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Taika Waititi is sticking around in the Star Wars universe, with Disney confirming Monday that he will direct and co-write a new Star Wars feature film for theatrical release. He will co-write the movie with Krysty Wilson-Cairns, who co-wrote Oscar Best Picture nominee 1917 with Sam Mendes. Waititi, who won an Oscar…

As we close the book on one of the most truncated and stressful Oscar seasons in history, the mindsets of many studio and network executives will soon turn to another case of agita: AMPTP’s upcoming contract negotiations with the WGA and the possibility of a writers strike. Speaking to Deadline on the Oscars red…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has put in development Mastermind, a crime drama series based on Evan Ratliff’s critically praised book The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal., with the Russo brothers’ AGBO Films, Noah Hawley’s 26 Keys and Skybound Entertainment producing. Writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns (1917) is set…

Sam Mendes' World War I movie 1917 was filmed using one continuous, shot but the team behind the epic said it was not a "gimmick.” The film tells the story of two young British soldiers who are given an impossible mission: deliver a message deep in enemy territory that will stop their own men from walking straight…

EXCLUSIVE: London-based lit agent Marnie Podos has left United Agents after eight years to form new management company Under New Mgmt. She will retain her client list including in-demand screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns, whose 1917 script with Sam Mendes is due to shoot next year, playwright Chris Urch (Lee), whose…

EXCLUSIVE: Amblin Partners has won a pitched spec package battle and will finance Oscar winning director Sam Mendes’ World War I film 1917. The film will begin production next April, for U.S. release December 2019 through Amblin’s distribution partner Universal.  Mendes wrote the original script with Krysty Wilson-Cair…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate is setting Tobias Lindholm to make his English-language feature directing debut on The Good Nurse, a thriller based on the book by Charles Graeber and scripted by Krysty Wilson-Cairns. Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa is producing. The pic tells the true story of the pursuit and capture of Charlie…

EXCLUSIVE: Krysty Wilson-Cairns is set to write the film adaptation of Gay Talese's The Voyeur’s Motel which Sam Mendes will direct and produce at DreamWorks Pictures with Steven Spielberg also producing. The hot project that was taken off the market for close to $1M two months ago is being adapted from Talese’s…

EXCLUSIVE– Brit director Marc Munden is in talks to direct FilmNation’s hot sci-fi thriller Aether. Deadline first broke the news last March that Glen Basner’s ambitious company had moved quickly to acquire Krysty Wilson-Cairns’ spec script and to produce, finance and handle worldwide sales on the project. This is a…

EXCLUSIVE: Just when it seemed we might see a week without a big spec script auction, FilmNation Entertainment just landed Aether, and will produce, finance and handle worldwide sales on the sci-fi thriller written by Krysty Wilson-Cairns. FilmNation is moving quickly, already looking for a director for the British…