Kristen Stewart, Hell Or High Water star Ben Foster and Dunkirk actor Tom Glynn-Carney are to lead cast in a movie inspired by the early works and letters of iconic U.S. writer William Burroughs. This will be a hot one at the Cannes market next week. Foster will make his directorial debut on the film and has also…

EXCLUSIVE: Liev Schreiber and Alex Wolff have been set to star in Human Capital, an adaptation of Stephen Amidon's 2005 novel about families who collide as they chase the American Dream. Paolo Virzì adapted the book into a 2013 Italian-language film. For this incarnation, Oren Moverman (The Messenger) penned the…

EXCLUSIVE: Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight boxing champion who recently was pardoned by President Donald Trump from his conviction for violating the Mann Act in 1910 at the height of the Jim Crow era, has suddenly become a prized film property. Reinaldo Marcus Green, who wrote and directed the Sundance film M…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Classics has acquired world rights to Puzzle, the directing debut of Big Beach principal Marc Turtletaub that stars Kelly Macdonald as a housewife whose life takes a turn when she enters the world of competitive jigsaw puzzling. Film premiered Tuesday evening at the Eccles Theater and the…

EXCLUSIVE: Justin Simien, who wrote and directed the lauded Sundance indie Dear White People which he turned into the Netflix series, will next write and direct Bad Hair. He will team with Sight Unseen, the newly formed production shingle of Julia Lebedev, Eddie Vaisman, and Oren Moverman. Lebedev and Angel Lopez…

Oh what Edward Albee hath wrought! His seminal play and film Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? may not be the direct inspiration for writer-director Oren Moverman’s intense new film The Dinner, but it is close enough — at least in concept. Two disparate couples come together for what is supposed to be a nice evening (or…

Richard Gere, Steve Coogan and Laura Linney are here today at the Berlin Film Festival for the competition world premiere of Oren Moverman’s The Dinner. Gere plays a politician in the four-hander thriller that’s based on the Herman Koch novel. Inevitably this morning, the press conference conversation turned to…

The Orchard has picked up North American rights to Oscar nominee Oren Moverman's forthcoming film The Dinner and is planing a fall release. Moverman is in post on the film. He adapted the screenplay from Herman Koch’s novel. The Dinner tells the tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decisions of their…

Udi Aloni’s Tribeca Film Festival pic Junction 48 has its U.S. premiere Friday night after an industry screening the morning before for buyers and press. The Israeli pic, which won the audience award in the Panorama section at Berlin this year, has serious indie cred: it was co-written by Oren Moverman who exec…

EXCLUSIVE: Adepero Oduye has joined the starry cast of Oren Moverman’s The Dinner opposite Richard Gere, Rebecca Hall and Chloe Sevigny. Oduye most recently played Steve Carell's boss Kathy in The Big Short. Her credits include Pariah and 12 Years A Slave. She is repped by ICM Partners and Washington Square Films. The…

Laura Linney is in negotiations to star in The Dinner, a psychological thriller based on the 2009 Herman Koch novel that explores just how far some parents might go to protect their children. The Messenger‘s Oren Moverman wrote the adaptation and will direct. Linney, who has been getting rave reviews for starring…

EXCLUSIVE: Rob Zombie is ready to expand beyond the horror genre. Zombie and Miranda Bailey have acquired the rights to Steve Stoliar's memoir Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho’s House. Love & Mercy co-writer Oren Moverman will write the screenplay and Zombie is attached to direct. Cold Iron Pictures' Miranda…