WEEK IN WOMEN: Jodie Foster to Direct Mona Lisa Heist Flick – Brandy McDonnell reports

February 9, 2020 Brandy McDonnell 0 Comments bill wheeler, george soros, jodie foster, los angeles media fund, mona lisa theft, the week in women, twiw

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Jodie Foster will direct an untitled fact-meets-fiction feature based on the Seymour Reit book The Day They Stole the Mona Lisa. Bill Wheeler is writing for Jodie Foster to direct.

The Mona Lisa crime drama is one of several films moving fast at the Los Angeles Media Fund, which is broadening its footprint with increasingly ambitious feature films, scripted and unscripted series and Broadway productions.

Los Angeles Media Fund’s exec, George Soros, has described the project as mixing truth and fiction with emphasis on the characters behind the crime. Continue reading on THE WEEK IN WOMEN.

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Brandy McDonnell

Brandy McDonnell writes features and reviews movies, music, events and the arts for The Oklahoman, Oklahoma's statewide newspaper, and NewsOK.com, the state's largest news Web site. Raised on a farm near Lindsay, Okla., she started her journalism career in seventh grade, when she was elected reporter for her school's 4-H Club. Taking her duties seriously, she began submitting stories to The Lindsay News, and worked for the local weekly through high school. She attended Oklahoma State University, where she worked for The Daily O'Collegian and earned her journalism degree with honors. She worked for three years at small Oklahoma dailies The Edmond Sun and Shawnee News-Star. In 2002, she joined The Oklahoman as a features reporter, writing about movies, the arts, events, families and nonprofits. She moved to The Oklahoman's entertainment desk in 2007. In 2004, she won a prestigious Journalism Fellowship in Child & Family Policy from the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Along with her membership in AWFJ, she also is a founding member of the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle. Brandy writes The Week In Women blog for AWFJ.org.