Fox Searchlight’s ‘Hitchcock’ Begins Lensing ‘Psycho’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on April 12, 2012 @ 9:46am
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Fox Searchlight Pictures and Montecito Pictures announced today that principal photography for the newly titled drama Hitchcock will start on April 13th in Los Angeles. The film will star Academy Award winners Sir Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock and Dame Helen Mirren as his wife, Alma. Sacha Gervasi, whose big screen debut, Anvil! won the 2010 Best Documentary Feature prize at the Independent Spirit Awards, will direct from a screenplay by John McLaughlin, revisions by Ryan Murphy, Stephen Rebello and Sacha Gervasi, based on the book “Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho” by Stephen Rebello. Ivan Reitman, Tom Pollock and Joe Medjuck of Montecito Pictures (Up in the Air) will produce along with Tom Thayer and Alan Barnette. Ali Bell and Richard Middleton will be executive producers. The film will be co-financed by Fox Searchlight Pictures and Cold Spring Pictures. Hitchcock will be released worldwide by Fox Searchlight Pictures.

Hitchcock is a love story about one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock and his wife and partner Alma Reville. The film takes place during the making of Hitchcock’s seminal movie Psycho.

The film will also star Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation) as Janet Leigh, James D’Arcy (Master and Commander) as Anthony Perkins, Jessica Biel (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Blade: Trinity, The Tall Man) as Vera Miles, Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man) as Lew Wasserman, Toni Collette (Little Miss Sunshine) as Hitchcock‘s secretary Peggy, Michael Wincott (The Count Monte Chrisco) as Ed Gein, Kurtwood Smith (To Die For) as Geoffrey Shurlock, Richard Portnow (Good Morning Vietnam) as Barney Balaban and Danny Huston (The Constant Gardener) as Whitfield Cook.

Sir Anthony Hopkins received the Academy Award for Best Actor for The Silence of the Lambs and subsequent nominations for The Remains of the Day and Nixon. Hopkins has previously starred in Hannibal, Meet Joe Black, Titus, Howard’s End, Bram Stroker’s Dracula and The Road to Wellville.

TV: See Toby Jones And Sienna Miller As Hitchcock And Tippi Hedren In “The Girl”

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Posted by EvanDickson on March 20, 2012 @ 8:27pm
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TV: See Toby Jones And Sienna Miller As Hitchcock And Tippi Hedren In The Girl

Toby Jones and Sienna Miller portray the iconic Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren in the BBC Two production of The Girl.

The film, penned by Gwenyth Hughes, follows the life and relationship of Alfred Hitchcock and his discovery of Tippi Hedren and the turmoil that surrounded them while making The Birds (1963), and how his ultimate failure ended up destroying both their careers. According to BBC Two Hedren has cooperated by giving interviews to Hughes, while Hitchcock biographer Donald Spoto is attached as a consultant. Becoming Jane’s Julian Jarrold is directing with Imelda Staunton and Penelope Wilton also in the cast.

Take a look inside to see both of them in character! READ MORE

Kasdan And Coben To ‘Stay Close’

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Posted by EvanDickson on January 23, 2012 @ 3:00am
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I’m reporting on this because right now it seems there’s a 50/50 chance it could come down on the horror side of the thriller fence as opposed to the drama side.

Writer/Director Lawrence Kasdan, (writer of The Empire Strikes Back and Raiders Of The Lost Ark, director of Body Heat, The Big Chill and… um… Dreamcatcher) is teaming up with author Harlan Coben to adapt the latter’s upcoming novel Stay Close for the big screen.

Per Deadline, “Lawrence Kasdan and bestselling author Harlan Coben are teaming on a feature adaptation of Stay Close, Coben’s latest thriller novel which Dutton will publish March 20. ‘In Stay Close’, a past crime returns to devastate the lives of a photojournalist, a suburban mother with a hidden past, and a homicide detective obsessed with a series of unsolved disappearances. The Hitchcockian thriller plunges all three into a dark world of sex, secrets and shocking violence.”

Interestingly enough, they’re aiming to have a draft of the screenplay done by the time the book hits shelves on March 20th.

I’m sure we’ll learn more about this in the coming days. Hopefully it plays up the darker elements of the book’s conceit. READ MORE