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EXCLUSIVE: Ashton Gleckman, the director behind Holocaust documentary We Shall Not Die Now, is turning his attention to John F. Kennedy in a new docuseries. The 22-year old director and composer, who was described by famed composer Hans Zimmer as "the boy with bat ears," has teamed with RadicalMedia…

EXCLUSIVE: David Mamet will direct 2 Days/1963, a drama scripted by Nicholas Celozzi that purports to tell how his great uncle, the notorious Chicago mobster Sam Giancana, arranged the assassination of President John F Kennedy as revenge for trying to bring down organized crime after the mob helped put JFK in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Martin Sheen to is on board to narrate Rush to Judgment II, an update to the 1967 version, Rush to Judgment, which is being executive produced by Stephen S. Jaffe. He is a former staff investigator and last surviving member of the legal team run by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison who led a probe…

Christopher Lawford, a veteran actor and activist whose uncles were Ted, Robert and President John Kennedy and was the son of Peter Lawford, has died. He was 63. His cousin Kerry Kennedy announced the news on social media but gave no details: We mourn the loss of my cousin Christopher Lawford, Rest in Peace…

Tony Award-winning director Michael Grandage will produce and direct Jack and Lem, a feature film chronicling the thirty-year friendship between John F. Kennedy and Kirk Lemoyne “Lem” Billings. Screenwriter David Scearce (A Single Man) will adapt David Pitts’ book Jack and Lem: The Untold Story of an Extraordinary Frie…

EXCLUSIVE: As he prepares to rev up the Edgar Wright-directed Baby Driver for tomorrow’s opening, Ansel Elgort has been set to play young president John F. Kennedy Jr in Mayday 109, the true story of the future American president’s feats of heroism as a Navy captain during WWII. The film is a co-production between…

Tonight's first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump falls on the anniversary of the most famous debate in American history: the first Richard Nixon/John F. Kennedy faceoff. Held 56 years ago tonight, it was the first presidential debate ever televised. More than 70 million Americans watched the debate that…

EXCLUSIVE: While the current movie discussion about U.S. presidents centers around Truth and whether George W. Bush pulled strings to avoid Vietnam, the producers behind San Andreas and Sicario want to tell the story of another president whose bravery in battle helped save crew members after their ship was destroyed…

Actor Jeffrey Donovan has been cast as John F. Kennedy in Rob Reiner’s LBJ joining a growing cast that includes Woody Harrelson (as Lyndon Baines Johnson), Richard Jenkins and Bill Pullman (as senators), Jennifer Jason Leigh (as Lady Bird Johnson), Michael Stahl-David as Robert Kennedy and Kim Allen as Jackie Kennedy…

(A version of this story first appeared Sunday.) Today is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. It was a defining moment of the 20th century. That is even the case for someone like me, who was born after November 22, 1963, in the shadow of the president’s murder. Most of my generation can tell…

Marking the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination continues to cough up good numbers for TV networks, though, as with that old Fox one-off reality hit Alien Autopsy, it's unclear whether viewers flocked to the "JFK" — he being our very first made-by-TV president – or the "assassination." PBS tastefully went with…

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend stood for no phonusbolonus during a Summer TV Press Tour 2013 discussion about her uncle, President John F Kennedy.  Earlier in the day, PBS announced details of a series of primetime programs airing November 11-13, commemorating the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination. Among them, America…