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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…

EXCLUSIVE: BRON Studios and New Mandate Films have set a February production start on Harry Haft, a fact-based historical drama that Barry Levinson will direct, with Ben Foster set to star as the title character. Justine Juel Gillmer wrote a Black List script based on the Alan Scott Haft novel ‘Harry Haft: Survivor of…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s an epidemic sweeping this nation — the opioid problem that has thrown families and the U.S. health care system into crisis. Now, di Bonaventura Pictures Television, Relevant Entertainment and The Levinson Fontana Company are developing an original dramatic TV series based on the story of the…

Today at HBO’s TCA panel for its upcoming spring movie Paterno, The Patriot News reporter-turned CNN correspondent Sara Ganim was asked what it felt like writing the ultimate #MeToo story back in 2011 about the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal at Penn State, and not having the media fanfare to accompany in the way…

In a striking and raw demonstration of the angst that has accumulated over Hollywood’s sexual harassment scandals, HBO host John Oliver sparred with Dustin Hoffman during an awkward 45-minute Q&A intended as a prologue to a 20th-anniversary screening of the film Wag the Dog. (Check out the video of the exchange below…

The Casting Society of America (CSA) has announced its list of honorees and nominees to be recognized at the 33rd annual Artios Awards, taking place on January 18, 2018, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles & Stage 48 in New York City. The Artios Awards are given to CSA members using the criteria of originality…

Here’s a first-look picture of Al Pacino as Joe Paterno, the fallen Penn State football coach who’s the focus of HBO Films’ upcoming Barry Levinson-directed drama. The untitled project is currently in production. (See below for a side-by-side comparison.) “The film centers on Joe Paterno, who, after becoming the…

Vinyl alumna Annie Parisse is back at HBO with a key role opposite Al Pacino in HBO Films' untitled movie about the Penn State sexual abuse scandal, directed and executive produced by Barry Levinson. Written by Debora Cahn, John C. Richards and David McKenna, the film centers on legendary Joe Paterno (Pacino), who…

Kathy Baker (The Ranch) and Heroes alum Greg Grunberg have been cast in lead roles opposite Al Pacino in HBO Films' untitled movie about the Penn State sexual abuse scandal, directed and executive produced by Barry Levinson. Written by Debora Cahn, John C. Richards and David McKenna, the film centers on legendary…