New Line Cinema has acquired "The Zenith Man," a pitch about a true-life murder case from writer Mark Bailey. "Zenith" centers on McCracken Poston, a lawyer in small-town Ringgold, Ga., who in 1997 was recovering from a failed run at Congress and a failed marriage. Bailey is married to documentarian Rory Kennedy, who met and struck up a friendship with Poston while working on her Emmy-nominated docu "American Hollow."

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