Issa López To Write/Direct HBO’s ‘True Detective: Night Country’ Pilot With Barry Jenkins Producing

Angelique Jackson Nancy Meyers is set to write, direct and produce a new feature film for Netflix.Meyers previously partnered with the streamer in 2020 to release the short film “Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish).” The special project premiered on Netflix’s social channels, bringing together the cast of “Father of the Bride” and “Father of the Bride Part II,” as well as Robert De Niro, Florence Pugh and Ben Platt for a very special Banks family reunion that benefited World Central Kitchen.More to come…

EXCLUSIVE: Nancy Meyers has made a deal to write, direct and produce a new film for Netflix. No title or logline, but sources describe it as an ensemble comedy, which is right in her wheelhouse.

Filmmaker James Gray (“The Lost City of Z”), who was most recently behind the Brad Pitt-led sci-fi film “Ad Astra,” is turning his sights toward a more grounded dramatic series for his next effort. Gray will be writing and directing a show based on the life of famed writer Norman Mailer, the celebrated and controversial author of such books as “The Executioner’s Song” and “The White Negro: Superficial Reflections On The Hipster.” Deadline reports that Gray’s series will be called “Mailer,” adding that the new project is based on the author J.

EXCLUSIVE: Norman Mailer, the celebrated and controversial author behind books such as The Executioner’s Song, made headlines earlier this year as part of a publishing brouhaha related to a new collection of his work.

In addition, Paramount has also hired three-time Oscar nominee John Logan to write the script for the film. Logan earned his first Oscar nomination as writer of the Best Picture winner “Gladiator,” with his subsequent nods coming for Martin Scorsese’s Best Picture nominated films “The Aviator” and “Hugo.” He also won a Tony Award in 2010 for his play “Red.”Bee Gees member Barry Gibb will be an executive producer on the film that will cover the career of one of the most famous bands of the 1970s, known best for the iconic disco song “Stayin’ Alive” that became a global hit after John Travolta strutted down the street to its beat in “Saturday Night Fever.” Graham King will produce via GK Films alongside Amblin and SISTER.

spoke to Fox News recently about the fond memories from the show — and specifically about the long-running rumor of an affair between sitcom stars Florence Henderson (who played Carol Brady) and Barry Williams (as step-son Greg Brady).Whispers have circled throughout Hollywood over the decades that Henderson — who died in 2016 at age 82 — and Williams dated for a time.“There have always been rumors about Barry and Florence having a date or affair, depending on who you ask,” Lloyd told Fox News.“It was all smoke and mirrors. The reality is Barry was interested in music, Florence was married with four kids,” he explained.

Manori Ravindran International EditorMagnolia Pictures has snapped up the North American rights to a Martin Scorsese executive-produced documentary about New York’s historic Chelsea Hotel.Amélie van Elmbt and Maya Duverdier’s “Dreaming Walls,” about the Manhattan institution and its controversial renovation, world premiered in the Panorama section of the Berlinale in February. Magnolia plans to release the film in theaters and on-demand this summer.The Chelsea Hotel, an icon of 1960s counterculture, was a haven for famous artists and intellectuals including Patti Smith, Janis Joplin and the superstars of Warhol’s Factory.

La La Land, instead of its intended recipient, Barry Jenkins’s queer coming-of-age tale Moonlight. What followed were among the most excruciating scenes ever broadcast on live TV, as florid speeches gave way to the realisation that there had been a colossal mistake.

Clayton Davis The Oscars best picture win was a March Madness upset of streaming proportions — though the slap heard round the world threatened to overshadow the achievements of “CODA” and other winners.What started out as a great improvement in the presentation was diminished by Will Smith charging the stage and smacking comedian Chris Rock after he cracked a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith in the last hour, just moments before the In Memoriam segment and prior to him becoming the fifth Black man to win best actor.It might go down as one of the craziest moments in 94 years of Oscars history.But back to the night’s biggest winner: streaming. Apple, under its film distribution banner Apple Original Films, became the first streamer to win the Oscar for best picture with Siân Heder’s family drama “CODA.” It’s been no secret that Netflix has long harbored ambitions to be the first digital video player to take home the Academy Awards’ most prestigious honor, spending lavishly to promote the likes of Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” (2018), Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” (2019) and David Fincher’s “Mank” (2020).

to host a poll of the last 10 years of Oscar Best Picture winners. The poll was designed both to show which of the past decade’s winners is the favorite, and to illustrate how the Oscars’ ranked-choice (or preferential) system of vote counting works in the Best Picture category.And now, as Oscar voting is closing, here are the results. The answer to which film is the favorite is simple: “Parasite.” Bong Joon Ho’s South Korean film that won the Oscar in 2020, is by far the favorite of the 270 people who participated in the poll.

Angelique Jackson Kid Cudi is set to make his feature directorial debut with the new Netflix movie, “Teddy,” a project he’s also written and in which he’ll star.The musician and actor (who goes by Scott Mescudi on camera) announced the news in a lengthy social media post Tuesday, revealing that he’d been working on the project since 2013.“I always wanted to write my own movie, so I said fuck it and started doing it,” he wrote. “The road has been long, from it being a tv show for years to finally being a film.

For The Underground Railroad creator and director Barry Jenkins, the WGA honorary Paul Selvin Award served as an “affirmation to to keep working the way I am.”

The 2022 Writers Guild Awards are underway Sunday in a virtual ceremony that will see winners crowned in three motion picture, 17 television, and three radio and audio categories along with one category for promotional writing. A Black Lady Sketch Show and Ted Lasso scribe Ashely Nicole Black is emceeing the event, during which honorary awards will be bestowed on talk show icon Dick Cavett and Barry Jenkins, the latter of which is up for a WGA Award tonight for his limited series The Underground Railroad.

Pete Davidson has been hanging out with Scott Disick, and made a hilarious appearance in a video the “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” star shared on Instagram Stories.

HBO is reportedly working on a fourth season of its crime-drama anthology series True Detective, tentatively titled True Detective: Night Country.Deadline broke the news of Night Country on Friday (March 18), claiming that Issa López and Barry Jenkins will steer production on the new season. It follows a similar report from last February, wherein HBO’s chief content officer, Casey Bloys, said he and his team were “working with a couple of writers to find the right tone and take” for a continuation of the True Detective format.Created by Nic Pizzolatto, the series first aired in 2014, with second and third seasons airing respectively in 2015 and 2019.

Kristen Stewart and Jessica Chastain are stepping out for the night!

The PGA Awards is always one of the longest awards ceremonies. This year, however, there was joy in the room as it returned to an in-person event and fine career honoring acceptance speeches by Kathleen Kennedy, George Lucas, Greg Berlanti, and Issa Rae.

HBO could be bringing back True Detective sooner rather than later.