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EXCLUSIVE: Good Morning, Monster, the memoir from Canadian psychologist Catherine Gildiner is being turned in to a podcast series with film and TV adaptations also planned. Dear Media, which is behind audio series including The Dissenters, co-hosted by Debra Messing, and Lipstick on the Rim with Molly Sims, has…

In case you are wondering, this is not some sort of retro review of 2003’s Monster, the film about a serial killer that won Charlize Theron an Oscar. Apparently, producers are free to use whatever title they want, even if it has been used before, and thus we now have the 2021 Monster. Maybe I should clarify that…

EXCLUSIVE: Evan Peters, one of Ryan Murphy’s go-to actors, is set as the title character in Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, a Netflix limited series co-created by longtime collaborators Murphy and Ian Brennan, Deadline has learned. Another actor from the Ryan Murphy TV universe, Niecy Nash, is set to star in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Picturestart has teamed with Search Party creators Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers on Monster, a movie based on their original pitch. They’ll write and direct, and Picturestart will develop, produce and finance. Bliss and Rogers will be exec producers. Monster is a comedy about a young woman who moves…

Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to All Rise, the drama written and directed by Anthony Mandler that premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival as Monster. The pic based on Walter Dean Myers’ New York Times-bestselling novel of that name is now headed for a fall 2019 domestic…

Sundance Now is partnering on a major Scandinavian crime series – The Oslo Killing. AMC Networks' SVOD service has taken the U.S. and Canadian rights to the six-hour documentary series as well as rights in the UK, Ireland and German-speaking Europe, where it will launch it in 2019. The show is co-produced by Norwegian…

“I was immediately drawn to the story and the way that it asked this very large question about could one moment in your life define your whole life,” said director Anthony Mandler during his turn at Deadline’s Sundance Studio to speak on his directorial debut feature, Monster. Based on the young adult novel by Walter…

EXCLUSIVE: Just hours before the Sundance Film Festival world premiere of Monster today, director Anthony Mandler has already lined up his second feature. Joining up with Bron Studios again, the Rihanna video collaborator and commercial helmer will step behind the camera for Man of Cloth, I’ve learned. From a…

Deadline's Sundance Series filmmaker panels wrap today with Monster, the debut feature film of top music video helmer Anthony Mandler. It comes ahead of the drama’s world premiere in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section at the Sundance Film Festival, where it bows tomorrow at the Eccles. Mandler will join Deadline's…

Starz has acquired U.S. premium pay-TV rights to Norwegian mystery drama thriller Monster. Created by headwriter Hans Christian Storrøsten and director Anne Sewitsky, it’s produced by NRK Drama. The seven-episode serial killer series has also just won the 2017 European Script Award for Most Innovative Script of the…

John Legend’s Get Lifted Film Co. has partnered with Bron Studios and Tonik Productions to co-produce and finance the contemporary drama Monster, based on the novel by Walter Dean Myers.  The film stars Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson, A$AP Rocky, Nas and Kelvin Harrison Jr. Anthony Mandler will make his feature…

EXCLUSIVE: Patty Jenkins, whose last film about a female killer won an Oscar for Charlize Theron in Monster, will helm Sweetheart, an  action film about a young hit woman. This one is a lot more light-hearted. Scripted by Jack Stanley (who’s currently writing the Fox sequel Chronicle 2), Sweetheart revolves around a…