EXCLUSIVE: In the first project that has come unglued from Fox since the Disney acquisition, Universal Pictures has picked up rights to The News of The World, an adaptation of the Paulette Jiles novel that is re-teaming Captain Phillips’ director Paul Greengrass and star Tom Hanks.

Scripted by Lion's Luke Davies, the…

The two who previously worked together on 2013’s Captain Phillips are looking to reunite for Fox 2000’s News of the World, based on the Paulette Jiles Civil War novel.

Luke Davies adapted the book for the big screen.

Story takes place days after Civil War and follows the unlikely friendship between Captain Jefferson Ky…

In tackling the real-life horror of a 2011 terrorist mass-shooting in Norway, Paul Greengrass' Netflix film 22 July bravely approaches a topic most would be afraid to handle, considering 77 teenagers were murdered that day.

Speaking at Deadline's The Contenders LA, 22 July's editor William Goldenberg (Argo, The Imitati…

In a seismic move that Deadline earlier this week revealed was coming, Netflix will boost the awards chances of several contending films by setting exclusive limited theatrical releases prior to the streaming service releases of the Alfonso Cuaron-directed Roma, the Joel & Ethan Coen-directed The Ballad of Buster Scrug…

Willem Dafoe, who just won the best actor prize at the Venice Film Festival for playing Vincent Van Gogh in Julian Schnabel's At Eternity's Gate, and 22 July writer-director Paul Greengrass will be feted at the 2018 IFP Gotham Awards next month in New York.

Dafoe will will receive the Actor Tribute and Greengrass the D…

Paul Greengrass first came to prominence as a director with 2002's Bloody Sunday, a forensically factual account of the shooting of unarmed Irish citizens by British soldiers in 1972. Since then, the pursuit of truth and reality has become Greengrass's calling card, even in his fiction films, and his latest, the Netfli…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated filmmaker Paul Greengrass is known for his urgent cinematic style — from the Jason Bourne movies to the real-life issues he has tackled in films like United 93 that mix his documentary roots with topics that represent world-altering events. His latest film, 22 July, which screens in…

Netflix has debuted an explosive first trailer for Paul Greengrass’ 22 July, which tells the true story of the aftermath of Norway's deadliest terrorist attack.

The film tells the story of how 77 people were killed when a far-right extremist detonated a car bomb in Oslo before carrying out a mass shooting at a leadersh…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has abandoned the development of the Brian Michael Bendis/Marc Andreyko project Ness (previously titled Torso), which Paul Greengrass was attached to direct in what was to be a possible feature franchise property. Well, we’re told no longer. So what happened?

Sources said that no one could…

Directors UK, the professional association of UK screen directors, has set forth a roster of new Creative Rights Minimum Terms for helmers working in features. The org, which reps the creative, economic and contractual interests of over 6,500 members, says the terms are to be added to every film director's contract…

Paul Greengrass will receive the BFI Fellowship. The presentation will be made at the upcoming London Film Festival to honor the documentary filmmaker who transitioned to write, direct and produce films that mixed the commercial kinetic action of the Jason Bourne pictures with the topical hot button subjects found in U…

EXCLUSIVE: An updated version telling the story of one of America’s bravest and incorruptible lawman has grabbed the attention of Bourne franchise director Paul Greengrass who is negotiating to direct the project Ness, written by Brian Helgeland for Paramount Pictures. Helgeland won and Oscar for his LA Confidential…