When Olivia Wilde went in to pitch herself to Annapurna to direct Booksmart, she didn’t refer to other teenage movies of yore, i..e the John Hughes or Amy Heckerling canon, rather the Denzel Washington LA noir Training Day.
The reference spoke to the intensity she aimed to incorporate in what could be seen on its…
Rebecca Lenkiewicz, the screenwriter behind critically acclaimed indie films like Colette, Ida, and Disobedience, has been tapped to script for a film about how New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey investigated and eventually broke the lengthy piece that detailed years of sexual misconduct by movie…
EXCLUSIVE: Looks like Hollywood’s biggest lenders are about to call off the dogs on Annapurna, Megan Ellison’s taste-maker production/distribution company. Sources said that Ellison’s father, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, has submitted a “last and final offer” to pay Annapura’s key lenders, offering between 80…
UPDATED EXCLUSIVE with Megan Ellison memo to staff: A showdown that has lenders on one side of the table, with Annapurna's Megan Ellison and her father and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison on the other, is about to take place, and it will decide whether Annapurna continues as a taste-making studio or a Chapter 11…
EXCLUSIVE: Annapurna has beat out the competition for an original film pitch titled The Hunter & The Fox with Dreamland helmer Miles Joris-Peyrafitte attached to write and direct. Not much is known about the plot details other than it is said to be an elevated Kubrickian-type horror thriller.
Joris-Peyrafitte made his…
Olivia Wilde’s femme teen comedy Booksmart had a blitzkreig social media push today to a potential 221M followers prior to the pic’s early access paid sneaks tonight at 800 locations.
That combined reach is comprised from social media pushes on EW, Ellen DeGeneres’ channels as well as Annapurna’s and Booksmart’s…
EXCLUSIVE: Emily Blunt is in talks to star in Not Fade Away, a feature from Annapurna Pictures that has David O. Russell and John Krasinski attached as producers. It’s based on a 2015 memoir Not Fade Away: A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found by Rebecca Alexander who, born with a rare genetic mutation that caused her to…
Annapurna and Plan B have optioned Alex Michaelides’ debut novel The Silent Patientwhich they will develop as a feature film.
Sue Naegle and Ivana Lombardi will oversee the project for Annapurna.
The Silent Patient centers around Alicia Berenson, a famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, who…
Annapurna has promoted Sue Naegle to chief content officer of Annapurna, where she will expand her role as president of the Megan Ellison company’s television division to oversee development and production the film slate. She will also have the company's Theatre division in here purview and will manage the…
When Barry Jenkins brought his If Beale Street Could Talk team to Deadline's The Contenders New York, it was something of an emotional reunion, according to Colman Domingo, who plays the story's patriarch Joseph Rivers. "Barry, thank you," he told director Barry Jenkins, "because you really did create a family. Every…
When it came to constructing a biopic about former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, “the lynchpin of the entire movie is Lynne Cheney” asserts Vice filmmaker Adam McKay.
“One of the tricks we ran up against in this film was according to the Syd Field-McKee kind of model of storytelling, Dick Cheney doesn’t have a…
"What we were most surprised about was how likeable he was and Lynne was from the beginning," Vice director Adam McKay said of Dick Cheney and the ex-Vice President's wife. "But the big thing was how much Lynne was driving all of this, that really surprised us."
"For me, finding my way into Lynne, it actually felt…
