EXCLUSIVE: Millennium Films has pacted with Russian businessman Andrey Georgiev on its upcoming slate of films as an investor and executive producer, including The Outpost, a film about American military valor based on CNN anchor and Chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper’s best-selling book about one of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Susan Sarandon has joined Kate Winslet and Mia Wasikowska in the Roger Michell-directed English-language remake (formally titled Blackbird) to the 2014 Danish film, Silent Heart, directed by Bille August. Sarandon will take over for Diane Keaton, who was previously attached to the project…

EXCLUSIVE: Kate Winslet, Diane Keaton and Mia Wasikowska have been to set to star in Blackbird, an English-language remake of Bille August’s 2014 Danish-language pic Silent Heart. The Millennium Films pic will be directed by Notting Hill and My Cousin Rachel helmer Roger Michell and penned by the original movie’s…

UPDATE  8:45: Adds more comment regarding Broadway book writers. EXCLUSIVE: Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred. ROTH: It’s starting to feel like the only people who really get what a…

Patrons are finding the new Sara Bareilles musical Waitress tasty enough to recommend, and Broadway’s cloudy dramas saw some welcome sunshine during Week 49 of the 2015-2016 season. Both trends reinforce the one unchanging truth of the business, which is that enthusiastic word of mouth trumps your social media, your…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred. GERARD: My box office report this week turned a spotlight on the bleak outlook for the serious plays on Broadway this season even when a…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred. ROTH: I’ve been having the most exhilarating play-going experiences lately, most recently the opening night of Eclipsed, an astounding new…

Broadway loves a fine romance and nowhere are the sparks showering down more heat and crackle than the ones being thrown off by Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams in Blackbird, which opened tonight at the Belasco Theatre. Their rapture is murderous. They want to annihilate each other. This is the electrifying…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry (and whatever else might be on their minds), the only stipulation being no holds barred. GERARD: This week saw the debut of Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, after a campaign that I thou…

Performance schedules were back to normal on Broadway last week — and so was the ongoing winter slowdown, as most shows continued to slide, perhaps with people staying away from matinees on Super Bowl Sunday. Finding Neverland, the Peter Pan origin musical at the Nederlander Organization’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, took…

UPDATED with more details: Lionsgate is in negotiations to acquire the YA novel Blackbird from author Anna Carey in a competitive situation and is talking with Danny Mackey to pen the adaptation. If the deal makes it will be the latest YA book-to-film play from the studio that has reaped such enormous windfalls for…

Jean Doumanian Productions has set Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn to star in Blackbird, a film that shoots in the UK next summer and marks the screen debut of acclaimed theatrical director Benedict Andrews (The Maids). Adapted by David Harrower from his Olivier Award winning play of the same title, two people who once…