Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick) and Adria Arjona (upcoming Father of the Bride) have signed on to star in the upcoming action-comedy Hitman, from Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater (Boyhood). AGC International is launching international sales on the pic at Cannes and will co-rep domestic rights with CAA Media…
Robert De Niro took a moment to slam what he sees as pervasive political falsehood as he accepted the Cinéma Verité Award at CinemaCon’s closing event.
"Cinema audiences are returning to your theaters in droves. I wish verité was having a renaissance to. But this is a tough time. We have big untruths, like Ukraine…
Writer-director Richard Linklater and actor Glen Powell joined Deadline’s Studio at SXSW to discuss their new Netflix animated feature, Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood.
“I thought of that fantasy I had of being recruited,” says Linklater, “it’s almost like a Harry Potter thing… every kid has that fantasy that…
EXCLUSIVE: Glen Powell, who stars alongside Tom Cruise in Paramount and Skydance’s upcoming Top Gun: Maverick, has inked with CAA.
The Austin, TX native is set to begin production next month on JD Dillard's war epic Devotion, in which he stars and is producing, based on The New York Times bestseller.
Powell plays the…
EXCLUSIVE:Jonathan Majors, who is racking up awards noms for this year’s indie hit The Last Black Man in San Francisco, has been set to star opposite Glen Powell in Devotion, Black Label Media’s movie based on the true story of two elite U.S. Navy fighter pilots during the Korean War. JD Dillard is directing, and the…
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired an action/comedy feature pitch by screenwriter Michael Diliberti that he will write as a vehicle for Glen Powell (Set It Up) and Jay Ellis (Insecure), who will be seen together in the upcoming Paramount sequel Top Gun: Maverick.
Diliberti, whose credits include 30 Minutes Or Less, will…
Glen Powell has been tapped to star in Wanna F*** Your Brother, co-production with STXfilms and MWM Studios. The Other Woman screenwriter Melissa Stack wrote the script and is directing the film about a buttoned-up lawyer who gets her black sheep younger brother a summer job at her New York law firm. He quickly…
EXCLUSIVE: Roth/Kirschenbaum Films has acquired rights to Lisa Grunwald’s upcoming novel Time After Time. Lauren Oliver (Before I Fall) will script it as a starring vehicle for Glen Powell, who played John Glenn in Hidden Figures, is currently shooting Top Gun: Maverick for Paramount and then stars with his Set It Up…
Glen Powell already is set to play a Korean War fighter pilot in Devotion, now he’s ready for takeoff in a more modern vehicle. The Hidden Figures and Everybody Wants Some!! actor is in negotiations to join the cast ofTop Gun: Maverick, Paramount’s sequel to the 1986 smash.
Powell is joining Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer…
EXCLUSIVE:Black Label Media has optioned rights to Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice, and will make a film about the true story at the center of Adam Makos’ 2015 book about two Korean War Navy pilots — one from an affluent white New England family, the other the black son of a Mississippi…
EXCLUSIVE:Mike Newell just added a number of new actors to his film The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society which is underway in the UK. Glen Powell (Hidden Figures), Michiel Huisman (The Age of Adeline, Game of Thrones), Matthew Goode (The Imitation Game, Downton Abbey), Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey…
EXCLUSIVE:Glen Powell, who portrayed John Glenn in the Best Picture nominee and box office hit Hidden Figures, has just followed his agent Joey Stanton over from CAA to sign with ICM Partners. Powell is probably best known for his breakout performance in Richard Linklater’s ode to college Everybody Wants Some!…