EXCLUSIVE: HBO is developing an adaptation of Elizabeth Wetmore’s novel Valentine – set in 1976 in a West Texas oilfield town – with Salma Hayek and My Brilliant Friend exec producer Jennifer Schuur.
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A feature film adaptation of Ocean Vuong‘s novel “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” is now in development over at A24. READ MORE: Alicia Vikander To Star In Olivier Assayas’ ‘Irma Vep’ Series Remake For HBO & A24 The news was announced during the most recent episode of the A24 podcast, where authors Bryan Washington (who wrote this year’s “Memorial,” soon to be an A24 film) and Ocean Vuong, whose debut novel “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” became a New York Times bestseller.
EXCLUSIVE: HBO is developing an adaptation of Elizabeth Wetmore’s novel Valentine – set in 1976 in a West Texas oilfield town – with Salma Hayek and My Brilliant Friend exec producer Jennifer Schuur.
Macaulay Culkin said he’s on board with removing Donald Trump from "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York." A fan conjured up a "petition" to digitally remove the president on Sunday via Twitter and by Wednesday, Culkin responded to the social media user. "Petition to digitally replace trump in ‘home alone 2’ with 40-year-old macaulay culkin," the fan wrote, to which the Kevin McCallister performer replied, "Sold." In the 1992 Christmas flick, McCallister runs into Trump at the famed Plaza Hotel,
Watch Video: 'Locked Down' Trailer: Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor Steal a Diamond to Pass Time in COVIDAn utter coincidence happens: Paxton gets rehired to drive goods from London department stores out to storage in the countryside, while Linda is tasked by her superior (Ben Stiller) with taking a diamond that her company has had on display at Harrod’s and shipping it to New York, where its unsavory buyer will keep it locked away in a vault.
EXCLUSIVE: A24 and Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures are teaming up for the first time on the upcoming film The Whale with Brendan Fraser set to star and Aronofsky on board to direct. Jeremy Dawson will produce alongside Protozoa Pictures with Aronofsky attached to direct.
EXCLUSIVE: Ben Affleck continues to build up his future dance card and looks to have found another possible directing job to add to his slate. Sources tell Deadline Disney is in development on a live-action film based on the bestselling book series Keeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger with Affleck attached to direct. He will also produce through his Pearl Street banner as well as adapt the script with Kate Gritmon. Madison Ainley will board as EP.
Naman Ramachandran The U.K.’s Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC) has ruled that Julia Kogan be formally recognized as joint author of the film “Florence Foster Jenkins.”Directed by Stephen Frears and starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant, the 2016 film told the story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite not having the best singing voice.
NEW YORK -- For a man who first appeared on television when he was 2, showing Bob Hope how he could already swat golf balls, the public actually knows little about Tiger Woods.Getting behind carefully-constructed walls was the challenge faced by filmmakers Matthew Hamachek and Matthew Heineman, whose two-part HBO documentary “Tiger” starts Sunday at 9 p.m. Eastern.
Calls by the top Democrats in Congress — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York — to remove President Trump from office by invoking the 25th Amendment demonstrate their profound ignorance of the Constitution. In blaming Trump for "inciting" the criminal acts of those who attacked the U.S.
The affinity for urban street culture that informed Ramin Bahrani's early New York indies, Man Push Cart and Chop Shop, is all over the writer-director's mordant adaptation for Netflix of Aravind Adiga's 2008 Booker Prize winner, The White Tiger. An immersive plunge into the chasm separating the servant class from the rich in contemporary India, the drama observes corruption at the highest and lowest levels with its tale of innocence lost and tables turned.
Sofia Wylie (High School Musical: The Musical – The Series, Andi Mack) and Sophia Anne Caruso (The Sound of Music Live!) are set to star in The School For Good And Evil, the Paul Feig-directed feature adaptation of New York Times bestselling novel by Soman Chainani.
EXCLUSIVE: New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz (Disney’s The Descendants series) has again teamed with Brad Krevoy’s Motion Picture Company of America to adapt The Thirteenth Fairy, the first installment in her The Chronicles of Never After middle-grade series, into a television movie. The Thirteenth Fairy was published earlier this month by Macmillan to rave reviews.
Also Read: New York Film Critics Circle Awards: Chadwick Boseman, Maria Bakalova, Delroy Lindo Win Acting PrizesLast year, four of the LAFCA winners went on to win the Oscar: “Parasite” for picture and director, “American Factory” for documentary and “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” for production design.The LAFCA best-film winner has won the Oscar for Best Picture 11 times in the 46 years the organization has been giving out awards, including three times in the last five years: “The Hurt
“Don’t read the fucking comments, Charlie.” Richard Linklater not only makes fantastic movies (reminder that “School of Rock” is one of his best) but he also gives pretty good and timeless advice. Here, he was referring to Charlie Kaufman talking about how he made the mistake of reading the comments on The New York Time‘s top films of 2020 lists.
Chadwick Boseman has been posthumously honoured with the Best Supporting Actor accolade at the 2020 New York Film Critics Circle awards. The 43-year-old actor tragically passed away in August following a secret four-year battle with colon cancer, and Friday night's (18.
The New York Film Critics Circle has selected Kelly Reichardt's First Cow as its best picture of 2020. The group gave two awards to Eliza Hittman's Never Rarely Sometimes Always (best actress for star Sidney Flanigan and screenplay for Hittman) and Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods (best actor for Delroy Lindo and supporting actor for the late Chadwick Boseman).
The New York Film Critics Circle has unveiled its annual awards, honouring the late Chadwick Boseman with the Best Supporting Actor award for his performance in the Spike Lee-directed “Da 5 Bloods”.