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Exclusive: Malcolm Goodwin and Cara Santana will topline the family driven indie Be The Light (working title), which Goodwin is directing from a script by Victor Hawks (Pass The Light). Victor Hawks and Goodwin are producing the pic for Vision Vehicle Productions along with Vanessa Goodwin and Suwanee Wilhelm. Filming is scheduled to commence this month.

The story follows Celina (Santana) who, estranged from her father for nine years, discovers that he is dying from cancer. Celina decides to go home to repair their relationship and fight for her father’s right for proper care. In the process, she reconnects with her old friend Marvin (Goodwin), a former Og who is trying to turn the page and do some good for his community. Through their connection, Celina finds that spark in herself that she had lost,...

“The Room” is a truly special film. Written, directed, and starring Tommy Wiseau, its famous for just how spectacularly awful it is. And in a world filled with plenty of bad movies, “The Room” rises above all the rest not just because of the horrible acting, writing, set design, and everything else, but also for the legendary behind-the-scenes antics of Wiseau. These near legendary stories are so strange that it’s hard to believe that any of them are actually true.

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Exclusive: Sony Pictures has set Safe House helmer Daniel Espinosa to direct an adaptation of the Clinton Romesha book Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor. George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures have come aboard the film as producers. Sony optioned the book last year. Medal of Honor winner Romesha was part of Red Platoon and the Black Knight Troop which in 2009 prepared to shut down Command Outpost Keating. The outpost was the most remote and…...

One hundred seventy features have been submitted for consideration in the Documentary Feature category for the 90th Academy Awards. That’s 25 more than 2016. Assuming they all book their qualifying runs in New York and Los Angeles, the members of the documentary branch have just a few more weeks to see as many films as possible and file their votes for the shortlist of 15 to be announced in December. They’re each supposed to watch an assigned list of about 20 films, plus as many more as they can.

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It’s possible for documentaries to also vie for Best Picture, although it is rare. Among this year’s most lauded features are “City of Ghosts,” “Faces Places,” “Jane,” “Kedi” and “One of Us.”

The submitted features, listed in alphabetical order, are:

“Abacus: Small Enough to Jail”

“Aida’s Secrets”

“Al Di Qua”

“All the Rage...

One hundred seventy features have been submitted for consideration in the Documentary Feature category for the 90th Academy Awards. That’s 25 more than 2016. Assuming they all book their qualifying runs in New York and Los Angeles, the members of the documentary branch have just a few more weeks to see as many films as possible and file their votes for the shortlist of 15 to be announced in December. They’re each supposed to watch an assigned list of about 20 films, plus as many more as they can.

Read More:2018 Oscar Predictions: Best Documentary Feature

It’s possible for documentaries to also vie for Best Picture, although it is rare. Among this year’s most lauded features are “City of Ghosts,” “Faces Places,” “Jane,” “Kedi” and “One of Us.”

The submitted features, listed in alphabetical order, are:

“Abacus: Small Enough to Jail”

“Aida’s Secrets”

“Al Di Qua”

“All the Rage...

A true story about following your dreams. The full trailer for James Franco’s The Disaster Artist has arrived. The Disaster Artist premiered to raucous laughter and standing ovations at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Check out the new The Disaster Artist trailer

With The Disaster Artist, James Franco transforms the tragicomic true-story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau—an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable—into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds. Based on Greg Sestero’s best-selling tell-all about the making of Tommy’s cult-classic disasterpiece The Room (“The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made”), The Disaster Artist is a hilarious and welcome reminder that there is more than one way to become a legend—and no limit to what you can achieve when you have absolutely no idea what you’re doing. The Disaster Artist...

A true story of enduring love and survival against impossible odds, Breathe is chiefly noteworthy as the feature-directing debut of British screen star Andy Serkis (Lord of the Rings, Planet of the Apes), a kind of dry run for his Jungle Book reboot next year. But the main authorial force behind this personal passion project is producer Jonathan Cavendish, who co-founded the London-based motion-capture studio Imaginarium Productions with Serkis in 2011.

Cavendish conceived Breathe as a tribute to his parents, Robin and Diana, and the “swashbuckling band of eccentrics” that surrounded them during their long and extraordinary marriage. Despite being paralyzed...

Breathe, William Nicholson can boast one of the most anticipated films debuting at the Toronto Film Festival. But for the past year, the 69-year-old Brit and two-time Oscar nominee clandestinely wrote perhaps the most dangerous project to hit Hollywood in some time.

Just as the Andrew Garfield-Claire Foy starrer kicked off production in summer 2016, Nicholson began adapting Bill Browder's Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice. Why Browder's story is so lethal stems from the 53-year-old American financier's quest to bring down...

The Lost Airman: Jake Gyllenhaal (Life, above) will star in and produce The Lost Airman. It's based on Seth Meyerowitz's book The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France, which tells the real-life tale about an airman who was shot down during World War II, then spent six months evading capture by the Gestapo before escaping. [THR]      Rampaging nights with my partners in crime, Naomie Harris and Jeffery Dean Morgan. The animal loving anti-poacher Ranger from Rwanda, the groundbreaking geneticist from Crispr and the cowboy himself from the Oga - the "other" government agency. Three gigantic mutated monsters (silverback, crocodile and grey wolf) rampaging across the country. Party in hell. We'll...

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The Lost Airman: Jake Gyllenhaal (Life, above) will star in and produce The Lost Airman. It's based on Seth Meyerowitz's book The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France, which tells the real-life tale about an airman who was shot down during World War II, then spent six months evading capture by the Gestapo before escaping. [THR]      Rampaging nights with my partners in crime, Naomie Harris and Jeffery Dean...

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A true story so pure that it almost grants its teller the permission to be sloppy, Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s “Megan Leavey” is a bit of a mess from the moment it starts, but it’s hard to completely dismiss any movie with a soul this strong, just as it would be hard to dismiss a disobedient puppy so long as its tail keeps wagging. An unlikely mutt that crossbreeds the cuteness of “Must Love Dogs” with the suspense of “The Hurt Locker,” “Megan Leavey” is the kind of movie that writes itself, and often feels as though it has.

Based on the very real, very believable bond between a young marine corporal and the volatile German Shepherd with whom she partners during her tours of duty in Iraq, this broadly engaging drama is gripping when it deals with the details of being a woman on the front lines, and it...

Jake Gyllenhaal is set to star in and produce a new World War II adventure film that is based on a true story. The film is called The Lost Airman and it's an adaptation of the book written by Seth Meyerowitz called The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape From Nazi-Occupied France. Here's the description of the story:

Based on recently declassified materials, the book tells the incredible true story of Arthur Meyerowitz, an American turret-gunner whose B-24 bomber was shot down over Vichy France in 1943. While hiding in the French countryside, Meyerowitz befriended Marcel Talliander, the founder of the legendary French resistance group Morhange, who helped shelter the man from the Gestapo through his secret network. After six months of barely evading capture, Meyerowitz escaped through a carefully orchestrated plan that also involved R.F.W. Cleaver, one of the most accomplished British fighter pilots of the war.

As one of the busiest actors in Hollywood, you can never tell what project Jake Gyllenhaal will attach himself to next. Today, we've learned that the Donnie Darko alum is teaming up with John Lesher for a World War II drama entitled The Last Airman. Recently, Amazon purchased the rights to the non-fiction book, titled The Lost Airman, A True Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France written by Seth... Read More...

Although an official green light from the studio has not been given yet, it seems rather clear that The Conjuring 3 will happen, since both The Conjuring and The Conjuring 2 were so successful that they each warranted their own spin-off, with Annabelle and the upcoming Annabelle: Creation spun off of the first movie, and the upcoming The Nun spun off from last year's sequel. Peter Safran, who has produced all of The Conjuring movies and the spin-offs, recently teased that The Conjuring 3 will not be another haunted house movie.

JoBlo caught up with Peter Safran during a visit to the set of Annabelle: Creation, which hits theaters August 11. When the talk eventually turned to The Conjuring 3, the producer revealed they plan on delving deeper into the Warren case files, by tackling some of the cases that are lesser known than the cases shown in the first two movies. While he...

Netflix has announced the list of films that will be available to stream in June. The list includes new never-before-seen original films, as well as documentaries, comedies, animated titles and some classic movies.

1. “The Sixth Sense” (available June 1)

M. Night Shyamalan’s 1999 classic tells the story of a boy who communicates with spirits and the psychologist who tries to help him. The film stars Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment.

2. “Saving Banksy” (available June 2)

The documentary follows a New York-based art collector as he attempts to save the street work of graffiti artist Banksy. The film features interviews with some of the top names in the street art and graffiti world, including Ben Eine, Risk, Revok, Niels “Shoe” Meulman, Blek Le Rat, Anthony Lister, Doze Green, Hera, and Glen E. Friedman.

3. “Shimmer Lake” (available June 9)

The Netflix original drama follows a local sheriff as he attempts to solve the mystery...

Shaun Grant.

Screenwriter Shaun Grant has been working non-stop since the release of Snowtown, his first film, in 2011.

Grant divides his time between La and Melbourne these days after wrapping up work on projects as diverse as Deadline Gallipoli, Jasper Jones and Berlin Syndrome at home in Australia.

Now working out of an office in West Hollywood, the scribe is working on several projects, including a long-gestating adaptation of Peter Carey.s True History of the Kelly Gang for producer Liz Watts and Snowtown director Justin Kurzel.

.It.s a beautifully written book,. says Grant. .He.s an iconic character in our country, so of course when Liz approached me I had some trepidation. But the things that scare me are usually the ones I.m drawn to. And Justin and I have been looking to work together since Snowtown..

Like Animal Kingdom before it, Snowtown put a rocket under...

A true story about the War in Afghanistan is heading to Netflix, and no it's not another one of their serious, award-winning documentaries. It's fun and has Anthony Michael Hall playing General Mike Flynn and stars Brad Pitt with a silly accent giving a speech to a bunch of soldiers! Yeah, you'll get a slight Inglourious Basterds feel at the start of this new trailer: When it comes out: May 26 (exclusively on Netflix) Who is in it: Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton, Ben Kingsley, Anthony Michael Hall, Emory Cohen, Rj Cyler, Keith Stanfield, Topher Grace, Scoot McNairy, Will Poulter, Alan Ruck, Meg Tilly, John Magaro What it is about: Based on the 2012 book The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan, the movie...

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Exclusive: Sony just bought a feature pitch from writing duo Bob Smiley and Justin Hensley based on the memoir Hope Heals: A True Story of Overwhelming Loss and Overcoming Love authored by Katherine and Jay Wolf. The studio bought the project for Ian Bryce Productions and Humble Picture Company. Hope Heals marks the first project under the Humble Picture Company banner. It will go through the Columbia Pictures banner. The book chronicles the true story of Katherine's…...

Akshay Kumar’s upcoming film ‘Pad Man’, which is based on the story of Arunachalam Muruganantham, will be filmed in a village a few miles away from the city of Indore.

“‘Pad Man’. Akshay Kumar, Sonam Kapoor and Radhika Apte to shoot in this village near Indore. A true story from Balki” tweeted P.C. Sreeram, the cinematographer of the film.Read More

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A few months ago, my partners and I had a wild hypothesis. It was this: the success of a digital project is primarily dependent on the quality of the story.

Revolutionary, right? A real game-changer. Who wants to hire us as consultants?

Here’s the thing. Since my company (shameless plug, we are Happy Little Guillotine Studios – check us out!) started creating content in the digital space in 2006, the industry has been desperately chasing the, “How do we get views?!” high like a cokehead chases… well, coke, probably. Maybe deer, if they’re a hunting cokehead.

It’s a desperate, “We’ll sacrifice anything for views!” approach that can give digital networks tunnel vision when they greenlight programs. Instead of picking the best story, they pick the story with the best influencer package. Don’t get me wrong, this is a strategy that my company has also employed and continues...

His reimagining of the song "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" is currently haunting gamers playing Resident Evil 7, and in our latest Q&A, we caught up with composer Michael A. Levine to discuss his key contribution to the game. In today's Horror Highlights, we also have a Comet network contest, an excerpt from Stuart R. West's Demon with a Comb-Over, and a Q&A with Bloodlands writer/director Steven Kastrissios.

Q&A with Composer Michael A. Levine: Thanks for taking the time to answer some questions for us, Michael. How did you get involved with creating the theme song “Go Tell Aunt Rhody” for Resident Evil 7?

Michael A. Levine: The makers of the game, Capcom, were familiar with a track I produced (with Lucas Cantor) for Lorde: a dark and mysterious reimagining of the ’80s classic "Everybody Wants to Rule The World," which was used in Hunger Games: Catching Fire...

Please note: The below list only includes domestic (U.S. and Canada only, unless otherwise indicated) grosses for specialty films — indie, foreign (including Bollywood films that open in limited release) and/or documentary — that opened in limited release (599 screens and under) in 2017 and/or were acquired for 2017 distribution by an independent distributor or a studio (or its speciality division). It also includes films that screened only as an Academy-qualifier in 2016.

Grosses include all reported grosses up to February 14, 2017. This chart is updated every Tuesday afternoon. (Last year’s list can be found here.)

1. “Raees”

Distributor: Zee TV

Release Date: January 25th

Opening Theater Count: 265

Opening Average: $6,768

Current Gross: $3,262,954

2. “Un Padre No Tan Padre”

Distributor: Pantelion

Release Date: January 27th

Opening Theater Count: 312

Opening Average: $3,137

Current Gross: $1,939,925

3. “I Am Not Your Negro”

Distributor: Magnolia

Release Date: February 3rd

Opening Theater Count: 43

Opening Average: $15,962

Current Gross: $1,839,871

4. “The State vs. Jolly Llb 2...

Not many surprises this Super Bowl weekend as Universal's Split finished #1 for a third straight weekend in a row while the new releases struggled out of the gates. Between the new releases, Paramount's Rings did manage a second place finish despite largely negative reviews while Stx's The Space Between Us, floundered and finished well below expectations. Overall, the top twelve grossed an estimated $81.1 million, a bit below the $82 million the top twelve combined for over last Super Bowl weekend, though actuals could show a bump as studios could be playing it a bit conservative with Sunday estimates ahead of this evening's big game. With an estimated $14.6 million, M. Night Shyamalan's Split is the #1 movie for the third weekend in a row as the film's domestic cume climbs to $98.7 million. This is the first time Shyamalan has had a film top the weekend box office three weeks in a row...

Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.

-Orion Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn Films have acquireed “Youth in Oregon,” directed by Joel David Moore and written by Andrew Eisen. The film stars Frank Langella, Billy Crudup, Christina Applegate, Mary Kay Place, Josh Lucas, Nicola Peltz and Alex Shaffer. “Youth in Oregon” premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and will screen at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in January. The movie will be released theatrically and on demand in the U.S. on February 3, 2017.

Per the film’s official synopsis: “When 79-year-old curmudgeon Raymond (Langella) makes arrangements to be euthanized in Oregon, his family refuses to accept his decision. But when another family emergency arises, Raymond’s daughter Kate (Applegate) turns to her husband...

Foxtail Entertainment and David Goyer’s Phantom Four have signed Odessa Young, Hari Nef, R&B musician Abra and Suki Waterhouse to the thriller.

Assassination Nation centres on four suburban teenage girls who fall under media scrutiny after their personal information is hacked. Principal photography is set to commence in the first quarter of 2017 in Louisiana.

Sam Levinson will direct from her original screenplay. Foxtail Entertainment co-founders and partners Matthew Malek and Anita Gou produce with Phantom Four partners David Goyer (pictured) and Kevin Turen.

Hell Or High Water star Jeff Bridges will receive the 32nd Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s 2017 American Riviera Award on February 9. The festival runs from February 1-11Abramorama and Heymann Brothers Films have acquired North American theatrical rights to Tomer Heymann’s Mr. Gaga – A True Story Of Love And Dance, a documentary about the acclaimed choreographer Ohad Naharin. The partners have set a February 1 release.The 21st edition...

Exclusive: Abramorama has acquired North American rights to Mr. Gaga: A True Story of Love and Dance, the documentary about acclaimed Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin. The pic is directed by Tomer Heymann, and a February 1 theatrical release is in the works beginning at NYC’s Elinor Bunin Theaters at Lincoln Center and Film Forum. Naharin created the daring form of dance and "movement language" known as Gaga. The docu, eight years in the making, shines a spotlight on at…...

After delivering the charming St. Vincent starring Bill Murray last year, director Theodore Melfi is setting out to inspire with his latest true story Hidden Figures. Hidden Figures comes from 20th Century Fox, but it has all the makings of the kind of uplifting story you’d see from Disney as it follows three African-American women […]

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Paramount Pictures has acquired the Peter Guralnick book Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'N' Roll for a new movie adaptation that Leonardo DiCaprio is set to star in and produce. The actor will produce with his Appian Way partner Jennifer Davisson Killoran. Paramount is currently seeking a screenwriter to adapt the project.

Deadline reports that the studio will move quickly to find a writer and a director for this project, which is the second novel adaptation Paramount has acquired for the actor this week, who recently signed a first-look deal with the studio. We reported last week that the studio picked up the rights to the book Truevine: Two Brothers, A Kidnapping, And A Mother's Quest; A True Story Of The Jim Crow South, which is based on the true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and put on display as circus freaks in the 1800s.

Leonardo DiCaprio is in talks to produce and star in an upcoming feature film adaptation of Beth Macy's book, Truevine: Two Brothers, A Kidnapping, And A Mother’s Quest; A True Story Of The Jim Crow South. This is based on the true story of two albino African-American brothers who were kidnapped in 1899 in Virginia and were sold to the circus by James “Candy” Shelton and displayed as circus freaks. For 28 years their mother struggled to get them back. This is truly and intense and heartbreaking story. As you might imagine, the brothers endured horrific treatment and were told that their mother had died.

It's insane to me the things that people will do for a quick buck. This is a powerful story that will no doubt make for a powerful film. The film will be set up at Paramount Pictures, and this detailed description of the book that...

Leonardo DiCaprio is currently in talks to produce a Captain Planet movie. Another project the actor and producer is possibly working on is an adaptation of Beth Macy‘s Truevine: Two Brothers, A Kidnapping, And A Mother’s Quest; A True Story Of The Jim Crow South, based on a true story that begins in 1899 in Virginia. DiCaprio’s […]

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Some big things are happening in Leonardo DiCaprio‘s realm. First, Deadline tells us his company, Appian Way, has partnered with Paramount for Truevine, an adaptation of Beth Macy‘s non-fiction tome — subtitled Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Quest; A True Story of the Jim Crow South — concerning George and Willie Muse, two black brothers who were kidnapped in 1899 and put on display in traveling freak shows across the Jim Crow-dominated south.

It’s positioned as a starring role for DiCaprio, which, given the description, is a bit odd, but there may be a role in the form of (and this would sound so much funnier if the story weren’t so upsetting) “a white man [who] offered them a piece of candy.” A cousin-of-sorts to Django Unchained‘s Calvin (ahem) Candie, perhaps?

The other property Appian Way’s been eyeing is probably much easier to digest as entertainment,...

Leonardo DiCaprio finally won his sorely deserved Oscar last year, but he appears to be choosing his next starring role very carefully. It appears that if Paramount Pictures has their way, we may finally know what his next movie could be. The studio is currently trying to acquire the screen rights to the novel Truevine: Two Brothers, A Kidnapping, And A Mother's Quest; A True Story Of The Jim Crow South and Leonardo DiCaprio is being eyed to star in it.

Deadline broke the news that Paramount was partnering with Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way production company to try and obtain the rights for Truevine. The report notes that the project is potentially being eyed as a starring vehicle for DiCaprio, who has yet to take on a role in a movie since starring in The Revenant last year. It is also said that Jennifer Davisson, who worked as an Executive Producer on The Revenant,...

Leonardo DiCaprio is looking to star in an adaptation of Beth Macy’s celebrated historical novel “Truevine: Two Brothers, A Kidnapping, And a Mother’s Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South,” TheWrap has learned. Based on true events, the story revolves around two African-American albino brothers, George and Willie Muse, who were taken away as youths to be displayed as circus sideshow freaks while their mother tries for decades to get them back. Paramount Pictures and DiCaprio’s Appian Way are cutting a deal to to acquire screen rights to the book. Also Read: Leonardo DiCaprio Pressured...

The last time we saw Leonardo DiCaprio in the Old South, he was viciously sneering as the villain in Quentin Tarantino‘s slavery revenge western “Django Unchained.” But the actor is curious to explore racial prejudice through a more dramatic lens, and is lining up a project telling a trouble true story on the eve of 1900.

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Deadline reports that Paramount has picked up the rights to Beth Macy‘s book “Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Quest; A True Story of the Jim Crow South,” with plans to develop it as a movie for DiCaprio.

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Exclusive: Paramount Pictures and Appian Way are negotiating to acquire screen rights to the Beth Macy book Truevine: Two Brothers, A Kidnapping, And A Mother’s Quest; A True Story Of The Jim Crow South. Appian Way’s DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson will produce and the book will be developed as a potential star vehicle for DiCaprio. The book tells the true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, while their mother endured a…...

Editor's Note: Nate Parker has been of two minds about the historical grounding of his film, The Birth Of A Nation, which tells a story based on the Nat Turner slave revolt of 1831. As recently as last Sunday, Parker reminded Anderson Cooper in a 60 Minutes interview that the movie is, in effect, a reality-based fiction. "There's never been a film that was 100% historically accurate," Parker said. "That's why they say 'based on a true story' and doesn't say, 'A true story…...

Brooklyn-based distributor Factory 25 has acquired North American rights to Hellaware, writer-director Michael M. Bilandic’s indie satire about a wannabe photographer caught in the lowbrow-highbrow collision between the NYC art gallery scene and the grimy rapcore world of Juggalo culture. Keith Poulson stars as Nate, whose coked-up YouTube search leads him to a music video by Insane Clown Posse knockoff the Young Torture Killers. The fictional band drew free publicity for the film when online viewers took a controversial music video from the movie for the real thing. Factory 25 will open the film in NYC on September 26 and digitally on September 23.

DigiNext has pacted directly with indie shingle Vision Vehicle Productions for worldwide rights to two features from the label co-founded by actor Malcolm Goodwin (American Gangster, Leatherheads, Breakout Kings, iZombie). Faith-inspired flick Pass The Light stars Cameron Palatas as a 17-year-old high school student who runs for Congress to...

Editor’s Note: I met Sean Williams at Comic-Con’s Hall H between panels on the first day of the Con this past July, chatting as people do. It turns out that Sean is a filmmaker, and he’s working on a sci-fi project – travel to another planet! strong women! – that sounds really great.

Last week Sean let me know that he was ready to start “officially” talking about the project, and wanted to know what I’d like to know. I told him I wanted to know, basically, everything. How the project got started, who’s involved, where he is in the process, etc. What follows is the narrative he wrote up on the spot on his phone and sent to me via Facebook Messenger in response. One long narrative that was completely engaging. He even copied and inserted biographies as he went along. It’s no wonder the man has won writing awards.

Malcolm Goodwin's coming-of-age drama A True Story, has been acquired by Freestyle Releasing and Freestyle Digital Media, for a simultaneous (day-and-date) theatrical and VOD release in September. The exact day will soon be announced. A True Story follows two broke Hollywood writers (played by Cameron Fife and Tyler McGee, who also penned the screenplay for the film) dealing with the ups and downs of romance, friendships, hopes and dreams, while waiting for their big break into the industry.  Goodwin, Fife and McGee also produced the indie feature. Primarily an actor, who's appeared in both film and TV (Breakout Kings is probably his most notable work),...

Freestyle Releasing and Freestyle Digital Media have acquired coming-of-age film A True Story, directed by Malcolm Goodwin. The film has been slated for theatrical and VOD day-and-date release in September, with a exact date to be announced soon. Written by Cameron Fife and Tyler McGee, the film follows two broke Hollywood writers (Fife and McGee) who, while waiting for their big break, deal with the trials and tribulations of dating, friendship and aspiring to work in the industry. The pic was produced by Goodwin, Fife and McGee. Goodwin, who was featured on A&E's Breakout Kings, also

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