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Leave it to Shane Black to turn the lonely act of screenwriting into a contact sport. The Lethal Weapon and Iron Man scribe has launched The Gauntlet, a competition that puts aspiring writers through a rigorous series of critiques and rewrites — sort of American Gladiators for the Final Draft set. “It’s a competition,” he says,…
Blame it on Trump overload. Or fire fatigue. Or even the price of dinner at Giorgio Baldi. Whatever the reason, a wave of Hollywood types — producers, power couples, a smattering of ex-network brass — have been selling off their stateside properties and decamping for a faraway land where the sunsets are always cinematic, the…
Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games, Peaky Blinders,Daisy Jones & the Six) stars opposite Bill Nighy in Harlan Coben’s Lazarus, the new original series from the master of twists and turns that released on Amazon’s Prime Video Wednesday. Based on an original script by best-selling author Cobenand BAFTA winnerDanny Brocklehurst, the six-episode Harlan Coben’s Lazaruspromises another…
Nikki Glaser and Judd Apatow are reuniting with Universal Pictures for a new romantic comedy feature. Glaser is set to co-write, produce and star in the untitled project that counts Apatow as a producer. The film is said to be a modern, edgy rom-com, although plot details have not been disclosed. A director is not…
Creative Artists Agency has appointed Sarah Schweitzman as co-head of CAA Media Finance, joining Roeg Sutherland. Schweitzman and Sutherland will jointly oversee the division, which handles packaging, financing, production and sales for independent film, television and digital projects at the agency. Schweitzman replaces CAA Media Finance co-head Benjamin Kramer, who jumped ship this summer to…
Last year, I seriously considered putting Justin Baldoni’s It Ends With Us on my best movies of the year list. The film takes a poorly written novel by mega-author Colleen Hoover and turns it into persuasive, often lovely melodrama. Its world is finely wrought, its lead performance — from producer Blake Lively — is soulful…
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell reaffirmed the league’s commitment to have Bad Bunny headline next year’s Super Bowl halftime show, despite public pushback from the Trump administration and others over the selection of the Puerto Rican superstar. That said, Goodell also opened the door to other entertainers joining Bad Bunny on the Super Bowl stage next…
After the success of Scott Cooper‘s 2010 debut film, Crazy Heart — the music drama about a faded country singer that landed Jeff Bridges a best actor Oscar — the filmmaker was deluged with offers for music biopics about some real-life legends: Elvis Presley, Miles Davis, Chet Baker, the Grateful Dead, Jeff Buckley. Instead, Cooper…
It’s been 26 long years since The Blair Witch Project popularized the found-footage horror genre (which arguably began with 1980’s Cannibal Holocaust). Many other films in the nearly three decades since have claimed their stake in the territory, some successfully, others less so. The latest is Shelby Oaks, a new film that seeks to incorporate…
Dakota Johnson‘s feature directorial debut is taking root. Charli xcx and Jessica Alba are in talks to star in A Tree Is Blue, which Johnson is set to helm. The film has a script from Vanessa Burghardt, who is also in talks to star. Plot details have not yet been disclosed for the project that…
