Anna in the Tropics Movie Updates
Total Updates: 7
- added Mankind as a production company
- added Lee Daniels Entertainment as a production company
- added Nilo Cruz to the credits
- added a synopsis
- The story is set in 1920s Tampa, then the seat of cigar-making industry and featured an imported Cuban tradition of lectors reading to workers. Inspired by Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Anna in the Tropics centers on a family of cigar rollers whose lives are changed by the power of literature.
- added Lee Daniels to the credits
- changed the production status to Announced
- created the movie profile
Mon., Dec. 13, 2010
'Precious' Director Lee Daniels to Helm 'Anna in the Tropics'
Precious director Lee Daniels has signed on to develop and direct Anna in the Tropics, a film adaptation of Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer and Steinberg Prize-winning Broadway play being produced by John Torres Martinez and Joe Lamy of Austin-based Mankind Entertainment.