Lena Headey, AnnaSophia Robb Be a part of Brief Movies; ‘Burning Land’ Launch Date Set – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Married actors Lena Headey (Recreation of Thrones) and Mark Menchaca (Ozark) have been set to star in Lengthy Pork, a revenge thriller quick helmed by up-and-comer Iris Dukatt, who additionally wrote the screenplay.

Produced by Madhouse Movies, the rising feminine led-production firm based by Katherine Romans and Charlie Sarah Traisman, in addition to Elizabeth Valenti, the movie takes place in a future post-Roe America the place all reproductive rights have been banned. Headey performs Lily Williams, grasp chef on the famend Foal’s Steakhouse, who misplaced her solely daughter to compelled beginning underneath the federal ban. When Lily learns that Philip Anderson (Menchaca), the decide chargeable for denying her daughter’s abortion request, is coming to dine at Foal’s, she enlists her workforce of cooks to actual bloody revenge, setting the stage for revolution.

Additionally starring within the pic, meant as a proof of idea for a characteristic, embody Catherine Curtin, Lorna Courtney, Zoe Cipres, and T.L. Thompson. Headey is repped by CAA and TMT Leisure Group; Menchaca by Impartial Artist Group and TMT Leisure Group.

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EXCLUSIVE: AnnaSophia Robb (Insurgent Ridge), Jay Pharoah (The Blackening) and James Scully (Problemista) have been set to topline ESC, a brief impressed by actual occasions from Mercedes Bryce Morgan (Fixation), which tackles the topic of cyberbullying.

Morgan and Katrina Kudlick’s script follows a girl (Robb) preventing for redemption and survival in opposition to the infamous hate group she by chance created, with solely minutes left to stop a mass taking pictures. The proof of idea for a characteristic to come back subsequent yr, it’s produced by Kudlick of Fever Dream Studios, and Jacob Robinson and Dylan Gross of Pollywog Movies (Sparring Companion), in addition to frequent collaborators Siena Oberman and Greg Lauritano (Fairyland).

Robb is represented by CAA, Untitled Leisure, and Schreck Rose Dapello; Pharoah by CAA, supervisor Shaina Farrow, Levity Leisure, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller; Scully by Artists & Representatives and Circle of Confusion; and Morgan by UTA, Sugar23 and Donaldson & Callif.

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EXCLUSIVE: Freestyle Digital Media has acquired world VOD rights to the Israeli coming-of-age characteristic Burning Land, slating it for launch on December 26, 2023.

Exploring the foundation causes of the century-long Israeli/Palestinian battle, the movie follows Yair (Asaf Hertz), a uncared for teenager from Haifa who escapes to the outskirts of the contested Samaria area, the place he finds companionship amongst a gang of settler teenage runaways, generally known as The Baladim. The Baladim welcome Yair and enroll him in a Yeshiva led by Rabbi Grunberg (Nathan Ravitz), a secret supporter of their radical ideology. On this utopia, Yair finds all he ever needed, however a floor friction with the Palestinians and native regulation enforcement imperils his newfound residence.

Liran Shitrit directed and produced alongside co-writer Stav Shalev. Riki Blich, Yael Levental, Barak Friedman, Lior Mashiach, Itzik Seidoff, and Eitan Saad additionally star. The deal was negotiated between Freestyle, Shalev and Conan Leisure. View the trailer for Burning Land under.

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EXCLUSIVE: Broadway veteran Lamar Richardson has come aboard Bleecker Road comedy The Fabulous 4 as co-producer, becoming a member of a producing workforce that features Richard Barton Lewis’ Southpaw Leisure and Lauren Hantz of Hantz Movement Footage. The challenge marks Richardson’s first foray into movie producing by his Ivy Lion Productions banner and comes on the heels of his current Tony Award win as co-producer of New York, New York.

Written and directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, The Fabulous 4 follows three life-long pals (Susan Sarandon, Megan Mullally, and Sheryl Lee Ralph) who journey to Key West, Florida to be bridesmaids in a shock marriage ceremony of their faculty girlfriend Marilyn (Bette Midler). As soon as there, sisterhoods are rekindled, the previous rises up once more in all its glory, and there are sufficient sparks, drinks and romance to vary all their lives in methods they by no means anticipated. Timothy V. Murphy, and Bruce Greenwood co-star.

At the moment on Broadway with Merrily We Roll Alongside starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff, and Lindsay Mendez, which he co-produced, Richardson made his Broadway debut as co-producer of final fall’s Loss of life of a Salesman revival starring Wendell Pierce, Sharon D. Clarke, and André De Shields. Up subsequent for him on the Nice White Method is a revival of The Wiz starring Deborah Cox and Wayne Brady, which debuts this spring.