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EXCLUSIVE: Following a competitive bidding situation, Picturestart and Endeavor Content are set to co-finance and produce Cha Cha Real Smooth. Cooper Raiff, whose debut film Shithouse won the Grand Jury Prize at last year’s SXSW, will direct a script he has written. Raiff will star with Dakota Johnson. Raiff will…

EXCLUSIVE: We have learned that the Tig Notaro- and Stephanie Allynne-directed feature film Am I OK? had to stop production here in Los Angeles after a person involved with the movie was diagnosed with Covid-19. Dakota Johnson stars in the Lauren Pomerantz-scripted movie that follows lifelong best friends Lucy and…

Our Friend is a triangular narrative based on an Esquire article by journalist Matthew Teague about the death of his wife, Nicole. Before Nicole succumbed to cancer at age 36, an unusually intimate bond formed among the couple and mutual friend, Dane. Despite the ravages of fate, Dane offered a preternatural degree of…

When Our Friend premiered at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival, it was simply called The Friend, but the slightly altered new title feels better for this touching true story based on Matthew Teague’s sensational award-winning Esquire magazine article. It was written about his family crisis when his wife, Nicole, was…

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures is finally set to release the upcoming dramedy Our Friend directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite and starring Jason Segel, Dakota Johnson and Casey Affleck. Along with a new trailer that provides the first look at the heartwarming and inevitable heartbreaking pic, Gravitas and Universal Home…

EXCLUSIVE: Platform One Media, a Boat Rocker company, has optioned writer Bexy Cameron’s upcoming memoir Cult Following, with Dakota Johnson (Suspiria, The Peanut Butter Falcon) and Riley Keough (Logan Lucky) attached to star and executive produce through Johnson and Ro Donnelly's production company TeaTime Pictures…

Dakota Johnson is attached to executive produce and star in Rodeo Queens, a comedy, which Amazon Studios nabbed in a competitive situation from Platform One Media (a Boat Rocker Company) in association with TeaTime Pictures for series development. Christy Hall, the co-creator and executive producer of Netflix’s I Am No…

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.  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…

Oscar-winner Olivia Colman (The Favourite), Jessie Buckley (Chernobyl), Dakota Johnson (Bad Times At The El Royale) and Peter Sarsgaard (Jackie) are set to star in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut The Lost Daughter, we can reveal. Endeavor Content will launch world sales at the upcoming EFM on Gyllenhaal’s…