EXCLUSIVE: Nowhere Boy, the 2009 John Lennon biopic about the teenage years of the future Beatle, is being developed as a stage musical, Deadline has learned. Producers Brian and Dayna Lee of AF Creative Media, and Robyn Goodman and Josh Fiedler of Aged in Wood, have acquired stage rights to the Ecosse Films biopic…

Bette Midler has apologized for paraphrasing the title of a 1972 John Lennon-Yoko Ono song — Midler wrote “N-word,” John & Yoko spelled it out — in an angry tweet Thursay about the “too brief investigation” into Brett Kavanaugh. Midler’s apology reads: “The too brief investigation of allegations against Kavanaugh…

LennoNYC director Michael Epstein is making a feature-length documentary about John Lennon's Imagine record for British broadcaster Channel 4. The 90-minute film – John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky – will feature unseen archive and access to John's estate to tell the story of John Lennon and Yoko Ono against the backdrop…

Abramorama will commemorate the 50th anniversary of The Beatles' 1968 classic animated feature film, Yellow Submarine, with a theatrical release in July. Helpfully, the film will have the bouncing ball-style lyrics at the bottom of the screen for the first time, allowing audiences to sing along. Is it too much to…

Refresh for updates Paul McCartney is among those marching against gun violence in New York City today, and spoke to CNN’s Jason Caroll to note, "One of my best friends was killed in gun violence right around here, so it’s important to me." McCartney was referring, of course, to John Lennon, who was murdered by a…

EXCLUSIVE: Producer Michael De Luca has teamed with Yoko Ono, The Theory Of Everything scribe Anthony McCarten and Josh Bratman on an untitled feature drama about the love story between Ono and Beatles icon John Lennon. McCarten will write the script and produce with Ono, De Luca Productions' De Luca, and Immersive…

EXCLUSIVE: Simon Cowell is boarding the Beatles pic A Life in the Day. Cowell is coming on-board as a producer via his SyCo production company run by Adam Milano. Cowell will partner with Stuart Ford’s IM Global, who have optioned Tony Gittelson’s script, which tells the true story of Epstein who, while selling…

AMC said this morning that it will broadcast Imagine: John Lennon 75th Birthday Concert, an all-star event celebrating the music and message of the legendary musician in honor of what would have been his 75th birthday last month. The network, which is keeping a foothold in the unscripted/special events realm, will…

EXCLUSIVE: Nicholas Hoult and Jack O’Connell are circling A Life In The Day, the Tony Gittelson script about the life of Brian Epstein, who discovered and managed the Beatles from 1961-1967, before he died of a drug overdose at 32. Justin Chadwick (Tulip Fever) is in talks to direct the project, which David Permut…

Australia throws its wig into the Beatles recycle bin with Lennon: Through A Glass Onion, an Oz perennial from 1992 set to arrive off-Broadway beginning October 3. Created and performed by Australian actor/musician John R. Waters and singer/pianist Stewart D’Arrietta, Through A Glass Onion is described as “part…

Usually when writers make their directing debut, they do it at a steep discount. Not Dan Fogelman. The writer of such films as Cars, Bolt, Fred Clause and the upcoming Disney animated film Tangled will make his directing debut at Warner Bros on his script Imagine. I’m told that between what Fogelman will get for his…

Masterpiece's Fall kicks off on Sunday, October 3 with the second series of Wallander, the Swedish detective portrayed by Kenneth Branagh, memorably described by one critic as "having the permanent mien of a recently slaughtered halibut". British critics have found series two relentlessly gloomy, although they…