Heck Movie Updates

Sat., Jan. 7, 2012

from Variety

MGM Enlists Broadway Helmer for 'Heck'

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson helmer Alex Timbers is in final negotiations to make his feature directorial debut with MGM's Heck, based on Random House's bestselling children's book series by Dale E. Basye.

• added David Iserson to the credits
• added Karen Rosenfelt to the credits
• added Sunswept Entertainment as a production company
• added Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a distributor
• added Chris Weitz to the credits
• added Alex Timbers to the credits

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Thu., Apr. 29, 2010

from abcnews.go.com

Campanella to Direct Big-Screen 'Heck'

Juan Jose Campanella, whose Argentine film "The Secret in Their Eyes" won the foreign-language-film Oscar this year, is making his English-language feature directing debut with "Heck," an adaptation of a children's fantasy novel.

• added Juan Jose Campanella to the credits
• added Spyglass Entertainment as a production company
• added a synopsis

• "A good boy named Milton Fauster, who shoplifts with sister, dies in a freak accident and ends up in an unearthly reform school called Heck, where Lizzie Borden teaches home economics and Richard Nixon is the ethics teacher. Milton meets Virgil,... show all a boy who has a map of the Nine Circles of Heck, and the two plot to escape the netherworld "

• changed the production status to Announced

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Thu., Apr. 29, 2010

• created the movie profile