Happy Monday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Tom Cruise gets his Bollywood close-up… The Up house finally sells… Peter Jackson finishes West Memphis 3 doc… More bad news for snail mailers… and more.
It seemed inevitable that Hollywood would turn its gaze on the incredibly dramatic tale of Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley, and Jason Baldwinthe, the men known as the West Memphis 3 who were freed today after spending 18 years serving time for the 1993 murders of three young boys. But this isn’t an opportunistic stroke of timing; the film, which will be directed by Atom Egoyan, has been in development since 2006. More after the jump.