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The late Chadwick Boseman made SAG Awards nomination history Thursday receiving four nominations. No actor has ever gotten that many in a single year in the movie categories, but Boseman was nominated for his lead role in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, his supporting turn in Da 5 Bloods, plus two more nominations as member…

On its surface J.D. Vance’s bestselling 2016 book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, detailing life with his Kentucky-bred Appalachian family and his own maturation in Middletown, Ohio, would not seem to be the easiest thing to adapt for the screen, especially with all the social and the…

EXCLUSIVE: “My mom was from a very small town and my dad was a farm boy, and when I read this book I recognized that I had really been looking for a story that I could tell that would allow me to apply my own sensitivity to this aspect of our American culture that I really relate to through my family in a way these…

Netflix today released the trailer for director Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy, giving a first look at the film adaptation of J.D. Vance's bestselling memoir, starring Amy Adams young woman struggling with opioid addiction and Glenn Close as her aging mother who steps in to raise grandson J.D. As the adult J.D. Vance…

Netflix film chief Scott Stuber and filmmaker Ron Howard discussed pay models, theatrical strategy and Stuber’s green light philosophy in an hour-long session kicking off the Produced By New York conference. The pair, who first became acquainted when Stuber was an executive at Universal and Howard’s Imagine…

Here's looking at you, Ted. Tonight, Brian Grazer told interviewer Ted Sarandos that the key to his success in Hollywood comes down to eye contact: "The WiFi of human connection is looking at somebody." Grazer, partner with Ron Howard in Imagine Film Entertainment, said the eyes have it in conversation with Netflix…

Imagine partners Ron Howard and Brian Grazer both take an upbeat view of the changes reshaping Hollywood, arguing that streaming has unmatched global reach even though it has altered theatrical releasing. The pair kicked off Toronto’s five-day industry conference section with an hour-long conversation. They hit on…

EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel Basso has been set by director Ron Howard for the lead role of J.D Wade in Hillbilly Elegy for Netflix. Basso will star opposite Amy Adams and Glenn Close for director Ron Howard. Basso previously co-starred in J.J. Abrams's Super 8, Jordan Vogt-Robert's The Kings of Summer and The Whole Truth…

Glenn Close has joined Amy Adams in Ron Howard and Netflix’s anticipated Hillbilly Elegy movie. Vanessa Taylor (The Shape Of Water) has adapted the screenplay based on the acclaimed novel by J.D. Vance. Howard is producing with Brian Grazer and Karen Lunder for Imagine Entertainment. Julie Oh and J.D. Vance are…

Amy Adams has signed on to star in the Ron Howard-directed Hillbilly Elegy, the high budget adaption to J.D. Vance's bestselling memoir from Netflix. It’s a modern exploration of the American Dream and three generations of an Appalachian family as told by its youngest member, a Yale Law student forced to return to his…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has come out on top in a red-hot auction for the film version of J.D. Vance's lauded bestseller Hillbilly Elegy, which Ron Howard is directing and The Shape Of Water co-writer Vanessa Taylor is adapting. Netflix will fully finance the pic to the tune of $45M. There were multiple high net worth…

EXCLUSIVE: Vanessa Taylor, nominated for an Oscar this year for co-writing with Guillermo del Tor the Best Picture nominee The Shape of Water, has found her next project. She has been set to adapt Hillbilly Elegy, the movie based on J.D. Vance’s New York Times bestseller Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Cultur…