in present-day Manhattan where she battles the demons that stem from her troubled childhood. Seyfried most recently starred in Lovelace and Les Miserables, the latter with Crowe. Next up is Seth MacFarlane’s Western A Million Ways To Die In The West.

Amanda Seyfried is set to join Russell Crowe in Voltage Films’ “Fathers and Daughters,” the company announced Thursday. The duo recently co-starred in “Les Miserables.” Gabriele Muccino will direct from a Black List script by Brad Desch. Also Read: Amanda Seyfried Can Do Something That Impresses Porn Scouts in ‘Lovelace’ Trailer (Video) The movie is a love story between a father and daughter living in New York City 25 years apart. Crowe will play a famous novelist and widower who struggles with mental illness as he tries to raise his five year-old daughter Katie (Seyfried). The story will move back and forth.

Following word earlier this week of Russell Crowe signing on to star in The Pursuit of Happyness and Seven Pounds director Gabriele Muccino's latest, Fathers and Daughters , comes word, via The Wrap , that Amanda Seyfried is set to play his character's daughter. Set up at Voltage Films, Fathers and Daughters arrives from a "Black List" script by Brad Desch. Set in two different time periods, the film charts the parallels between Crowe's character raising a five-year old girl in Manhattan while battling mental illness and, 25 years later, the life of the adult girl (Seyfried). Seyfried recently headlined the biopic Lovelace and provided a voice for 20th Century Fox's animated adventure, Epic . She's soon set to star in Seth MacFarlane's second feature film,...

Amanda Seyfried is set to play Russell Crowe's daughter in Gabriel Muccino's Father's and Daughters, reports Variety. Voltage Pictures produces as well as Fear of God Films, Leone Films and Busted Shark Productions. Producing are Voltage's Craig J. Flores and Nicolas Chartier as well as Sherryl Clark of Busted Shark. Fear of God's Keith Rodger and Crowe and are serving as executive producers with Romilda De Luca. Andrea Leone Films co-produces. Scripted by Brad Desch, the story follows a father and daughter living in New York City...

Russell Crowe is still a big name, although he hasn’t helmed a box-office hit in a starring role since 2010′s Robin Hood. He’s still in moviegoers’ minds due to his stoic turn as Jor-El in Man of Steel and his tone-deaf rendition as Inspector Javert in Les Misérables. The Oscar-winning actor is hoping to give Academy voters something to talk about, signing on to Fathers and Daughters, the latest film from Gabriele Muccino (The Pursuit of Happyness).

With the role, the actor is set to, once again, get Academy voters’ waterworks gushing. In Fathers and Daughters, he will portray a widowed novelist trying to raise his five-year-old daughter as he battles mental illness. The film, coming from Brad Desch’s Blacklisted script, will move between the daughter’s youth and 25 years later, when she looks back at her tumultuous childhood. The New York-set drama sounds like a bona-fide weepie,...