2-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey to star in high-concept comedy “9 Lives”January 29, 2015 - 18:06 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey has closed a deal to star in Barry Sonnenfeld’s high-concept comedy “Nine Lives,” which is set up at EuropaCorp, TheWrap has learned. Daniel Antoniazzi and Ben Shiffrin wrote the script, which Sonnenfeld has described as a “funny, emotional, commercial comedy.” Spacey will star as a workaholic businessman who suffers a terrible accident that leaves him trapped in the body of the family cat. EuropaCorp is financing and producing the film, which will be shepherded by its U.S. film president Lisa Ellzey. “Nine Lives” will be one of EuropaCorp’s first releases through Red, the distribution pipeline it shares with Relativity. Spacey has won Oscars for “American Beauty” and “The Usual Suspects,” and he’s coming off his first Golden Globe win for “House of Cards,” which returns to Netflix for its third season next month. He also just won a SAG Award for “House of Cards.” Spacey recently appeared in “Horrible Bosses 2” and is currently filming the role of Richard Nixon in Liza Johnson’s indie “Elvis & Nixon.” 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 | Russia provides info about arrested Armenian ex-MP Russian law enforcement agencies have provided information about the arrest of Tigran Urikhanyan. Lemkin Institue slams Pashinyan's “cryptic engagement with Genocide denial” The Lemkin Institute is alarmed over Pashinyan’s statements “questioning Armenia's legal basis to pursue justice against Turkey”. 41 detained as antigovernment protests continue in Yerevan 41 people were detained in Yerevan as people demanding Pashinian’s resignation stage campaigns of civil disobedience. Armenia votes for UN resolution granting Palestine new rights The U.N. General Assembly voted by a wide margin on May 10 to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine. |