‘Console Wars’ Director Jonah Tulis Underway On GameStop Documentary With Submarine Set To Produce

© @Copyright HELLO! Hello! Magazine Robbie Williams and the director of The Greatest Showman are teaming up for a special project - a biopic about the pop star's life!MORE: Robbie Williams and wife Ayda Field's latest date photo sparks debateMichael Gracey, who also worked on the Elton John film Rocketman, is set to direct a new musical film that will tell the story of the former boy bander's unlikely rise to fame aged 16 as a singer with Take That and then as a solo artist. The film, titled

EXCLUSIVE: Gareth Evans has found his new home for the next several years as the director of The Raid franchise has signed an exclusive deal with Netflix to produce and direct films for the studio. As part of the new partnership, Evans has set the action thriller Havoc as the first film under the deal with Tom Hardy on board to star.

Also Read: History Channel Orders London Plague and Donner Party Limited Series in Return to Miniseries Focus“Tulsa Burning” in particular will take an in-depth look at the birth of Black Wall Street up until its catastrophic downfall over the course of two bloody days, examining how those events still have ripple effects today.

Regina King is having a pretty great year and a half, isn’t she? Over her already-great career, she starred in numerous films and was already a household name, as an Oscar winner, when she landed the lead in “Watchmen.” However, the popularity of that show (and the awards recognition she received) opened her career up even more. And then you have her directorial debut, “One Night in Miami…” which is poised to make King an Oscar darling, only adding to her success.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaHoward Deutch wasn’t sure he was the right man to oversee “Pretty in Pink.”  The aspiring filmmaker had met producer and writer John Hughes while directing a music video for his previous examination of high school social castes, “Sixteen Candles.” However, he’d never overseen a feature film and the prospect terrified him.“I was honest with John and told him I didn’t feel equipped,” Deutch remembers.

Lynn Stalmaster, the canny casting director who pushed relative unknowns Dustin Hoffman for The Graduate, Christopher Reeve for Superman and John Travolta for Welcome Back, Kotter, has died. He was 93.

Lynn Stalmaster, who was the first casting director to receive an Academy Award, died today at home in Los Angeles. He was 93 and his death was confirmed by Laura Adler of the Casting Society of America.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is doubling down on its investment in the GameStop story with a new documentary series from Emmy and Oscar-winning filmmakers Dan Cogan and Liz Garbus.

Propagate, the company behind Hulu’s Hillary, and the Wall Street Journal are the latest companies to explore the recent GameStop financial saga.

Haley Bosselman editorNon-fiction film and television studio XTR and documentary production company Optimist are partnering up for a feature documentary about the GameStop, WallStreetBets and short squeeze movement.“This story is still evolving daily,” director Chris Temple said.

Oh what a night to remember on Saturday Night Live!

As many Angelenos are struggling to understand if they qualify for a Covid-19 vaccine — and then struggling to get one — Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti received his first dose on January 21.

Human Traffic director Justin Kerrigan has confirmed that the long-awaited sequel to the cult classic is “ready to go.”The original Human Traffic film was released in 1999 and was set over the course of a drug-fuelled weekend in Cardiff. The film starred Danny Dyer, John Simm, Lorraine Pilkington, Shaun Parkes and Nicola Reynolds.A sequel has been hinted at for years and in 2019, Human Traffic: The Revolution was announced by Kerrigan at Cardiff’s Tramshead (April 6) where a 20th anniversary

Bluto, the volcanic Samurai Futaba, “Joliet” Jake Blues, the Cheeseburger Man, a spasmodic Joe Cocker—the list of characters John Belushi brought to life in his all-too-brief but remarkable career only hints at his outsized role in American comedy.

EXCLUSIVE: LD Entertainment has greenlit the contained space thriller ISS, and is reuniting with director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, who will direct the film with Chris Messina starring. The two previously partnered together on Megan Leavey. The ensemble cast also includes Chris Messina, Pilou Asbæk, John Gallagher Jr., Costa Ronin and Masha Mashkova.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefJay Jeon, who has been director of the Busan International Film Festival since 2018, is to step down at the end of the month. The move was said to have surprised colleagues at the festival.His three-year contract will expire at the end of January, and he will not seek its renewal.

Julie Anne Robinson, the director of the Bridgerton pilot, is opening up about how they found the show’s leading actors, Regé-Jean Page and Phoebe Dynevor.

The Hollywood Reporter’s Alex Ritman sat down with director Jean-Philippe Duval to discuss his film 14 Days, 12 Nightsin a THR Presents Q&A powered by Vision Media. During the half-hour chat, Duval described why the film —Canada’s entry for the 2021 Academy Awards' international feature film category — touched on subjects that were closer to home than anything he had worked on previously.