CALIFORNIA
Hollywood Reporter
6/13/2013 by Borys Kit
Participant Media remains on board as co-financier and Tom McCarthy is attached to direct.
DreamWorks is quietly parting ways with the untitled movie project that chronicles the Catholic Church’s decades-long cover-up of its pedophile priests in Massachusetts as uncovered during a
Participant Media, which remains a co-financier, and producers Michael Sugar and Steve Golin of Anonymous Content and Rocklin/Faust’s Nicole Rocklin and Blye Faust are now shopping the project, which has Tom McCarthy attached to direct.
Multiple suitors are already lined up and the prestigious nature of the project will surely lock this up.
The movie project tells of how the Globe’s “Spotlight Team” reporters spent a year interviewing victims and reviewing thousands of pages of documents and discovered years of cover-up by Church leadership. Their reporting eventually led to the resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law, who had hidden years of serial abuse by other priests, and opened the floodgates to revelations of molestation and cover-ups worldwide that still reverberate today.
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