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CNN Films and HBO Max have commissioned a new documentary about Little Richard, from Emmy-winning director Lisa Cortés (All In: The Fight for Democracy) of Cortés Filmworks. The film, Little Richard: I Am Everything (w/t), will take a deep dive into the life and career of the iconic musician, who did what he felt, and…

Hulu is adapting Alexis Schaitkin's novel Saint X, giving an eight-part series order to the project from writer Leila Gerstein and director Dee Rees. The psychological drama, which is told via multiple timelines and perspectives, explores and upends the girl-gone-missing genre. It's a show about how a young woman’s…

EXCLUSIVE: A wop bop a loo bop a wop bam boom! Rolling Stone is teaming with Bungalow Media + Entertainment to develop Little Richard: I Am Everything. The documentary, which will be directed by Lisa Cortes (All In: The Fight for Democracy) and executive produced by Dee Rees (Mudbound), will spotlight the…

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran WME TV Lit Agent Jordan Cerf has joined Mosaic as a manager. Cerf enters the premises with a long list of clients he’ll be managing, a list that includes multiple Emmy and WGA Award winners and nominees. That includes Oscar-nominated filmmaker Dee Rees (Mudbound) and Kevin Smith (Clerks), and…

EXCLUSIVE: MGM has set Dee Rees to write and direct a feature film adaptation of George Gershwin's acclaimed Porgy and Bess. Irwin Winkler and Charles Winkler will produce. The film rights were granted to MGM by the Gershwin Estate, which worked closely with Winkler and Rees to secure them. Originally written as an…

In Dee Rees’s adaptation of Joan Didion’s novel The Last Thing He Wanted, Anne Hathaway plays D.C. journalist and single mother Elena McMahon — an unlikely character for Hathaway for her to take on. The two were joined by actors Rosie Perez and Edi Gathegi in the Deadline Studio at Sundance as Rees talked about the…

Having long since ascended to the ranks of royalty at the Sundance Film Festival, Ethan Hawke, Dee Rees, Isabella Rossellini and Gregg Araki have now been named as jurors for this year's Utah shindig. As well as Hawke starring in Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film award winner Tesla this SFF and Mudbound director Rees…

No one is confirming it yet, but the 2020 Sundance Film Festival could include a superstar jam between Taylor Swift and the Go-Gos. Both the chart topper and the legendary L.A. band have documentaries on their lives and careers that will be among the premieres at the Park City-based confab starting next month. Headed…

EXCLUSIVE: Dee Rees has been set to direct The Kyd’s Exquisite Follies, a musical fantasy based on her own original script. Rees’ previous film, 2017’s Mudbound, got four Oscar nominations including one for her adapted script, and her Bessie Smith HBO biopic Bessie got her two Emmy noms for writing and directing, with…

The Film Society of Lincoln Center has added Darren Aronofsky, Jake Gyllenhaal, Dee Rees, and Martin Scorsese as guest speakers for the 50th Anniversary Gala on Monday, April 29, 2019 in Alice Tully Hall. They will join previously announced Pedro Almodóvar, Marielle Heller, Tilda Swinton, and John Waters, who will…

Mudbound director Dee Rees has firmed a solid cast for her follow-up feature, The Last Thing He Wanted. Two-time Oscar winner Ben Affleck, Toby Jones, Rosie Perez, Edi Gathegi, and Mel Rodriguez have joined the previously announced Anne Hathaway and Willem Dafoe in the film, which Netflix will release next…

UPDATED with video: Writer-director Dee Rees gave an electric speech while receiving the Robert Altman award for Mudbound at the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards. The Robert Altman award is presented to the ensemble cast, director and casting director of a film. It is named after director, screenwriter, and…