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EXCLUSIVE: Wind River and A Private War outfit Savvy Media has acquired rights to Business Insider (formerly Wired) journalist Alex Davies' book Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car. Released by Simon & Schuster on January 5, 2021, the book charts the quest to develop driverless cars and the fierce…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Content Group has purchased North American and some foreign rights to Nick Hamm’s John DeLorean movie Driven which made its world premiere at last year’s Venice Film Festival and continued on to TIFF. Pic will hit theaters on Aug. 16. Inspired by true events, Driven is…

The rise and fall of John DeLorean, the automotive kingpin brought down by a cocaine scandal in 1982, is—surprisingly—the basis of one of the more purely entertaining films to screen at TIFF this year. Played for laughs, but with a core seriousness that notes the FBI's nefarious involvement in DeLorean's undoing, Nick…

EXCLUSIVE: Closing Night films at festivals aren’t always the most prestigious slot you can get (witness the debacle of Terry Gilliam’s  The Man Who Killed Don Quixote at Cannes this year), but sometimes a surprise is in store. I think that is exactly the case for Venice tonight with its closer, Nick Hamm’s wild ride…

Driven, the John DeLorean biopic directed by Killing Bono's Nick Hamm, is set to close the 75th Venice International Film Festival. The film, which stars Jason Sudeikis, House of Cards' Corey Stoll, Guardians of the Galaxy's Lee Pace and Ant-Man's Judy Greer, will close the festival on Saturday, September 8 in the…

Brittany S. Hall, who recurs on the current season of HBO’s Ballers, has been cast in the Netflix romantic comedy Nappily Ever After, from director Haifaa Al-Mansour. It’s based on the novel by Trisha R. Thomas and an original script by Tina Chism. Sanaa Lathan stars as Violet Jones who, after an accident at the…

EXCLUSIVE: Judy Greer is set to co-star in the indie thriller Driven, joining Jason Sudeikis, Lee Pace and Timothy Olyphant. Nick Hamm is directing from a script by Colin Bateman, with filming to start September in Puerto Rico. The pic follows Jim Hoffman (Sudeikis), a con artist-turned-informer for the FBI in the war…