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EXCLUSIVE: The Max Winkler-directed drama Jungleland — which pairs Charlie Hunnam and Jack O’Connell in a drama about bare-knuckle boxing — is in the ring with Lionsgate on a deal for North American rights. Several distributors have been into this, but I’m told that Lionsgate is the frontrunner in talks to secure a…

EXCLUSIVE: Freeform has given a pilot green light to Last Summer, a one-hour drama thriller from writer Bert V. Royal, director Max Winkler, producer Jessica Biel and Entertainment One Penned by Royal, with Winkler attached to direct, Last Summer is an unconventional thriller that takes place over three summers—'93…

The world of bare-knuckle boxing is explored in Max Winkler's TIFF entry Jungleland, which stars Charlie Hunnam as Stanley, who manages his boxer brother Lion (Jack O’Connell). "I'd always wanted to write sort of an unconventional love story," Winkler told us when he came to the Deadline studio, "and this one is…

EXCLUSIVE: “When a reluctant bare-knuckle boxer and his older brother rack up a hefty debt, they are forced to chaperone an unexpected travel companion cross-country for one last fight in search of their fortune.” That is the simple one-liner description for Jungleland, which has its world premiere Thursday night at…

EXCLUSIVE: Laura Dern and Will Ferrell will star in Fruitcake, a film that Max Winkler will direct from a script by Trey Selman. Eclipse Pictures is set to finance. Fruitcake is the true story of Sandy and Kay Jenkins, a seemingly upstanding middle-class couple, who achieved the American dream after Sandy used his job…

EXCLUSIVE: Actor Jonathan Majors has landed a role opposite Charlie Hunnam, Jack O'Connell and Jessica Barden in Jungleland, a film currently in production with Max Winkler at the helm. Winkler is directing from a screenplay he penned with Theodore B. Bressman and David Branson Smith. Majors co-stars in two films that…

EXCLUSIVE: Director Max Winkler has started production on Jungleland, the Romulus Entertainment, Big Red Films and Scott Free co-production that stars Charlie Hunnam, Jack O'Connell and Jessica Barden. Shooting began today in Massachusetts, with Winkler directing the script he wrote with Theodore B. Bressman and David…

EXCLUSIVE: The Orchard has snapped up all North American rights to Max Winkler’s dark comedy Flower which had its world premiere Thursday at the Tribeca Film Festival. The deal came together quickly, marking the first for this year’s fest, with buyers clamoring immediately following the film’s premiere. Flower follows…

Max Winkler has mastered both sides of TV and film as director of such comedy series as Brooklyn Nine-Nine and New Girl as well as indie films like 2010 Ceremony starring Uma Thurman and Michael Angarano. He comes to the Tribeca Film Festival this year with Flower, a sexually charged teenage comedy that not only is a…

Deadline’s studio at the Tribeca Film Festival kicked off the first of five talent-filled days at the NYC fest with visits by Zoey Deutch and Max Winkler (Flower), Julian Sands (The Escape), Tom Bernard & Michael Barker of Sony Pictures Classics, and many more. Photographer Mark Mann is behind the lens for our series…

Fox has put in development Catalina, a single-camera comedy project from Max Winkler and Jake Johnson’s the Walcott Company and 20th Century Fox TV where the company is under an overall deal. Written by Winkler, Johnson and Dr. Ken executive producer Mary Fitzgerald, Catalina centers on a carefree party-girl bartender…

EXCLUSIVE: Zoey Deutch, Kathryn Hahn, Tim Heidecker and Adam Scott have been set to star in Flower, the Max Winkler-directed coming-of-age story. The script, which made the Black List, was written by YA author-turned scribe Alex McAulay. Pic, about an unlikely bond that forms between a sexually adventurous teenage…