May 24, 2013

Carl Franklin to Direct New Sam Cooke Biopic – Casting Has Begun

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*While we are in the season of biopics, it’s time to do a Sam Cooke film. Actually the project was first announced in 2011, but like many things, it got put off. So it’s now officially getting ready to start and the script has been written and Carl Franklin will direct, reports Tambay Obenson of [...]




New Films for Director Carl Franklin, Writer Geoffrey Fletcher

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*Oscar-winning “Precious” writer Geoffrey Fletcher is scripting “Attica,” about the 1971 Attica state prison riot, the bloodiest prison uprising in U.S. history. Doug Liman is attached to direct the project. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Carl Franklin, meanwhile, is set to direct “City of Night,” a thriller about a Los Angeles Police Department rookie who [...]




Carl Franklin Set to Direct ‘City of Night’ from Myers Media Group and McDonald Entertainment

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*Los Angeles, CA – Meyers Media Group and McDonald Entertainment have announced today that they will co-finance the thriller CITY OF NIGHT. The film, to be directed by award-winner Carl Franklin (“Out of Time,” “High Crimes”), was written by David Chisholm (“Kidnapped in Paradise,” “The Wizard”) and will be produced by Brendan McDonald of McDonald Entertainment [...]




Dwayne Johnson to Star in Action Thriller ‘Snitch’

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*Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is in talks to star in “Snitch,” an action thriller from writer/director Ric Roman Waugh and based on a “Frontline” documentary. The script centers on a suburban father who is hit hard when his teenage son is sentenced to 30 years under mandatory minimum drug laws. In order to reduce his [...]