and child head to New York, where they search for a stable home where they can reclaim their identities. While the project is still in the development phase, Avy Kaufman has been brought on to cast it. Production on the family drama is set to start in July in a location that has not yet been announced.
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to change that. Production is scheduled to begin in mid-June in Ontario.
Enter Guillermo del Toro’s Netflix House of Horrors His upcoming anthology series has begun casting By Rebecca Welch
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Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal Reunite By Casey Mink
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IN WHAT WAS SAID TO BE A BIDDING war, Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal’s respective production companies have jointly won the rights to ecologist Suzanne Simard’s just-released memoir “Finding the Mother Tree.” Adams’ Bond Group Entertainment and Gyllenhaal’s Nine Stories will adapt the book—which details Simard’s groundbreaking discovery of how trees communicate underground—as a feature film, with Adams on board to star. Adams and producing partner Stacy O’Neil said in a statement, “Suzanne’s novel has been an inspiration. Creatively, it excited us with a narrative about the awe-invoking power of nature and the compelling parallels in Suzanne’s personal life.”
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“Guillermo del Toro Presents 10 After Midnight” Guillermo del Toro, the director behind twisted, Oscar-winning tales like “The Shape of Water,” is bringing his signature style to Netflix. “10 After Midnight” is an anthology series that will showcase a collection of stories selected by del Toro. While the project’s details are being kept under wraps, the individual stories are said to be both sophisticated and horrific. After years of development, the anthology is finally set for an early summer shoot. No actors have been publicly attached to the project, but Denise Chamian Casting is working
“A Thousand and One” Writer-director A.V. Rockwell, with help from producer Lena Waithe, will tell the story of a free spirit reclaiming the life she left behind in “A Thousand and One.” The film, produced in part by Waithe’s Hillman Grad Productions, focuses on a woman who kidnaps her sixyear-old son from the state’s foster care system in a bid to redeem herself. Wanting to start their lives over, mother
Untitled Coburn and Wootton Project Pilot season is technically over, but NBC is still saying yes to some developmental projects and late pilot orders for the 2021–2022 season. The network has ordered a pilot for a currently untitled crime drama from creators Jake Coburn and Nicholas Wootton, who will also serve as executive producers and writers on the potential series. The plot will revolve around two women: a socially outcast FBI agent and a brilliant criminal mastermind who was recently caught. The agent must get answers from the woman in order to stop the string of coordinated bank heists she had planned. Kamala A. Thomas Casting will be adding actors to the pilot, though none are publicly attached so far. Cameras are set to start rolling in late June in New York.
