EXCLUSIVE: Kaley Cuoco ’s feature dance card continues to expand in the wake of the success of her HBO Max series The Flight Attendant with Studiocanal and The Picture Company ’s stylish action thriller Role Play , penned by Seth Owen. Cuoco is in negotiations to star and produce Role Play, which follows a young married couple whose life turns upside down after secrets are revealed about about each other’s past. The screenplay, I hear, is said to have a franchise-able hook. Owen also wrote the 2015 Ridley Scott produced sci-fi thriller Morgan starring Kate Mara and Anya Taylor-Joy. A search for a filmmaker is underway. Studiocanal will fully finance Role Play for a 2022 production start date after Cuoco wraps season 2 of Flight Attendant . The Picture Company partners Alex Heineman and Andrew Rona will produce Role Play under their overall deal at Studiocanal. Brillstein Partners’ George Heller who represents Owen and hatched the original idea, will …
Paul Thomas Anderson Begins Shooting New Movie with Daniel Day-Lewis
Production has begun in the U.K. on writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson 's untitled new film. Three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis is joined in the cast by Lesley Manville , who was a BAFTA Award nominee for Best Actress for Another Year , and Vicky Krieps , whose films include A Most Wanted Man and Focus Features' Hanna . Focus holds worldwide rights to the film, and will distribute the film in the U.S. later this year with Universal Pictures handling international distribution. The film's producers are JoAnne Sellar , Megan Ellison , through her Annapurna Pictures, and Paul Thomas Anderson. The executive producers are Peter Heslop, Adam Somner, and Daniel Lupi. Chelsea Barnard and Jillian Longnecker are overseeing production for Annapurna. Continuing their creative collaboration following 2007's There Will Be Blood , which earned Mr. Day-Lewis the Best Actor Academy Award, Mr. Anderson will once again explore a distinctive milieu of the 20th century. The …
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Best Paul Thomas Anderson Movies, Ranked
With his upcoming film Licorice Pizza starring Bradley Cooper arriving in theaters next month, visionary writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson continues to shake up Hollywood with his unique, Oscar-nominated storytelling on film. Ever since his acclaimed short Cigarettes and Coffee hit Sundance in the early 90's, the now-51-year-old has been a filmmaking tour de force. Following his small-scale debut feature Hard Eight , the visionary auteur made a name for himself in Hollywood with his epic drama Boogie Nights , and the Academy has been showing him love ever since. As we count down the days until PTA's quirky Sean Penn starrer hits the big screen, we took a deep dive into the entire narrative filmography of "P.T. Anderson pictures." 8 Hard Eight (1996) Originally dubbed Sydney , Hard Eight , the 1996 crime thriller was written and directed by Anderson, but notably not produced by the then-26-year-old. It was his first feature film and striking in terms …
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