Spitfire Movie Updates

Sat., Nov. 16, 2013

from Deadline

Lionsgate, Odd Lot Rev Racing Pic

Lionsgate and Gigi Pritzker’s Odd Lot Entertainment has acquired Spitfire, a pitch by Grant Thompson.

• changed the production status to Announced
• added a synopsis

• Louise Smith, a fiery, handful-of-a-woman, leads a motley crew of barnstormers and former bootleggers as they criss-cross the country to raise interest in a fledgling professional racing tour – at the behest of Florida businessman and former driver... show all Bill France Sr. Smith is the quintessential small-town girl with big dreams who smashes through the gender preconceptions of the time to ultimately race at the famed Daytona Beach road course and helps France secure the initial funding for what becomes the billion-dollar sports giant NASCAR.

• added Odd Lot Entertainment as a production company
• added Lionsgate Films as a distributor
• added Invention Films as a production company
• added drama as genre
• added Nicky Weinstock as producer to credits
• added Grant Thompson as screenwriter to credits
• created the movie profile