The voices on the phone were more like whispers. It was as if no one could give full voice to the dreaded news. "I'm locking the doors and pulling down the blinds," said one caller, a top film director. "It's like a doomsday scenario." Fifty years ago, Hollywood was frozen by news of the Charles Manson murders, a dark…

U.S. broadcaster Reelz is to air a documentary series about Charles Manson's family – funded by British distributor DRG. Manson's Bloodline is a four-part series that will tell the story of Charles Manson's grandson, Jason Freeman, and how he came to terms with his notorious grandfather's murder spree. It comes in…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox is exploring the gruesome murders carried out by Charles Manson's 'family' in a new Liev Schreiber-narrated documentary special based on a vault of unseen footage of the cult. I hear that the broadcaster has ordered two-part Inside The Manson Cult: The Lost Tapes from Naked Entertainment. The…

Sony has dated Quentin Tarantino’s untitled Charles Manson-themed ninth directorial effort — which Deadline consistently has been breaking the exclusive news about — for August 9, 2019. That date marks the 50th anniversary of Sharon Tate’s murder at the hands of the Manson “family.” Tarantino has been hoping hard that…

Charles Manson, the sick mind behind a Los Angeles killing spree in 1969 that ended in seven murders including pregnant actress Sharon Tate, has died tonight in a Bakersfield, CA, hospital. He was 83. Manson hung around the fringes of show business in the ’60s then created his reign of terror, and has spent the past…

EXCLUSIVE: Word has gotten out that Quentin Tarantino’s next film will be a drama revolving around the Manson Family murders. Deadline has heard that Tarantino met with Margot Robbie to potentially play Sharon Tate, the actress wife of director Roman Polanski who was slain in 1969 in a brutal murder whose…

Lifetime will be revisiting one of the most gruesome crimes in 20th century America, the Manson Family murders. The network has greenlighted Manson's Lost Girls (working title), an original movie about the circle of teenaged girls who fell under the demonic spell of Charles Manson and helped carry out brutal killings…

The once mild-mannered young Los Angeles prosecutor whose dogged investigation put mass-murderer Charles Manson and several members of his “family” behind bars, died Saturday of cancer in Los Angeles, his son confirmed. He was 80. Although Bugliosi conceded that the Manson trial would forever define his career (the…

EXCLUSIVE: As Charles Manson gears up for his behind-bars nuptials to a young follower named Star, a February shoot has been set for long-gestating indie drama Manson Girls. Susanna Lo is directing the film about the female devotees who joined Manson’s flock in the 1960s and helped carry out brutal killings meant to…

Roxwell Films has optioned rights to produce Ed Sanders’ 1971 book The Family, which described the arc of Charles Manson’s life leading to the notorious 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders. Roxwell’s Jeremy Rosen and Kevin Shulman are producing and already are into development of the pic, which will be adapted by Guinevere…

Following the end of his Showtime dark comedy series Californication, David Duchovny is reuniting with former Showtime topper Bob Greenblatt for Aquarius, a gritty 1960s cop drama at NBC about a cop who goes undercover to track Charles Manson and the Manson Family before their infamous murder spree. The project…