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A stage musical adaptation of the 2016 Oscar-nominated hit film Hidden Figures is in the works at Disney, with plans to assemble a creative team of Black artists, Disney Theatrical Productions confirms. The project has been in development, quietly, for a few years, but came to light this week with a mention in a New Yo…

Katherine Johnson, one of the NASA mathematicians portrayed in the Oscar-nominated 2016 film Hidden Figures, died Monday, NASA said. She was 101. Johnson “was an American hero and her pioneering legacy will never be forgotten,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine wrote on Twitter. "At NASA we will never forget her…

Nat Geo has put in development a potential series inspired by the Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures, Deadline has confirmed. Details are few, as the project is in its early stages. Chernin Entertainment’s Peter Chernin and Jenno Topping, executive producers of the film, are on board to executive produce the TV…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Science and Technology Council is bringing NASA scientists to Hollywood. The Council will hold a panel called “Hidden Figures/Modern Figures: A Journey of Breakthroughs in Cinema and Space Travel” with NASA, on Wednesday, November 29, at 7:30PM at the Samuel Goldwyn…

When the major talent agencies—CAA, WMA & Endeavor (now WME) and UTA—started indie film departments, the idea was to help big clients get their passion—some called them vanity—projects made. That seems like a million years ago. These departments have become such prolific generators that they have become the life blood…

Add Fox to the group of Big Media companies showing weaker than expected pay TV network results in a mixed report for the first three months of this year. The entertainment giant generated $799 million in net income, down nearly 5% vs the period last year, on revenues of $7.56 billion, up 4.7%. Analysts thought the…

The Palm Springs International Film Festival has set the dates for its 29th edition: January 2-15, 2018. The event will kick off with its annual Film Awards Gala at the Palm Springs Convention Center. Following a day devoted to book adaptations on January 3, screenings of all festival films will start January 4 and…

Oscar nominees La La Land and Hidden Figures, The Night Manager and rookie series Westworld and The Crown were among the winners last night at the fourth annual Location Managers Guild International Awards on the Warner Bros lot. Trophies were handed out in seven categories covering film, TV and commercials. The…

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysteri…

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!…

“It was really a wonderful night and yes, there was a little excitement at the end. It was shock,” said Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Cheryl Boone Isaacs, speaking at SXSW today in one of her first public appearances since the Oscars Best Picture snafu last month. “However, what I thought was…

Move over Lego Batman, there’s a new superhero in town: former NASA physicist/mathematician Katherine Johnson. The real-life heroine is one of the subjects of Fox’s Best Picture Oscar nominee Hidden Figures and now she’s getting her own Lego figure as part of the Women of NASA set that’s won the Lego Ideas design…