EXCLUSIVE: Marginalized by a version rushed for the 2017 Toronto Film Festival weeks before Harvey Weinstein’s banishment and The Weinstein Company’s implosion, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s The Current War has a new cut and the kind of second chance that most prematurely premiered festival films never get. Upstart 101…

EXCLUSIVE: Al Pacino is nearing a deal to make his episodic television debut. He’s committing to a 10-episode season of Amazon's The Hunt, a vengeance-driven Nazi hunting series executive produced by Oscar-winning Get Out writer-director Jordan Peele. The project, produced by Peele's Monkeypaw Productions and Sonar…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has set Alfonso Gomez-Rejon to direct Limelight, a feature being written by Nick Pileggi & J.J. Sacha about the reign and fall of Peter Gatien, the 1990s king of Gotham nightlife who owned the hip clubs Limelight and The Tunnel. Jen Gatien (his daughter) will produce through Deerjen with…

Benedict Cumberbatch generated his fair share of sparks as the titular medic-turned-mystical-arts-master in 2016 smash Doctor Strange. Now, he’s channeling electricity of a different sort. The Oscar nominee is playing Thomas Edison in The Weinstein Co’s The Current War which is currently filming. Check out the…

EXCLUSIVE: Working Title has acquired film rights to Delia Ephron's upcoming novel Siracusa. Ephron will adapt and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl helmer Alfonso Gomez-Rejon will direct. Working Title’s Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan and Liza Chasin will produce, and Ephron will be exec producer. The novel will be the lead…

One of the big hits out of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival was unquestionably Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Me And Earl And The Dying Girl  which not only took the top prize but also was picked up by Fox Searchlight which released the picture in June. As I said in my review of the film this was not a teen movie , but rather a…