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Lawrence to Play War Photographer in Spielberg’s ‘It’s What I Do’

On March 3, 2015 By admin Comments Off

Warner Bros. has attached Jennifer Lawrence to star in director Steven Spielberg’s “It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War,” sources confirm.

The studio won an auction Monday for the rights to the memoir by Lynsey Addario, the award-winning international photojournalist.

“American Sniper” producer Andrew Lazar is on board the drama.

The project attracted multiple offers after an excerpt of Addario’s memoir appeared in the the New York Times Magazine. ICM is repping the author.

Addario, who has traveled to war-torn countries like Afghanistan, Libya and Iraq, won the MacArthur Fellowship in 2008 and was part of the New York Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for International Reporting for her work in Waziristan. She was jailed for several days in Libya in 2011.

Wynn Wygal at Lazar’s company will oversee “It’s What I Do.” Racheline Benveniste and Julia Spiro are overseeing for the studio.

Spielberg is in post-production on the untitled DreamWorks-Disney Cold War thriller, starring Tom Hanks as attorney James Donovan, which has been dated for Oct. 16. The studios have also set Spielberg’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s book “The BFG” for July 1, 2016.

Lawrence is currently shooting David O. Russell’s “Joy,” which is set for a Christmas release by Fox. She’ll be seen next in Lionsgate’s “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2″ in November.

Other bidders for the project included Working Title Films with Reese Witherspoon attached; Darren Aronofsky with Natalie Portman attached; and The Weinstein Company with George Clooney and Grant Heslov involved and Margo Robbie starring.

CAA reps Lawrence and Spielberg.

Jennifer Lawrence Debunks Severity of Fight With Film Director

On March 3, 2015 By admin Comments Off

Jennifer Lawrence has taken to her Facebook page to vehemently deny rumors that she had an on-set falling out with David O. Russell.

Lawrence, who is currently working on Joy with David O. Russell, wrote a brief passage on her social media page to explain that all of these allegations are completely wide of the mark. She also added that the pair are currently enjoying a fruitful on-set relationship. You can check out her response to this speculation below:

Hey guys! It’s Jen! I know I don’t go on here a lot because I can barely work email but there’s been a terrible rumor going around the last 24 hours so I wanted to clear it up. David O. Russell is one of my closest friends and we have an amazing collaborative working relationship. I adore this man and he does not deserve this tabloid malarkey. This movie is going great and I’m having a blast making it!

There you go then. Clearly all of the rumors that have been circulating were either completely fabricated then. Or it was actually true and this is simply part and parcel of how Russell gets a performance out of Lawrence. And since their previous collaborations together have resulted in Lawrence winning the Best Actress Academy Award for Silver Linings Playbook and a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for American Hustle, you can imagine that she is more than happy to be pushed to these extremes by the filmmaker.

It was previously reported by TMZ that Jennifer Lawrence and David O Russell had exchanged angry comments during production on Joy. Eyewitnesses told the aforementioned website that Russell was trying to provoke a response from Lawrence, and that when Harvey Weinstein arrived on set he was told that there simply wasn’t any time to exchange niceties.

Unfortunately David O. Russell’s previous run-ins while filming meant that this story soon started to pick up momentum. While shooting Three Kings it was alleged that David O. Russell and George Clooney nearly came to blows after the director demeaned various members of the crew both physically and verbally. This led Clooney to confront Russell over his actions. But rather than having a calming effect this resulted in the pair have a brief tussle. However, even though he had previously insisted that he wouldn’t ever work with Russell again, Clooney has since revealed that they’ve repaired their relationship.

But this wasn’t the only violent incident that has involved David O. Russell on-set. While working on I Heart Huckabees, videos surfaced online of Russell and actress Lily Tomlin engaging in at least two furious rows. But once again Tomlin soon shot to the defence of the director as she admitted that she prefers to work in such an emotionally-charged atmosphere.

Since I Heart Huckabees, it’s been reported that David O. Russell’s temper has calmed immeasurably. And you can see that in his work. The likes of The Fighter, Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle have not only seen the director regularly work with a steady set of actors that has included Christian Bale, Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro, but they are also less frenetic and more measured than his previous films.

And because of this his upcoming film, Joy, which will be released on Christmas Day, 2015, is one of the most anticipated of 2015. It’s even been tipped to be a mainstay of next year’s awards season too.

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J-Law and Harvey Weinstein — Showdown with Famed Director David O. Russell

On February 28, 2015 By admin Comments Off

Famed director David O. Russell went on a tear against Jennifer Lawrence and Harvey Weinstein during the filming of the movie “Joy” … this according to an eyewitness on the set.

We’re told there was a loud argument Tuesday on the Boston set between David and Jennifer, and it started over a scene. The eyewitness says David started screaming at her … it was ear-piercing and laced with profanities.

A rep for the movie’s studio — Fox 2000 — tells us yes, there was screaming, but it was all method acting. David was just getting J. Law amped-up for a scene in which she screams at someone.

But it doesn’t end there. We’re also told Miramax honcho Harvey Weinstein showed up on the set Wednesday to say hi to Jennifer, but David ordered him to leave. Harvey got as far as the makeup trailer before getting booted.

The studio rep says Harvey was told Tuesday things were moving at warp speed and his visit would be a distraction, but he showed up anyway … unannounced.

And the eyewitness tells us a major exec for Fox was reamed out by David because she was trying to defend the line producer who David wants to fire. The eyewitness says it got so bad the exec started crying. The studio rep says that’s ridiculous … there was a “heated” argument over the line producer, but she didn’t cry.

You may recall David’s nuclear argument with Lily Tomlin during filming of “I Heart Huckabees.”

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Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt have offers to board Sony’s sci-fi love story Passengers.

On February 13, 2015 By admin Comments Off

The Hunger Games actress and Guardians of the Galaxy actor are in early talks to join the film, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Morten Tyldum, the director of this year’s award-season contender The Imitation Game, has nearly closed a deal to direct the film.

One of the hurdles facing Lawrence’s deal is her complicated schedule.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2 hits theaters on Nov. 20, and Lawrence is starring in David O. Russell’s Joy, set for release on Christmas Day.

She also will appear in X-Men: Apocalypse, which is scheduled for a May 2016 release.

Along with appearing in the sequel to Marvel’s Guardians, Pratt is the lead in Universal’s Jurassic World, which arrives in theaters June 12.

Sony project Passengers is set on a spacecraft making a journey that takes more than a century. The screenplay for the title is by Jon Spaihts, who previously worked on Prometheus and is writing Marvel’s Doctor Strange.

Variety first reported the news about Lawrence’s offer.

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Amy Pascal Comments On Jennifer Lawrence’s Pay Disparity

On February 13, 2015 By admin Comments Off

The blowback from the Sony hacking ordeal, in which 100 terabytes of stolen data resulted in the publication of executives’ revealing emails, has been seen far and wide. The latest, and perhaps most significant, repercussion came when Sony Pictures co-chair Amy Pascal announced last week that she will step down from her post. The news arrived in the wake of contentious memos about Angelina Jolie’s “spoiled brat” behavior, Jennifer Lawrence’s sexist pay grade and President Barack Obama’s racially driven movie preferences.

During an interview with journalist Tina Brown at Wednesday’s Women in the World conference in San Francisco, Pascal reportedly addressed the various correspondences that have landed her in hot water. Most of note is her comment about Lawrence, whom she says has received a mea culpa from Pascal after it was revealed that her “American Hustle” paycheck was less than those of her male co-stars.

“I’ve paid [Jennifer Lawrence] a lot more money since then, I promise you,” Pascal reportedly said, according to Recode. “Here’s the problem: I run a business. People want to work for less money, I’ll pay them less money. I don’t call them up and say, ‘Can I give you some more?’ Because that’s not what you do when you run a business. The truth is, what women have to do is not work for less money. They have to walk away. People shouldn’t be so grateful for jobs. … People should know what they’re worth.”

Pascal admitted to feeling out of place at the conference: “All I did was get fired,” she said. As for the experience of being labeled a racist for implying Obama has stereotypically black movie tastes, Pascal called it “horrible” but “strangely freeing” because it was out of her control. In addressing her remarks about the “minimally talented” Jolie, Pascal simply said, “The first person I talked to was Angie after that email.”

Ultimately, Pascal said the industry community has been empathetic toward the contents of her and colleagues’ emails, largely because no one is surprised that show business creates a vicious environment.

“Everybody understood because we all live in this weird thing called Hollywood,” she said. “If we all actually were nice, it wouldn’t work.”