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EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner Elisabeth Moss has joined the cast of Barry Levinson's film about the making of The Godfather. Moss will play Eleanor Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola's wife. As previously reported, the film is based on a blacklist screenplay by Andrew Farotte that's been…

Has Donald Trump blown it? Major actors have always coveted playing the role of an empathetic U.S. president, but after Trump's four years will anyone want that gig? In years past Michael Douglas, Daniel Day-Lewis, Harrison Ford and even Henry Fonda have depicted admirable presidents. Even Kevin Spacey was likable as…

EXCLUSIVE: Cleopatra Coleman (In the Shadow of the Moon) is set for a recurring role in Dopesick, Hulu's eight-episode limited series based on Beth Macy's bestselling book. The project is from The Handmaid's Tale executive producer Warren Littlefield and Touchstone Television. Written by Danny Strong and directed by Ba…

Rosario Dawson is set as a series regular in Dopesick, Hulu's eight-episode limited series based on Beth Macy's bestselling book. The project is from The Handmaid's Tale executive producer Warren Littlefield and Touchstone Television. Written by Danny Strong and directed by Barry Levinson, Dopesick is described as an…

EXCLUSIVE: Barry Levinson will direct Francis And The Godfather, with Oscar Isaac starring as Francis Coppola and Jake Gyllenhaal as Robert Evans in a drama about the legendary and wild battles that went into making the 1972 classic The Godfather. The film is based a Black List script by Andrew Farotte that was…

EXCLUSIVE: Will Poulter is set as a series regular opposite Michael Keaton, Kaitlyn Dever and Peter Sarsgaard in Dopesick, Hulu's eight-episode limited series based on Beth Macy's bestselling book. The project is from The Handmaid's Tale executive producer Warren Littlefield and Touchstone Television. Written by Danny…

EXCLUSIVE: Starz & Strife, a documentary examining what the filmmaker calls the “lost heart of America,” has set an on-demand rental and purchase run via Virgil Films starting August. The film is written and directed by David Smick, an economic strategist and best-selling author of books like The Great Equalizer. Barry…

Hulu has given a straight-to-series order to Dopesick, an eight-episode limited series based on Beth Macy’s bestselling book, with Michael Keaton attached to star and executive produce. Barry Levinson is set to direct the project which hails from Empire co-creator/exec producer Danny Strong, The Handmaid’s Tale…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has set up Sheela, an intriguing drama that Barry Levinson will direct with Priyanka Chopra starring as Ma Anand Sheela, a guru who perpetrated what is called the largest bio-terrorist attack executed on U.S. soil. She was the personal secretary of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh from 1981 through…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar- and Emmy-winning director Barry Levinson is moving into the world of interactive storytelling. Levinson and his The Levinson Fontana Company is teaming with interactive video entertainment company eko on a new live-action drama series in which the viewer decides the course of the story. The Jury Room…

EXCLUSIVE: When Deadline first revealed the fact-based historical drama Harry Haft was being put together by BRON Studios and New Mandate Films with Barry Levinson directing and Ben Foster starring, the premise seemed impossible to imagine. Based on the Justine Juel Gillmer Black List script adaptation of the Alan…

Danny DeVito, Phantom Thread actress Vicky Krieps, Peter Sarsgaard, John Leguizamo, Saro Emirze, and Dar Zuzovsky are set for Harry Haft, the Barry Levinson-directed film based on the novel Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano by Alan Scott Haft. The group joins previously announced titular…