A few years back, we released The Imitation Game, a story about Alan Turing (wonderfully portrayed by the extraordinary Benedict Cumberbatch). Turing was a true genius in every sense of the word. He was the grandfather of computer science, a code breaker, whose work has been credited with bringing an end to World War…
The story within the story of The Weinstein Company’s Best Picture Oscar nominee The Imitation Game is the reality that soon after Alan Turing helped break the Nazi’s Enigma Code that brought an early end to World War II, he was convicted under the UK’s anti-gay laws. His sentence was expunged in 2013 after the law…
Not in recent memory has an Oscar race been defined by so many fact-based biopics on people with such outsized heroic accomplishments. That includes Selma's Dr. Martin Luther King, American Sniper's Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, Unbroken's Olympian-turned WWII POW Louis Zamperini, The Theory Of Everything's Stephen Hawking…
Like the plot of a juicy drama, The Imitation Game went through production highs and lows before a single frame was shot. Screenwriter Graham Moore, whose spec script made the 2011 Black List, saw his passion project go from being a major studio project to an independent labor of love. Though he says seeing Warner…
Norway-born Morten Tyldum seemed an unlikely choice to direct the very British drama, The Imitation Game. After all, the director never had made an English-language feature before. However, he did win awards and notoriety for his three previous features: the comedy Buddy (2003), Fallen Angels (2008), and the…
Benedict Cumberbatch is having quite a year. After winning the lead actor in a movie or miniseries Emmy for his iconic role as Sherlock Holmes, he also will be making waves again as Smaug in the Hobbit finale this holiday season, as well as voicing a key role in another holiday offering, The Penguins Of…
The Imitation Game producers Ido Ostrowsky and Teddy Schwarzman (All Is Lost) talk in the video short above about finding the story of Alan Turing, the cryptology and computing pioneer whose work helped hasten the end of WWII, and building a film that does justice to the achievements and tragedy of Turing’s life.
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Today’s Oscar coup goes to The Weinstein Company, which got Imitation Game‘s Benedict Cumberbatch on the cover of a Time Magazine article on genius. Walter Isaacson, whose Steven Jobs bio is the basis for the Aaron Sorkin scripted film that Deadline revealed last night will move from Sony to Universal, wrote the piece…
Deadline’s Pete Hammond is in Telluride for the film festival, busily seeing (and writing about) as many awards contenders there as he can. But Pete also took a bit of time after watching The Imitation Game to sit down with the film’s producers Ido Ostrowsky, Teddy Schwarzman and Nora Grossman, screenwriter Graham Moor…
EXCLUSIVE: When I was covering Toronto, the big talk was all about deals for completed films. But the one script buyers were talking up was The Imitation Game, Graham Moore’s heralded screenplay about Alan Turing, the English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist who single-handedly helped…
My former colleague Adam Dawtrey had a good scoop about Harry Potter director David Yates helming a feature version of the long running BBC science fiction series Doctor Who. That’s going to take several years to get a script, and he’ll need a job in the meantime. Warner Bros, which employed Yates on four Potter films…
