Channing Tatum to topline Sony’s untitled crime thrillerMay 7, 2014 - 17:03 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Channing Tatum is going undercover with Sony Pictures. The studio has picked up an untitled crime thriller with Tatum attached to star and produce. Joining Tatum as producers are his partner, Reid Carolin, as well as Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, best known for movie musicals such as Chicago and producing the recent 86th Academy Awards, The Hollywood Reporter said. Set in the late 1970s, the untitled project is described as the inspiring true story of an ordinary family man who decides to risk everything by going undercover to take down the biggest mob boss in the country. Kristin Gore, who worked with Zadan and Meron as a writer on the Academy Awards, is set to write. Michael De Luca and Jonathan Kadin are shepherding for Sony. Gore has the sports drama Racing Dreams in development at DreamWorks. Tatum stars with Jonah Hill in Sony’s 22 Jump Street, which opens June 13. The actor has a busy year ahead as he stars in Jupiter Ascending, which opens July 18, and in Foxcatcher, Bennett Miller’s follow-up to Moneyball. This fall he will shoot Magic Mike XXL, the sequel to Magic Mike, which Tatum co-wrote and will produce with Carolin. Tatum also stars. Zadan and Meron are currently developing Monster High, Universal's adaptation of a Mattel toy line that has a script by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, and an untitled Beach Boys project for Fox 2000. The duo will also be reprising their roles as producers for next year's Oscars. Photo: BoomsBeat Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Government reveals details from Pashinyan’s meeting in border village Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has met with a group of residents of a border village in Armenia’s northern Tavush province Narek Manasyan wins European Boxing Championships silver for Armenia Armenia’s Narek Manasyan (92kg) won Armenia’s second silver medal at the European Boxing Championships 2024 on April 28. Blinken urges Azerbaijan to continue negotiations with Armenia Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has urged Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to continue negotiations with Armenia. Pashinyan, Blinken talk Armenia-U.S. ties over the phone Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan had a phone conversation with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on April 28, Pashinyan’s office reports. |