Russell Crowe To Star In 'American Son', The Hollywood Remake Of 'A Prophet' At Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures is working on A Prophet remake called American Son, and Russell Crowe has been cast as the film's antagonist.
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'Gone Baby Gone' TV Pilot Has Been Ordered At Fox
A Gone Baby Gone TV pilot from Robert Levine, based on Dennis Lehane’s best-selling novel, has been ordered by Fox for its 2018-2019 TV season.
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Sam Raimi To Direct 'A Prophet' Remake
The A Prophet remake has found a director. Sam Raimi is in talks to helm the crime thriller from a script by Dennis Lehane (Gone Baby Gone).
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Ben Affleck's 'Live By Night' Starts Filming; See The First Photo From The Set
Ben Affleck is a busy man. We'll soon see the actor playing Batman, but right right now he's shooting another movie. Live By Night starts filming today.
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Ben Affleck Movies 'The Accountant' And 'Live By Night' Delayed
WB and Ben Affleck have a good thing going, but all things must bow to Batman, so two non-superhero Ben Affleck films are delayed to make calendar room.
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Ben Affleck To Finally Direct 'Live By Night' In November
After taking the role as Batman pushed back the plan of Ben Affleck directing Live by Night, the Dennis Lehane adaptation is finally moving forward this fall
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Sienna Miller, Elle Fanning And Zoe Saldana Join 'Live By Night' Cast
Before being cast in Batman v Superman, Ben Affleck was firming up a plan to direct a new Dennis Lehane adaptation, Live By Night. The Batman gig didn't kill off the Lehane movie, however. Live By Night was only delayed, and now Affleck is moving forward with the project once more. Three women -- Sienna Miller (above, in…
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Christian Bale In Talks To Play Travis McGee In 'Deep Blue Good-By'
What happens when producers combine Christian Bale and Travis McGee? We may find out as the actor is in talks to star in a new Deep Blue Good-By adaptation.
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Ben Affleck's 'Live By Night' Pushed To 2016
The Live By Night release date has been pushed to 2016, so you'll have to wait two more years for Ben Affleck's next directorial effort.
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First Look: Final James Gandolfini Film 'The Drop'
Here are the first images from the final James Gandolfini film, The Drop, which also features Tom Hardy.
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James Mangold Attached To Make 'The Deep Blue Good-By' Movie
Developments on a 'The Deep Blue Good-By' movie, based on the first Travis McGee novel by John G. MacDonald, have now attached director James Mangold.
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Dennis Lehane To Pen Remake Of Jacques Audiard's 'A Prophet'
After making his name on crime dramas set in his native Boston, Dennis Lehane is getting his next bit of inspiration from outside the country. The Shutter Island author has been tapped to write Sony's English-language remake of A Prophet (a.k.a. Un prophète), Jacques Audiard's acclaimed French crime drama. More details on the upcoming film…
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Ben Affleck's 'Live By Night' Will Shoot This Fall
It's been six months since we heard that Ben Affleck's follow-up to Argo would likely mark the filmmaker's return to Boston, as he targeted Dennis Lehane's novel Live By Night. Now there's an actual timetable for the film that Affleck will write, direct, and star in. Appian Way will produce with Ben Affleck and Matt…
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Ben Affleck Drops 'Focus,' Will Next Direct 'Live By Night'
With Gone Baby Gone, The Town and now the Oscar-nominated Argo, Ben Affleck the director has set a high bar for his career behind the camera. That means choosing a next project is crucial and several have crossed Affleck's desk since Argo was released. It seems he's now put them in order. The actor was…
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Neil Burger To Direct Dennis Lehane Adaptation 'Animal Rescue'
Author Dennis Lehane may not be a household name along the lines of John Grisham or Stephen King, but Hollywood's found plenty to love in his novels as well. Adaptations of his books are three for thre when it comes to critical and commercial success -- Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone,…
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Leonardo DiCaprio To Star In Dennis Lehane Adaptation 'Live By Night'
When you're an actor as popular and talented as Leonardo DiCaprio, I imagine your office looks like a scene from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The difference being, instead of delicious sweets, all the treats are the best scripts and properties in Hollywood and you can just pick and choose whatever you want. Work with…
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Bestselling Author Dennis Lehane Becomes A Screenwriter
Dennis Lehane is an author known for his Boston-based mystery novels, three of which have already been adapted to the big screen. Clint Eastwood's Mystic River was award-nominated but underrated, Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone was one of the best movies of 2008, and Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island hits theaters next week (I saw it…
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Early Teaser Poster For Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island
RopeofSilicon have gotten their hands on an early teaser poster for Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel Shutter Island, which was published in a Berliner Zeitung newspaper. I'm pretty sure, and hope, that this is just an early marketing concept. The story follows a U.S. Marshal named Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) who travels to…
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First Look: Leonardo DiCaprio In Martin Scorsese's Ashecliffe
The Boston Herald has a first look at Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's Ashecliffe. The big screen adaptation of Dennis Lehane's 2003 novel Shutter Island, which tells the story of a U.S. Marshal (DiCaprio) who travels to Shutter Island, a small island in Massachusetts’ Outer Harbor, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to…
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Sam Raimi Can Make A Dennis Lehane Adaptation Too
Sam Raimi has signed on to develop and direct a big screen adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s The Given Day for Columbia Pictures. Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, Dennis Lehane’s long awaited eighth novel tells the story of two families – one black and one white – swept up in…
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Ben Kingsley And Mark Ruffalo Join Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island
Ben Kingsley and Mark Ruffalo have joined the cast of Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island. Based on the Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone) novel, Leonardo DiCaprio stars as U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels, who travels to Shutter Island, a small island in Massachusetts' Outer Harbor, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to find…
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Sylvester Stallone Offered Role In Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island?
Has Martin Scorsese gone mad? The legendary director has apparently offered Sylvester Stallone the part of Chuck Aule in the big screen adaptation of Dennis Lehane's Shutter Island!? Stallone hasn't signed on the dotted line as of yet (but why wouldn't he? It's Scorsese?), but if he does come on board, he'll be starring alongside…
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Martin Scorsese & Leonardo DiCaprio Go To Shutter Island
Dennis Lehane is an author known for his Boston-based mystery novels, two of which have been adapted to the big screen. Clint Eastwood's Mystic River was underrated, and Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone is one of the best movies of 2008 (go see this gem now). So it comes as no surprise to me that…
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MUST WATCH: Ben Affleck's Gone, Baby, Gone Movie Trailer
Check out the movie trailer for Ben Affleck's directorial debut Gone, Baby, Gone, an adaptation of the Dennis Lehane (Mystic River) novel about two detectives in search of a 4 year old girl that has been kidnapped in Boston. The film stars Morgan Freeman, Ben's brother Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Ed Harris and Robert "brother…
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