Good morning.
I just had to send this out to everyone! It is terrific news from
JMS and you'll find it on just about every major news service
today! Here is the note from JMS and the article from Variety:
Folks --
For some time now, I've been alluding to several major developments
which I haven't been able to describe while they were ongoing. Well,
that's now no longer a problem with one of them, because the news
has finally been released.
I won't even tell you here what it is...just click on the link and
go.
Trust me.
This one's worth it.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117960798.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
Another kick in the shin to the naysayers.
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Variety article from the link above:
Eastwood, Jolie catch 'Changeling'
Grazer, Howard to produce pic
By DIANE GARRETT, MICHAEL FLEMING
Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment are fast-tracking "The
Changeling," with Clint Eastwood looking to direct and Angelina
Jolie in talks to star.
Scripted by J. Michael Straczynski, the film will become a co-
production of Imagine and Eastwood's Malpaso. Brian Grazer and Ron
Howard will produce with Malpaso's Rob Lorenz.
Plan is to start production later this year.
Jolie would play a woman whose son is abducted but retrieved; she
suspects, however, that the returned child is not her kid. The woman
must then confront corruption in the LAPD. Story is based on true
events in 1920s Los Angeles.
U and Imagine have been high on the project since acquiring it last
summer and placing it on a shortlist of films that Imagine partner
Howard intended to direct next. When Howard instead committed to
adapt the Peter Morgan play "Frost/Nixon," he and Grazer began
thinking of other filmmakers. Since they expect to follow up "The Da
Vinci Code" with a pic based on the Dan Brown novel "Angels &
Demons," it was clear Howard wouldn't get to "The Changeling" for
two years.
Howard, Grazer and Imagine exec Jim Whitaker then called Eastwood
and asked him to read the script. Though a fixture at Warner Bros.,
Eastwood had to enlist outside partners to get his most recent films
going: "Million Dollar Baby" and the dual pics "Flags of Our
Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima."
Jolie, who'll next be seen as Marianne Pearl in "The Mighty Heart"
and then in the Bob Zemeckis-directed "Beowulf," will have to
juggle "The Changeling" with another plum project. She's booked to
star in "Atlas Shrugged," a Randall Wallace-scripted adaptation of
the Ayn Rand classic for Lionsgate.
She's repped by Media Talent Group's Geyer Kosinski. Eastwood is
managed by Lenny Hirshan.
Congratulations to JMS for all his hard work, persistence and
dedication. Now perhaps others will see what we B5 folks have known
for a very long time. JMS is awesome!
Have a great weekend.
Don't forget to turn your clocks ahead here in the US. Daylight
Savings time is a little early this year.
Be safe,
Sandy
Sandra Bruckner
Editor/Publisher
ISN News: The Zocalo Today
http://www.isnnews.net