EXCLUSIVE: David Ayer is squeezing a gritty indie crime thriller in between directing Bright and its sequel. Ayer has begun pre-production on Tax Collector, a crime thriller he wrote and will direct in Los Angeles this summer with Shia LaBeouf and Bobby Soto starring. Cross Creek Pictures is funding the film, which is…

It was only appropriate that the ATX Television Festival end with The Americans as the FX show recently had its series finale. The packed house at the Paramount Theatre was filled with emotion as they aired of the final scenes appropriately set to the tune of U2’s “With or Without You” from the last episode before…

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Long and David Ayer's Cedar Park Entertainment has acquired Stephen King's The Bone Church and will develop it as a TV series. Cedar Park will be the studio for the project as well. The Bone Church is a narrative poem that King wrote in the 1960s. He later revised it and the poem was published as part…

Suicide Squad and Bright helmer David Ayer has teamed with former Audience Network programming chief Chris Long to form Cedar Park Entertainment, a shingle that will develop film and TV projects on multiple platforms. The company starts off with Family Crimes, an Ayer-scripted series Cedar Park will produce with Jerry…

DirecTV/AT&T Audience Network programming chief Chris Long just announced that he is exiting the company after almost two decades. Long, who started at Audience when it was owned by DirecTV and remained at the helm following the DirecTV/AT&T merger, is stepping down on the eve of AT&T’s acquisition of Time…

With The Mentalist likely closing its final chapter, the series’ veteran director-producer Chris Long is focusing on development with a first look deal at the studio behind the CBS procedural drama, Warner Bros. TV. Long has been on The Mentalist since day one, starting as a co-executive producer and quickly getting…