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The Deadline Studio at Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-23 at Hotel Park City, where the cast and creatives behind the best and buzziest titles in this year's lineup sit down with Deadline's festival team to discuss their movies and the paths they took to get to Park City. Willie Nelson & Family…

Everybody has a Willie Nelson story, including Willie Nelson himself. "We really opened ourselves to have somewhat of a nonlinear story so that we gave ourselves the opportunities, and five hours gives you that chance to kind of go on tangents and come back into the story, skip back," Willie Nelson…

Films Boutique and ICM Partners have launched sales on Jake Paltrow’s upcoming drama June Zero, with Films Boutique handling international rights and ICM overseeing distribution in North America. Paltrow’s first foreign-language production explores true stories surrounding the execution of Holocaust organizer Adolf…

EXCLUSIVE: The feature take of Steve Stoliar's memoir Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho's House is finally moving forward, with Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush set to play comedy legend Groucho Marx and Oscar nominee Oren Moverman directing off a screenplay he co-wrote with Stoliar. Sienna Miller and Moonfall and All…

EXCLUSIVE:  Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director and Emmy Award-winning producer Oren Moverman has inked with CAA, Deadline has learned. Moverman continues to be managed by Jeremy Plager at 7 Deuce Entertainment and his attorney is Robert Marcus. Moverman received an Oscar nomination for his screenplay The Messenger …

Emmy award and Grammy award winning filmmaker Thom Zimny and Oscar-nominated and Emmy award-winning filmmaker Oren Moverman are co-directing the Blackbird Presents and Sight Unseen Pictures docuseries Willie Nelson and Family. Production is already underway in Austin, Maui, Nashville, Los Angeles and New York. The…

EXCLUSIVE: One of the top books of 2020, Homeland Elegies by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ayad Akhtar, is headed to television with a high-profile limited series adaptation in development at FX. It is executive produced by Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick) who is set to star. Akhtar (Disgraced) will pen the adaptation…

Woody Harrelson has been set to star in WW2 psychological thriller The Man With The Miraculous Hands by Jerico Films, a division of the Vendôme Group production banner. Oren Moverman is helming the project, an adaptation of Joseph Kessel's novel The Man with the Miraculous Hands: The Fantastic Story of Felix Kersten, H…

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…