Catch-22 recently made its highly-anticipated debut on Hulu.
George Clooney directs and co-stars in the adaptation of Joseph Heller’s seminal novel about artful dodger Yossarian (Christopher Abbott).
The book contained nearly four dozens characters, which made it extremely difficult for writers Luke Davies and David…
EXCLUSIVE: Woody Harrelson and Luke Davies are teaming on The Most Dangerous Man in America, a limited series package mounted by Wiip and Star Thrower Entertainment. Harrelson is attached to be executive producer and star as Timothy Leary; Davies, who is coming off the Hulu limited series Catch-22, will adapt and be…
EXCLUSIVE: In the first project that has come unglued from Fox since the Disney acquisition, Universal Pictures has picked up rights to The News of The World, an adaptation of the Paulette Jiles novel that is re-teaming Captain Phillips’ director Paul Greengrass and star Tom Hanks.
Scripted by Lion's Luke Davies, the…
If you’ve followed the news at all today, you know Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen abruptly resigned amid tension in the Trump administration over its failure to stop Central American migrants from crossing the southern border.
President Donald Trump tweeted news of Nielsen’s departure at 6:02 p.m. ET. He…
A feature doc about Lion and Beautiful Boy writer Luke Davies, a film about a recording studio on a remote island in the Caribbean built by Sir George Martin and a tale about underground horror filmmaker Dick Dale are some of the docs to have received funding from Screen Australia.
The Australian government-backed…
Director Felix van Groeningen and his Beautiful Boy co-writer Luke Davies joined me this month at Deadline’s eighth annual The Contenders Los Angeles awards-season event for a conversation on how their new film came into the world.
The pair, both previous Oscar nominees, talked about how their collaboration began…
A second group of filmmakers have petitioned WarnerMedia to reconsider its decision to shutter FilmStruck at month’s end. Here is . the second letter
To whom it may concern at Turner and Warner Bros. Digital Networks:Roger Ebert once said "the movies are like a machine that generates empathy. It lets you understand a…
The harrowing and emotional story of a father’s struggle with his son’s drug addiction, and a son’s struggle to battle his inner demons, Felix van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy is based on the two memoirs of David and Nic Sheff and delivers a pair of the year’s finest performances, from Steve Carell and Timothée…
EXCLUSIVE: Yvonne Strahovski is set to star opposite Noomi Rapace in the Kim Farrant-directed thriller Angel Of Mine, which follows a mother Lizzie (Rapace) who, still struggling to cope with the loss of her daughter several years earlier, becomes convinced that a stranger's daughter is, in fact, her own.
Strahovski…
Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) has been tapped to star in Angel of Mine, a psychological drama that has Kim Farrant attached to direct from a screenplay by Oscar-nominated Lion scribe Luke Davies and David Regal.
Based on the 2008 French film L'Empreinte de L'Ange, the story centers on Lizzie (Rapace)…
EXCLUSIVE: Fox 2000 will turn the Paulette Jiles novel News Of The World into a feature star vehicle for Tom Hanks. Lion scribe Luke Davies is adapting the book and Playtone’s Gary Goetzman and Hanks are producing with The Danish Girl‘s Gail Mutrux. The studio acquired the project in a bidding battle by Fox 2000…
EXCLUSIVE: Fortitude International has acquired worldwide rights to and will finance the psychological drama Angel Of Mine, which is based on the 2008 French film L’Empreinte De L’Ange. Oscar-nominated Lion scribe Luke Davies has written the script with David Regal, and Strangerland helmer Kim Farrant is set to…
