EXCLUSIVE: The mission of the filmmaker should be "to preside over divine accidents," Orson Welles once told me. Indeed, his career and lifestyle seemed designed to foster accidents, divine or otherwise. A case in point was his final film, The Other Side of the Wind, which took 48 years to complete. It will finally…

EXCLUSIVE: Bharat Nalluri is attached to direct We Interrupt This Program, a drama financed by Echo Lake Entertainment that focuses on the internal battles between Orson Welles and producer John Houseman that nearly derailed the shocking radio broadcast of War of the Worlds in 1938. Without identifying they were…

Mark Cousins, director of Cannes Classics hit The Eyes Of Orson Welles, would be a distinctive character even if he wasn't a respected filmmaker, writer and historian—his body is emblazoned with tattooed tributes to the artists and thinkers who have shaped his outlook on life: Paul Cézanne, Marie Curie, Albrecht…

EXCLUSIVE: Echo Lake Entertainment and Sean Sorensen's Royal Viking Entertainment have teamed on Sorensen’s spec script We Interrupt This Program. While President Trump has turned “fake news” into a common term, the makers of this one believe they have a film focusing in the birth of pseudo news, and the panic it…

Morgan Neville, whose 20 Feet From Stardom won the Best Feature Documentary at the 2014 Oscars, will direct another original feature documentary — this time about the final 15 years of Orson Welles. It is a Netflix project and the company’s previously announced acquisition of Welles' final feature The Other Side Of The…

Netflix announced it has completed a deal for global rights and that it will finish and restore Orson Welles final film, The Other Side Of The Wind. The move has been in the works for a month after a campaign spearheaded by Frank Marshall (production manager on the original) and Peter Bogdanovich (part of the cast)…

Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business. FLEMING: So I am back here at Cannes, mainly trying to position myself to break all those hot projects and sizzle reels that foment…

If Dennis Hopper’s last film went the crowd funding route, why not Orson Welles on his 100th birthday? The Citizen Kane helmer’s last film, The Other Side of the Wind, has gone to Indiegogo for finishing funds. Hopper is part of the cast, along with John Huston, Peter Bogdanovich, and numerous others. They are  hoping…