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EXCLUSIVE: Miguel Sapochnik, who served as the co-showrunner and EP of HBO’s hit series House of the Dragon, has inked with CAA. The director and producer won a Primetime Emmy and DGA Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for the Game of Thrones episode "Battle of the Bastards" and a…

House of the Dragon is making a change within its showrunning ranks. Deadline has confirmed that Miguel Sapochnik is stepping down after serving as co-showrunner for Season 1 of the Game of Thrones spinoff. Sapochnik has spent three years on the project and the move will now see House of the Dragon co-creator Ryan…

“This was the planets aligning,” says House of the Dragon co-creator Ryan J. Condal about teaming with Game of Thrones EP and director Miguel Sapochnik on the new George R.R. Martin HBO spinoff series. Condal and Sapochnik had previously developed a number of projects together before House of the Dragon. You can…

The wait for the much-anticipated prequel is almost over: HBO has announced the debut date for the Game of Thrones prequel from George R.R. Martin, Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik. It will premiere Aug. 21. House of the Dragon stars Paddy Considine, Olivia Cooke, Matt Smith, Emma D'Arcy, Fabien Frankel. Rhys…

Tom Hanks must feel solitude is good luck. The two-time Oscar winner won another nomination for 2000’s Castaway in which he spent most of his screen time stranded on an island talking to a weathered volleyball named Wilson. Can the new movie Finch do the same thing for him? Hanks is, as often the case, is perfectly…

“It all happened so fast,” Tom Hanks laments in the first official trailer for Finch, released today by Apple. “There was a solar flare. Goodbye crops and food, goodbye everything.” While the Oscar winner’s robotics engineer of the same name notes that he was left “frightened and so alone,” following a cataclysmic…

Tom Hanks starrer Finch will debut on Apple TV+ on November 5, Apple Original Films said Thursday. Check out the first-look image below. In the film directed by Miguel Sapochnik (Game of Thrones, True Detective), the Oscar-winning Hanks plays a robotics engineer who is among the few survivors of a cataclysmic solar…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple Original Films won a very competitive weekend auction among streamers to land the Tom Hanks-starrer Finch, an Amblin Entertainment sci-fi film that previously carried the title Bios and was originally intended to be released by Universal. It will now be released on Apple TV+ later this year, likely in…

One Game of Thrones prequel may be dead, but another one has been given the gift of life by HBO. House of the Dragon is coming to the premium cable network, it was announced Tuesday at WarnerMedia’s news-heavy HBO Max investors presentation. Foregoing a pilot, the House Targaryen story from George R.R. Martin and Ryan…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon is developing drama series Conan, based on the books by Robert E. Howard, Deadline has learned. The project hails from Colony co-creator Ryan Condal, Game of Thrones director Miguel Sapochnik, Fargo and The Handmaid’s Tale executive producer Warren Littlefield, Pathfinder Media and Endeavor…

EXCLUSIVE: Amblin Entertainment has acquired the spec package Bios with Tom Hanks starring and Miguel Sapochnik (Game of Thrones) directing. The project would be distributed through Universal. Amblin won the highly competitive bidding war this AM we’re told. Another aggressive bidder was Legendary…

Fitting for HBO’s ruthless and scheming Game of Thrones, a murderer’s row of GoT directors have been set to take on the series’ final Season 8, a planned super-sized six episodes that are expected to air sometime in 2019 to wrap up the saga. David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are on the list of course, as the creators of…