Director Nisha Ganatra scored points with me for delivering a smart, female-driven comedy last year in Late Night with Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling. It was set in the showbiz sector of late-night television talk shows but focused on two women, very different yet striving for similar professional goals in a…
Deadline has confirmed that Fifty Shades of Grey franchise actress Dakota Johnson will join Florence Pugh, Shia LaBeouf, Chris Pine and Olivia Wilde in the latter’s New Line movie Don’t Worry, Darling.Â
Wilde is also producing off Katie Silberman’s screenplay based on the spec by Shane and Carey Van Dyke. The…
Focus Features has shifted the originally scheduled May 8 theatrical release for the Nisha Ganatra-directed drama The High Note, with it now to be released on digital platforms May 29. The Working Title film, set in the world of the Los Angeles music scene, stars Tracee Ellis Ross and Dakota Johnson.
Written by Flora…
In Focus Features’ The High Note, Tracee Ellis Ross plays a middle-aged musical superstar who would rather record a new album than take her manager’s advice and headline Vegas. She finds an unlikely ally in her new (and overworked) personal assistant (Dakota Johnson).
Black-ish‘s Ellis Ross – who knows a thing or two…
EXCLUSIVE:Â Dakota Johnson and former Netflix development executive Ro Donnelly have formed TeaTime Pictures to develop feature film and television projects. The company has inked a first-look television deal with Platform One Media and has set a YA musical as the first title under the pact.
"We are thrilled to partner…
When Gabriela Cowperthwaite read the Esquire article on which her new feature, The Friend, is based, she found something she wasn’t expecting—a new way into talking about grief that she hadn’t seen before. “What it was, was not talking directly about grief, but focusing on the thing that keeps you tethered,"…
Deadline on Saturday kicked off this year’s edition of Nespresso presents COFFEE WITH CREATORS at the Toronto International Film Festival 2019 with The Friend, the Gabriela Cowperthwaite-directed drama that had its world premiere last night as a TIFF Special Presentation.
The film is based on the true story related in…
Writer-directors Michael Schwartz and Tyler Nilson were visiting a camp for disabled actors when they came upon Zack Gottsagen, a unique young man with Down syndrome who was determined to be an actor no matter what life has thrown in his way. Schwartz and Nilson left with the idea that they would write a movie in…
EXCLUSIVE:Â Signature Entertainment has picked up UK rights to SXSW Audience Award winner The Peanut Butter Falcon, starring Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson and newcomer Zack Gottsagen.
LaBeouf plays as a small time outlaw turned unlikely coach who joins forces with Zak, a young man with Down syndrome on the run from a…
Dakota Johnson and Golden Globe winner Tracee Ellis Ross of TV’s Black-ish have signed on as the leads in Covers, a comedy set among the talent, fame and fast-paced world of Hollywood's music scene from Focus Features and Working Title Films. Nisha Ganatra, whose comedy Late Night made a big splash at this year’s…
