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Let’s get together! Yeah, yeah, yeah! Director Nancy Meyers took to Instagram to reveal that the cast of the 1998 reboot of Disney’s The Parent Trap will be reuniting to celebrate its 22nd anniversary on July 20 at 9 am ET on Katie Couric’s Instagram. Meyers teased days ago that she had news about The Parent Trap and…

Nancy Meyers, the highest-grossing female writer-director-producer in Hollywood’s box office history, will be the recipient of the WGA West's 2020 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement. Diane Keaton, who starred in Meyers' 2003 film Something's Gotta Give, will present the award at the 72nd annual Writers Guild…

EXCLUSIVE: Besides honoring Paul Feig and Nancy Meyers this year, the Austin Film Festival has lined up a number of A-list talent from both film and TV for its inaugural Playwriting Track. As part of this program, playwright-screenwriter Beau Willimon (House of Cards) will present a staged script reading of his…

Nancy Meyers, whose latest pic The Intern starring Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway has made $192.5M worldwide since its September release, will receive the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award from the American Cinema Editors. The award will be presented by Steve Martin at the 66th annual ACE Eddie Awards on…

Nancy Meyers' The Intern opened this weekend to a respectable estimated $18.2 million, and the multi-hyphenate director chose to celebrate with a trip across the pond. Delivering one of BAFTA's Screenwriters' Lectures at its London HQ (past participants have included James Schamus and Emma Thompson), Meyers took part…

BAFTA has rounded out its Screenwriters' Lecture Series which takes place this fall. This is a great program that brings prolific and award-winning writers to London to chat about their craft, and the industry in general. Last year, Paul Greengrass and Steven Knight were among the talent. This year, British writers Nic…

Robert De Niro has played no small number of characters during his half-century in movies: gangster, boxer, bounty hunter, fire captain, cabbie, father-in-law. Now we can add office boy. Sort of. He stars opposite fellow Oscar winner Anne Hathaway in The Intern, a kind of May-December/odd-couple friendship tale from…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has acquired worldwide distribution rights on The Intern, the north of $35 million budget comedy that Nancy Meyers wrote and will direct as her next film. This is the one that got shopped at last week’s AFM by Lotus. In this configuration, Worldview was out when the Warner Bros deal got done…

EXCLUSIVE: In a fast-mobilizing package at AFM, Worldview Entertainment has signed on to finance and produced The Intern, a new original comedy scripted and to be directed by Nancy Meyers. Robert De Niro and Reese Witherspoon are in talks to star. Meyers will produce with Scott Rudin and Worldview CEO Christopher…

BREAKING: Nancy Meyers has officially stepped off the directing assignment of the untitled script she set up earlier this year with Sony Pictures. The studio will continue developing the Meyers-penned script and find another director. The pic, known around town as Royal Wedding, focuses on the life of an American…

Sony Pictures Entertainment has closed a deal with Nancy Meyers to direct an untitled film to be produced by Matt Tolmach and Nancy Meyers, it was announced today by Doug Belgrad, president of Columbia Pictures, and Hannah Minghella, president of Production for the studio. Meyers rewrote a screenplay that was…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is making a deal to finance and distribute The Intern, which Nancy Meyers will direct from her script, with Tina Fey attached to star. Scott Rudin will produce. This follows Deadline’s revelation that Meyers also plans to direct The Chelsea, a dramedy that has Like Crazy‘s Felicity Jones…