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The Oscar-winning scribe behind such historical projects as Spotlight, The Post and First Man, Josh Singer can't overemphasize the importance of getting his stories right. On the latter film from Damien Chazelle, based on a biography by James R. Hansen, the writer dove head first into a project of incredible…

The journey to the moon for the creative team behind First Man began with Jim Hansen’s biography of the same name about astronaut Neil Armstrong. Reading the book, producer Wyck Godfrey recalled during Deadline’s The Contenders New York awards-season event last month, “I realized I knew nothing and contextually didn't…

After opening the Venice Film Festival to largely positive reviews, Damien Chazelle was keen to share the love for his Neil Armstrong biopic First Man by bringing screenwriter Josh Singer, cinematographer Linus Sandgren and production designer Nathan Crowley with him when he dropped by the Deadline studio at the Toront…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures and Amblin will c0-finance Bernstein, a film about iconic composer Leonard Bernstein that Bradley Cooper will star in and direct, and he will write the script with Josh Singer, who shared the Best Original Screenplay Oscar with Tom McCarthy for Spotlight. Cooper, through his Joint Effort…

Liz Hannah and Josh Singer will receive the WGA West’s 2018 Paul Selvin Award for their screenplay The Post. The award, named for the guild's late longtime general counsel, is given each year for a work that "best embodies the spirit of constitutional rights and civil liberties that are indispensable to the survival…

20 films into a creative partnership with Steven Spielberg that began with Schindler‘s List, Oscar-winning cinematographer Janusz Kaminski found it particularly important to throw out his stylistic playbook on the director’s latest, The Post. A timely prequel to All the President’s Men, Spielberg’s drama follows The Wa…

EXCLUSIVE: Amy Pascal just took the hot book du jour off the market. She is finalizing a deal for Hello, Sunshine, a novel by Laura Dave. The author will adapt it with her husband, Oscar-winning Spotlight scribe Josh Singer. Pascal will produce with Rachel O’Connor. The logline: Sunshine Mackenzie is a lifestyle guru…

EXCLUSIVE: Mohammed Al Samawi’s non-fiction book The Fox Hunt was just picked up by Fox 2000 for La La Land producer Marc Platt with Josh Singer, the Oscar winning screenwriter for Spotlight aboard to adapt. The book follows the story of a young Muslim in Yemen whose discovery of the Bible led him to become a peace…

Spotlight is undoubtedly a frontrunner in the Best Picture race, but when Tom McCarthy was first approached to direct, he turned it down. “I couldn't wrap my head around it,” he says. The procedural exploring the expose of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church by reporters at The Boston Globe has so far garnered a slew…

As co-writer of the Tom McCarthy-directed Spotlight, which scored a PGA Awards nom Tuesday, Josh Singer (The Fifth Estate, The West Wing) had his work cut out for him. While the real-life Boston Globe reporters behind the story had an incredible tale to tell–how they blew the lid off sexual abuse in the Catholic…

With two nominations from SAG including Outstanding Cast, three nominations from the Golden Globes including Best Motion Picture Drama, as well Best Picture wins from the Boston, Los Angeles and Washington D.C. Film Critics, Spotlight is off to a great start this awards season. And it certainly is living up to the…