EXCLUSIVE: Big Beach, the company that brought us Marielle Heller’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and Lulu Wang’s  Independent Spirit Award-winning The Farewell, has set an adaptation of the memoir Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom by William and Ellen Craft. The feature will be titled 1000 Miles and Hanelle M…

Clive Cussler, the bestselling author whose novels Raise the Titanic! and, much to his greater disappointment, Sahara, were made into movies, died Monday at his home in Scottsdale, AZ. He was 88. His death was announced by his wife, Janet Horvath, on the author’s official Twitter page. No cause of death was given. “It…

Nikita alumna Lyndsy Fonseca and Carra Patterson (The Arrangement) have been cast as female leads opposite Josh Peck in Turner & Hooch, Disney+'s reboot of the classic 1989 buddy cop comedy feature. The TV series, which has a 12-episode order, comes from Burn Notice creator Matt Nix and 20th Century Fox…

NBC has delayed the launch of its new drama series Council of Dads. Originally scheduled to premiere on March 10, Council of Dads now will debut on Tuesday, March 24 at 10 PM ET/PT, immediately following the season finale of This Is Us. The scheduled shift was revealed in a New Amsterdam promo that aired last night on…

Legendary Entertainment has named O’Melveny & Myers’ Matthew Erramouspe as Chief Legal Officer and Executive Vice President. At O’Melveny & Myers Erramouspe was the co-chair of the firm’s sports and media practice group. Recently he represented Legendary in its joint venture with Chris Albrecht to develop, finance and…

John Legend took to the campaign trail for Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday, telling a crowd of about 500 people at South Carolina State University that he had not planned to endorse in the primary but "it became abundantly clear the one candidate stood out from the rest." "We depend on our leaders to listen to us,&#8221…

EXCLUSIVE: The Cinematographers Guild will hold a special national membership meeting next month to answer questions about the recent resignation of the guild's president Lewis Rothenberg, who stepped down two weeks ago after only eight months on the job. The meeting, set for March 7, comes after more than 900 members…

Deadine has confirmed that the Ford v. Ferrari, two time Oscar nominated filmmaker is in early negotiations to direct Disney’s Indiana Jones 5. Steven Spielberg will still be involved as a hands-on producer. The move continues to show Disney’s support of Mangold who has had a great career at 20th Century Fox with hits…

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens' rapidly growing content creation and distribution studio Propagate is teaming with Germany's Constantin Entertainment in a first-look development and production deal. The plan is to work across all formats and genres. Constantin Entertainment is one of the largest indie TV…

The ReFrame coalition has awarded 26 feature films released in 2019 with its ReFrame Stamp, which recognizes the top 100-grossing gender-balanced narrative and animated features. The list, which grew from 20 total films that earned the stamp a year ago, includes Booksmart, Captain Marvel, Harriet, Hustlers and Oscar…