Exclusive: Leviathan Productions has enlisted Avi Issacharoff and Lior Raz, creators of the hit Israeli series Fauda, to script October 7th, a narrative feature telling the harrowing true story of Noam Tibon.
A grandfather and retired Israeli general, Tibon garnered international attention when he rescued his family from the hands of Hamas terrorists who had invaded their kibbutz — with his story, capturing the Israeli spirit of resilience in the face of adversity.
Noam Tibon, the subject of Leviathan’s October 7th
Ben Cosgrove will produce the film telling that story for Leviathan Productions, with Jessica Kasmer-Jacobs and Talia Harris Ram exec producing. Noam Tibon and his son, Amir Tibon, will serve as consultants on the project.
October 7, 2023 was of course the shocking and tragic day when Hamas launched a coordinated land, sea, and air assault on Israel from the Gaza Strip, resulting in nearly 1,200 deaths, primarily of Israeli citizens. Marking...
A grandfather and retired Israeli general, Tibon garnered international attention when he rescued his family from the hands of Hamas terrorists who had invaded their kibbutz — with his story, capturing the Israeli spirit of resilience in the face of adversity.
Noam Tibon, the subject of Leviathan’s October 7th
Ben Cosgrove will produce the film telling that story for Leviathan Productions, with Jessica Kasmer-Jacobs and Talia Harris Ram exec producing. Noam Tibon and his son, Amir Tibon, will serve as consultants on the project.
October 7, 2023 was of course the shocking and tragic day when Hamas launched a coordinated land, sea, and air assault on Israel from the Gaza Strip, resulting in nearly 1,200 deaths, primarily of Israeli citizens. Marking...
- 6/4/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Gloria Stroock, who played Rock Hudson’s secretary on McMillan & Wife and appeared in films including Fun With Dick and Jane, The Competition and The Day of the Locust, has died. She was 99.
Stroock died May 5 of natural causes in Tucson, Arizona, her daughter, Kate Stern, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Stroock was married to Emmy-winning writer-producer Leonard B. Stern (Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, The Phil Silvers Show, The Honeymooners, Get Smart and much more) from 1956 until his death in 2011 at age 87.
Her late younger sister was Geraldine Brooks, a Tony nominee and Warner Bros. contract player (Cry Wolf, Embraceable You).
Stroock recurred as Maggie, the secretary of Hudson’s San Francisco police commissioner Stewart McMillan, on the final three seasons (1974-77) of McMillan & Wife, the NBC series created by her husband.
She portrayed the wife of Richard Dysart’s art director in John Schlesinger’s The Day of the Locust...
Stroock died May 5 of natural causes in Tucson, Arizona, her daughter, Kate Stern, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Stroock was married to Emmy-winning writer-producer Leonard B. Stern (Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, The Phil Silvers Show, The Honeymooners, Get Smart and much more) from 1956 until his death in 2011 at age 87.
Her late younger sister was Geraldine Brooks, a Tony nominee and Warner Bros. contract player (Cry Wolf, Embraceable You).
Stroock recurred as Maggie, the secretary of Hudson’s San Francisco police commissioner Stewart McMillan, on the final three seasons (1974-77) of McMillan & Wife, the NBC series created by her husband.
She portrayed the wife of Richard Dysart’s art director in John Schlesinger’s The Day of the Locust...
- 5/14/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Leviathan Productions has acquired the remake rights to L’Homme de la Cave (The Man in the Basement), the French psychological thriller from director Philippe Le Guay, which was released just last year.
Inspired by a true story, the film is about a Jewish couple who sell their basement to a history professor, only to discover his secret life as an antisemitic conspiracy theorist. As the couple struggles to unwind the sale, the professor starts to indoctrinate their impressionable teenaged daughter.
Marc Weitzmann, Le Guay and Gilles Taurand wrote the script for the original film, with Anne Dominique Toussaint producing. Rights were acquired from Tournellovision and the remake will be produced by Ben Cosgrove, Frederic Golchan and Neal Israel.
Founded by veteran film producer Cosgrove and bestselling author Josh Foer, Leviathan Productions is an independent production company focused on acquiring and developing mass-market films and television content based on Jewish history,...
Inspired by a true story, the film is about a Jewish couple who sell their basement to a history professor, only to discover his secret life as an antisemitic conspiracy theorist. As the couple struggles to unwind the sale, the professor starts to indoctrinate their impressionable teenaged daughter.
Marc Weitzmann, Le Guay and Gilles Taurand wrote the script for the original film, with Anne Dominique Toussaint producing. Rights were acquired from Tournellovision and the remake will be produced by Ben Cosgrove, Frederic Golchan and Neal Israel.
Founded by veteran film producer Cosgrove and bestselling author Josh Foer, Leviathan Productions is an independent production company focused on acquiring and developing mass-market films and television content based on Jewish history,...
- 5/13/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Leviathan Productions has hired Jared Sleisenger as Vice President of Production, Deadline has learned. In his new role, focused on Leviathan’s TV slate, Sleisenger will work across development and production.
The entertainment veteran joins from CrossCheck Studios, a Gen Z focused production company with a development deal at Prime Video. During his time at that company, he led film and TV development efforts across their scripted and unscripted slates, working with distribution partners including Amazon, Paramount, Peacock, and STXFilms. Prior to that, he worked as a development executive at Paramount Television Studios.
Most recently, Sleisenger served as a co-producer on Alex Edelman’s acclaimed one-man show Just For Us during its Broadway run at the Hudson Theatre.
“I’m incredibly excited to welcome Jared to our team here Leviathan,” said CEO Ben Cosgrove. “His deep knowledge about the TV industry, thoughtful creative instincts, and tireless work ethic have...
The entertainment veteran joins from CrossCheck Studios, a Gen Z focused production company with a development deal at Prime Video. During his time at that company, he led film and TV development efforts across their scripted and unscripted slates, working with distribution partners including Amazon, Paramount, Peacock, and STXFilms. Prior to that, he worked as a development executive at Paramount Television Studios.
Most recently, Sleisenger served as a co-producer on Alex Edelman’s acclaimed one-man show Just For Us during its Broadway run at the Hudson Theatre.
“I’m incredibly excited to welcome Jared to our team here Leviathan,” said CEO Ben Cosgrove. “His deep knowledge about the TV industry, thoughtful creative instincts, and tireless work ethic have...
- 12/7/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Amidst the continuing tragedy of the Israel-Hamas war, Leviathan Production has entered development on a feature adaptation of Henry Ford’s War on Jews and the Legal Battles Against Hate Speech, a historical work penned by Victoria Saker Woeste.
The film will tell the story of the campaign of antisemitism waged by automotive pioneer Henry Ford throughout the 1920s. It was in 1925 that Aaron Sapiro, a self-made lawyer and activist, sued Ford for libel. After a dramatic court case that gripped the nation, Sapiro forced Ford to shut down his antisemitic newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, and apologize publicly to the Jewish people.
Stanford University Press published Henry Ford’s War on Jews in 2012. Jackie Krentzman brought the project to Leviathan and will be involved as a producer.
A titan of industry who made automobiles accessible to the middle-class American through his Ford Motor Company, Ford purchased his hometown paper,...
The film will tell the story of the campaign of antisemitism waged by automotive pioneer Henry Ford throughout the 1920s. It was in 1925 that Aaron Sapiro, a self-made lawyer and activist, sued Ford for libel. After a dramatic court case that gripped the nation, Sapiro forced Ford to shut down his antisemitic newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, and apologize publicly to the Jewish people.
Stanford University Press published Henry Ford’s War on Jews in 2012. Jackie Krentzman brought the project to Leviathan and will be involved as a producer.
A titan of industry who made automobiles accessible to the middle-class American through his Ford Motor Company, Ford purchased his hometown paper,...
- 11/17/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Ben Cosgrove and Josh Foer’s Leviathan Productions has tapped Daniel Handler, the visionary behind the hit children’s book series A Series of Unfortunate Events, to pen a contemporary horror film based on the Golem legend from Jewish folklore, which Cosgrove will produce.
Considered the Jewish Frankenstein, the Golem’s story is one of the most enduring legends from Jewish tradition, and has been the subject of numerous books and plays. The film updates the story, which first appeared in 15th century Prague, to the present day, where a young woman on a college campus finds herself terrorized by a creature with a mysterious past.
Handler wrote the A Series of Unfortunate Events books under the pen name Lemony Snicket, seeing them be adapted into both a hit movie from Paramount, as well as a Peabody Award-winning Netflix series. He’s also written books including The Basic Eight,...
Considered the Jewish Frankenstein, the Golem’s story is one of the most enduring legends from Jewish tradition, and has been the subject of numerous books and plays. The film updates the story, which first appeared in 15th century Prague, to the present day, where a young woman on a college campus finds herself terrorized by a creature with a mysterious past.
Handler wrote the A Series of Unfortunate Events books under the pen name Lemony Snicket, seeing them be adapted into both a hit movie from Paramount, as well as a Peabody Award-winning Netflix series. He’s also written books including The Basic Eight,...
- 4/20/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Isaac Katz has been appointed as Vice President of Production at Leviathan Productions, the independent production company launched last fall that focuses on creating premium film and TV content based on Jewish stories.
Katz joins from Provenance Media, where he’d been since 2018, spearheading the development of film and TV projects with such partners as HBO, Anonymous Content and Tribeca Productions, among others. Prior to that, he worked as Creative Executive at Tribeca Productions, and in his new role, will oversee all content production activities for Leviathan.
“Isaac is an incredibly bright, passionate and resourceful executive,” said Leviathan’s co-founder Ben Cosgrove, “and we could not be more excited to have him join our team to help us bring the most engaging Jewish stories to life through film and television.”
Founded by veteran film producer Cosgrove and bestselling author Josh Foer, Leviathan has several projects in development for both film and TV.
Katz joins from Provenance Media, where he’d been since 2018, spearheading the development of film and TV projects with such partners as HBO, Anonymous Content and Tribeca Productions, among others. Prior to that, he worked as Creative Executive at Tribeca Productions, and in his new role, will oversee all content production activities for Leviathan.
“Isaac is an incredibly bright, passionate and resourceful executive,” said Leviathan’s co-founder Ben Cosgrove, “and we could not be more excited to have him join our team to help us bring the most engaging Jewish stories to life through film and television.”
Founded by veteran film producer Cosgrove and bestselling author Josh Foer, Leviathan has several projects in development for both film and TV.
- 1/9/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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Amazon has unveiled its top ten books of the year, with a novel about friendship, rebirth and redemption topping the list.
Gabrielle Zevin’s novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow was named the Best Book of 2022 by Amazon’s book editors. While Amazon has a constantly updated bestsellers list, the annual “Best Of” list isn’t based on sales, but rather based on the top books that Amazon...
Amazon has unveiled its top ten books of the year, with a novel about friendship, rebirth and redemption topping the list.
Gabrielle Zevin’s novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow was named the Best Book of 2022 by Amazon’s book editors. While Amazon has a constantly updated bestsellers list, the annual “Best Of” list isn’t based on sales, but rather based on the top books that Amazon...
- 11/18/2022
- by Tim Chan
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: Veteran film producer Ben Cosgrove and bestselling author Josh Foer have founded independent production company Leviathan Productions which will focus on creating premium film and television content based on Jewish stories.
Back by private funding, Leviathan has a plan to acquire and develop mass-market films and TV content based on Jewish history, folklore, and literature, as well as stories about Israel.
Already Leviathan has acquired a number of projects including the Leonard Slater book The Pledge, which centers around the true story of the men and women who led the underground effort in the United States to acquire and transport planes to Israel in advance of the War of Independence.
There’s also The Secret Chord, a novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks about the rise and reign of King David.
Playwright Anna Ziegler will also adapt her award-winning play Photograph 51 which starred Nicole Kidman during its run in the West End,...
Back by private funding, Leviathan has a plan to acquire and develop mass-market films and TV content based on Jewish history, folklore, and literature, as well as stories about Israel.
Already Leviathan has acquired a number of projects including the Leonard Slater book The Pledge, which centers around the true story of the men and women who led the underground effort in the United States to acquire and transport planes to Israel in advance of the War of Independence.
There’s also The Secret Chord, a novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks about the rise and reign of King David.
Playwright Anna Ziegler will also adapt her award-winning play Photograph 51 which starred Nicole Kidman during its run in the West End,...
- 9/21/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, Gael García Bernal, Nazanin Boniadi and Jason Isaacs are starring in “People of the Book”; “Easy Does It” and “1 Interrogation” find distribution; NewFilmmakers Los Angeles goes virtual.
Castings
“Mozart in the Jungle” star Gael García Bernal, Nazanin Boniadi (“Homeland”) and Jason Isaacs are attached to the historical drama “People of the Book” for Good Films Collective.
The film is based on the 2008 novel and New York Times bestseller from Geraldine Brooks about a book conservator who comes to Sarajevo to restore the Haggadah manuscript. The film will be helmed by Academy Award winner Danis Tanovic (“No Man’s Land”) from a script by Petter Skavlan (Kon Tiki).
Good Films Collective has made a deal with upcoming “Morbius” director Daniel Espinosa to develop “The Execution” about the background to the 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi, how it happened, why it happened and what happened in the aftermath.
Castings
“Mozart in the Jungle” star Gael García Bernal, Nazanin Boniadi (“Homeland”) and Jason Isaacs are attached to the historical drama “People of the Book” for Good Films Collective.
The film is based on the 2008 novel and New York Times bestseller from Geraldine Brooks about a book conservator who comes to Sarajevo to restore the Haggadah manuscript. The film will be helmed by Academy Award winner Danis Tanovic (“No Man’s Land”) from a script by Petter Skavlan (Kon Tiki).
Good Films Collective has made a deal with upcoming “Morbius” director Daniel Espinosa to develop “The Execution” about the background to the 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi, how it happened, why it happened and what happened in the aftermath.
- 5/30/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Less than two months ago, Good Films Collective head Miriam Segal was in a spin, and described to Deadline how she was battling to keep her company afloat and her employees engaged as she and her son came down with Covid-19. She is feeling better now, especially after putting together several new projects that have strong elements and hot button subjects.
Gael García Bernal, Nazanin Boniadi (Homeland) and Jason Isaacs will star in People of the Book, a film that Good Films Collective has put together, based on the New York Times bestseller from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks. Pic tells the moving history behind the creation of the Sarajevo Haggadah — an illuminated manuscript that contains the illustrated traditional text of the Passover Haggadah which accompanies the Passover Seder. It originated in Barcelona in 1350, and the film will tell the journey taken by people from different cultures and religions...
Gael García Bernal, Nazanin Boniadi (Homeland) and Jason Isaacs will star in People of the Book, a film that Good Films Collective has put together, based on the New York Times bestseller from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks. Pic tells the moving history behind the creation of the Sarajevo Haggadah — an illuminated manuscript that contains the illustrated traditional text of the Passover Haggadah which accompanies the Passover Seder. It originated in Barcelona in 1350, and the film will tell the journey taken by people from different cultures and religions...
- 5/29/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
A star-studded cast including Sir Patrick Stewart, Samuel L. Jackson, Lucy Liu, Zachary Quinto, Michael C. Hall, Tony Shalhoub, Matt Bomer, Billy Porter, Judith Light and more will lend their voices to the audiobook edition of Fight Of The Century, a brand-new anthology curated by award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in collaboration with the American Civil Liberties Union to mark its 100-year anniversary.
Fight Of The Century takes you inside the landmark trials and the stories that have shaped modern life through original essays by 40 of the most influential writers at work today, including Jennifer Egan, Marlon James, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Salman Rushdie, and Jesmyn Ward. Some of the most prominent cases involving the Aclu — Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona — need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now.
Fight Of The Century takes you inside the landmark trials and the stories that have shaped modern life through original essays by 40 of the most influential writers at work today, including Jennifer Egan, Marlon James, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Salman Rushdie, and Jesmyn Ward. Some of the most prominent cases involving the Aclu — Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona — need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now.
- 1/22/2020
- Look to the Stars
One of Max Ophüls’ best American movies is this razor-sharp ‘domestic film noir’ with excellent acting and a premise that was probably too sordid-real for 1949: cheap crooks blackmail an ordinary housewife trying to protect her family. Joan Bennett confronts the crisis head-on, facing down James Mason’s unusually sympathetic ‘collector.’
The Reckless Moment
Region free Blu-ray
Powerhouse Indicator
1949 / B&W / 1:37 full frame Academy / 82 min. / / Street Date April 22, 2019 / available from Powerhouse Films UK / £17.00
Starring: James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks, Henry O’Neill, Shepperd Strudwick, David Bair, Roy Roberts, William Schallert.
Cinematography: Burnett Guffey
Film Editor: Gene Havlick
Original Music: Hans Salter
Written by Henry Garson, Robert Soderberg; Mel Dinelli, Robert E. Kent, from a story by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
Produced by Walter Wanger
Directed by Max Ophüls
Nobody forgets Joan Bennett’s film noir appearances — she has a dark, moody quality that even Dario Argento appreciated. In The Woman in the Window...
The Reckless Moment
Region free Blu-ray
Powerhouse Indicator
1949 / B&W / 1:37 full frame Academy / 82 min. / / Street Date April 22, 2019 / available from Powerhouse Films UK / £17.00
Starring: James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks, Henry O’Neill, Shepperd Strudwick, David Bair, Roy Roberts, William Schallert.
Cinematography: Burnett Guffey
Film Editor: Gene Havlick
Original Music: Hans Salter
Written by Henry Garson, Robert Soderberg; Mel Dinelli, Robert E. Kent, from a story by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
Produced by Walter Wanger
Directed by Max Ophüls
Nobody forgets Joan Bennett’s film noir appearances — she has a dark, moody quality that even Dario Argento appreciated. In The Woman in the Window...
- 4/13/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Crime novel The Blank Wall by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding. While her husband is away during World War II, housewife Lucia Holley – the sort of “Everywoman” who looks great in a two-piece bathing suit – does whatever it takes to protect the feeling of “normality” in her bourgeois, suburban household. The Blank Wall is a classic depiction of an attempted cover-up being much more serious than the actual crime. Sound bites: Remembering the classic crime novel 'The Blank Wall' and its two movie adaptations – 'The Reckless Moment' & 'The Deep End' Crime novel writer Elisabeth Sanxay Holding (1889–1955) is not a name familiar to many, and yet Raymond Chandler described her as “the top suspense writer of them all. She doesn't pour it on and make you feel irritated. Her characters are wonderful; and she has a sort of inner calm which I find very attractive.” Holding has been identified as “The Godmother of Noir” and, more...
- 7/17/2017
- by Anthony Slide
- Alt Film Guide
This month’s WSJ Book Club author, Marilynne Robinson, has written more nonfiction than fiction. Her latest book, “The Givenness of Things,” is a collection of essays, published in October. “Gilead,” her 2004 novel chosen for the WSJ Book Club by our host, Geraldine Brooks, is part of a trilogy. Why did Ms. Robinson end up with a “Gilead” trilogy instead of a single book? Perhaps because she wasn’t ready to bid farewell to the characters or the place she had created.
- 11/18/2015
- by Brenda Cronin
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Joan Crawford Movie Star Joan Crawford movies on TCM: Underrated actress, top star in several of her greatest roles If there was ever a professional who was utterly, completely, wholeheartedly dedicated to her work, Joan Crawford was it. Ambitious, driven, talented, smart, obsessive, calculating, she had whatever it took – and more – to reach the top and stay there. Nearly four decades after her death, Crawford, the star to end all stars, remains one of the iconic performers of the 20th century. Deservedly so, once you choose to bypass the Mommie Dearest inanity and focus on her film work. From the get-go, she was a capable actress; look for the hard-to-find silents The Understanding Heart (1927) and The Taxi Dancer (1927), and check her out in the more easily accessible The Unknown (1927) and Our Dancing Daughters (1928). By the early '30s, Joan Crawford had become a first-rate film actress, far more naturalistic than...
- 8/10/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Neruda
"No" director Pablo Larrain is set to helm the biopic "Neruda" which follows 1971 Nobel Prize-winning Latin American poet Pablo Neruda. Larrain and Guillermo Calderon will pen the script.
Fabula produces the project about the key moment in between 1946 and 1948 when Neruda became a member of Chile's Communist Party, was elected Senator, spoke out against the imprisonment of striking miners and threatened with arrest, went into hiding and began writing his famed work 'Canto General'. [Source: Variety]
Year of Wonders
Jan Dunn ("Gypo") is set to direct the film adaptation of Geraldine Brooks' 2001 Pulitzer prize-winning novel "Year of Wonders" at Violet Pictures.
The story follows a housemaid living in the English village of Eyam, Derbyshire that quarantined itself in 1666 rather than spread the plague. Michael Knowles and James Collie will produce. [Source: Screen]
Blowback
Janus Metz ("Armadillo") is set to helm the London-set action thriller "Blowback" for Shine Pictures and American Entertainment Investors.
"No" director Pablo Larrain is set to helm the biopic "Neruda" which follows 1971 Nobel Prize-winning Latin American poet Pablo Neruda. Larrain and Guillermo Calderon will pen the script.
Fabula produces the project about the key moment in between 1946 and 1948 when Neruda became a member of Chile's Communist Party, was elected Senator, spoke out against the imprisonment of striking miners and threatened with arrest, went into hiding and began writing his famed work 'Canto General'. [Source: Variety]
Year of Wonders
Jan Dunn ("Gypo") is set to direct the film adaptation of Geraldine Brooks' 2001 Pulitzer prize-winning novel "Year of Wonders" at Violet Pictures.
The story follows a housemaid living in the English village of Eyam, Derbyshire that quarantined itself in 1666 rather than spread the plague. Michael Knowles and James Collie will produce. [Source: Screen]
Blowback
Janus Metz ("Armadillo") is set to helm the London-set action thriller "Blowback" for Shine Pictures and American Entertainment Investors.
- 2/11/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Jan Dunn (Gypo) is set to direct the film adaptation of Geraldine Brooks’ Year of Wonders for producers Michael Knowles of NoW Films and James Collie of Violet Pictures.
Creative England is backing the project’s development.
Pulitzer winner Brooks’ 2001 novel Year of Wonders is a fictionalised story about a housemaid living in the English village of Eyam, Derbyshire that quarantined itself in 1666 rather than spread the plague.
Dunn is also directing another adaptation, Rose Tremain’s Sacred Country, which will start pre-production this spring.
Creative England is backing the project’s development.
Pulitzer winner Brooks’ 2001 novel Year of Wonders is a fictionalised story about a housemaid living in the English village of Eyam, Derbyshire that quarantined itself in 1666 rather than spread the plague.
Dunn is also directing another adaptation, Rose Tremain’s Sacred Country, which will start pre-production this spring.
- 2/9/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Paul Mazur and Mitchell Kaplan are following the growing trend of nabbing film rights to books that haven’t even hit shelves yet, as Deadline reports the duo will be transforming Jean Zimmerman‘s The Orphan Master into a feature film.
Although the book doesn’t hit until June, the plot does sound pretty intriguing. Check it out below (via Amazon):
It’s 1663 in the tiny, hardscrabble Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, now present-day southern Manhattan. Orphan children are going missing, and among those looking into the mysterious state of affairs are a quick-witted twenty-two-year-old trader, Blandine von Couvering, herself an orphan, and a dashing British spy named Edward Drummond.
Suspects abound, including the governor’s wealthy nephew, a green-eyed aristocrat with decadent tastes; an Algonquin trapper who may be possessed by a demon that turns people into cannibals; and the colony’s own corrupt and conflicted orphanmaster. Both...
Although the book doesn’t hit until June, the plot does sound pretty intriguing. Check it out below (via Amazon):
It’s 1663 in the tiny, hardscrabble Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, now present-day southern Manhattan. Orphan children are going missing, and among those looking into the mysterious state of affairs are a quick-witted twenty-two-year-old trader, Blandine von Couvering, herself an orphan, and a dashing British spy named Edward Drummond.
Suspects abound, including the governor’s wealthy nephew, a green-eyed aristocrat with decadent tastes; an Algonquin trapper who may be possessed by a demon that turns people into cannibals; and the colony’s own corrupt and conflicted orphanmaster. Both...
- 4/27/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
The Australian-born Geraldine Brooks was for many years a journalist and foreign correspondent before she took the leap into novel-writing. In 2006, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, “March.” Her new book, “Caleb’s Crossing” (Viking), takes its inspiration from the true story of Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk, the first Native American to graduate from Harvard in 1665. Speakeasy caught up with Ms. Brooks on the day of her book’s release.
The Wall Street Journal: How did you decide to write about Caleb’s life?...
The Wall Street Journal: How did you decide to write about Caleb’s life?...
- 5/3/2011
- by Barbara Chai
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Possessed (1947) Direction: Curtis Bernhardt Cast: Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Stanley Ridges, John Ridgely, Moroni Olsen Screenplay: Silvia Richards and Ranald MacDougall; from a story by Rita Weiman Oscar Movies Van Heflin, Joan Crawford, Possessed From the moment we see her shuffling across town in a comatose stupor to the homicidal climax, Possessed is Joan Crawford's picture all the way. And once you get past some of its contrived psychobabble, this Curtis Bernhardt-directed melodrama is also one of her best. [Note: Spoilers ahead.] In Possessed, Crawford plays Louise Howell, a private-duty nurse inexplicably obsessed with David Sutton, a cynical, hard-drinking mechanical engineer played by Van Heflin. That brings up my biggest objection to Possessed: the casting of the bland Heflin in a role that required an actor with a certain amount of animal magnetism. This viewer, for one, was unable to understand what made him put the...
- 3/22/2011
- by Danny Fortune
- Alt Film Guide
Karmel takes helm of FFCA's favorite 'Year'
SYDNEY -- Pip Karmel, the Academy Award-nominated editor of Shine and director of Me Myself I, will direct an adaptation of Geraldine Brooks' best-selling novel Year of Wonders, government funding agency Film Finance Corporation Australia announced Thursday. Phillip Noyce and Jeremy Thomas are attached as producers, along with Noyce's Australian producing partner Miranda Culley through his local production entity Rumbalara Films. Inspired by real events in the Derbyshire village of Eyam in 1665, the U.K.-Australian co-production depicts how one village deals with the onslaught of the bubonic plague.
- 5/5/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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