David Ondricek on the Long Road to Olympic Champion Biopic ‘Zatopek’

EXCLUSIVE: Zátopek, a biopic about four-time Olympic champion Emil Zátopek, has become a box office champ in Czech Republic as it continues to dominate turnstiles after two weeks in release.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaWhen Namir Smallwood took the stage for the first preview of his first show on Broadway, the audience gave him and his “Pass Over” co-star Jon Michael Hill a thunderous standing ovation.

Common, the rapper, songwriter and actor, will star in and produce “The Faith of Long Beach,” an upcoming boxing film from the creator of “Snowfall” Eric Amadio. Amadio will write and direct the film for producer Everlast Pictures.

Common has been tapped to star in and will produce The Faith of Long Beach, and indie boxing drama to be written and directed by FX’s Snowfall co-creator and executive producer Eric Amadio. Adonis Tountas of Everlast Pictures, who put the project together, is also producing.

Another one! Jill Wagner gave birth to baby No. 2 on August 19, less than two years after welcoming daughter Army.

Katy Perry is such a doting mom! The 36-year-old headed to her hometown of Santa Barbara in Southern California to celebrate her daughter Daisy Dove‘s first birthday — see all the pics here. The “Teenage Dream” chart topper was spotted carrying her mini-me into the Santa Barbara Natural History museum on August 27, alongside her parents Mary and Keith Hudson. The tiny tot’s dad Orlando Bloom, was out of town filming a movie in Prague, so it was a girl’s day out for the mother-daughter duo!

EXCLUSIVE: Colson Baker (aka Machine Gun Kelly) and Mod Sun are set to co-direct Good Mourning With A U for Chris Long and David Ayer’s Cedar Park Studios. This will be their theatrical directorial debut. The film was also co-written by Baker and Sun.

We are mere weeks away from the release of Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic, “Dune.” But this is definitely not the only time that a filmmaker has tried to adapt Frank Herbert’s classic novel into a film or TV series. Back in 2000, Syfy attempted to adapt “Dune” as a limited series, and while the story seemed to cover all the bases, the budget limitations ultimately hurt the finished product.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorBerlin-based sales agency Picture Tree Intl. has kicked off sales for action biopic “Chasing the Line,” about the Austrian skiing champion Franz Klammer, which will make its world premiere at the Zurich Film Festival.PTI has closed its first deal on the film with Praesens Film taking rights for Switzerland, and will launch its international campaign with an exclusive work-in-progress buyer screening at the Toronto Film Festival.

The Olympic gold medalist welcomed OK! into his gorgeous home for an exclusive photo shoot and shared a look at what goes on behind the scenes. Max, who was joined by his family on the photo shoot, showed off his incredible pommel horse skills on his very own personalised vault as he posed for photographs.

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Dan Kneece, the veteran camera and Steadicam operator who frequently worked with filmmaker David Lynch, has died. He was 64.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVNicole Byer, the Emmy-nominated host of Netflix’s unscripted baking-comedy competition “Nailed It,” is getting her first hour-long stand-up comedy special on the streamer.The currently untitled special will be filmed at the Gramercy Theatre in New York on Sept. 5 and will premiere later this year.“I’m so fucking excited to do this.

HELLO!, returning Olympic champion Tom Dean has told the magazine it's his mum, Jacquie Hughes, who deserves gold.READ: Sky Brown, 13, makes surprising confession about home life"I couldn't have done it without her, so to be able to share some of that success with my mum and my family is all I could ever want.