EXCLUSIVE: Kathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse are set to star in Focus’ Lisa Frankenstein, directed by Zelda Williams from a script written by Oscar winner Diablo Cody. Principal photography is slated to begin later this summer.
Cody will write and serve as a producer alongside Mason Novick, who will produce via his MXN…
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Diablo Cody (Juno) has boarded Jenny Mollen’sCity of Likesas executive producer of the series adaptation, which is in development with Sony Pictures TV and The Nacelle Company. Announced in 2021, the project falls under Nacelle’s first look comedy deal with Sony TV. The book will be released…
Universal Pictures has signed on to be the home for a biopic of iconic singer Madonna, who will direct her own story from a script she is writing with Oscar-winning Juno scribe Diablo Cody. Madonna will produce the film with Pascal Pictures’ Amy Pascal. Madonna will not act in the film, but she will lead a search for…
Arrowverse architect Greg Berlanti is ushering in a new group of superheroes at the CW.
The network has put in development The Powerpuff Girls, a live-action series based on the original Cartoon Network animated series created by Craig McCracken. The project, featuring adult versions of the three kindergarten-aged…
Madonna has found a new quarantine activity. The singer teased at a screenplay she’s working on with Juno writer Diablo Cody with a short Instagram video.
In a black-and-white video posted to social media platform on Friday, Madonna and the Oscar-winning scribe sit on a couch discussing the details of their upcoming…
In Jagged Little Pill, a record album gets its own jukebox musical, though there’s none of the Wikipedia-style rat-a-tat biographical highlights (airbrushed or otherwise) that accompanied Donna Summer, The Temptations and all the other post-Jersey Boys superstars on their trips to the stage. With an earnest, ambitious…
Screenwriter Diablo Cody says her Oscar-winning script for Juno probably would not have been written in today’s political climate.
Speaking on the Crooked Media Keep It!podcast, Cody said the pro-life legislation in Alabama and Georgia would have influenced her writing choices. Juno came out in 2007 and tells about a…
She’s here to remind you: Alanis Morissette’s ’90s cultural touchstone Jagged Little Pill is heading to Broadway. The new musical, inspired by the themes of Morissette’s album of the same title but with an original story by Juno writer Diablo Cody, is set to open in the fall. Diane Paulus (Waitress) will direct.
The…
EXCLUSIVE: HBO has put in development a half-hour comedy series starring and produced by David Spade. The project hails from frequent collaborators Diablo Cody and her Vita Vera Films and Jason Reitman and his Right of Way Films.
Written by Cody, the as-yet untitled comedy centers on Calvin Wash, played by Spade, who…
Fox has put in development Hanging On, a multi-camera family comedy from comedian Sabrina Jalees (Netflix’s The Comedy Lineup), Diablo Cody (Juno) and her Vita Vera Films, and Warner Bros. TV, where Cody and Vita Vera Films are based.
Jalees is writing and potentially starring in Hanging On. In it, to escape the…
Another classic sitcom is eying a reboot. Fox has given a put pilot commitment to Alice, a multi-camera comedy based on the 1976 CBS TV series starring Linda Lavin. It comes from Diablo Cody (One Mississippi), Liz Astrof (2 Broke Girls) and Warner Bros. TV, which produced the original series and where Cody and her…
Coming from the director Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody, the Oscar-winning Juno writer who also penned Young Adult, we have reason to expect another smart, witty, real and watchable story peering into our everyday lives. With the terrific and unpredictable Tully, you will not be disappointed.
Perfectly timed for Mother…