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Picturehouse acquires The Politician’s Wife
Drama to Star Felicity Huffman
NEW YORK, January 11, 2007 — Picturehouse has acquired all North American rights to the remake of the award-winning Channel 4 mini-series The Politician’s Wife to star Golden Globe-winner and Oscar-nominee Felicity Huffman and be produced by Sara Risher, though her ChickFlicks Productions, and Jerry Leider from a script by Nicholas Meyer (Sommersby, The Human Stain), it was announced today by Bob Berney, President of Picturehouse.
Hailed by The New York Times as “splendidly wicked,” The Politician’s Wife tells the story of a Senator’s wife who responds to her husband’s infidelity in unexpected and devastating ways.
“The Politician’s Wife is a taut, suspenseful screenplay filled with intrigue and sexual politics,” said Berney. “I can’t wait to see Felicity Huffman bring this multi-layered character to life.”
Filming is set to begin in May ’07, while Huffman is on hiatus from “Desperate Housewives.”
The deal was brokered on behalf of Picturehouse by Senior Vice President of Acquisitions Sara Rose and HBO Creative Executive Julie Goldstein. CAA represents Huffman.
Launched in April 2005, Picturehouse is the joint venture of two leaders of the entertainment community - HBO and New Line Cinema. Currently in release is Guillermo del Toro’s gothic fairy tale Pan’s Labyrinth, which has been included on more than 100 critics top ten lists and is the official submission from Mexico for the Academy Awards. Upcoming films include Starter for 10 from Tom Hanks’ Playtone Productions; El Cantante, a music-infused biography of Puerto Rican salsa pioneer Hector Lavoe, starring Jennifer Lopez and her husband, Marc Anthony; Oliver Dahan’s Edith Piaf biopic, La Vie En Rose; Gracie, directed by Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) and starring Oscar Nominee Elisabeth Shue, Andrew Shue and Carly Schroeder (Firewall, Mean Creek); and Francois Girard’s Silk, starring Michael Pitt, Keira Knightley, Koji Yakusho, and Alfred Molina.