John Lesher Movie Updates

Black Label Media has stepped up to produce and finance Hellhound On His Trail.

Jake Gyllenhaal is teaming with John Lesher for The Lost Airman, a true-life World War II adventure project.

Amazon Studios has acquired Holland, Michigan, a spec script by Andrew Sodroski that topped the 2013 Black List.

Sarah Polley is adapting David Gilbert’s acclaimed novel & Sons for Brett Ratner and his RatPac Entertainment.

Warner Bros. has acquired American Blood, an upcoming crime novel by Ben Sanders. Bradley Cooper is attached to star and produce.

Errol Morris has come aboard Le Grisbi Productions’ Holland, Michigan, a suburban thriller laced with black humor based on a script by first-timer Andrew Sodroski.

Le Grisbi Productions is teamed with DCM Productions on The Kings Of Rome, a script that will be written by Don MacPherson.

Daniel Radcliffe will tackle the role of an American journalist who covered the crime beat in Japan, including the notorious yakuza mafia, in Tokyo Vice.

Brad Pitt is in negotiations to star in Fury, the World War II tank movie from End of Watch director David Ayer.

Johnny Depp is ready to get back to work setting up Alcon Entertainment's Transcendence and Black Mass as his next two projects.

Vendome Pictures will produce and finance El Bulli, a film based on the life of Spanish chef Ferran Adria and the last year in his iconic restaurant elBulli in Spain.

Warner Bros has just closed a high-six-figure deal to acquire the upcoming Howard Blum book Dark Invasion and will develop it as a star vehicle for Silver Linings Playbook‘s Oscar-nominated Bradley Cooper.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, known for his soul-searing dramas such as Babel and 21 Grams, is going for a light touch with his latest project.

Indie darlings Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden are delving into the world of gambling for their next film. Jake Gyllenhaal will produce and is in talks to star and produce.

Exclusive Media has optioned all rights to Stewart O’Nan’s latest novel, The Odds: A Love Story.

Warner Bros. has acquired the Don Winslow bestselling novel Satori and will develop it as a star vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio to play a Westerner, raised in Japan and taught an assassin’s skills, who gets caught up in the chaos of post-WWII as the U.S., Soviet Union, France and China maneuver for power in Southeast Asia in the ...

David Ayer is set to write and direct cop drama End of Watch, with Jake Gyllenhaal in early discussions to star. Ayer and John Lesher will produce through Ayer's Crave Films and Lesher's Le Grisbi Prods.

Warner Bros. has decided to go to "Cicero," snapping up a screenplay on Al Capone's origins from longtime film and TV writer Walon Green ("The Wild Bunch").