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The 25th James Bond movie officially has a title, with latest movie returning Daniel Craig as the superspy to be called No Time To Die. The pic directed by Cary Fukunaga is also keeping its release dates despite a couple of on-set setbacks, with the UK rollout beginning April 3, 2020 and the U.S. bow April 8. MGM is…

For Netflix limited series Maniac, a show that "lent itself to being creative and out there," production designer Alex DiGerlando thoughtfully crafted the many layers of a retrofuturistic world unlike any seen on screen before. Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, with whom DiGerlando enjoyed a "great collaboration" on the…

A futuristic dark comedy from Patrick Somerville and director Cary Fukunaga, Maniac was an exceedingly ambitious project, in terms of its makeup and hair design, with a series of characters that were visually reinvented for each new episode. Starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill, the miniseries follows Annie and Owen…

EXCLUSIVE: Sugar23 Global has taken a minority position in Short of the Week, the premier online short film platform for discovering and launching the new wave of emerging filmmakers. In addition to Sugar 23 and Michael Sugar’s position, filmmakers Cary Fukunaga and David Gordon Green are also investing in Short of…

EXCLUSIVE: James Bond 25 might well have multiple Oscar winners in its star studded cast. Sources tell Deadline that Lupita Nyong’o is being courted to join the Bond film UPDATE: her team is now telling me it won’t work out with her — and that Rami Malek is closing his deal to play the villain opposite Daniel Craig…

EXCLUSIVE: Cary Fukunaga and David Lowery are teaming to write a pilot script for Paramount Television based on the beloved 1985 Joe Dante-directed Explorers, the coming-of-age sci-fi film that starred Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix. Fukunaga and Lowery will write the script and bible, and one of them will direct the…

Netflix has released first look images of upcoming Emma Stone and Jonah Hill series Maniac from True Detective director Cary Fukunaga. The anticipated black comedy follows two strangers who find themselves caught up in a mind-bending pharmaceutical trial gone awry. Also among the cast are Sally Field, Justin Theroux…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Sugar, longtime manager-producer at Anonymous Content, has formed Sugar23, a producing shingle that launches with a multi-year first-look deal with Anonymous Content. The deal allows for Sugar’s growing producing ambitions while keeping him in the AC fold. Sugar, the Oscar-winning producer of Spotlig…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures is negotiating with Cary Fukunaga to direct and for Hossein Amini to write a film based on the Stephen Walker non-fiction book Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima. The film will be produced by Working Title Films' Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Liza Chasin. The book told a story of events that…

True Detective director Cary Joji Fukunaga followed Jake Gyllenhaal down the backstage byways of the newly renovated and updated Hudson Theatre and onto the stage, as he rehearses “Finishing The Hat,” from Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Sunday In The Park With George. The revival, which began last fall as an…

Maniac, Netflix’s high-profile series starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill, is heading into production. Filming of the Paramount TV/Anonymous Content show will begin on August 15 in New York City, with principal photography expected to wrap just before Thanksgiving. Cary Fukunaga is set to direct the entire 10-episode…

Leftovers writer-producer Patrick Somerville has been tapped to write Maniac, the high-profile upcoming Netflix half-hour series starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill and directed by Cary Fukunaga. The project, based on the the 2014 Norwegian series, hails from Paramount TV and Anonymous Content and has a 10-episode…