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EXCLUSIVE: Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz will co-write and co-direct Spanish Dracula, the true story about how silent film star and Mexican actress Lupita Tovar found a second wind starring in Spanish-language versions of Hollywood films like the Universal classic Dracula. The Weitz brothers are her grandsons, and they…

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List has chosen six screenwriters out of 1,400 submissions for its ninth annual Features Lab.  Lab participants will workshop their scripts through peer groups, and one-on-one mentorship over the course of six weeks. Participating mentors include Minhal Baig (Hala), Jessica Bendinger (Bring It…

Kevin Hart shows off his dramatic acting chops in Fatherhood, with Netflix revealing the trailer Monday for the film directed by Paul Weitz. The streamer, which licensed the pic from Sony Pictures, will debut it June 18 just in time for Father’s Day. Dana Stevens and Weitz’s script adapts Matthew Logelin’s true-life…

Chris and Paul Weitz's production company, Depth of Field, has closed a two-year first-look deal with Paramount Television for TV and digital series. The deal went into effect on February 1. The company’s Andrew Miano, who oversees film, will also shepherd TV projects under the pact. Dan Balgoyen will serve as head of…

“We’re all animals,” says Sir Ben Kingsley’s Adolf Eichmann in this intense trailer for Operation Finale. “Some of us just have bigger teeth than others.” So it goes in director Chris Weitz’s thriller about the Israeli “catch and extract” operation in Argentina to bring to justice the chief architect of…

“My job was simple,” says the man heard here in this new trailer for MGM’s Operation Finale. “Save the country I loved from being destroyed.” Self-justifying to the end, that man is Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi logistical mastermind responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews in concentration camps. Portrayed by Ben Kin…

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Kingsley is set to play Adolf Eichmann in Operation Finale, the Chris Weitz-directed MGM thriller about the hunt and capture of the notorious Nazi war criminal in Argentina in the ’60s. Oscar Isaac plays Peter Malkin, the leader of a group of Israeli spies tasked with hunting down Eichmann. The Mossad…

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Mendes is in early talks to direct Disney’s live-action Pinocchio; Chris Weitz wrote the current version of the script and will also be producing through his production company, Depth of Field. The move would push forward yet another live-action reboot of the old tried and true animated classic for the…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar Isaac, who just starred in The Promise about the Armenian genocide with Christian Bale, is taking to another historical drama — this one about the hunt for one of the most hated men of WWII. Isaac is sealing a deal to star in Operation Finale (previously known as Eichmann) for MGM and director Chris We…

Next to last year’s three-block Star Wars: The Force Awakens world premiere which boasted over 5,400 attendees across three theaters, last night’s premiere of Disney’s franchise spinoff Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was indeed smaller, relegated to the Pantages Theatre Hollywood & Vine block. That said, opulence was…

Amazon Studios has signed a deal with a key creative auspice behind another critically praised comedy series: Mozart In The Jungle‘s executive producer, showrunner and director Paul Weitz. Amazon Studios has signed a two-year first-look deal with Weitz and his brother Chris Weitz’s production company Depth of Field…

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Weitz is in early discussions to direct the untitled Matthew Orton-scripted MGM drama about the team that hunted down and captured Adolf Eichmann, one of the major architects of the Holocaust. Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Automatik is producing, and Matt Charman is exec producing. MGM made a preemptive bu…