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Jackie Tohn was at Bell’s house when her best friend and the other producers happened to be discussing potential actors to play Rabbi Noah. Tohn, a self-described “Jew from New York,” who was later cast as Noah’s sister-in-law Esther, couldn’t help but weigh in. “I’m like, ‘Okay, you got your Max Greenfield, but he might…
Noah Baumbach is set to receive the director tribute at the 2025 Gotham Film Awards, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The three-time Gotham Award winner will be recognized for his overall career and latest film, Jay Kelly, starring George Clooney and Adam Sandler. “As a three-time Gotham Award winner and five-time nominee, Noah Baumbach is…
Grammy-nominated recording artist Masego has signed on to produce the original score for N LITE’s upcoming anime fantasy film Mfinda. This makes Masego, who is said to be an anime aficionado, the first Black composer to score an anime theatrical film, according to N LITE, a Black-owned media company and anime studio based in the…
Cameron Diaz’s action comedy Bad Day has rounded out its cast with several bold-faced funny people. Sam Richardson, Ben Schwartz, K Callan as well as Ayden Mayeri, Mark Duplass and Rob Corddry have boarded the project, which is in production in New Jersey and being directed by Jake Szymanski (Jury Duty). Ed O’Neill, Danielle Brooks,…
Superstar classical pianist Lang Lang has earned just about every accolade there is in his profession. This year, the Chinese virtuoso joined the ranks of Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin in receiving the biopic treatment — and even they didn’t get it in their lifetime. But it nearly didn’t happen. In fall 2020, fresh off his…
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…
