After serving five years of a seven-year sentence, White committed suicide in 1985.
Michael London and his Groundswell Prods.
are financing the movie.
Credit: Jennifer Hudson: Steve Granitz/WireImage
Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks are producing from a script by Dustin Lance Black (Big Love).
Shooting could start by the end of this year.
The Penn-directedInto the Wilddebuted this month at the Telluride Film Festival and will play at Toronto.
He next will be seen in the immigration dramaCrossing Over.
Rihannas Umbrella won video of the year as well as Monster Single of the year.
Reviews have been mixed, though everyone seems to agree that Britney Spears much-hyped opening performance was a flop.
Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot, who worked with Efron onHairspray,are producing through Offspring Entertainment.
The story is about a grown man who finds himself as a 17-year-old trying to navigate high school.
(Hollywood Reporter)
ABC orders new gameshowDuelABC has ordered 10 episodes of the BermanBraun-produced gameshowDuel.
If theyre wrong, they?re eliminated, unless they?ve covered themselves by betting enough chips.
so that win, a contestant needs to beat five other players.
The nine-episode series is set to debut in December on Lifeskool.
(Hollywood Reporter)
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Thats two years in a row, man … give a black man a chance, West said.
