Ben Stiller to Direct Film Based on Rachel Maddow Podcast ‘Bag Man’ at Focus Features

Also Read: Edgar Wright's 'The Sparks Brothers' Acquired by Focus FeaturesProducing “The Outfit” are Scoop Wasserstein, Ben Browning and Amy Jackson. FilmNation Entertainment will finance the film and has sold rights to Focus Features to distribute the film worldwide, with CAA Media Finance co-representing the U.S.

Focus Features has picked up the worldwide rights toThe Sparks Brothers, the documentary debut from director Edgar Wright. The doc, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, chronicles the decades-long career and influence of the cult pop duo Sparks, and features archival footage as well as interviews with fans that include Beck, Flea, Neil Gaiman and Mike Meyers.

Also Read: Jaime Reyes 'Blue Beetle' Latino Superhero Movie in Development at DC and Warner Bros (Exclusive)Blue Beetle was created by Charles Wojtkowski for Fox Comics in 1939 as the alter ego of Dan Garrett, a police officer who uses experimental vitamins to develop super powers. After Fox went out of business in the 1950s, Charlton Comics obtained rights to Blue Beetle and reimagined Garrett as an archaeologist who receives his powers from ancient Egyptian technology.

About a month ago, it was announced that the creator of “The Tudors” was tackling a brand-new diverse and inclusive take on “The Great Gatsby.” The F. Scott Fitzgerald novel has been adapted numerous times over the decades with some of the biggest names at the time involved.

Also Read: 'The Sparks Brothers' Film Review: Edgar Wright Makes Playful Documentary About Elusive Band SparksAnd yet Wright’s “The Sparks Brothers,” his documentary debut, posits that this rock band is successful and yet criminally overlooked at the same time. To make that case, he speaks not only with the enigmas that are the Maelstrom, but he also assembles a cavalcade of celebrity fans, including Flea, Beck, Jack Antonoff, Jason Schwartzman, Neil Gaiman and many more.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterFocus Features has acquired worldwide rights to Edgar Wright’s documentary “The Sparks Brothers,” which premiered to rave reviews at Sundance Film Festival.“The Sparks Brothers” takes a look at siblings Ron and Russell Mael, two halves of the enigmatic rock pop duo known as Sparks.

Focus Features has acquired the global rights to Edgar Wright’s first documentary feature, The Sparks Brothers, about famed electronica pop duo Sparks.

EXCLUSIVE: The highly anticipated Train to Busan remake at New Line looks to be gaining steam as sources tell Deadline, Timo Tjahjanto in negotiations to helm the studio’s remake based on the South Korean blockbuster hit.

the Golden Globe nominations for Sia‘s film Music has reached over 65,000 signatures.The change.org petition calls the film “severely ableist” and says it “contributes to harmful stereotypes of autistic people”.Nina Skov Jensen and Rosanna Katajia, who describe themselves as “autistic” and “autism ally” respectively, started the petition together.They wrote in the official description: “Sia has claimed the movie is a ‘love letter to the autism community’, however, the music segments are filled

IHeartMedia said Wednesday it’s buying Triton Digital, a leading ad tech provider in the podcast and audio space, from E.W. Scripps Company for $230 million.

EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features has taken worldwide rights, excluding the UK & Ire and Australia/NZ, to Cannes and TIFF 2020 selection Limbo.

Ben Stiller has come aboard to direct Bag Man, a true-life drama based on a Rachel Maddow podcast that is being developed by Focus Features. Adam Perlman wrote the script along with Stiller and Mike Yarvitz.

Focus Features is developing Rachel Maddow’s Bag Man as a feature film with Ben Stiller directing. Bag Man is based on Rachel Maddow’s podcast about the true story of one of the most brazen political bribery scandals in American history, which played out before the country while nobody was paying attention.  Is it possible for an American Vice President to carry out a criminal enterprise inside the White House and have nobody remember?

President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company Higher Ground Productions has set its latest slate of film and TV projects for Netflix.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterFocus Features has elevated Kiska Higgs to president of production and acquisitions.In her new role, she will oversee the studio’s films and team across development, production and acquisition for domestic and international titles. Higgs will continue to work from the Focus Features headquarters in Los Angeles.Higgs, who previously served as executive VP of production and acquisitions at Focus, has worked at Universal for 15 years.

Focus Features has elevated Kiska Higgs to President of Production and Acquisitions.

Also Read: Noomi Rapace Horror Film 'You Won't Be Alone' From 'The Babadook' Producer Acquired by Focus FeaturesDuring her time at Focus, Higgs was behind the acquisition of films like Emerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman” and Robin Wright’s “Land.” She also worked on key productions like “Downton Abbey,” Morgan Neville’s “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” and Dawn Porter’s “The Way I See It.”“I’ve had the good fortune of working with Kiska for 10 years, during which time her great taste, strong

is in contract — less than a month after it first listed, for $2.34 million, according to StreetEasy. The charming, 19th-century co-op is in a former paper warehouse known as The Harbor House, at 130 Jane St.

2017’s musical superstar The Greatest Showman marks another chapter of chart success as it rises back up to Number 2 on the Official Film Chart.

Angelique Jackson Following the successful launch of “The White Tiger,” filmmaker Ramin Bahrani, author Aravind Adiga and Netflix have set their next collaboration.