EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Classics has landed North American rights to The Silent Man, the Peter Landesman-directed film that stars Liam Neeson as Mark Felt. The longtime FBI No. 2 man under J. Edgar Hoover, Felt will go down in history as Deep Throat, the nickname of the whistle blower and primary source for Washington…

The Berlin Film Festival is just getting underway in the German capital, but buyers and sellers are already on the ground with most arriving late Wednesday to adjust to the freezing temperatures and, hopefully, warm up to deals. The weather can be counted on to be icy — the heat of the deals is another matter. As we…

Julian Morris (Hand of God) has landed a role in Felt, the political thriller from writer-director Peter Landesman. He will play Bob Woodward, the Washington Post reporter who teamed with Carl Bernstein to expose the Watergate dealings. Felt tells the story of the scandal that took down President Nixon from the…

EXCLUSIVE: A stellar cast has been locked for Felt, a political thriller that tells the story made famous in All the President's Men, from the vantage point of the top FBI official the Washington Post called Deep Throat. Writer-director Peter Landesman, who previously landed Liam Neeson to play No. 2 FBI man Mark Felt…

EXCLUSIVE: Jason Bateman has been cast as FBI agent Charlie Bates in Felt opposite Liam Neeson. Bates discovers that FBI Deputy Director Mark Felt (Neeson) is leaking classified information on the Watergate investigation and is conflicted about whether to destroy his mentor or protect him. Felt uncovers the true story…

Now that Liam Neeson is aboard to play Watergate’s famed Deep Throat W. Mark Felt, the Peter Landesman spy thriller Felt is starting to pick up steam.

Diane Lane has just been cast to play Felt’s wife, Audrey. It was she who took on much of the burden when Felt, then a deputy FBI director, secretly helped Washington Po…

This year's American Film Market is shaping up to be dullest in recent memory, even as sellers raced over the past few days to firm star-driven packages. There are a few good ones for sure, but a number of buyers and sellers have remarked that the market that kicked off today in Santa Monica was threatening to be the l…

Liam Neeson is in talks to star in Felt, a drama about Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s famed Watergate source known at the time as Deep Throat but revealed decades later to have been FBI agent W. Mark Felt. Concussion helmer Peter Landesman is directing the pic from his script and also will produce.

Marc Butan’s MadR…

EXCLUSIVE: Director and cinematographer Jason Banker follows his 2012 debut Toad Road with Felt, a thriller about a young woman plagued by nightmares who loses herself in an increasingly outrageous artistic project and alter egos to deal with traumas inflicted by the men in her life. Banker’s 2012 debut feature Toad Ro…