EXCLUSIVE: ICM Partners has signed filmmaker Justin Kelly, whose upcoming film JT LeRoy starring Kristen Stewart and Laura Dern hits theaters in April. Early on in his career, Kelly cut his teeth directing and editing music videos for artists such as Gossip, Hunx and his Punx and Tiny Hearts and working as an…

EXCLUSIVE: Kristin Stewart’s portrayal as literary hoaxer JT Leroy is poised to get distribution after it premiered as one of the high profile titles at the 2018 Toronto Film Festival. Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Content Group is near to closing a U.S. rights to the Justin Kelly-directed drama. UPHE Content…

EXCLUSIVE: Anya Taylor-Joy, who broke onto the scene with her lauded performance in A24's The Witch, has been tapped as the title character in Weetzie Bat, the film adaptation of Francesca Lia Block’s cult favorite 1980s novel that Justin Kelly is directing. Love, Simon star Nick Robinson, American Honey standout Sasha…

EXCLUSIVE: Kelvin Harrison Jr., Courtney Love and James Jagger have signed on to join Justin Kelly-directed biopic JT, about the JT Leroy literary scheme orchestrated by Laura Albert and her sister-in-law Savannah Knoop. Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern and Diane Kruger also star in the film, which is currently in…

EXCLUSIVE: Diane Kruger has joined the cast of Justin Kelly’s JT Leroy, the feature film based on the true story of a pair of woman who created the persona of a boy-wonder author, fooling the literary community, the fashion world, and the Hollywood elite for six years before the hoax was finally revealed. Kristen Stewa…

EXCLUSIVE: Laura Dern is in talks to co-star in director Justin Kelly’s biopic JT Leroy, the true story behind writer Laura Albert’s made-up literary persona JT Leroy. If the deal closes, Dern will be joining Kristen Stewart, who was attached to the project early on. Kelly wrote the screenplay, which is based on…

Brainstorm Media has picked up distribution rights to writer-director Justin Kelly’s I Am Michael starring James Franco, Zachary Quinto, and Emma Roberts, and will released the indie in U.S. theaters and on digital January 27. The pic premiered at Sundance last year and is produced by Franco and Vince Jolivette of…

IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to Justin Kelly's King Cobra, the porn industry pic starring James Franco, Christian Slater, Garrett Clayton, Keegan Allen, Alicia Silverstone and Molly Ringwald. It premiered in the Midnight section at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Kelly wrote and directed the pic, which…

Director Justin Kelly reteams with his I Am Michael star and producer James Franco for King Cobra, the story about gay porn star Brent Corrigan aka Sean Paul Lockhart, played by Garrett Clayton, who created a turf war between feuding producers but never profited from his success. In King Cobra, Franco plays, along…

EXCLUSIVE: Add another movie to the prolific dance card of James Franco. He just wrapped King Cobra, starring with Christian Slater, Garrett Clayton, Keegan Allen, Molly Ringwald and Alicia Silverstone. The film, by writer-director Justin Kelly (Franco starred in his debut I Am Michael), focuses on a murder that…

EXCLUSIVE: While we wait for the distribution deals to get rolling, the agencies are filling the gap signing all the new helming talent here. The latest: CAA has signed Justin Kelly, whose feature directorial debut I Am Michael premieres Thursday. This is based on gay activist Michael Glatze’s 2007 article…

Justin Kelly, a protege of Gus Van Sant, has set a summer start date for Michael, a film that Kelly will direct that will star James Franco. The pic is based on the Benoit Denizet-Lewis article “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/magazine/my-ex-gay-friend.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" rel="nofollow"…