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Quibi, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s short-form video platform, is expanding its scripted comedy slate with new series The Now, from Oscar winner Peter Farrelly (Green Book) and Anonymous Content. Co-written by Farrelly, Steve Leff (The Ranch) and Pete Jones (Hall Pass), The Now is the story of a guy who is…

Peter Farrelly, a newly minted Oscar winner for Green Book, has signed on to write and direct The Greatest Beer Run Ever (working title), based on Joanna Molloy and John "Chickie" Donohue’s book The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A True Story of Friendship Stronger Than War. Set up at Skydance, the dramedy is based on the…

Best Picture Oscar winner Green Book has driven past $200M global. The Participant Media and DreamWorks Pictures film from director Peter Farrelly hit the milestone with Wednesday’s updated grosses. That includes $77.3M domestically via Universal Pictures and $126.9M at the international box office through Amblin and…

Universal’s Green Book won the Best Picture Oscar on Sunday, coming out on top in the marquee Academy Awards category to wrap a wild, wide-open film awards season. It had been thought to be among at least three front-runners on the night along with Netflix’s Roma and 20th Century Fox’s Bohemian Rhapsody. Green Book…

Green Book beat out three other Best Picture contenders and the well-regarded First Reformed to claim the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie and Peter Farrelly took the stage, about an hour after the film’s Mahershala Ali won for Best Supporting Actor and their collective sigh of relief…

Originally, Focus Features was set to make the Peter Farrelly-directed feature Green Book, but ultimately passed on the project. Then Participant Media stepped up to finance the $23M dramedy about American pianist Don Shirley’s tour through 1960s American South, and the male-bonding that forms with his Italian…

EXCLUSIVE: On a recent Saturday morning, as I lamented a spate of curiously timed toxic Green Book stories that surfaced as the Oscar nomination voting began, right after the film won a Best Picture Golden Globe, I listened in the car as a sports radio host on New York’s WFAN randomly talked about how he’d seen a…

EXCLUSIVE: "I didn’t sleep much last night," Viggo Mortensen admits. "The building I'm in, the pipes burst on the top floor, and it was like a river of water coming down the stairways. It was insane, so we all had to leave the building, and I spent part of the night outside." Out in cold, snowy Toronto, Mortensen…

Normally, as Green Book has now done, when a movie starts out the season by taking the top People’s Choice prize at the Toronto Film Festival, launches awards-giving season with a Best Picture win at the National Board Of Review, then backs up its cred by taking the most Golden Globes including one for Best Picture…

EXCLUSIVE: Green Book co-writer Nick Vallelonga has apologized for a volatile tweet that surfaced last night. Vallelonga, whose father Tony Lip is the principal character played in the film by Viggo Mortensen, wasn’t reachable last night to answer why in 2015 he posted a tweet embracing a debunked Donald Trump…

Green Book director Peter Farrelly, accepting the Golden Globe for best film in the musical or comedy category, said the story about pianist Don Shirley and his Italian-American driver overcoming racial differences could offer a universal lesson. “If they can find common ground,” said Farrelly, who also wrote and exec…

In a surprise win, Universal/DreamWorks/Participant Media’s Green Book took best original screenplay at the Golden Globes on Sunday. Many awards season bloggers were betting on Fox Searchlight’s The Favourite or Annapurna’s Vice, but Green Book‘s win here is a potential indicator of what could be a best picture…