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The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Every installment asks the same…

The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Every installment asks the same…

UPDATE, JAN 25, 2022 3:35 PM: The legal war between The Simpsons former composer Alf Clausen and the corporate overlords of the long running animated satire is over. Yesterday Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp lawyers for Disney & its Fox subsidiaries filed paperwork in LA Superior Court to end the two and a half year long…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has wrapped production on Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, its feature adaptation of Judy Blume’s classic novel. “It was a real privilege collaborating with this spectacular cast & crew to bring Judy Blume's beloved book to life,” said writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig. “I can't wait to…

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…

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…

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…