EXCLUSIVE: After Christopher Nolan turned Homer’s ancient poem into gold with The Odyssey, maybe Hollywood is ready to take more chances on literate period fare. How else to explain the high level of interest when CAA and Kaplan Perrone went out with the spec script The Ballad of the Ember Knight, a…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is taking on the story of Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton and the harrowing rescue of the crew of The Endurance when the ship he captained got encased in ice in the Antarctic and sank. Phil Barantini, who’s coming off the celebrated Netflix limited series Adolescence, will direct…

EXCLUSIVE: That screeching sound you heard Wednesday from international publishers and film rights buyers was an abrupt application of the brakes after a fevered pursuit of the unpublished debut novel Call Me, I'll Hide the Body. The novel by [for a complicated set of reasons I have removed the…

EXCLUSIVE: Partnering with Entertainment 360, Atari has signed a deal with Universal Pictures giving the studio the right to develop 10 classic Atari video game properties for the big screen. Universal has bought the first project from the new partnership, a feature film based on Atari IP which will…

EXCLUSIVE: A24 has Will Forte in talks to star in the David Mikalson-directed film Goblin. Forte joins Skyler Gisondo and Kenneth Branagh, the latter of whom will provide the voice of the title character in the outrageous comedy. Production is set for the fall as Mikalson closes in on a dream…

EXCLUSIVE: On the heels of a knockout trailer for I Play Rocky, Anthony Ippolito has signed with CAA. I Play Rocky chronicles the underdog backstory behind the ultimate underdog movie, Rocky. Ippolito plays the young Sylvester Stallone, who was so in need of cash that he sold his dog Butkus…

EXCLUSIVE: After winning America’s Got Talent and its $1 million prize, “singing janitor” Richard Goodall has won again. He’s at the center of a deal with Everard Entertainment and Mad Chance to turn his impossible story into a feature film. Everard’s Ben Everard and Mad Chance’s Andrew Lazar are…

EXCLUSIVE: Steven Soderbergh was determined to publish his inventive work Production 02074 exactly 51 years after the launch of its subject, Steven Spielberg’s 1975 classic Jaws. To do justice to the making of the movie that swung him toward an Oscar-winning filmmaking career, Soderbergh had to build…

EXCLUSIVE: When Power Ballad opened the Sands Film Festival in St. Andrews, Scotland, recently, the audience reaction was rapturous. Same with showings at SXSW, Dublin and in a limited release last week. Sending festival audiences into a lather has been a regular occurrence for writer-director John…

EXCLUSIVE: Kathleen Kennedy has paid fond tribute to Marjane Satrapi, the artist, animator and Persepolis filmmaker who died Thursday at 56. “We’ve lost a true original,” the longtime Lucasfilm president said in part. Read her full remembrance below. Kennedy worked with Satrapi on Persepolis…

EXCLUSIVE: Hot on the heels of Sunday night's finale of the Sam Levinson HBO series Euphoria, Sydney Sweeney is leaning into her producing and potentially directing aspirations. She has formed Honey Trap, with longtime creative collaborator Kaylee McGregor serving as president of production and…

EXCLUSIVE: Marian Koltai-Levine is exiting as Chief Marketing Officer of AGBO, the studio launched by Joe and Anthony Russo. Koltai-Levine, who served four years in the role, will relaunch her independent consultancy from her East Coast base. Her first clients will be the Russos, AGBO and Donald…