The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble Movie Updates

Tue., May. 21, 2013

from The Hollywood Reporter

Fox Searchlight Nabs 'Professor and Bikini Model' for Steve Zaillian to Produce

Fox Searchlight has optioned The New York Times feature The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble and has set Film Rites' Steve Zaillian and Garrett Basch to produce.

• added drama as a genre
• added Film Rites as a production company
• added Fox Searchlight Pictures as a distributor
• added Garrett Basch as producer to the film's credits
• added Steve Zaillian as producer to the film's credits
• added true story as a genre
• added a synopsis

• Paul Frampton, a divorced theoretical particle physicist, meets Denise Milani, a Czech bikini model, on the online dating site Mate1.com. Milani's pictures on the site show a dark-haired, dark-eyed beauty with a supposedly natural DDD breast size. Th... show all e two begin to correspond and plan their perfect life together, but first, the woman asks the British professor if he would deliver a special package to her, setting him on a course of danger.

• changed the production status to Announced
• created the movie profile