Allison Janney and Laura Dern are starring as sisters in director Tate Taylor’s dark comedy “Breaking News in Yuba County.”Taylor, whose credits include “The Help” and “The Girl on the Train,” will direct from the 2017 Black List script by Amanda Idoko.
He’s also producing along with Jake Gyllenhaal and Riva Marker via their Nine Stories banner (“Stronger”), Franklin Leonard’s The Black List, and John Norris (“The Help”).Agc Studios, launched earlier this year by former Im Global CEO Stuart Ford, will fully finance “Breaking News in Yuba County.” Executive producers are Ford, Agc’s head of film Greg Shapiro, and Idoko.
The film will go into production in early 2019.Janney will portray a pencil pusher who catches her husband in bed with another woman, which causes him to die of a heart attack.
So she buries his body and takes advantage of the growing celebrity status
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