# Alliance Cinema Backs David Mamet’s ‘Speed The Plow’ & Lines Up Brazilian YA Adaptation ‘Diary Of A Weird Girl’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/alliance-cinema-backs-david-mamets-speed-the-plow-lines-up-brazilian-ya-adaptation-diary-of-a-weird-girl/
- Published: 2026-08-27T21:01:11+00:00
- Updated: 2026-08-27T21:33:02+00:00
- Original publisher: Deadline
- Original article: https://deadline.com/2026/08/alliance-cinema-backs-david-mamets-speed-the-plow-1237060785/
- Topics: Americas, Celebrity, Entertainment, Europe, Film, Offbeat, Weird & Viral, World

## Key points

- Alliance Cinema finances Mamet’s Speed the Plow.
- The film is currently in post-production.
- Brazilian YA novel gains global TV adaptation plans.

## Summary

Alliance Cinema has become an equity financier of David Mamet’s forthcoming film Speed the Plow, strengthening backing for the playwright’s return to directing. Separately, the producer-financier has secured worldwide rights to adapt Brazilian young-adult novel Diary Of A Weird Girl into an international television series, expanding its development slate.

Speed the Plow is in post-production and stars Anthony Mackie, Ben Mendelsohn, Sharon Stone, Emily Alyn Lind, Chris Bauer and Rebecca Pidgeon; it adapts Mamet’s Broadway play but changes elements of its setting and story. Diary Of A Weird Girl follows 13-year-old Carol as she deals with crushes, school pressure, friendship problems, family separation and loneliness; Alliance is now choosing the creative team for the series.

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