Starz has picks up Jason Bateman comedy “The Family Fang”October 9, 2015 - 12:17 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Starz has picked up the U.S. rights to Jason Bateman’s comedy “The Family Fang”, a month after its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, TheWrap reports. The company plans a 2016 theatrical release for the film starring Bateman, Nicole Kidman, Christopher Walken and Maryann Plunkett. Following its theatrical release, the film will have an on-demand release, and an exclusive TV premiere on Starz. The film is about siblings Baxter (Bateman) and Annie (Kidman), scarred from an unconventional upbringing, who return to their family home. However, their parents go missing inexplicably, and Baxter and Annie must investigate. Bateman directed the comedic family drama after making his directorial debut with “Bad Words,” which also premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013. The film is executive produced by Red Crown Production’s Dan Crown, Matthew Salloway and Christina Papagjika of West Madison Entertainment and Anne O’Shea of Minerva Productions. It was produced by Red Crown’s Daniela Taplin Lundberg and Riva Marker, Blossom’s Nicole Kidman and Per Saari, who also optioned the book and developed the script along with Olympus Pictures’ Leslie Urdang and Dean Vanech. 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 | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |