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Reese for satanic murder movie, All Is Lost for Redford and Brit indie My Angel in critical heaven...
REESE FOR SATANIC MURDER CASE
America's disturbing true-life satanic ritual case of the West Memphis Three is the subject of a second film, this one featuring Reese Witherspoon.
Director Peter Jackson's documentary West of Memphis already deals with the story where three Arkansas teenagers were tried and convicted of the murder of three boys and handed down life sentences with the death penalty for one.
Now Witherspoon is set to star as Pam Hobbs, mother of one of the victims, in director Atom Egoyan's West Memphis Three picture Devil's Knot, reports Variety.
During the trial the prosecution asserted that the children were killed as part of a satanic ritual but in 2007 new forensic evidence cast doubt on the convictions .
Earlier this year the three convicted men entered 'Alford pleas', which allow them to assert their innocence while acknowledging that prosecutors have enough evidence to convict them, and were released time served.
ALL IS LOST FOR REDFORD
Robert Redford is being tapped to play a sole survivor in the against-the-elements thriller All Is Lost.
The 75-year-old star, who can next be seen opposite Shia LaBeouf in The Company You Keep, which he will also direct, is reportedly interested in the role, reports Deadline.
The water-borne film is set to be directed by JC Chandor (Margin Call) but further plot details are few and far between.
Zachary Quinto's production company, Before the Door, will produce the project, which is potentially planning to shoot in Mexico.
MY ANGEL IN CRITICAL HEAVEN
The spotlight my be on UK hopes for the Golden Globes but a little-known home-made Brit pic is making waves in critical circles.
My Angel, starring Tim Spall and Brenda Blethyn, swept the board at the Monaco International Film Festival, walking off with six awards including best film, newcomer, director, screenplay, plus best actor and actress for Blethyn and Spall.
A family fantasy, it relates the Christmas story of a 15-year-old boy looking for an angel to save his mother after a road accident.
The London-set movie, shot for less than £2m, teams Spall and Blethyn on screen for the first time since Mike Leigh's Bafta-winning Secrets And Lies in 1996.
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