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EXCLUSIVE: It’s a fairy-tale ending for Universal Pictures, which emerged from a heated auction to win Fairy Tale, an adaptation of the new Stephen King bestseller that Paul Greengrass will adapt and direct. Greengrass will produce the film with Greg Goodman. RELATED: John Waters Back In Directo…

EXCLUSIVE: How’s this for a powerhouse pairing? Paul Greengrass will adapt, direct and produce a feature adaptation of Fairy Tale, the bestselling novel by Stephen King that Scribner just published. King is a fan of Greengrass’s films and has granted him the option — at the usual $1 against a healthy backend — for an…

EXCLUSIVE: A Cannes Market teeming with strong film packages adds a new one. I’m hearing that buyers will today be getting The Hood, a script by Paul Greengrass that he will direct, with Benedict Cumberbatch starring. The period drama is about the peasant revolt in England, I’m told. Cumberbatch will play a farmer who…

Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson, the producer/caretakers of the James Bond movie franchise including this year’s No Time to Die, and its star Daniel Craig were among the entertainment and media figures recognized Friday on the UK’s New Year’s Honours List. Other British arts and media figures named today included…

EXCLUSIVE: Los Angeles’ Dances with Films has announced the lineup for its 2021 film festival, setting Oscar nominees Paul Greengrass and Michael London as the speakers for its inaugural First Films series. The Dances With Films festival, which had to go virtual in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, is returning…

Paul Greengrass is teaming again with his News of the World and United 93 studio Universal for a feature adaptation of the Fletcher Knebel novel Night of Camp David.  Greengrass will direct and produce alongside Gregory Goodman (22 July, Jason Bourne). Jed Mercurio (Bodyguard) is adapting. Book’s logline: Senator Jim…

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Talking with Paul Greengrass for this week’s episode of my Deadline video series Behind the Lens was almost like going to the church of cinema. We talked about his first foray into the Western genre with News of the World, the weird and startling timeliness of the story set five years after the Civil War but pertinent…

EXCLUSIVE: When Oscar-nominated director Paul Greengrass began working on News of the World, he said he set out to create a family movie with purpose and edge. However, he didn’t expect the film’s touching on pandemics and a politically divided country to strike such a chord with current events. “It was sort of eerie…

Though it tells a story set 150 years in the past, the Paul Greengrass-directed News of the World re-teams the filmmaker with his Captain Phillips star Tom Hanks in an Old West tale from Universal Pictures about a country trying to heal. Hanks plays Capt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a beaten-down Confederate soldier who…

Director Paul Greengrass has said he expects people to be back in cinemas in six months. “I think we'll be back in cinemas sooner than we think, in six months I think we'll start to go back”, said the Brit filmmaker, who was speaking about his Tom Hanks drama News Of The World on the BBC’s Today Programme on Radio…

The United States is anything but united. The country has gone through a disastrous event that has left 600,000 dead. Half of America has lost the battle and still does not want to accept the outcome. America is more divided that it has ever been, and fake news — or what people want to believe — is rampant. Distrust…