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Matthew McConaughey, Creative Artists Agency and Ali Larter are among those who have stepped up to help the LAUSD keep kids fed and in touch with their teachers during the coronavirus shutdown. Schools Superintendent Austin Beutner issued an update today on activities since the LA public school system closed on…

True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto and one of the hit HBO anthology series’ original stars Matthew McConaughey are reuniting for Redeemer, a drama series headlined by the Oscar winner, which has landed a script-to-series commitment at FX. In conjunction to the sale, Pizzolatto has signed an overall production deal…

Director Guy Ritchie certainly has one of the more uneven movie careers. Starting with his gritty and funny indie British crime movies from the late 90s like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, he then kind of lost his way with some bloated major studio efforts: Sherlock Holmes and its sequel, both…

Filmmaker Guy Ritchie has a flair for assembling a truly memorable rogue’s gallery and bringing it to the screen in vivid hues of eccentricity, menace, humor, and gutter eloquence. The British writer-director did it with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), he did it with Snatch (2000) and with Rocknrolla…

BREAKING: WME just signed Matthew McConaughey, the Oscar-winning actor. McConaughey had been at CAA, and his move follows the exit of his longtime agent Jim Toth, who left for a big job at Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi in March. McConaughey won his Oscar for 2013’s Dallas Buyers Club, and his credits include Dazed and Con…

Call it coincidence or just Oscar’s great luck. The same year that Matthew McConaughey took home a Lead Actor Oscar win for Dallas Buyers Club in 2014, he found himself with an Emmy nomination in the Lead Actor Drama Series category for HBO’s True Detective series. This year, history repeats itself for Mahershala Ali…

The description for the R rating given Matthew McConaughey’s new film probably says all you need to know: “drugs, alcohol, nudity, sex.” That not only sums up how The Beach Bum got the R, it pretty much also sums up the plot of this movie. Actually, check that: There really isn’t a plot. The Beach Bum is exactly what…

EXCLUSIVE: Miramax has inked significant deals on Guy Ritchie crime-comedy Bush for Germany, France and the UK. The star-studded pic, whose cast includes Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant, Colin Farrell, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding and Michelle Dockery, has sold to Tele Munchen Group for Germany, SND for France and Ent…

EXCLUSIVE: In one of the biggest deals to emerge from the 2019 EFM, STX has finalized a deal for U.S. rights to Guy Ritchie’s Miramax pic Bush — formerly known as Toff Guys — for around $7M. Multiple suitors were in the mix for the star-studded crime-comedy, whose cast includes Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant, Colin Fa…

UPDATED: Though Aviron initially declined comment on this story about it not honoring the P&A spend its execs said they would make on Serenity, the distributor has now asked to comment. Here is that comment: "We had the best intentions for Serenity. We were excited for the opportunity to release this uniquely original…

Matthew McConaughey, Kate Beckinsale and Crazy Rich Asians breakout Henry Golding have been set to star in Toff Guys, the new Guy Ritchie move that returns the director to his Lock, Stock and Snatch Brit gangster action roots. The casting, which Deadline confirmed Wednesday, comes after Miramax Films closed a $30…

When it comes to finding unmined cinematic talent, who knew to look in a Baltimore high school principal’s office? Such was the case on how the production of White Boy Rick found fresh face Richie Merritt to play notorious 1980s Detroit drug kingpin and undercover law informant Rick Wershe Jr. after casting a net…