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EXCLUSIVE: Pretty Little Liars and Truth Or Dare actress Lucy Hale will star with When We First Met and The Flash actor Robbie Amell in rom-com movie The Hating Game, based on the hit novel by Sally Thorne.
The 2018 USA Today bestseller, published in more than 20 countries, tells the story of kind-hearted Lucy Hutton (Hale) and her cold, efficient nemesis Joshua Templeton (Amell). Resolving to achieve professional success without compromising her ethics, Lucy embarks on a ruthless game of one-upmanship against Josh, a rivalry that is impossibly complicated by her growing attraction to him.
Peter Hutchings (Then Came You) will direct Christina Mengert’s adaptation. Claude Dal Farra, Brice Dal Farra, and Brian Keady of BCDF Pictures are producers. Mister Smith Entertainment is co-financing the film and will handle sales.
Mister Smith’s David Garrett stated, “The Hating Game is a gloriously funny and sexy rom-com with a broad audience appeal. We are aiming for films with a clear target demographic and this absolutely hits the spot.”
Hale will next have the lead role in the Riverdale spinoff series Katy Keene. Additional upcoming projects include features Fantasy Island, Big Gold Brick and Son Of The South. 2018 horror movie Truth Or Dare made close to $100M off a sub $5M budget.
Hale is repped by ICM Partners and Reel Talent Management. Amell is repped by WME, Protégé Entertainment, Strategic and Felker ToczekSuddleson Abramson. Thorne is repped by Gersh and Root Literary. BCDF is repped by Sheri Jeffrey at Hogan Lovells.
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Andy Garcia, Emory Cohen, Megan Fox and Lucy Hale will head up the cast of Big Gold Brick, a film to be directed by newcomer Brian Petsos.
Oscar Isaac, who is executive producing, will also appear in a supporting role in the pic, as will Shiloh Fernandez and Frederick Schmidt.
Written by Petsos, the story centers on fledgling writer Samuel Liston (Cohen) and his experiences with Floyd Deveraux (Garcia), the enigmatic, middle-aged father of two who enlists Samuel to pen his biography. But the circumstances that lead up to this arrangement in the first place are quite astonishing — and efforts to write the biography are quickly stymied by ensuing chaos in what becomes a dark comedy.
Big Gold Brick will be produced by Petsos and Greg Lauritano under Petsos’ A Saboteur banner, along with JoBro Prods.' Jonathan Bronfman. Sergio Rizzuto and Danny Sawaf will also produce. Executive producers include Kristen Wiig, Jason Braun, Lee Broda, Karim Fayed, James Andrew Felts, Cary Flaum, Lon Molnar, Sameer Patel, Jeff Rice, Tom Sulkowski, Steve Swadling, William G. Santor, Andrew Chang-Sang and John Hills. Peter Fruchtman, Zach Lasry, Jillian Leslie, Judy Archer May, Sam Roseme and Nick Vertucci are co-executive producing.
Big Gold Brick marks the feature debut of Petsos, whose two short films starring Isaac, Lightningface and Ticky Tacky, were viral hits and won awards at festivals around the world from Kitzbuehel to Palm Springs.
Worldwide sales on the picture will be launched in Cannes by Motion Picture Exchange (MPX), James Andrew Felts' new film sales and distribution company.
Garcia is repped by CAA and Brillstein Entertainment; Cohen is with CAA and Harvest Talent Management; Fox is repped by ICM Partners; and Hale is with ICM Partners and Reel Talent Management.
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The CW is restocking its primetime grid with a couple of familiar names. The network has handed series orders to Riverdale spinoff Katy Keene and a new take on teen detective Nancy Drew, TVLine has learned.
Katy Keene stars Pretty Little Liars alum Lucy Hale as the titular fashion designer and Archie Comics character, who crosses paths with Riverdale‘s Josie McCoy (Ashleigh Murray) as Josie pursues her dream of music stardom in New York City. “Their world is populated with kindred-spirit starving artists, including mysterious socialite Pepper Smith (Julie Chan) and Broadway-bound performer Jorge Lopez — and his drag queen alter ego, Ginger (Jonny Beauchamp),” per the official description. “While their climb to the top is rife with obstacles, this found family will stop at nothing to see their names in lights.” Riverdale creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa co-wrote the pilot with fellow Riverdale scribe Michael Grassi, and will serve as an executive producer.
The CW’s fall schedule will be announced at its 2019 upfronts presentation in New York City on May 16.
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Lucy Hale and Lucas Till are starring in Spike Lee’s civil rights drama “Son of the South,” Variety has learned exclusively.
Son of the South” is based on the Bob Zellner autobiography, “The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement.” Zellner, an Alabama native and grandson of a Ku Klux Klan member, is pulled into the center of the civil rights movement in 1961.
Till (the “X-Men” franchise) is starring as Zellner and Hale as Carol Ann, Zellner’s college girlfriend. Lex Scott Davis (“Superfly”) is also starring along with Julia Ormond as Virginia Durr, Cedric the Entertainer as Reverend Ralph Abernathy and Sharonne Lanier as Rosa Parks. Brian Dennehy plays Zellner’s grandfather. Chaka Forman is portraying his activist father Jim Forman.
Lee is executive producing with his longtime editor Barry Alexander Brown directing from his own screenplay. Lee won the Academy Award for the “BlacKkKlansman” adapted screenplay and Brown received an editing nomination.
“Son of the South” has started shooting in Montgomery, Ala., where many of the events took place. The producers are Colin Bates (“Maggie”), Eve Pomerance (“As Good as Dead”), Bill Black (“Bayou Caviar”), Stan Erdreich, and River Bend Pictures (“Coming Through the Rye”).
Lee and Brown’s collaboration dates back to 1986’s “She’s Gotta Have It,” and includes “Do the Right Thing,” “Malcolm X,” and “Inside Man.” Brown also co-directed the Academy Award-nominated documentary “The War at Home.”
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A former Pretty Little Liar is entering the Archieverse. Lucy Hale will play the titular fashionista in The CW’s Riverdale spinoff pilot Katy Keene, TVLine has learned.
Per the official logline, this potential series “follows the lives and loves of four iconic Archie Comics characters — including fashion legend-to-be Katy Keene — as they chase their twenty-something dreams in New York City. This musical dramedy chronicles the origins and struggles of four aspiring artists trying to make it on Broadway, on the runway and in the recording studio.”
Described as “bold, big hearted and independent, Katy Keene is a twenty-something New Yorker who aspires to be a fashion designer. When she’s not working as a personal shopper at a luxury department store, she’s navigating friendship and dating in the big city.”
Hale is best known for playing Aria Montgomery on ABC Family/Freeform’s Pretty Little Liars from 2010 to 2017. Her previous small-screen credits include roles on Baby Daddy, Wizards of Waverly Place, How I Met Your Mother and The O.C. This also marks Hale’s return to The CW, having already starred in the short-lived dramas Life Sentence (2018) and Privileged (2008–2009).
As previously reported, Riverdale‘s Ashleigh Murray will also appear in the pilot as a slightly older version of Josie McCoy, making her one of the “four iconic Archie Comics characters” mentioned in the logline. Should Katy Keene be ordered to series, Murray will depart Riverdale for the spinoff.
From Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, Katy Keene is being written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Michael Grassi, both of whom will executive-produce alongside Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and Jon Goldwater. Maggie Kiley, also an executive producer, will direct.
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