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After completing his work on Phantom Thread—the Paul Thomas Anderson film which earned him his second Oscar—costume designer Mark Bridges was looking for a "very different" kind of challenge, finding just that in Todd Phillips' Joker. A standalone origin story for the Joker, set apart from all past explorations of the…

Universal has dated News of the World for December 25, 2020. Pic will go up against DreamWorks Animation’s Croods 2 and an untitled Paramount/Skydance event movie. The pic, which reteams Tom Hanks with his Captain Phillips director Paul Greengrass, will come in the wake of pre-Christmas releases next year: 20th…

EXCLUSIVE: The Walking Dead actor Thomas Francis Murphy has joined Universal’s News of the World in the role of Merritt Farley opposite Tom Hanks and Helena Zengel. Based on the best-selling novel by Paulette Jiles, News of the World, set in the post Civil War period, follows the unlikely friendship between Captain…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Covino, whose movie The Climb is making its North American premiere at Telluride today, is boarding the cast of Paul Greengrass’ Tom Hanks pre-Civil War drama News of the World based on the bestselling Paulette Jiles novel. Covino wrote, directed, produced and starred in The Climb which made its…

Paul Greengrass’ News of the World has found its child lead in 11-year-old German actress Helena Zengel. Zengel will play the young girl who is escorted by Tom Hanks’ Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd to her aunt and uncle in San Antonio after she’s rescued from the Kiowa Indian tribe who kidnapped her and killed her family…

The two who previously worked together on 2013’s Captain Phillips are looking to reunite for Fox 2000’s News of the World, based on the Paulette Jiles Civil War novel. Luke Davies adapted the book for the big screen. Story takes place days after Civil War and follows the unlikely friendship between Captain Jefferson…

In an expected but nevertheless controversial move, the UK government today confirmed that it will not carry out the second phase of the Leveson Inquiry into press standards. The move has sparked a furious response from some commentators who claim that it is a sign of the government cozying up to right wing press. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox 2000 will turn the Paulette Jiles novel News Of The World into a feature star vehicle for Tom Hanks. Lion scribe Luke Davies is adapting the book and Playtone’s Gary Goetzman and Hanks are producing with The Danish Girl‘s Gail Mutrux. The studio acquired the project in a bidding battle by Fox 2000…

Rupert Murdoch peered at me from across his desk, his face a mask of frustration. "People don't trust me," he blurted. "What's worse, even the damn bankers don't seem to trust me." The year was 1989 and Murdoch was, as usual, in the midst of a flurry of deals in the U.S. and abroad, but had run into push-back. Having…

Rupert Murdoch remains vulnerable to the UK phone hacking inquiries despite a split verdict yesterday in cases involving two of his former lieutenants, Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks: Scotland Yard has officially told the Fox CEO that it wants to interview him soon, and considers him a suspect, according to The Guardi…

UPDATES WITH NEW INFORMATION: A 130-day trial highlighted by testimony as lurid as the tabloid headlines at its center ended today with a split decision for two of media mogul Rupert Murdoch‘s most trusted consiglieres. Rebekah Brooks, the flame-haired former head of Murdoch’s U.K. print operations, was found not…

Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's News International (now News UK), took the stand for the first time today in London’s long-running phone-hacking trial. This was Brooks’ first time in the witness box since the criminal trial stemming from the phone-hacking scandal at the now-shuttered News…