Amy Adams, who does double duty as actor and an executive producer on the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects, struggled on today’s panel to talk about the challenges of portraying the story’s main character, emotionally troubled (to put it mildly) newspaper reporter Camille Preaker. Patricia Clarkson portrays Adams…

HBO has greenlighted Gorilla and the Bird, a new limited series from Jean-Marc Vallée, the director/executive producer behind the network’s Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects. Vallée is set to direct and executive produce the project, based on Zack McDermott's book Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother'…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures is in negotiations to option rights to an untitled drama about the epic love story between John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and Jean-Marc Vallée has been set to direct and edit. He intends to make this his next film. The studio acquired a spec package from Michael De Luca Productions and…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about the season finale of Sharp Objects. HBO’s Sharp Objects finale Sunday night answered the lingering question: Who killed all these young girls in Wind Gap? Based on the creepiness and overall shadiness of this small town, anyone could have been responsible for these…

The first episode of the HBO’s adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects made its world premiere tonight to a packed house at the Paramount Theatre at the ATX Television Festival. With Flynn’s signature twisted storytelling skills, it left the audience with a feeling of fascinating uneasiness which, in its own way…

Bloom became more than the average foreign sales company last fall when Endeavor Content acquired a majority stake from co-owners Alex Walton and Ken Kao. While agencies have held cozy relationships with different sales agents in the past, this was the first to be openly and directly connected to a holding company…

Jean-Marc Vallée, who with his longtime producing partner Nathan Ross were behind HBO’s awards-season juggernaut Big Little Lies, have launched Crazyrose, a full-service production company that will develop, finance and produce original content. They have inked a first-look deal with Endeavor Content-owned Bloom, the…

Big Little Lies won big tonight at the Emmys. The HBO’s Limited Series based on the best-selling book by Liane Moriarty cleaned up tonight with collecting the trophy for Best Limited Series as well as a trio of acting accolades for Alexander Skarsgard, Laura Dern, and Nicole Kidman. Jean-Marc Vallee also won for best…

Making his way along the press circuit for HBO limited series Big Little Lies—which earned eight Emmy nominations last month—director Jean-Marc Vallée has repeatedly been asked one question: “What was your transition to television?” An Oscar nominee known for Dallas Buyers Club, Wild and Demolition, the auteur has a…

From its first frames, HBO limited series Big Little Lies is imbued with palpable atmosphere and a very defined sense of space—as the waves crash violently against Monterey’s shores, and the old soul, blues-infused soundtrack plays, we know exactly where we are, both physically and emotionally. Working alongside…

UPDATED with video from event: While Reese Witherspoon and her producing partner Bruna Papandrea were the first ones to get their hands on the manuscript of Liane Moriarty’s 2014 novel Big Little Lies, props were given to Nicole Kidman who “closed the deal and got the option,” Witherspoon said last night at Deadline’s…

Yves Belanger, the French-Canadian cinematographer of John Crowley's Brooklyn, worked consistently for 20 years before breaking out with a series of films by Jean-Marc Vallée. Transitioning from smaller films to major studio projects over the past several years, Belanger says this major rise in recognition is very…