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Reese Witherspoon joins Pharm Girl
Total Film News —
... comedy, which finds a woman getting a job with a massive drugs company and quickly rises through the ranks – but starts to see the dark side of the business. We’re not sure if that means animal testing, humans turned used as guinea pigs or testing on humans actually turned into guinea pigs. Or maybe none of the above. But it looks like the pharmaceutical industry will be playing a villain again… [Source: The Hollywood Reporter] Interested to see Witherspoon in a new ...
Stalked: Paul McCartney, Eliza Dushku, Reese Witherspoon, Danielle Panabaker
Filmstalker —
Paul McCartney's children's book is headed for cinemas. Eliza Dushku has been talking about Valediction. Reese Witherpoon is meddling with pharmaceuticals. And Danielle Panabaker is joining Amber Heard in a psychiatric facility. Paul McCartney has agreed to have his children's book into an animated film. High in the Clouds tells the story of a squirrel who tries to find a place called Animalia, a tropical animal sanctuary. No such luck though, he finds a world where animals are kept locked up in factories. The news is from Jo Blo ...
Michael Haneke's 'The White Ribbon' Set For Christmas Day Release, More 'Scott Pilgrim' Ephemera
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... and Reese Witherspoon have partnered up to adapt "Bad Santa" scribes Glenn Ficarra and John Requa's script "Pharm Girl." The film will center on a woman who gets a job at a pharmaceutical powerhouse but begins to see the underbelly of the industry as she rises through the company's ranks. As well as producing, Witherspoon is set to play the lead. [THR] ...
REEL TALK MIXTAPE: THURSDAY, JUNE 18th
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... Reese Witherspoon is set to star in Universal’s comedy “Pharm Girl.” No, it’s not some cliché story about a city girl who moves to a farm and eventually falls for a local guy and grows to love her new home. According to The Hollywood Reporter, it’s about a woman ‘who gets a job at a pharmaceutical powerhouse but begins to see the underbelly of the industry as she rises through the company's ranks.’ Witherspoon will also produce the film under her Type A banner. ...
Reese Witherspoon considers 'Pharm Girl' role
The Screening Log —
... Reese Witherspoon will produce and is attached to star in Universal's upcoming comedy "Pharm Girl," according to the Hollywood Reporter. ...
Reese Witherspoon Robotrips
Cinema Blend News —
... Theres perhaps no other industry we have more of a love/hate relationship with than pharmaceuticals. They figured out how to cure what? But theyre charging what for it? . Its an unsolvable problem really. The more ludicrous prices the drug companies charge, the more they have to pour into research. The more affordable they make the drugs, the more needy people can afford them and get better. That, my friends, is a conundrum. And perfect fodder for comedy. According to The Hollywood Reporter , Reese Witherspoon has signed on to star in a new Universal picture about the ...
Reese Witherspoon Lives Life Down on the 'Pharm'
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... Perhaps that will change, though, because Reese has Hollywood Reportedly signed on for Pharm Girl, which will pair her with Bad Santa writers ...
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... Chill the ditz factor out of Legally Blonde and then put in a load of prescription medicine… and you end up with Pharm Girl? The Hollywood Reporter have announced that Reese Witherspoon is eyeing “an aspirational comedy centering on one woman’s odyssey through the drug industry” and tell us that her character “gets a job at a pharma powerhouse but begins to see the underbelly of the industry as she rises through the company’s ranks”. Glenn Ficarra and John Requa are scripting and may ...
Reese Witherspoon is a PHARM GIRL
Daemon's Movies —
... a woman (Witherspoon) who gets a job at a pharma powerhouse but begins to see the underbelly of the industry as she rises through the company's ranks
One cannot help but notice the coincidental nature of the fact that this movie coincides to the very period where health care reform is going to be a hot button topic this coming year. I expect that this movie will get done pretty quickly hopefully to coincide with the peak of the debate.
(via THR) ...
