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Screen Media has acquired North American rights The Jesus Rolls, the movie from John Turturro that returns his Big Lebowski character Jesus Quintana to the big screen more than 20 years later. Turturro wrote, directed and stars in the pic, which the indie distributor now plans to release in early 2020. The movie…

Acclaimed foreign movies usually go on from TIFF to be remade by American studios—they rarely arrive as English-language indie remakes. Yet in the case of Gloria Bell, an intimate study of a middle-aged divorcee, not only is the film a Los Angeles-set retelling of a 2013 arthouse hit—Berlin Jury Prize winner Gloria—it…

SundanceTV has boarded The Name of the Rose, a limited international drama series based on Umberto Eco’s acclaimed novel, that stars John Turturro (The Night Of), Michael Emerson (Lost, Person of Interest) and Rupert Everett (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children). AMC Networks’ cable network as well as Sundance…

EXCLUSIVE: Norwegian actor Anders Danielsen Lie, star of Paul Greengrass’s upcoming thriller Norway and Netflix series Nobel, has joined Greta Gerwig, John Turturro and Mia Wasikowska in the cast of Mia Hansen-Løve’s Bergman Island, I can reveal. Shoot is due to get underway July 16 in Farö (the remote island in…

John Turturro (Transformers franchise), Jeanne Tripplehorn (Criminal Minds), Michael Cera (Molly’s Game), Brad Garrett (Everybody Loves Raymond) and Holland Taylor (Mr. Mercedes) have signed on to co-star opposite Julianne Moore in director Sebastian Lelio's re-imagining of his 2013 Chilean-Spanish drama, Gloria. This…

My Best Friend's Wedding star Rupert Everett and The Night Of's John Turturro’s Italian TV adaptation of Umberto Eco's crime novel The Name of the Rose has found an international distributor. Germany’s Tele Munchen Group has acquired international rights outside of Italy for the eight-part series, commissioned by…

Riz Ahmed took the Emmy home tonight for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for HBO’s The Night Of. Bowing early in the season last year, The Night Of felt like it was trailing the race as more recent shows made big impacts. But Ahmed’s performance as Nazir ‘Naz’ Kahn, a Pakistani/Iranian-American…

John Turturro's portrayal of Manhattan criminal court attorney John Stone in HBO's The Night Of is one of the Brooklyn native's most sublime 180-degree turns. Wrinkly clad and plagued by eczema like it's a cross to bear, Stone is a joke among cops and his legal peers. But one night the attorney encounters Nasir Khan…

Deadline is holding its Tribeca Film Festival portrait and video interview studio at the festival hub in NYC, opening its doors to this year’s most riveting and groundbreaking filmmakers. Guests stopping by the Deadline Studio on Day 2 included John Turturro (Hair), Jamie Lee Curtis (Hondros), Geoffrey Rush (Genius), Z…

It’s hard to think of an independent film during the 1990s that didn’t star John Turturro, the actor being one of the stock players for Spike Lee and the Coen Brothers. It was during the heyday of independent film that Turturro made his feature directorial debut with Mac, a drama about a family of Italian American…

A stepped-up editing schedule on his new film Going Places has forced John Turturro to withdraw from an upcoming Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s The Price. Don’t expect to see long lines at the American Airlines Theatre demanding refunds, however. Stepping into the leading role of Victor Franz in the Roundabout…

Richard Price and Steve Zaillian’s eight-hour HBO limited series The Night Of, based on a four-part UK series Criminal Justice, is “chess, not speed chess,” Price said today at TCA. Price called the project the “antithesis of Law & Order… put-in-the-microwave-hit-60-seconds-and-serve.” The Night Of  focuses on a…