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Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year's movie awards race. Spoiler Alert: This story contains major plot details of MGM/UAR’s No Time to Die. When it came time to crafting a story for No Time to Die, the veteran producers and…

EXCLUSIVE: In his first TV foray since winning an Emmy for True Detective and following with the Emma Stone-Jonah Hill series Maniac, Cary Joji Fukunaga will direct the first three episodes of Masters of the Air, the Apple TV+ World War II epic limited series from Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television and Tom Hanks…

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…

The producers of the the next installment of the James Bond franchise took the wraps off some first-look footage Tuesday, signalling that all is well ahead of the MGM/Universal pic’s April 8, 2020 release. The clip shows some behind-the-scenes footage from the pic’s recent Caribbean filming and features Daniel Craig…

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…