Overture Films has picked up the rights to “Stone”, a thriller starring Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Frances Conroy and Milla Jovovich. The deal was announced yesterday, with Overture saying the film will be released during 2010.
“Stone” centres on a convicted arsonist, played by Norton, who plans to manipulate a parole officer (De Niro) into granting him parole by using his sexy wife (Jovovich) as an influence. Financed by Mimran Schur Pictures and Millennium Films, the screenplay for “Stone” is written by Angus McLachlan (“Junebug”), based on his play, and directed by John Curran (“The Painted Veil”, with David Mimran as producer, and Jordan Schur, Holly Wiersma, Avi Lerner, Trevor Short and Danny Dimbort as executive producers. International distribution is set to be handled by Nu Image.
Overture has a number of films on its slate, with “Law Abiding Citizen” and “The Men Who Stare At Goats” currently in US cinemas, and their 2010 line-up, in addition to the newly announced “Stone”, also consisting of “The Crazies” (scheduled for release on the twenty sixth of February), “Jack Goes Boating”, the directorial debut from actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, and “Brooklyn’s Finest”, an action thriller starring Richard Gere, Ellen Barkin, Don Cheadle and Wesley Snipes, which is expected to be released on the fifth of March. De Niro will also be starring alongside Ben Stiller once again in “Little Fockers” also expected to be released in 2010, the third in the series of comedy movies that began with “Meet the Parents”.
