Sam Shepard Movie Updates

Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks are reuniting. Ryan will make her directorial debut on Ithaca.

Sam Shepard is in negotiations to play family patriarch Beverly Weston in The Weinstein Company's adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play August: Osage County.

Relativity Media has closed deals with Oscar-winner Christian Bale (The Fighter), Oscar-nominated Casey Affleck (The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford), Zoe Saldana (Avatar) and Oscar-nominated Sam Shepard (Safe House) to star as the lead roles in the upcoming gripping and gritty drama currently titled Out o ...

Director Jeff Nichols has added his Take Shelter star Michael Shannon, Sam Shepard, Sarah Paulson, Ray McKinnon, Joe Don Baker and Paul Sparks to Mud, the drama that stars Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon and Tye Sheridan. Production began today in Arkansas.

Universal has rounded out its cast for the Ryan Reynolds-Denzel Washington thriller Safe House, adding Liam Cunningham, Brendan Gleeson, Robert Patrick and Sam Shepard to the mix.

Mark Duplass has been cast in Lawrence Kasdan's newest project, "Darling Companion." Dianne Wiest and Sam Shepard have also nabbed roles. The three actors join Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline, Richard Jenkins and Elizabeth Moss in the story of what happens when a man loses his wife’s beloved dog after a wedding in the Rockie ...

IFC Films has snagged North American rights to "Inhale," the Baltasar Kormakur thriller toplined by Dermot Mulroney and Diane Kruger. "Inhale," set to have its U.S. preem at the Woodstock Film Festival in October, will be released on IFC Film's VOD platform later that month. Movie also gets a theatrical ru ...