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As the 2020 Emmy nominations loom, multiple Emmy winner and former longtime The Simpsons composer Alf Clausen has called out Disney, 20th Century Fox TV and Films and James L. Brooks' Gracie Films for their alleged "lies and deceit" over his 2017 termination. "Through Defendants' own documents and subterfuge of lies…

Almost a year after former long time The Simpsons composter Alf Clausen first went after Disney as well as producers 20th Century Fox Television and James L. Brooks' Gracie Films with an age discrimination lawsuit, the powers-that-be have raised their own collective voice in court – and it aint' a tune the plaintiff…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate won a multi-studio and streamer auction for the film rights to Judy Blume's classic novel Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret. Essentially, Lionsgate has committed to a green light on a film with a budget in the $30 million range, with Kelly Fremon Craig directing her scripted adaptation and…

EXCLUSIVE: In what will likely end in the first huge book to movie sale of the new year, producer James L. Brooks and writer/director Kelly Fremon Craig this week are in the mix with studios on a movie adaptation of the seminal Judy Blume book Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Deadline revealed last October that…

There have been 662 episodes of The Simpsons so far, but the upcoming 31st and 32nd seasons might be singing a different tune thanks to a new lawsuit from the Matt Groening-created series' former longtime composer. Pink-slipped in 2017 after 27 penning the tunes for Marge, Homer, Bart and crew, Alf Clausen has hit Disn…

A panel of top principals from classic 1989 coming-of-age romantic comedy Say Anything… celebrated the film's 30th anniversary and its refreshingly timeless sensibility during a Tribeca Talks event Tuesday night in New York. Beyond the nostalgic embrace of the familiar from the sellout crowd (a loud ovation during the…

Richard Marks, a film editor who scored four Oscar nominations during a prolific 50-year career and earned a Career Achievement Award from the American Cinema Editors, has died at 75. ACE executive director Jenni McCormack confirmed that Marks died December 31 but gave no other details. Marks earned his Best Film Editi…

EXCLUSIVE: In the nearly 50 years since she wrote her groundbreaking book Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Judy Blume has turned down overtures to turn her seminal novel into a film. Finally, she has said yes. Blume has granted the rights to producer James L. Brooks' Gracie Films and Kelly Fremon Craig, who…

EXCLUSIVE: Talk about having the pulse of an issue. Daniel Sawka first wrote and directed Icebox as a short film for his American Film Institute thesis project in 2016. The pic ended up being shortlisted for a 2018 Oscar, won a jury prize at AFI Fest and screened at Telluride. At some point James L. Brooks saw it…

Writer, director and producer James L. Brooks has weighed in on the zero-tolerance policy at the US southern border. In a late Saturday night tweet, Brooks claimed President Donald Trump was using a policy of family separation “as hostages to get his damn wall.” Brooks, whose resume includes The Simpsons, Taxi and Mary…

James L. Brooks, the three-time Oscar winner with writing credits including Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News and As Good As It Gets, and the Emmy-winning co-creator behind TV series including The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Taxi, will receive WGA West's 2018 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement. The career film…

“Let me start with Mary,” said James L. Brooks stepping up to the podium tonight at the Producers Guild Awards where the TV creator/filmmaker was receiving the Norman Lear Achievement Award. “I promise you as a woman, she was everything you sensed. She had dignity, worth, legs, wit, she was intrinsically valiant, she…