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Stefanie Scott’s already busy year has just gotten a lot busier with roles in two independent films: Content’s Life At These Speeds and Marvista Entertainment’s Caught. Life At These Speeds centers on a young man (Graham Rogers) who, after his best friends die in an accident, finds that running allows him to remember them perfectly. He soon finds himself caught between keeping the past alive and making new memories in the present. Scott will play the supporting role of Ellie, Kevin’s deceased girlfriend and soulmate, alongside Liana Liberato, Sam Rockwell, Melanie Lynskey, and Billy Crudup. Producers are Tom Butterfield (The Trust) and Scott Alvarez (Down for Life).

Scott plays an unsuspecting mistress who is kidnapped by a housewife (Anna Camp, Pitch Perfect) in thriller Caught. It’s initially intended as a prank to teach the girl a lesson, but events soon spiral out of control. Maggie Kiley...

Leif Tilden’s Life At These Speeds starring Douglas Booth, Billy Crudup, AnnaSophia Robb and Sam Rockwell will start production in autumn and Content will introduce to Cannes buyers.

Marc Novak wrote the story of a youngster who takes up running as a way of remembering his best friends who died in an accident.

Tom Butterfield and Scott Alvarez produce.

“Every now and then a script comes from left field and entirely captures your imagination and your heart,” said Content’s Jamie Carmichael.

“Life At These Speeds is that script. It’s powerful, emotional, inspiring and uplifting – Leif, Tom and Scott have put together something truly beautiful.”

The Content slate includes: Amy Berg’s Janis Joplin documentary Janis: Little Girl Blue, Mike van Diem’s The Surprise, Jimi: All Is By My Side starring Andre Benjamin; family adventure Pudsey: The Movie and supernatural horror Dark Summer.

Douglas Booth and Billy Crudup have signed on to star in the sports drama Life at These Speeds.  The story centers on "a rural teenager (Booth) who loses his best friends in a tragic accident and channels his survivor's guilt into an addiction to running, becoming a world-class distance runner in the process."   More than a decade after portraying famed long-distance runner Steve Prefontaine in Without Limits, Crudup will return to the track world to play Booth's coach and confidante.  Leif Tilden will direct Life at These Speeds from a script by Marc Novak, adapted from the novel of the same  name by Jeremy Jackson.  Sam Rockwell is executive producing alongside Scott William Alvarez and Peter Holden.  Hit the jump for a synopsis of the book. This is my first encounter with the 19-year-0ld Booth, but my goodness is he pretty.  Like a British Chace Crawford.  He explained the...

Cinema Revival toppers David Johnson and Scott William Alvarez have acquired Jeremy Jackson's novel Life at These Speeds with TV helmer Jessica Landaw making her feature debut. Scribe Marc Novak brought the project to Cinema Revival and will adapt. The story centers on a teenager who runs from the guilt of surviving a bus accident that kills his classmates only to become a hero in another town. Cinema Revival's slate also includes Broken April/Alabama Rain, a drama to star Kris Kristofferson. Landaw is repped by WMA and A Guy Walks Into a Bar. Jackson is repped by Rabineau, Wachter & Sanford Literary Agency. Johnson and Alvarez are repped by Foundation Management.