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Toy Story 4 unspools in theaters June 21, moviegoers may notice that the sequel boasts a large number of "story by" credits — eight — including former Pixar chief creative officer John Lasseter and writing partners Rashida Jones and Will McCormack, who left the project in 2017. Others credited include director Josh Cooley, story supervisor Valerie Lapointe, writer Stephany Folsom (Thor: Ragnarok), writer Martin Hynes (The Go-Getter) and Pixar's Oscar-winning writer-director Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, Wall-e). Stanton and Folsom share the screenplay credit.

Those names reflect the long road to development for the sequel. While it had ...

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Toy Story 4 unspools in theaters June 21, moviegoers may notice that the sequel boasts a large number of "story by" credits — eight — including former Pixar chief creative officer John Lasseter and writing partners Rashida Jones and Will McCormack, who left the project in 2017. Others credited include director Josh Cooley, story supervisor Valerie Lapointe, writer Stephany Folsom (Thor: Ragnarok), writer Martin Hynes (The Go-Getter) and Pixar's Oscar-winning writer-director Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, Wall-e). Stanton and Folsom share the screenplay credit.

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Jena Malone is finding her way into genre work more and more, as Deadline reports that the Sucker Punch star is set to lead the upcoming La noir thriller The Go-Getters. On the project, she’ll be joining Joe Mantegna, as well as relatively unknown brothers Jt and Damon Alexander.

Michael C. Martin has written and will serve as (debut) director of the crime drama, which tells the story of “two lifelong criminals who maneuver through the shady underbelly of Los Angeles in search of wealth, love and redemption.” Having scripted the Antoine Fuqua drama Brooklyn‘s Finest back in 2010, he seems to be familiar with the crime/drama realm of screenwriting.

As for Malone, she’ll be playing a “struggling actress who gets caught up in a heist planned by two underworld brothers.” Although her career has taken a more indie route over the years, she’s been keeping...

Actress Jessica Lucas won over fan boys with her performances in Cloverfield and Amusement but looked to boost her genre status even further by taking a role in the upcoming remake of The Evil Dead for director Fede Alvarez. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that the 26-year-old Lucas, best known for her recurring role of Riley Richmond on the CW’s Melrose Place reboot, joined the film as one of five friends at a secluded cabin to help a friend go through drug withdrawal but end up unleashing the Book of the Dead and its the beyond-the-grave beasties. Earlier, Red Riding Hood star Shiloh Fernandez joined the film along with Lou Taylor Pucci, a regular in the independent film scene with dramas Thumbsucker, The Go-Getter and The Music Never Stopped, and Elizabeth Blackmore. Actress Jane Levy also replaced Lily Collins as the female lead.

Actress Jessica Lucas won over fan boys with her performances in Cloverfield and Amusement but looked to boost her genre status even further by taking a role in the upcoming remake of The Evil Dead for director Fede Alvarez. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that the 26-year-old Lucas, best known for her recurring role of Riley Richmond on the CW’s Melrose Place reboot, joined the film as one of five friends at a secluded cabin to help a friend go through drug withdrawal but end up unleashing the Book of the Dead and its the beyond-the-grave beasties. Earlier, Red Riding Hood star Shiloh Fernandez joined the film along with Lou Taylor Pucci, a regular in the independent film scene with dramas Thumbsucker, The Go-Getter and The Music Never Stopped, and Elizabeth Blackmore. Actress Jane Levy also replaced Lily Collins as the female lead.

Actress Jessica Lucas won over fan boys with her performances in Cloverfield and Amusement but looked to boost her genre status even further by taking a role in the upcoming remake of The Evil Dead for director Fede Alvarez. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that the 26-year-old Lucas, best known for her recurring role of Riley Richmond on the CW’s Melrose Place reboot, joined the film as one of five friends at a secluded cabin to help a friend go through drug withdrawal but end up unleashing the Book of the Dead and its the beyond-the-grave beasties. Earlier, Red Riding Hood star Shiloh Fernandez joined the film along with Lou Taylor Pucci, a regular in the independent film scene with dramas Thumbsucker, The Go-Getter and The Music Never Stopped, and Elizabeth Blackmore. Actress Jane Levy also replaced Lily Collins as the female lead.

More casting news kept the fan base excited for writer/director Fede Alvarez's reboot of the cult classic The Evil Dead. Lou Taylor Pucci, a regular in the independent film scene with dramas Thumbsucker, The Go-Getter and The Music Never Stopped, changed genres and joined The Evil Dead as one of the group of teens battling the beyond-the-grave beasties in an isolated cabin. Variety earlier confirmed that Red Riding Hood star Shiloh Fernandez joined the film and actress Jane Levy replaced Lily Collins as the female lead. Pucci, 26, recently completed work on the indie dramas All Together Now, about a group of twenty-somethings at a rock concert, and The Story of Luke, about a young man with autism.

More casting news kept the fan base excited for writer/director Fede Alvarez's reboot of the cult classic The Evil Dead. Lou Taylor Pucci, a regular in the independent film scene with dramas Thumbsucker, The Go-Getter and The Music Never Stopped, changed genres and joined The Evil Dead as one of the group of teens battling the beyond-the-grave beasties in an isolated cabin. Variety earlier confirmed that Red Riding Hood star Shiloh Fernandez joined the film and actress Jane Levy replaced Lily Collins as the female lead. Pucci, 26, recently completed work on the indie dramas All Together Now, about a group of twenty-somethings at a rock concert, and The Story of Luke, about a young man with autism.

More casting news kept the fan base excited for writer/director Fede Alvarez's reboot of the cult classic The Evil Dead. Lou Taylor Pucci, a regular in the independent film scene with dramas Thumbsucker, The Go-Getter and The Music Never Stopped, changed genres and joined The Evil Dead as one of the group of teens battling the beyond-the-grave beasties in an isolated cabin. Variety earlier confirmed that Red Riding Hood star Shiloh Fernandez joined the film and actress Jane Levy replaced Lily Collins as the female lead. Pucci, 26, recently completed work on the indie dramas All Together Now, about a group of twenty-somethings at a rock concert, and The Story of Luke, about a young man with autism.

Sometime late this month (or at the beginning of the month of December) the Sundance Film Festival will start unveiling the line-up for their 2012 edition. In an effort to give our readers a heads up on what we'll most likely be seeing at the fest, I've put together yet another predictions list. Caution: I cast a wide circle with a total of 80 predix so I'm bound to get some wrong, but as I've proven in prior years, I'm spot on with at least half the titles you'll find here. One of the most common questions I receive is: how do I know what'll be at the fest and where do I get my information? The answer: I've been going there seven years straight, been privileged to share professional relationships with those in the indie and foreign film sphere, but unless you're one of the programmers led by John Cooper, then...

Zooey Deschanel has gained popularity for her role in the recent hit film “500 Days of Summer,” co-starring with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, but what most indie fans love about her is her role in “She & Him,” with M. Ward. The duo put out their first album entitled “Volume One” in 2008 and first appeared publicly together at the screening of the film “The Go-Getter” at the Sundance Film Festival that year. The band has been gaining more attention, especially since Paste Magazine named their album #1 of the year. Now they played day one of Coachella, and gave the fans something to remember.

According to Pe News, Deschanel came bopping out smiling as usual and started with the song “I Was Made For You.” Sporting a blue summer dress, she played the tambourine like it was her main hobby. While Deschanel normally takes the softer side of things with the smooth voice and lets...

Fox is going ahead on "The Magician's Elephant," hiring Martin Hynes ("The Go-Getter") to adapt Kate Dicamillo's soon-to-be-published children's book.Julia Pistor is producing.The story centers on impossible things that may happen when a fortune teller tells an orphan boy that an elephant will lead him to his long-lost sister.Two of Dicamillo's books, "The Tale of Despereaux" and "Because of Winn Dixie", have been adapted into features.

Children's book author Kate Dicamillo has a track record of striking out when it comes to the big screen. The movie version of her book Because of Winn Dixie made just $32 million domestically, while last holiday season The tale of Despereaux kind of got lost in the shuffle, making $50 million in the process. But because kids will see pretty much everything, a third Dicamillo book-- the soon-to-be-published The Magician's Elephant-- is going into production at Fox. Director Martin Hynes told Variety "The film we've referenced in terms of tone is The Princess Bride -- something that kids will enjoy, but adults will love on other levels," which is probably what everyone making a children's movie says when they first got into production. Hynes has a history in independent film-- he made The Go-Getter with Lou Taylor Pucci and Zooey Deschanel-- so who knows what he'll bring to a story...

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20th Century Fox has plans to turn Kate Dicamillo’s children’s book, The Magician’s Elephant, into a feature length film. This marks the third film adaptation for the author whose Because of Winn Dixie and The Tale of Despereaux saw wide-spread approval from families.

The Go-Getter scribe Martin Hynes will adapt the book for screen.

The Magician’s Elephant revolves around an orphan boy who learns from a fortune teller that an elephant will lead him to his long-lost sister. “The film we’ve referenced in terms of tone is The Princess Bride — something that kids will enjoy, but adults will love on other levels,” Hynes told Variety.

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• Not every filmmaker who casts Zooey Deschanel in their indie debut film make a quick cross over into their next directing gig with a studio project (just looking at this list there have been a few). While I didn't care for Martin Hynes no-budget, tired road trip formula/calling card of a film (The Go-Getter), I'm glad that he is not stuck in "P" for Park. Hynes' next directing gig is for 20th Century Fox's adaptation of a children's book – the studio has a craving for such material with the upcoming releases of Fantastic Mr. Fox and next year's Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief and also have an appetite for Kate Dicamillo books as was the case with Because of Winn Dixie. Hynes will adapt the not yet published Dicamillo book entitled The Magician's Elephant, which centers on impossible things that may happen when a fortune teller tells

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20th Century Fox is adapting "The Magician's Elephant," hiring Martin Hynes ( The Go-Getter ) to write a script based on Kate Dicamillo's soon-to-be-published children's book. The story centers on impossible things that may happen when a fortune teller tells an orphan boy that an elephant will lead him to his long-lost sister. "What attracted me to the project was that Fox wanted to make a fable which could both be a classic but not take itself too seriously," Hynes told Variety "The film we've referenced in terms of tone is 'The Princess Bride' -- something that kids will enjoy, but adults will love on other levels." Two of Dicamillo's books -- "The Tale of Despereaux" and "Because of Winn Dixie" -- have been adapted into...

Children's author Kate Dicamillo's as-yet unpublished latest book The Magician's Elephant has already been optioned for the big screen by Fox, and they've now chosen a screenwriter for the project for good measure: The Go-Getter's Martin Hynes will write the film.The book focuses on an orphan called Peter Augustus Duchene, who goes to a fortune teller to ask two questions: is his lost sister still alive? And if so, how can he find her? The fortune teller informs him that an elephant will lead Peter to his lost sister, setting in motion a chain of unlikely events.Dicamillo previously wrote Because of Winn-Dixie and The Tale of Despereaux, one of the more charming films of the last few years. Hynes told Variety that this film will be "a fable which could both be a classic but not take itself too seriously. The film we've referenced in terms...

Fox is adapting Kate Dicamillo's new children's book "The Magician's Elephant" and has hired Martin Hynes to write and direct. Hynes's first feature film was The Go-Getter, an indie road trip flick that debuted at Sundance a few years ago. Although I absolutely loved the film (read my old review), it sadly never got picked up, and barely made it out on DVD late last year. The story in "The Magician's Elephant" centers on "impossible things that may happen" when a fortune teller tells an orphan boy that an elephant will lead him to his long-lost sister. Kate Dicamillo's other novel "The Tale of Despereaux" was just adapted last year. Plot synopsis Amazon: When a fortuneteller's tent appears in the market square of the city of Baltese, orphan Peter Augustus Duchene knows the questions that he needs to ask: Does his sister still live? And if so, how...

20th Century Fox will be making a big screen adaptation of Kate Dicamillo's soon-to-be-published children's book The Magician's Elephant, with Martin Hynes attached to direct. Hynes is probably best known for playing George Lucas in the famous short film George Lucas in Love, but he also directed one of my favorite films of 2007, one of which was never released -- The Go-Getter. The film premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival up against Son of Rambow, and most of the big movie buyers missed it. A wonderful coming of age road trip story featuring Lou Taylor Pucci as a young man who steals a car and sets off on a journey to connect with his brother after the traumatic loss of their mother. But this is really a story about a telephonic relationship Mercer develops with the "forgiving and mysterious girl owner of the stolen car (played by the wonderful ...

While Sundance/Slamdance happened about a month ago, I’m only now editing the final tape of video interviews that I recorded at the Festival. I know it’s a bit late…but it takes a lot of time to edit, render and post almost 7 hours of video. I hope you understand why it’s taken so long... Now that my apology is out of the way, let’s get to my video interview with Lou Taylor Pucci. While Lou’s name might not be that familiar to a lot of you, I’ve been a fan of his work since I saw him in “Thumbsucker”. After that film, Lou worked on a few other projects, but the next one that really caught my eye was an underappreciated gem called “The Go-Getter”. It was a road trip movie that also starred Zooey Deschanel and Jena Malone and it had some really great cinematography.

We have to be willing to travel outside our sheltered lives and straight-narrow paths in order to get to the other side. That other side may hold events and people who went before us that encourage us to break out of our elements. We need a movie like “Go-Getter” to make it all clear to us... - - - - - - The Go-Getter (2007): Directed by Martin Hynes | Starring Lou Taylor Pucci, Zooey Deschanel, Jena Malone | Production companies: Et Cetera Films, Fillmore, Two Roads Entertainment. - - - What make life worthwhile are the random acts. Without them life would be dull and, well, lifeless. Some actions that attest to one’s life choices are genuine just as much as they can be burdensome. That is the beauty of life. That is what makes us move forward and generates thoughts that extend to the action of never settling down.

• Martin Hynes likes to steals things.  Well, he likes to writes screenplays about people who steal things.  A few years ago Hynes wrote a little screenplay called "Stealing Stanford," in which a mom and dad duo take up a life of crime in order to pay for their daughter's ivy league education.  Sound familiar?  In 2002 it was re-written into that memorable pic Stealing Harvard, featuring the effervescent Tom Green.But now Hynes has returned to the topic of theft with his latest feature, The Go-Getter, starring Lou Taylor Pucci (Thumbsucker), Zooey Deschanel and Jena Malone.  The indie pic premiered at Sundance in 2007, then made its way to Cannes and is finally opening to limited release this weekend.  In Hynes' admittedly semi-autobiographical tale (he once spent a year on the road), 19-year-old Mercer (Pucci) steals a station wagon from a car wash and leaves his hometown of Eugene, Oregon, on

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By Neil Pedley

Among this week's offerings: The pregnancy comedy goes pre-natal, the fate of all the jungle rests in the hands of the world's most lethargic endangered species, and Dario Argento has a new film, rendering the rest of this list mostly unnecessary.

"Dreams With Sharp Teeth"

Author Harlan Ellison is widely regarded as one of the finest writers of the 20th century. He is also, as this documentary readily highlights, abrasive, petulant, egotistical and prone to fits of belligerent rage. Collecting together more than two decades worth of footage and interviews, "Grizzly Man" producer Erik Nelson lifts the dust jacket off one of literature's genuinely larger than life characters and a man who has filed more lawsuits than the Aclu, proving that sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction, even Ellison's sci-fi tales.

Opens in New York.

"The Go-Getter"

On paper, it sounds like the dictionary definition of...

• With his last project dating all the way back to 2001, how suiting a title for a director we thought might have 'divorced' himself from filmmaking business altogether. Variety reports that Chloe Sevigny (Kids, Boys Don't Cry) and Zooey Deschanel (All The Real Girls, The Go-Getter) will join forces in Divorce Ranch, an indie comedy written, directed and produced by longtime British television and stage director Michael Lindsay-Hogg (Let It Be). The film will be also be produced by Anne Clement (Quinceañera). Sevigny will be playing an single mother and actress who comes to post-wwii Nevada with the scheme to marry a rich man during a time when hasty divorces could be taken care of after residency had been settled. Deschanel will be playing her assistant.Both actresses have been keeping busy lately with a plethora of projects of their plates. Indie starlet Sevigny begins filming the comedy Barry Munday

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• If Scarlett Johannson can do it (look for Scarlett Sings Tom Waits on iTunes sometime in 08) - so can Zooey. Somewhere between her work on the undistributed Sundance road movie/Martin Hynes' debut film The Go-Getter (beach still from above is where that is taken from) and perhaps her current film playing an iconic songstress named Joplin in The Gospel According to Janis, Zooey Deschanel is cutting some tracks not for the eventual film soundtrack but for her own album. According to Pitchforkmedia, "it seems the unlikely get-together may come full circle as soon as March. According to an interview Deschanel gave January 6 with Kcrw (via The Playlist), she and M.Ward have christened their act She and Him, and together they'll deliver a full-length titled Volume One at some point during the month of lions and lambs." Deschanel will next be seen in M Night's The Happening

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HBO Films has greenlighted Grey Gardens, a movie starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange that's based on the 1975 documentary about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' eccentric cousin and aunt.

The movie is based on the documentary by Albert and David Maysles. It follows the relationship between the mother-daughter duo of Big Edie (Lange) and Little Edie Beale (Barrymore), who spent most of their lives in a decaying mansion on New York's Long Island.

The project was originally announced as a feature film in early 2006, though HBO Films was not involved at the time.

Along with Barrymore and Lange, other original auspices on board are commercials helmer Michael Sucsy, who is directing and wrote the script with Patricia Rozema (This Might Be Good), and executive producers Rachael Horovitz (Little Black Book) and Lucy Barzun Donnelly (The Go-Getter). David Coatsworth (HBO's John Adams) is producing.

It's yet to be determined if the movie will be released theatrically before it airs on HBO.

Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale made national headlines in 1971 when the Suffolk County Health Department raided their dilapidated East Hampton, N.Y., mansion -- named Grey Gardens -- and found more than 50 cats, raccoons, fleas, piles of garbage, human and cat excrement and no heat or running water.

Greg Kinnear and Maura Tierney have joined the cast of Universal Pictures' Baby Mama, written and directed by Michael McCullers.

The duo join Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Sigourney Weaver and Dax Shepard in the comedy, which centers on a single woman (Fey) whose desire to have a child and keep her career leads her to hire a surrogate (Poehler).

Kinnear will play the male lead, a proprietor of a local fresh juice shop who becomes close with Fey's character as she begins her pursuit of a surrogate.

Tierney will play Fey's confident, conventional sister who is the mother of two but supports her sister's choice.

Lorne Michaels and John Goldwyn are producing. Jill Messick executive produces.

Holly Bario is overseeing for Universal.

Kinnear, who most recently starred in Little Miss Sunshine and Fast Food Nation, is prepping to star in the DreamWorks romantic comedy Ghost Town opposite Ricky Gervais.

Tierney recently finished shooting Semi-Pro with Will Ferrell and appears in upcoming films The Go-Getter, which premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival, and Finding Amanda, with Matthew Broderick.