News: Naomi Watts & Frank Grillo To Star In Once Upon a Time in Staten Island

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Naomi Watts and Frank Grillo will star in the coming of age family drama Once Upon a Time in Staten Island, which is being produced by Blumhouse Productions and Man in a Tree Productions. 

It is being written and directed James DeMonaco (The Purge franchise), and will also feature Bobby Cannavale (Vinyl), Lucius Hoyos (Heroes Reborn), Jonah Hauer-King (Little Women, Howards End), River Alexander (The Way Way Back), and Chase Vacnin (The Little Rascals Save the Day). 

The film is set in the summer of 1982 on Staten Island, New York and is being produced by Jason Blum and Sebastien K. Lemercier for Man in a Tree Productions. Watts and Kate Driver will executive produce.