“Prisoners talk about doing time,” the condemned man says. “On the Row, there is no time. Clock stopped moving the minute we was sentenced.” Here is the first trailer for Trial by Fire, director Ed Zwick’s controversial film that premiered at Telluride last year. It’s the true-life Texas story of the unlikely bond…

Ed Zwick has signed on to direct the first episode and executive produce Away, Netflix’s upcoming drama series from playwright Andrew Hinderaker, Jason Katims (Friday Night Lights, Parenthood) and Matt Reeves (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Felicity). Written by Hinderaker, the series, loosely inspired by Chris…

EXCLUSIVE: Among the high-profile awards-hopeful premieres at this year’s Telluride Film Festival, from The Old Man and the Gun to The Front Runner to First Man — all coming here for many reasons, including to get a boost in the Oscar race — one new movie from an Oscar-winning producer-director has something more…

EXCLUSIVE: Mira Sorvino has been named the inaugural recipient of the UCLA Law Promise Institute Award for Contribution to Human Rights Through the Arts. Sorvino will accept the award at UCLA's summit Lights. Camera. Reaction: The Art of Impact in Entertainment at the Hammer Museum on March 16. Many Hollywood voices…

Emily Meade and Chris Coy, both currently starring on HBO's The Deuce, have joined director Ed Zwick’s biopic, Trial By Fire, opposite Jack O'Connell and Laura Dern. From a screenplay by Oscar-winning Precious scribe Geoffrey Fletcher, the film is adapted from David Grann’s 2009 article in The New Yorker. Jeff Perry (S…

EXCLUSIVE: Jack O’Connell and Laura Dern have been set to star in Trial by Fire, a fact-based drama that Ed Zwick will direct. Oscar-winning Precious scribe Geoffrey Fletcher wrote the script, adapted from the 2009 article in The New Yorker that won David Grann the Polk Award. Zwick will produce through his Bedford…

A new scripted series set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War from Nashville showrunners and thirtysomething creators Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz is on its way to Discovery, it was revealed today during Lionsgate’s third-quarter earnings call with analysts. The series is part of a multi-year, first-look deal…

EXCLUSIVE: The long-overdue broadening of the Academy membership’s diversity covered every branch, but none reshaped its membership as strongly as did the Directors Branch. The executive committee, chaired by Michael Mann and also headed by Kathryn Bigelow and Ed Zwick, made real strides, according to a memo Deadline…

While ABC is yet to decide Nashville‘s future beyond the current fourth season, work has started on the potential Season 5. Newly appointed showrunners, Thirtysomething creators Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz, are assembling a small writers room to work on stories for next season. I hear the move by producing…

UPDATED: The studio behind ABC’s bubble drama series Nashville is looking to boost the show’s renewal chances by bringing in new showrunners. Thirtysomething creators Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz will take the helm of the country music-themed series if it goes to Season 5, replacing current showrunner Dee…

Thirtysomething creators Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz have signed a multi-year first-look TV deal with Lionsgate to create and produce scripted programming. The duo, who also created My So-Called Life, Relativity, Once And Again and the influential online series quarterlife, most recently had an overall deal…

A smart, intelligent and fascinating movie in every way, director Ed Zwick’s Pawn Sacrifice makes all the right moves in this intensely watchable, sort-of biopic of the great chess grand master Bobby Fischer. But thanks to Zwick’s precise direction and camera work, and a taut script from Steven Knight (with story…