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EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is broadening its A Quiet Place franchise. The studio has set Jeff Nichols to write and direct the third film, which is based on an original idea by John Kraskinski. Studio has set a 2022 release date. Krasinski co-wrote and directed the original, and wrote and directed the sequel, which…

Matthew McConaughey has been set to voice the podcast adaptation of John R. Erickson’s Hank The Cowdog children’s books. From Tri-State Pictures, HTC Productions and QCode, the series is written, directed and executive produced by Jeff Nichols (Loving) and stars McConaughey – who is also an exec – as Hank. Nichols and…

Adam Driver will reunite with his Loving and Midnight Special director Jeff Nichols for Yankee Comandante, Deadline has confirmed. The film will be an adaptation of a New Yorker article by David Grann that follows two men who rose to the rank of Comandante during the Cuban Revolution. The article is about William…

Editors Note: This story originally ran on December 22, 2016. A reminder to everyone in town: Michael Shannon has graced us with his towering, square-jawed presence for quite some time. Sure, his profile has risen exponentially in the last eight years following his Oscar-nominated supporting turn as John Givings, the…

Loving hair stylist Kenneth Walker boasts an accomplished resume, working closely with Denzel Washington from Ricochet to American Gangster. But in speaking with Walker about Jeff Nichols' latest, depicting the beautiful and historic love story between Richard and Mildred Loving, it's clear that his connection to the…

Usually when you are saying you are just trying to make a “truthful, quiet” movie, studio marketers will run the other way. But Jeff Nichols, writer-director of Focus Features’ Loving, came to the DGA theater earlier this month for the all-day The Contenders Presented By Deadline to tell a packed audience of Oscar and…

Jeff Nichols has spent the last several months struggling to explain his attraction to his latest project, Loving, the first story he has brought to film that wasn't his own invention. "But this morning I woke up with the epiphany of how to talk about it," he smiles, on a sofa at The London in West Hollywood in…

The case of Richard and Mildred Loving, who were sent to prison in 1958 for the simple sin of being married, and their subsequent effort to keep their marriage alive despite every obstacle thrown in their way by the state of Virginia, has now finally been turned into a feature film. It comes nearly 50 years after…

Editors Note: This Jeff Nichols interview originally appeared May 15, just ahead of the Cannes Film Festival premiere of Loving. The dialogue seemed worth another look as the film opens this weekend to a wide audience as it continues its awards-season jaunt. There are few indie directors today ploughing their furrow…

Jeff Nichols’ brilliant Loving, which stormed Cannes in May before taking the Toronto Film Festival this weekend, seems certain to keep making noise over the coming months ahead of its November release. Quite a contradiction for a quiet, pensive film about Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple in 1960s…

EXCLUSIVE: As Jeff Nichols premieres the civil rights drama Loving here at Toronto this weekend, he’s preparing to take a less obvious look at the subject of racism. Nichols is making a deal at 20th Century Fox to write and direct a new version of Alien Nation, the 1988 science fiction thriller that took the…

Focus Features has dropped the official trailer for Loving, writer/director Jeff Nichols’ powerful real-life story of interracial couple Richard and Mildred Loving, portrayed by Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga. Set in 1960s Virginia, the Lovings were married in Washington, DC and later arrested for violating Virginia’s…