Phase 4 Films and XLrator Media have jointly acquired North American rights to crime thriller “Jamesy Boy,” starring Mary-Louise Parker, James Woods, Ving Rhames, Taissa Farmiga and Spencer Lofranco.

Deal was announced Saturday at Cannes, where Atlas International is handling international sales.

“Jamesy Boy” is produced by Synergics Films and Star Thrower Entertainment. Producers are Tim White, Wayne L. Rogers, Steven P. Saeta, Maria Norman, Galen Walker and Scott Mednick.

The movie is directed by Trevor White and written by White and Lane Shadgett. It’s based on a true story of a teenage James Burns (played by Lofranco) who goes from the suburban street gangs to a maximum-security prison, where he forms a friendship with a convicted murderer (portrayed by Rhames) who helps him turn his life around.

The deal was negotiated by Larry Greenberg of Phase 4 and Barry Gordon of XLrator with the Paradigm Finance Group on behalf of the filmmakers.

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The Vineyard Theatre will present one-night-only reunion readings of its acclaimed productions of Craig Lucas’ The Dying Gaul (June 24) and Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive (July 1). The show’s full original casts, including Mary-Louise Parker and Linda Emond, will be on hand. Both readings will be staged by the productions’ original director, Mark Brokaw.
The Dying Gaul, which premiered at The Vineyard in 1998, is the tragic American tale of a screenwriter who makes a small fortune but compromises his ideals in the process. The cast includes Linda Emond, Tim Hopper, Cotter Smith, and Robert Emmet Lunney.
1997′s How I Learned to Drive explores the complex relationship between Li’l Bit and her Uncle Peck, as a series of driving lessons progresses from innocence to something much darker. The cast is to feature Mary-Louise Parker, David Morse, Johanna Day, Kerry O’Malley, and Michael Showalter.
The Vineyard is a leading nonprofit theater company that is dedicated to developing and producing bold new plays and musicals. Notable shows developed at The Vineyard include The Scottsboro Boys, Avenue Q, and [title of show].
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They have released the character posters for Red 2, and I’ve added the Mary one to the gallery.

The Weeds veteran is heading back to Broadway this fall. Mary-Louise Parker will star as Elizabeth Gaesling, the newly widowed matriarch of a family that gathers at their home in upstate New York for a hunting party, in Sharr White’s WWI family drama The Snow Geese. MTC and MCC Theater’s world premiere co-production opens October 24 for a limited 11-week engagement at MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, where Parker earned a Tony nomination for her turn in 2004?s Reckless. The last time Parker and director Daniel Sullivan collaborated on Broadway, both nabbed Tonys for their 2000 production of David Auburn’s Proof. On the big screen, Parker next appears in two summer actioners facing off July 19: Universal’s R.I.P.D. and Summit’s RED 2. She is repped by WME.

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