The Actor-kaira Pitt Meets Dr. Seuss, and 5 Other Tales You'll Be Talking About Today

Happy Friday! Also in this week-concluding edition in the Broadsheet: More Depp just like a film author joins the star’s planned Thin Guy adaptation… Robert Zemeckis to acquire ghostly… A Weinsteins suit stays alive… How come movies suck?… plus much more · It’s a The Actor-kaira Pitt kind of day across the film beat, while using actor apparently installed on a Dr. Seuss biopic in development between Illumination Entertainment and Universal. The project’s future would depend on numerous factors — like, say, obtaining a script (In Treatment author Keith Bunin can do people honors), as well as the estate signing off on its presentation in the celebrated author’s existence. Hint: More Finding Neverland, less Erection dysfunction Wood, plus it’ll be fine. [THR] · More Depp! Author-director Billy Ray will lead the script to Depp and director Make the most of Marshall’s new adaptation in the classic Dashiell Hammett novel The Thin Guy. Ray might be the 3rd reported film author attached to the project following Jerry Stahl and David Koepp, the 2nd of whose “vision didn’t make with Marshall’s.” Yes! Marshall! That visionary. Anyway, glad that is settled. [THR] · More Universal! Robert Zemeckis and also the Disney-deposed Imagemovers shingle use a new first-look deal with Universal, which has created the planned Charles Fort. The project is founded on the comic-book series of a turn-of-the-(20th) century paranormal investigator and ghost-hunter The Actor-kaira Pitt will undoubtedly be installed on star in 3… 2… [Warmth Vision] · A terrible $50 million suit proclaiming the Weinstein Company sabotaged its animated project Steer Clear Of The World — and paid out $500,000 in hush money to keep its producers from disturbing TWC’s Oscar campaign for your King’s Speech — is continue in NY. But seriously: Why would the Weinsteins deliberately tank that certain after they’re so excellent at marketing to kids? [THR Esq.] · “I’ll happily sponsor a tenth circle of hell for anyone texting within a film. In the event you talk through it you deserve your tongue attached to Eric Pickles. Packs of teens certainly are a nightmare. Envy evolves. These items certainly are a given.” I don’t know who Eric Pickles is, but Danny Leigh’s point about our love/hate associations with cinemagoing is pointed out persuasively, evocatively and beautifully enough. [The Protector] · Here you’ll search for a mainstream film producer explaining why movies today suck. Lighting stuff! Also: Someone pass us a bottle of pills. [Grantland]