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EXCLUSIVE: Danielle Macdonald and Jaboukie Young-White are negotiating to star in an untitled Paramount Players comedy written and produced by Bo Burnham and directed by Amy York Rubin. Burnham, who wrote and directed the acclaimed Eighth Grade, is producing with Chris Storer. The project made the rounds under the…

Skin is the true-life story of reformed white-supremacist Bryon Widner (played by Jamie Bell) a young man raised by skinheads, for whom turning his back on hatred and violence meant undergoing painful and expensive operations to remove the tattoos that signified his terrible past life — a process only possible with…

Patti Cake$ star Danielle Macdonald has been cast opposite Toni Collette, Merritt Wever and Kaitlyn Dever in Unbelievable, an eight-episode Netflix limited series from Erin Brockovich writer Susannah Grant, CBS TV Studios, studio-based producers Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly (Masters of Sex, Elementary) and Katie…

EXCLUSIVE: Shooting out of this year's Sundance Film Festival towards the stars with Patti Cake$, Danielle Macdonald has now stepped on the streaming service launch pad. The lead in the upcoming White Girl Problems is joining fellow CAA client Sandra Bullock in Netflix's Bird Box. Macdonald will play the character of…

Danielle Macdonald hadn’t rapped a single note before stepping into the role of Patricia Dombrowski (aka Killa P, aka Patti Cake$), but you would never believe it for a minute after seeing the Sundance and Cannes sensation Patti Cake$, which began its domestic theatrical run in a handful of theaters over the weekend…

EXCLUSIVE: Danielle Macdonald, who broke out as the star of this year’s Sundance Film Festival hit Patti Cake$, has landed the lead in White Girl Problems, the Lionsgate pic based on Babe Walker’s bestselling book. The rights were acquired in 2013 for producers Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman. Lauren Palmigiano…

Fox Searchlight has released the first trailer for Patti Cake$, the indie pic from music video’s Geremy Jasper that made him and star Danielle Macdonald the talk of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. That’s where the label acquired it for $9.5 million after one of those all-night Park City bidding wars. The…

"Lords and ladies of the Royal Court, bow down. The QUEEN is in the building." So announces Jheri (played magnificently by newcomer Siddharth Dhananjay) in Geremy Jasper's Directors’ Fortnight closing-night film Patti Cake$. And for anyone who sees Danielle Macdonald's breakthrough performance as aspiring New Jersey…

Fox Searchlight, which plunked down $9.5M for Patti Cake$ at Sundance, has set a summer release for the aspiring-rapper tale. It drops July 7 in select theaters. The film, starring Aussie Danielle Macdonald in a breakout role that landed her a CAA deal, wowed ’em in Park City. Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr reported…

EXCLUSIVE: Just under a month after Fox Searchlight picked up Patti Cake$ for $9.5 million at the Sundance Film Festival, Danielle Macdonald, the breakout star of the crowd-pleasing coming-of-age dramedy, signed with uber-agency CAA. Just finalized this morning, this marks the first Hollywood agency representation for…

Even yesterday’s epic snow storm in Park City couldn’t stifle the dreams of aspiring rapper Patti Cake$. Geremy Jasper’s so-titled musical odyssey about a Jersey girl chasing hip-hop superstardom premiered on the snowiest and most inhospitable day of the festival in years, but still managed to trigger an overnight…