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For those who want more transparency from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – and that was certainly a core request in producer Michael Shamberg's open letter to Academy leaders last week – it doesn't get any clearer than the view presented in a 178-page offering document that introduced the group's…

Editors’ Note: Michael Shamberg is a tenured AMPAS member whose name is often mentioned when it comes time to name a producer for the Oscarcast. His credits include Get Shorty, The Big Chill, Erin Brockovich, Out of Sight, Pulp Fiction, Gattaca, A Fish Called Wanda and many others. He has shared with Deadline an open…

Picture Perfect Federation, the company recently launched by Patrick Wachsberger's Picture Perfect Entertainment, has teamed with Pascal Breton's Federation Entertainment to acquire Allison Pataki's two bestselling novels — The Accidental Empress and Sisi: Empress on Her Own — to be developed as a series on the life…

EXCLUSIVE: Sonar Entertainment has set Michael Shamberg's MASproduction to a first look deal for television and digital platform content. The announcement was made today by Thomas Lesinski, CEO, Sonar Entertainment and Michael Shamberg. Shamberg brings several projects to the table under the new deal. They include…

Harsh, arrogant, and woefully incorrect by today's standards (the Germans were "huns," Filipinos he called "googs") Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell was the kind of general who fought almost as hard with friend as with foe. Some British troops wanted to shoot him. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, whom he called "Peanut,"…

EXCLUSIVE: Gold medalist Tara Lipinski, the darling of the 1998 Nagano Olympics who at 15 became the youngest winner of an individual event at the Winter Games, is teaming with producer Michael Shamberg and writer Jonathan Igla (Mad Men, Masters Of Sex) for a new drama series at Hulu offering a behind-the-scenes look…

Movie and TV producer Michael Shamberg – who is currently producing Freeheld, a drama starring Julianne Moore, Ellen Page, Michael Shannon and Steve Carell – knows a bit about books: he’s adapted nine of them into films. His other projects include this year’s A Walk Among the Tombstones (starring Liam Neeson) and…

EXCLUSIVE: Longtime Double Feature Films partners Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher are amicably splitting up. They formed their shingle in 2003 after splitting with Danny DeVito and Jersey Films, and they have spent the last 22 years together. Between those two companies, they are the kind of understated producers…

EXCLUSIVE: AMC, the network behind Mad Men, Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead, has signed a two-year first-look deal with film producers Stacey Sher and Michael Shamberg‘s Double Feature Films. This marks the first such pact for Sher and Shamberg with a cable network. Under the deal, Double Feature Films will develop…

EXCLUSIVE: Cross Creek Pictures has stepped up to finance A Walk Among the Tombstones, an adaptation of the Lawrence Block novel that seemed to have been put to rest more than a decade ago. DJ Caruso is in discussions to direct a script by Scott Frank. It is one of two pictures Caruso is considering for his next film…

Universal Pictures is developing a reality-based action film centered around the recruitment and training of Secret Service agents. The studio has optioned a cover story in the Washington Post Magazine by Laura Blumenfeld, and set Greg Poirier to write the script. Poirier’s work includes The Spy Next Door and  National…

EXCLUSIVE: Leonardo DiCaprio is going to play one of the most prolific serial killers in Chicago history, the 19th Century equivalent of Hannibal Lecter. DiCaprio and his Appian Way partner Jennifer Killoran and Double Features partners Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher have joined forces to acquire screen rights to The…