While Jeff Whitty would write the first four drafts of Can You Ever Forgive Me?, summoning a screenplay from a memoir, he wasn’t anticipating the assignment. A Tony Award winner known at that point for Avenue Q—a raunchy and witty puppet musical, which has had a long run, on and off Broadway—the aptly named Whitty was…

For Ben Mendelsohn, identifying with a man in crisis is something that comes with ease. “It's a pretty regularly occurring thing, these at-some-point-in-your-life crises,” the actor told Deadline today. “I have a three-times-a-year one—every trimester.” Appearing alongside Nicole Holofcener and Thomas Mann, Mendelsohn…

HBO has given a pilot order to comedy Mrs. Fletcher, based on The Leftovers author Tom Perrotta’s bestselling novel of the same name, with Kathryn Hahn attached to star, and Nicole Holofcener set to direct and executive produce. Perrotta, who co-created with Damon Lindelof the HBO series The Leftovers inspired by his…

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Mendelsohn, Edie Falco and Thomas Mann have been set to star in Nicole Holofcener's new project, The Land of Steady Habits. The film, based on Ted Thompson’s novel, reunites Holofcener with frequent collaborator Anthony Bregman, who will produce through his New York-based banner Likely Story with…

At Saturday’s Deadline THE CONTENDERS event Enough Said writer/director Nicole Holofcener told me during the Fox Searchlight presentation that she was purposely trying to make a movie that would have wider appeal than some of her previous indie-centric films.  Looks like she succeeded as Searchlight reports this is…

As the end credits began to roll at this afternoon’s Toronto World Premiere of Fox Searchlight‘s romantic comedy Enough Said, two simple words came up in white on the all black background that caused an eruption of applause and cheers in the Elgin Theatre: “For Jim”. Director Nicole Holofcener‘s new film represents…

EXCLUSIVE: Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini are in negotiations to star in a new Nicole Holofcener film from Fox Searchlight. The project is still untitled, but what I do know is that Louis-Dreyfus, who just had her HBO series ‘Veep’ renewed for a second season, will play the lead, a masseuse who falls in love…