Precious

Precious director to develop big-screen adaptation Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play

THR reports that Precious director Lee Daniels has signed on to develop and direct a film adaptation of Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer and Steinberg Prize-winning Broadway play Anna in the Tropics, which is being produced by John Torres Martinez and Joe Lamy of Austin-based Mankind Entertainment. Anna in the Tropics is set in 1920s Tampa, which ….

Bourne Identity helmer and Precious writer to tackle Attica Prison uprising

The Bourne Identity director Doug Liman and writer Geoffrey Fletcher – who wrote the script for the Oscar nominated Precious – are teaming up to film a dramatization of the 1971 Attica state prison uprising, according to THR. The four-day confrontation between prisoners and guards, has been described as a riot by some, and a ….

Win one of five copies of the thought-provoking road film Tennessee on DVD

Vivendi Entertainment has just released the thought-provoking road film Tennessee, featuring Multiple Grammy Award winner Mariah Carey, on DVD. To celebrate the release of the film, which also stars Adam Rothenberg (Mad Money) and Ethan Peck (TV’s 10 Things I Hate About You), FilmFetish is giving away five copies of the DVD for readers to ….