Will Smith and director Marc Forster have teamed up to acquire Telepool GmbH, the German licensing and distribution company that is a major European player in theatrical and multi-platform distribution. Beyond that preexisting business, Telepool will become a development, financing and distribution partner for…

Blake Lively is gaining a new perspective in the trailer for Open Road Film’s All I See Is You, where she stars as a blind woman who regains her vision as well as her independence. Marc Forster directed the thriller, which co-stars Jason Clarke, Yvonne Strahovski, Danny Huston, Ahna O’Reilly and Wes Chatham. Open Road…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. It’s down to one day and counting. That’s right, it all comes down to this as the six month long awards season that started with the Venice, Telluride and Toronto film festivals in early September culminates Sunday night at the Dolby Theatre with the…

Disney’s Christopher Robin now has a director. The studio has tapped World War Z and Quantum of Solace helmer Marc Forster to direct the upcoming live-action fantasy film focused on the further adventures of human child from the Winnie the Pooh stories. The story catches up with Christopher Robin – the character…

NBC is no longer proceeding with outbreak drama, aka Patient Zero, from The Imitation Game writer Graham Moore and World War Z director Marc Forster. The Endemol Shine Studio project, which received a 10-episode, straight-to-series order in May 2015, was co-developed by Sky, which was to serve as the series' UK…

Open Road has picked up U.S. rights to director Marc Forster’s thriller All I See Is You and set an August 4 release date. The story follows a blind woman (Blake Lively) and her husband (Jason Clarke). When her sight unexpectedly returns, she begins to discover the previously unseen and disturbing details about…

EXCLUSIVE: WME just signed Marc Forster, the director who made his breakthrough on Monster’s Ball and moved into bigger-budget fare with World War Z, Finding Neverland, the 007 pic Quantum Of Solace and Stranger Than Fiction. Forster, who just wrapped the Blake Lively-Jason Clarke drama All I See Is You, had been…

When the Hand Of God pilot went up on Amazon last year, I thought the Ben Watkins written and Marc Foster helmed drama was a work in progress. As my video review above says, the September 4 debut of the whole first season reveals the series to be one of the weakest offerings by the streaming service yet. The…

The Downslope, Stanley Kubrick’s original screenplay written in 1956, is being developed as a feature trilogy with Marc Forster (Finding Neverland, Monster’s Ball, World War Z) attached to direct and produce the first in the series. He also will produce the subsequent features. The Downslope is said to be “a sweeping…

Writer Graham Moore, whose first feature, The Imitation Game, earned him an Oscar, is making another debut, as TV series creator. NBC has given a 10-episode, straight-to-series order to a drama from Moore, World War Z director Marc Forster and Endemol Shine Studios. The untitled thriller (fka Patient Zero)…

World War Z helmer Marc Forster has set Blake Lively and Jason Clarke to star in All I See Is You, an SC International Pictures-funded indie that Forster wrote with Sean Conway. SC International Pictures, run by Michael Selby, will produce with Wing And A Prayer Pictures, LINK Entertainment and 2Dux2. Forster produces…

Amazon will debut its  third pilot season August 28 on Amazon Instant Video in the U.S. and the UK as well as Amazon’s instant video app . Once again, customers will be invited to give feedback. Amazon is making five pilots available: The Cosmopolitans, a romantic comedy set in Paris from Whit Stillman, with Adam…