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Teyana Taylor, Alana Haim to Star in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Latest Movie (Exclusive)
Paul Thomas Anderson has rounded out the cast of his latest feature. Alana Haim, who made her acting debut in Anderson’s Licorice Pizza, and A Thousand and One breakout Teyana Taylor have been added to the cast, along with Wood Harris and Shayna McHayle. Newcomer Chase Infiniti has also joined the untitled feature, which is currently in […]
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Tim Burton to Direct ‘Attack of the 50 Foot Woman’ Remake from Gillian Flynn
The classic B-movie title Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is getting a remake from Tim Burton and Gillian Flynn. Burton is attached to direct the movie from a script by the Gone Girl scribe. Warner Bros. is behind the project, which will be a re-imagining of the 1950s genre film. The succinct logline for […]
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Will Ferrell Doc ‘Will & Harper’ Lands at Netflix After Sundance Bow
Will & Harper, the doc about friends Will Ferrell and Harper Steele, has landed at Netflix in a massive eight-figure deal. The doc is about friends reconnecting after a major life event, and those friends just happen to be Ferrell and former Saturday Night Live head writer Steele. Following Steele coming out as a trans woman, the […]
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Steve James, Alex Gibney Team for AI Docuseries ‘Mind vs. Machine’
Steve James, the Oscar-nominated director behind Hoop Dreams and Life Itself, will tackle AI in the docuseries Mind vs. Machine, which has Alex Gibney on board as a producer. Closer Media and Anonymous Content, which are working with Gibney on his upcoming Elon Musk doc Musk, are financing the project and also producing alongside James […]
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Viola Davis, Julius Tennon’s JuVee Banner to Produce Afro-Anime Films (Exclusive)
JuVee Productions, the banner headed by Viola Davis and Julius Tennon, is branching into animation with a partnership that will see the Woman King shingle produce a slate of afro-anime films. JuVee is partnering with N LITE, a Black and Japanese-led media company and anime studio, on animated films that will focus on Black and […]
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Focus Features Lands Sundance Coming-of-Age Movie ‘Didi’
Focus Features had landed the worldwide rights to Sean Wang’s feature directorial debut DÃdi, which won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. The film is set in 2008 in the San Francisco Bay Area and, according to the film’s logline, follows an “impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t […]
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Magnolia Lands June Squibb Sundance Comedy ‘Thelma’
Magnolia Pictures has landed the North American rights to June Squibb comedy Thelma, which premiered out of the Sundance Film Festival. A wide theatrical release is planned. Josh Margolin directed the feature that follows a 93-year-old grandmother (Squibb) who gets conned by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson (Fred Hechinger) and sets out […]
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Keke Palmer Joins Aziz Ansari Movie ‘Good Fortune’ As Production Resumes
Seven months after Aziz Ansari’s feature directorial debut Good Fortune shut down indefinitely amid the writers strike, the film is back on track. Ansari has added Keke Palmer to cast, which also includes Ansari, Keanu Reeves, and Seth Rogen. Ansari also wrote Good Fortune, which is being backed by Lionsgate. Anthony Katagas (Armageddon Time, Amsterdam), Alan Yang […]
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Anne Hathaway Movie ‘The Idea of You’ to Close SXSW
The Anne Hathaway movie The Idea of You will close the 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival. Nicholas Galitzine co-stars in the Michael Showalter movie about a 40-year-old single mom (Hathaway) who, after chaperoning her daughter at Coachella, begins a romance with 24-year-old Hayes Campbell (Galitzine), the lead singer of the hottest boy band on […]
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Celine Dion Doc Chronicling Health Journey Lands at Amazon MGM
Amazon MGM has landed the worldwide rights to Celine Dion doc, I Am: Celine Dion. The film follows the superstar as she is diagnosed with Stiff Person Syndrome and continues to navigate her career. The synopsis for the doc reads: “From visiting her couture touring wardrobe and personal effects to spending time in the recording […]
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UTA, A24 Partner for Premium TV Production
A24 and UTA’s Civic Center Media have announced a partnership to produce premium television. The nonexclusive pact will see the agency-housed shingle, which has backed series like The Great and Shrink Next Door, and the New York-based studio behind series like Beef and Euphoria partner for premium scripted, unscripted and documentary series. “The goal will […]
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Marvel’s ‘Thunderbolts’: Geraldine Viswanathan Replacing Ayo Edebiri
A week after it was reported that Lewis Pullman is stepping in for Steven Yeun in Marvel movie Thunderbolts, the feature has swapped out another star due to scheduling. Geraldine Viswanathan will take over for Ayo Edebiri, who recently earned an Emmy for her role in FX series The Bear and had to exit the […]
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