EXCLUSIVE: Sugar23 Global has taken a minority position in Short of the Week, the premier online short film platform for discovering and launching the new wave of emerging filmmakers. In addition to Sugar 23 and Michael Sugar’s position, filmmakers Cary Fukunaga and David Gordon Green are also investing in Short of…

EXCLUSIVE: David Gordon Green and John Sloss are partnering in Brand New Story, a new concern that will work with top brands and Hollywood storytellers to finance, develop, distribute and market long-form content that finds ways to integrate brand ethos into entertainment properties at a time when viewers…

He burst on the scene as the hapless proprietor of a strip mall dojo in the low budget The Foot Fist Way, and Danny McBride just scored his biggest success as co-writer of the low budget sequel to the 40-year old John Carpenter film Halloween. Its $80 million opening gross, a record for October, likely will prevent…

Tonight in Toronto, Laurie Strode makes a triumphant return to cinemas with David Gordon Green's Halloween. While the latest installment of John Carpenter's iconic horror franchise—centering on the murderous, masked Michael Meyers—is the first to hit theaters in over a decade, Green's contribution to the canon goes…

It’s hard to believe that the stoner comedy Pineapple Express was released 10 years ago today. Directed by David Gordon Green and starring Seth Rogen, James Franco, and Danny McBride, the film became a hit with audiences and put itself in the film history books as a weed comedy for the ages. Rogen, who co-wrote it…

Stronger helmer David Gordon Green is negotiating to direct a new film for Universal Pictures based on Friday Night Lights, the 2004 film based on Buzz Bissinger non-fiction book that captured the glory, heart, sweat, heartbreak and pressure that goes into small-town America’s obsession with high school football each…

When Jeff Bauman set out to cheer on his fiancée at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on the morning of April 15, 2013, he couldn't have imagined the way his life would change when he was caught up in the terrorist attacks that day. When the bombs exploded he lost both his legs in the blast and was captured in a…

EXCLUSIVE: Seth Rogen is attached to play iconic CBS newsman Walter Cronkite in Newsflash, a Ben Jacoby-scripted drama that Stronger director David Gordon Green will direct next year. The film takes place on November 22, 1963, the day President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Texas. It was that day that television…

Like many Bostonians, Jeff Bauman took a place at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon so he could cheer on his girlfriend, Erin, as she reached the end. He was standing next to one of the terrorists before one of their bombs exploded, obliterating both his legs and starting him on a two-and-a-half year journey…

I was upset three years when Jake Gyllenhaal didn’t land an Academy Award nomination for what I consider his best performance, in the creepy and memorable Nightcrawler, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Now he is back with an equally fine and Oscar-worthy performance as Boston Marathon bombing survivor…

Halloween creator John Carpenter just announced on his Facebook page that the planned reincarnation of his horror franchise just landed a a director and writer. David Gordon Green has been tapped to direct the new take, and is writing the script with his Eastbound & Down and Vice Principals collaborator Danny…

EXCLUSIVE: Amman Abbasi’s Dayveon is making its world premiere as the opening-night film of the Sundance Film Festival’s NEXT sidebar. It’s Abbasi’s first feature, and he’s flanked by executive producers David Gordon Green and James Schamus who backing the play of Abbasi, a Little Rock, AR native who wrote, directed…