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Taika Waititi’s busy schedule that includes the awards-season release of Fox Searchlight’s Jojo Rabbit means he is stepping away from plans to direct Bubbles, the stop-motion animated film that tracks the life of Michael Jackson through the eyes of the King of Pop’s pet chimpanzee. With Waititi off the project, we…

Without disruption, we're doomed to repeat ourselves," says Taika Waititi. He applies the label to his own sense of adventure in filmmaking, insisting that he must disrupt his own comfort in order to push himself as a director. "When something feels like an obvious choice, it feels a little too easy, and I need to…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is closing a whopper of a deal this morning to acquire Bubbles, a package built around the Isaac Adamson spec screenplay that topped the 2015 Black List that tells the offbeat story of iconic singer Michael Jackson from the perspective of his beloved chimp Bubbles. Oscar nominated director Taika Wait…

Taika Waititi has signed on to direct Isaac Adamson's Black List-topping script Bubbles, about Michael Jackson's famous pet chimpanzee, alongside co-director Mark Gustafson. Andrew Kortschak and Walter Kortschak of End Cue will produce the stop-motion animated feature with Dan Harmon's Starburns Industries, alongside…

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List-topping Isaac Adamson script Bubbles, about Michael Jackson’s famed Chimpanzee companion, has been acquired to be turned into a stop-motion animated feature in the spirit of Anomalisa. The acquisition was made by Andrew Kortschak and End Cue, and Dan Harmon and his Starburns Industries…

UPDATE with latest info: WME and CAA have bragging rights as the talent agencies with the most scripts on the 2015 edition of The Black List, the annual vote by industry executives of the year’s most-liked unproduced screenplays that was unveiled today. WME and CAA finished with 15.5 scripts on the list (they co-rep…