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Veteran literary agent Bart Walker is joining the Gersh Agency as senior partner after having spent the last 10 years as a partner with ICM, TheWrap has confirmed. Walker brings with him top clients across film, television, and theater, including Oscar winner and nominees David Byrne, Lisa Cholodenko, Sofia Coppola, Tamara Jenkins, Spike Lee, Mira Nair, Oliver Stone and Thomas Vinterberg.

Wellington Love has started the w/Love production company, and already has an inaugural slate of projects lined up.

Three female directors saw their movies nab Best Picture Nominations this year — the first time that’s ever occurred in Oscar’s 96-year history: Celine Song with Past Lives, Great Gerwig with Barbie and Justine Triet with Anatomy of a Fall.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Women filmmakers hit a milestone with this year’s 2024 Oscar nominations. For the first time in history, three of the 10 movies nominated for best picture — Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Celine Song’s “Past Lives” — were directed by a female auteur, the most recognized in the Academy Awards’ 96-year history. The other best picture nominees are: “American Fiction,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Maestro,” “Oppehneimer,” “The Holdovers,” “Poor Things,” and “The Zone of Interest.” Before this year’s best picture nominees, 591 movies were nominated by the Academy.

Outfest on Thursday announced Academy Award winner Shirley MacLaine and Transparent breakout Trace Lysette as the recipients of its 2023 Legacy Awards, which will be presented at NeueHouse in Hollywood on Sunday, October 22nd.

EXCLUSIVE: Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games franchise) has signed on to star in the sci-fi action-thriller The Last Ticket, to be directed by Santiago Manes Moreno from his own script.

. Her delicate, meticulously detailed performance earned her both a Golden Globe and a BAFTA TV Award nomination and a spate of enviable parts: Noa, the resilient heroine of Mimi Cave’s stomach-turning horror Fresh; Brenda, the mother at the heart of Dustin Lance Black’s Under the Banner of Heaven; and Kya, the beguiling lead of Olivia Newman’s .

Daisy Edgar-Jones had a breakout year in 2022 thanks to turns in “Fresh,” “Where The Crawdads Sing,” and “Under The Banner Of Heaven.” Now it looks like the actress has a new project lined up. Variety reports that Edgar-Jones will star as Carole King in Sony‘s upcoming film adaptation of the stage musical “Beautiful.” Director Lisa Cholodenko will helm the film.

“Where the Crawdads Sing” star Daisy Edgar-Jones will play Carole King in a film adaptation of Broadway’s “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.”“The Kids Are Alright” filmmaker Lisa Cholodenko will direct, with Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman producing. They will be joined by Paul Blake, who also produced the Tony-winning stage show.

Daisy Edgar-Jones is set to play Carole King in Sony Pictures’ feature take of Tony Award-winning Broadway hit musical, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Deadline has confirmed.

Catherine Hardwicke will receive the Santa Fe International Film Festival’s Visionary Award this October at Jean Cocteau Cinema.

Outfest is honoring Janelle Monáe in a big way. The actress, artist, author and singer will receive the Trailblazer Award at the organization's 2022 Outfest Legacy Awards presented by IMDb on Saturday, Oct.

Woman In Film, Los Angeles said Thursday that that She Said producer Dede Gardner, star Carey Mulligan and New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey will be honored next month at the 2022 WIF Honors. They join a recipient list that already includes the bestowing the group’s Crystal Awards to Abbott Elementary creator Quinta Brunson, The Woman King director Gina Prince-Bythewood, and Don’t Worry Darling writer and director Katie Silberman and Olivia Wilde, respectively.

Bart Walker will join Gersh as Senior Partner in the New York office. The longtime ICM agent, who decided not to stay when CAA acquired that agency, will continue to represent his esteemed clients in film, television and theatre including Oscar nominees/winners such as David Byrne, Lisa Cholodenko, Sofia Coppola, Tamara Jenkins, Spike Lee, Mira Nair, Oliver Stone and Thomas Vinterberg; Cannes, Venice and Sundance prize winners such as Mati Diop, Michel Franco, Mia Hansen-Love, Jim Jarmusch, The Kloster Brothers, and Lorenzo Vigas: and multi-hyphenate artists such as Benoit Delhomme, Iram Haq, Sally Potter, Richard Press, and Olmo Schnabel.

EXCLUSIVE: Hulu’s The Girl From Plainville has rounded out its directors for the upcoming limited series, starring Elle Fanning, Colton Ryan, Chloë Sevigny and Norbert Leo Butz. Series co-creator Liz Hannah (The Post, Mindhunters), Zetna Fuentes (The Nevers, Ray Donovan) and Pippa Bianco (Share, Euphoria) will join previously announced helmer Lisa Cholodenko (Unbelievable, Olive Kitteridge).

Far from the consistent critical glory of Sundance contemporaries like Kelly Reichardt and Debra Granik — or even the sporadic critical glory of a Lisa Cholodenko or an Ira Sachs — and not to be confused with more marketable writing-directing duo Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini have forged one of the most perplexing career paths in American independent film.

Almost a year ago, it was revealed that Elle Fanning was set to star in a Hulu series, “The Girl From Plainville,” which is based on the horrific texting-suicide court case from a few years back.

EXCLUSIVE: Unbelievable director Lisa Cholodenko is to helm the first two episodes of Elle Fanning’s Hulu drama The Girl from Plainville.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterIt’s been 10 years since “The Kids Are All Right,” a queer family dramedy that was the darling of that year’s Sundance Film Festival, charted an unlikely ride to the Oscars and may have helped shift popular opinion about gay marriage.Written by Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg, and directed by Cholodenko, the movie arrived as attitudes about gay rights were shifting dramatically.

Ramin Setoodeh New York Bureau ChiefYes, there’s Gus Van Sant, Pedro Almodovar, Lee Daniels, Gregg Araki, Kimberly Peirce, Lisa Cholodenko and Dee Rees.