EXCLUSIVE: Musician Moby is set to compose original music for Invisible Tango, the new Geffen Playhouse production directed by Oscar-nominated producer Frank Marshall that puts magician Helder Guimarães front and center. The one-man show is set to premiere May 7 and run through June 16 at the Audrey Skirball Kenis…
EXCLUSIVE: The mission of the filmmaker should be "to preside over divine accidents," Orson Welles once told me. Indeed, his career and lifestyle seemed designed to foster accidents, divine or otherwise.
A case in point was his final film, The Other Side of the Wind, which took 48 years to complete. It will finally…
Netflix has optioned film rights to Nike founder Phil Knight’s bestselling memoir Shoe Dog, which he will produce alongside Oscar-nominated producer Frank Marshall. The Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning team of Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (Ed Wood, American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson) will write the…
EXCLUSIVE: It was an explosive and controversial story when it was published in 1948 and still remains so to this day. Shirley Jackson’s classic short story The Lottery, which centers on violence, inhumanity and judgment in a small New England town, is being adapted — for the first time — as a feature film by a…
EXCLUSIVE: Amblin and James Wan’s Atomic Monster are the early stages of a remake of Arachnophobia, the 1990 Frank Marshall-directed horror-comedy film about a species of South American killer spider that crosses the U.S. border in a coffin. It breeds and becomes a massive killer. Jeff Daniels and John Goodman starred…
The broadcast premiere of the feature-length documentary The Nagano Tapes tonight on NBC Sports Network at 11:30 PM ET (after the Red Wings-Blues game) kicks off a five-film deal for Mandalay Sports Media and Frank Marshall’s Five Ring Films for The Olympic Channel.
The debut docu, about the men’s hockey tournament at…
EXCLUSIVE: Amblin Entertainment is negotiating with Joachim Rønning to direct Micro, the final novel written by Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park and the screenwriter and director of 1973’s Westworld. Darren Lemke has written the script. Frank Marshall is producing and Sherri Crichton and Laurent Bouzereau are…
Sometimes, when it comes to greenlighting a big movie in this town, it boils down to an assistant. In the case of Sully, the big-screen retelling of US Airways pilot Chesley Sullenberger's "Miracle on the Hudson" emergency landing, you can credit Clint Eastwood's right hand Kristina Rivera. Sully producers Frank Marsha…
The Olympic Channel has commissioned Frank Marshall and Mandalay Sports Media to create a signature documentary series for the global digital platform: Five Rings Films (working title) is a five-episode series of documentaries from directors around the world, with Peter Berg set for the first installment.
Set for a…
EXCLUSIVE: Among world premieres unspooling this weekend at the Telluride Film Festival is a harrowing new documentary Finding Oscar, which is produced by Frank Marshall and executive produced by Steven Spielberg in association with the USC Shoah Foundation. The docu directed by Ryan Suffern will have its first…
Steven Spielberg hit Cannes again and it was a return worth celebrating. It has been a very long time coming — 1993 to be exact, when Roald Dahl’s children’s book The BFG was first optioned — but this master director, working again in the fantasy genre, pulls off a movie worth the wait. Saturday night at the Grand…
