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UPDATE: An actress who is accused of stabbing her mother to death told law enforcement officials that she acted in self-defense, according to court records  cited by the Kansas City Star. Mollie Maxine Fitzgerald, who appeared as "Stark Girl" in 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger, claimed that her mother tried…

Joe Johnston has signed on as co-director of The Nutcracker and the Four Realms alongside Lasse Hallström. Disney’s live-action adaptation of the E.T.A. Hoffmann's 1816 holiday classic is set to hit domestic theaters November 2. "I watched an early cut of The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, and I saw something unique…

EXCLUSIVE: Joe Johnston will be directing a $100 million-budgeted sci-fi film at Wanda’s Qingdao Studios called Starfall. The project is being produced by Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Erik Howsam and Infinity Pictures’ Dede Nickerson. The film is being co-financed by Lionsgate, Wanda and Infinity Pictures, which is a China…

The last of the three TNT drama pilots with a blinking green light have been cleared for takeoff as the network has confirmed a pilot order for Lumen. The fantasy drama, about a family locked in an alternate world, will be produced by TNT Original Prods. in association with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television, Full…

EXCLUSIVE: Joe Johnston has signed with Paradigm, reuniting the filmmaker with his longtime reps Adam Kanter and Martin Spencer. The writer-director moves from WME, where he signed in March as Kanter and Spencer were leaving Resolution. He worked with Kanter for years at CAA and then left to join the dealmaker at…

EXCLUSIVE: Director Joe Johnston has signed with WME for representation. Johnston had been in play since agents Martin Spencer and Adam Kanter left Resolution to go to Paradigm. He had been with CAA with Kanter for a long time, before the agent made the move to Resolution and Johnston went with him. This is a big get…