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McAdams and Ford what’s the story ‘Morning Glory’

Two actors in need a good career move are pairing off in the studio comedy that takes place in the highly competitive world of news anchoring. Paramount Pictures has grabbed Harrison Ford to topline picture and have hopes to lock Rachel McAdams in the co-lead.

Eric Lavallée

Published on December 17, 2008

Two actors in need a good career move are pairing off in the studio comedy that takes place in the highly competitive world of news anchoring. Paramount Pictures has grabbed Harrison Ford to topline picture and have hopes to lock Rachel McAdams in the co-lead.

Perhaps falling into the worlds we saw in Brooks‘ Broadcast News and Lumet‘s Network, written by Aline Brosh McKenna (The Devil Wears Prada), Morning Glory centers on a struggling female news producer and the iconic, temperamental anchorman she recruits to revive a failing network morning show.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).