Zeta-Jones Gets Cookin'
Scott Hicks will direct Oscar winner Catherine Zeta-Jones is heating up the kitchen.
Zeta-Jones will star for Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures in Mostly Martha, an Americanized remake of the 2001 Sandra Nettlebeck German feature Bella Martha. Scott Hicks will be at the helm of the project, which is being financed and distributed worldwide by Warners and Village Roadshow.
Adapted by Carol Fuchs, Mostly Martha will star Zeta-Jones as a high-powered chef in total career mode. Her life is turned upside down, however, when she becomes the legal guardian of her young niece. Production on the film is tentatively slated to begin in January.
Bruce Berman and Susan Cartsonis will be the executive producers on the project, while Sergio Aguero and Kerry Heysen are the producers.
Repped by CAA, Zeta-Jones will next be seen with Antonio Banderas in The Legend of Zorro, which is due for release in October. Her other recent credits include Ocean's Twelve, The Terminal and Intolerable Cruelty. She won her Oscar as Best Supporting Actress in 2003 for her work Chicago.
Hicks, also repped by CAA, is best known for his work on Shine, which earned seven Oscar nods and won the Best Actor statue for Geoffrey Rush. Hicks picked up Best Director and Best Original Screenplay nominations for his work on the film. His other credits include Hearts in Atlantis, Snow Falling on Cedars and Call Me Mr. Brown.in an adaptation of the 2001 German film Bella Martha.
Oscar winner Catherine Zeta-Jones is heating up the kitchen. Zeta-Jones will star for Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures in Mostly Martha, an Americanized remake of the 2001 Sandra Nettlebeck German feature Bella Martha. Scott Hicks will be at the helm of the project, which is being financed and distributed worldwide by Warners and Village Roadshow.
Adapted by Carol Fuchs, Mostly Martha will star Zeta-Jones as a high-powered chef in total career mode. Her life is turned upside down, however, when she becomes the legal guardian of her young niece. Production on the film is tentatively slated to begin in January.
Bruce Berman and Susan Cartsonis will be the executive producers on the project, while Sergio Aguero and Kerry Heysen are the producers.
Repped by CAA, Zeta-Jones will next be seen with Antonio Banderas in The Legend of Zorro, which is due for release in October. Her other recent credits include Ocean's Twelve, The Terminal and Intolerable Cruelty. She won her Oscar as Best Supporting Actress in 2003 for her work Chicago.
Hicks, also repped by CAA, is best known for his work on Shine, which earned seven Oscar nods and won the Best Actor statue for Geoffrey Rush. Hicks picked up Best Director and Best Original Screenplay nominations for his work on the film. His other credits include Hearts in Atlantis, Snow Falling on Cedars and Call Me Mr. Brown.