Tony Winner "August: Osage County" to Become Film
Weinstein Company hopes for 2011 release.
This year's Tony Award winning Best Play, August: Osage County, will be turned into a feature film, Entertainment Weekly reports.
The play centers around a dysfunctional family reunion and received much critical praise when it opened. The Weinstein Company is producing the movie version and is hoping to release the film in 2011.
Producer Harvey Weinstein is no stranger to turning Broadway shows into big screen adaptations. He's responsible for Oscar winner Chicago and is currently working on the film version of Nine, starring plenty of famous names including Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard, and Penelope Cruz.
The announcement of August: Osage County becoming a movie comes on the heels of In the Heights, the Tony winner for Best Musical this year, being turned into a big screen musical. That film will be produced by Universal, who produced this summer's other smash musical-turned-movie, the ABBA-inspired Mamma Mia!
This winter, two films that were once Broadway plays will be released. Doubt, starring Meryl Streep (who also appeared in Mamma Mia!), and Frost/Nixon have already been collecting good buzz around them.
