EXCLUSIVE: Director Rodney Ascher returns to Sundance with another macabre offering after filling viewers’ heads with Kubrickian conspiracy theories in his 2012 documentary Room 237. This time he’s aiming to keep Park City up all night with The Nightmare, a horror-docu hybrid that re-creates in chilling detail the…

EXCLUSIVE: Shawn Hatosy, who’s set to do a guest arc on Amazon’s February debut series Bosch, has signed with MGMT Entertainment (née The Schiff Company) for management. The Faculty and Outside Providence thesp earned a Critics’ Choice nomination for his turn on the NBC/TNT police drama Southland and most recently…

Not even Oscar-winner Julia Roberts can resist Batkid fever. The actress and producer just closed a deal to adapt Batkid Begins, the Slamdance premiere documentary about the 5-year-old leukemia patient who got his wish to be a superhero granted when thousands of volunteers, and even President Obama, helped turn San…

EXCLUSIVE: Hungary’s Cannes award-winning Oscar entry White God is bounding toward Sundance, where the brutal drama about a 13-year-old girl and her loyal pup-turned-leader of the canine revolution will make its U.S. debut.

The Un Certain Regard winner has earned raves for Kornél Mundruczó’s direction and its metaphori…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed German-born filmmaker Anja Marquardt hot off of the success of her directorial debut She’s Lost Control, which hits screens via Monument Releasing on March 20. Inspired by an article about Japanese “caretaker” robots, Marquardt wrote, produced, and directed the story of an emotionally guarded…

Theatrical exhibition company Tugg Inc., the movie marketer that allows fans and creators to choose the films that play in theaters, has partnered with Elizabeth Koch’s New Balloon cross-platform media venture on an initiative to help market and distribute culturally significant films, big and small.

Their new multi-m…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate comedy Dirty Grandpa has added The Mindy Project alum Adam Pally to the family. The summer 2016 comedy about an uptight twentysomething (Zac Efron) on a road trip with his foul-mouthed, sex-obsessed grandfather (Robert De Niro) is currently filming in Atlanta. Actor and comedian Pally will play…

EXCLUSIVE: Married actors Mark Webber and Teresa Palmer make a bold foray into indie filmmaking in the digital era with The Ever After, a mostly self-financed drama the couple co-wrote, star in, and will release online worldwide on Valentine’s Day via direct-to-consumer platform VHX.

Webber, seen recently in Jessabelle…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer, director, and producer E.L. “Evan” Katz, who won the 2013 SXSW Audience Award with his festival favorite dark comedy Cheap Thrills, has joined Jim Mickle and Nick Damici (Cold In July) as writer and producer on SundanceTV’s original scripted series Hap and Leonard.

Premiering in 2016, the series is …

Showtime Networks has made a deal for rights to Dreamcatcher, the Sundance premiere documentary by helmer Kim Longinotto (Salma, Rough Aunties, Divorce Iranian Style) about former Chicago prostitute-turned-advocate Brenda Myers-Powell and her efforts to fight the sexual exploitation of at-risk youth. The Rise Films…

Independent music marketing, talent management, and music publishing house Primary Wave has officially merged its talent division with Intellectual Artists Management to form a new multiplatform music, film, TV, and literary management company. The new entity will run under the direction of Primary Wave co-CEOs Larry…

EXCLUSIVE: Documentary filmmaker Stevan Riley (Blue Blood, Fire In Babylon) got the chance of a lifetime when he was granted access to more than 200 hours of audio tapes Marlon Brando made during the course of his life, a personal archive of never-before-heard musings, acting studies, self-hypnosis and insights the…