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Penelope Cruz will star in and produce drama “Layover”, from writer/director Toni Kalem.
Animus Films’ Jim Young and Serena Films’ Tatiana Kelly will produce with Cruz. Fortitude International’s Nadine de Barros and Robert Barnum will exec produce.
The film is based on Lisa Zeidner’s book, which is described as follows.
Claire Newbold is not your typical heroine. Smart and sexy, yes, but she’s also been known to sneak into a hotel room or two without paying, seduce a teenager in wet bathing trunks, and just check out of things altogether–like her job. And her marriage. No wonder, though. Claire’s been careening off heartbreak. Her only child has died, she may be infertile, and her husband has had an affair.
No longer a mother, not sure she wants to be a wife, Claire moves from hotel to hotel, basking in the anonymity of travel and forbidden sex. She even comes to believe she is clairvoyant, able to “read” into the souls of others. Eventually she begins to see into her own soul as she ponders whether or not to return home. As she struggles to repair her marriage and her life, Claire surprises herself — and us — by emerging with a new sense of redemption
Sylvester Stallone has been tapped to star in the TV adaptation of Mario Puzo’s “Omerta”, the third book in the mafia trilogy that started with “The Godfather”.
Antoine Fuqua is on board to direct, though no network is attached at this stage
Justin Herber and Adam Hoff wrote the pilot script.
Via Deadline.
Zoe Kravitz is in early talks to join Scarlett Johansson in Sony Pictures’ comedy “Rock That Body”, from director Lucia Aniello.
Paul W. Downs is also attached to star in the film which centers on “five friends who rent a beach house in Miami for a bachelorette weekend and accidentally end up killing a male stripper” (via Variety).
Aniello and Downs penned the 2015 Black List script.
Olivia Cooke and Anya Taylor-Joy have joined Anton Yelchin in “Thoroughbred”, an indie drama from writer/director Cory Finley.
Finley adapted the script from his own play, the story is described as “a suburban noir about a star student home from her elite boarding school, a young equestrian shunned after injuring her horse, and dirty dealings in a gleaming new McMansion” (via The Tracking Board).
Production on “Thoroughbred” is expected to begin next month in Boston.
