Exclusive: Amazon MGM Studios has snapped up rights to Rebecca Yarros’ fantasy book series The Empyrean, and is moving to develop its first title, Fourth Wing, for TV alongside Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society.
Sources tell Deadline that the acquisition took place pre-wga strike, following a heated auction. Outlier will make the Fourth Wing series under its overall series deal with Amazon, inked in 2021. Liz Raposo exec produces for Outlier Society, alongside Yarros and Liz Pelletier for Entangled Publishing. Should the adaptation prove a success, we hear, there’s the potential for each book in Yarros’ series to be developed into its own separate TV project. The second novel, Iron Flame, is out November 7th.
The launch title for Entangled Publishing’s Red Tower imprint, Fourth Wing has proven explosively popular since its May 2nd release, selling millions of copies worldwide in over 40 languages. The book introduces readers to...
Sources tell Deadline that the acquisition took place pre-wga strike, following a heated auction. Outlier will make the Fourth Wing series under its overall series deal with Amazon, inked in 2021. Liz Raposo exec produces for Outlier Society, alongside Yarros and Liz Pelletier for Entangled Publishing. Should the adaptation prove a success, we hear, there’s the potential for each book in Yarros’ series to be developed into its own separate TV project. The second novel, Iron Flame, is out November 7th.
The launch title for Entangled Publishing’s Red Tower imprint, Fourth Wing has proven explosively popular since its May 2nd release, selling millions of copies worldwide in over 40 languages. The book introduces readers to...
- 10/30/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Frederick Wiseman has been directing acclaimed documentaries for almost 60 years. His camera has tracked vast institutional forces as far-reaching as the mental hospital in 1967’s seminal “Titicut Follies” to more recent and equally intricate portraits of Jackson Heights, small-town Indiana, and the New York Public Library. With that record, it’s no surprise that when the Venice International Film Festival announced its 2022 lineup with Wiseman’s new film “A Couple” in competition, many assumed that it was another non-fiction project.
“That’s good,” Wiseman said in a recent phone interview with IndieWire from his home in Paris. He was eager to catch people off-guard. “You know that old bromide of Emerson, ‘Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds’? I don’t see why I need to be only categorized as a documentary filmmaker.”
Now he’s setting the record straight: “A Couple” is the rare Wiseman project that was entirely staged.
“That’s good,” Wiseman said in a recent phone interview with IndieWire from his home in Paris. He was eager to catch people off-guard. “You know that old bromide of Emerson, ‘Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds’? I don’t see why I need to be only categorized as a documentary filmmaker.”
Now he’s setting the record straight: “A Couple” is the rare Wiseman project that was entirely staged.
- 8/22/2022
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
‘Stillwater’ is eOne’s first theatrical release since October 2020.
Augustine Frizzell’s film of Jojo Moyes’ book The Last Letter From Your Lover leads the new titles in UK-Ireland cinemas this weekend, looking to work towards the result of previous Moyes’ adaptation Me Before You.
Released by Studiocanal in 550 locations, The Last Letter From Your Lover follows an ambitious journalist who attempts to solve the mystery of a forbidden affair at the centre of a series of secret love letters from 1964. A co-production between the UK’s Blueprint Pictures and Canada’s The Film Farm, it is being released by Netflix in the US.
Augustine Frizzell’s film of Jojo Moyes’ book The Last Letter From Your Lover leads the new titles in UK-Ireland cinemas this weekend, looking to work towards the result of previous Moyes’ adaptation Me Before You.
Released by Studiocanal in 550 locations, The Last Letter From Your Lover follows an ambitious journalist who attempts to solve the mystery of a forbidden affair at the centre of a series of secret love letters from 1964. A co-production between the UK’s Blueprint Pictures and Canada’s The Film Farm, it is being released by Netflix in the US.
- 8/6/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
A year after its premiere at the 2013 UrbanWorld Film Festival, Image Entertainment has now made the suspense thriller "The Last Letter," available for streaming on Netflix. The film stars Omari Hardwick and Sharon Leal as a couple whose marriage is in turmoil due to a number of external and internal factors. The film's full synopsis reads: "Sharon Leal and Omari Hardwick head an all-star cast in this twisted, psychological thriller as newlyweds Catherine and Michael. The couple’s marriage is threatened by Michael’s disapproving mother (Lynn Whitfield) and Catherine’s own terrifying secret: a crippling sleep disorder that blurs nightmare...
- 10/21/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
A Dirty Shame: Woodruff’s Erotic Fiction Adaptation Flatlines
Demurely arriving before the anticipated film version of E.L. James’ erotic fiction nonsense Fifty Shades of Grey comes the first adaptation of Zane’s 2001 novel, Addicted. Having had well over a decade to build her fan base, it’s surprising that it has taken so long for such a reality to transpire, though marketing for the title has been curiously slim considering Bille Woodruff is at the helm. Distributed by Lionsgate boutique division Codeblack, the film wasn’t screened for critics, which isn’t generally a vote of confidence. While those who know and appreciate Zane’s work, including a fan base that would appear to be mostly made up of heterosexual black women, will be curious to experience Woodruff’s film version, the only point it proves is that silliness knows no racial bounds.
Zoe Reynard (Sharon Leal) is a woman in trouble,...
Demurely arriving before the anticipated film version of E.L. James’ erotic fiction nonsense Fifty Shades of Grey comes the first adaptation of Zane’s 2001 novel, Addicted. Having had well over a decade to build her fan base, it’s surprising that it has taken so long for such a reality to transpire, though marketing for the title has been curiously slim considering Bille Woodruff is at the helm. Distributed by Lionsgate boutique division Codeblack, the film wasn’t screened for critics, which isn’t generally a vote of confidence. While those who know and appreciate Zane’s work, including a fan base that would appear to be mostly made up of heterosexual black women, will be curious to experience Woodruff’s film version, the only point it proves is that silliness knows no racial bounds.
Zoe Reynard (Sharon Leal) is a woman in trouble,...
- 10/12/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Following its premiere at this year's UrbanWorld Film Festival, Image Entertainment will release suspense thriller The Last Letter on DVD on December 17. The film stars Omari Hardwick and Sharon Leal as a couple whose marriage is in turmoil due to a number of external and internal factors. The film's full synopsis reads: Sharon Leal and Omari Hardwick head an all-star cast in this twisted, psychological thriller as newlyweds Catherine and Michael. The couple’s marriage is threatened by Michael’s disapproving mother (Lynn Whitfield) and Catherine’s own terrifying secret: a crippling sleep disorder that blurs nightmare and reality. When a terrifying...
- 12/10/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
We just reported on the casting of this project back in June, when this suspense thriller had finished principal photography. And now, The Last Letter, starring Omari Hardwick and Sharon Leal and helmed by Paul D. Hannah, is premiering at the UrbanWorld Film Festival, which takes Sept 18-22. Co-starring Tatyana Ali, Richard T. Jones, Lynn Whitfield and Gary Dourdan, The Last Letter centers on married couple Michael (Hardwick) and Cathrine Wright (Leal). Cathrine, hunted by a secret in her past, has a incapacitating sleep disorder, and her husband Michael sets out to find a way to help and protect his wife and their child. Here's the full synopsis below "The Last...
- 9/11/2013
- by Vanessa Martinez
- ShadowAndAct
Today we are talking to a tremendously talented triple-threat star all about her many recent and upcoming endeavors, including the forthcoming feature films Addicted, 1982 and The Last Letter, as well as the pilot for a new TV series, Guilty, and, of course, her debut solo album project - the magnetic and beautiful Sharon Leal. In addition to discussing many aspects of her films to date and her starry assortment of co-stars and collaborators on them - Jennifer Hudson, Bill Condon, Bernie Mac, Samuel L. Jackson, Pam Grier, Chris Brown, McG and Cuba Gooding, Jr. included - Leal and I also discuss her theatrically-attuned work thus far in her career, having appeared on Broadway in Rent, as well as in starring in Bright Lights, Big City, regional work and in a prominent featured role as part of the big screen film adaptation of Dreamgirls. Plus, Leal recounts her fruitful artistic and...
- 12/22/2012
- by Pat Cerasaro
- BroadwayWorld.com
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