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There has been buzz around the HBO high school drama Euphoria and its portrayal of drugs and sex. The show’s star Zendaya took to Instagram ahead of its Sunday night premiere to give a warning to audiences about the series to let them know that it’s not going to be your basic G-rated Saved by the Bell teen fare. “Just…

The Sam Levinson-directed Assassination Nation drew the biggest acquisition and became the buzziest title at January’s Sundance Film Festival. Today, the shocking and provocative film shoved aside the superheroes and usual fanboy fare from Hall H as the filmmakers took the stage to try to broaden its potential appeal…

EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: NEON indeed landed Assassination Nation, but they have a partner in what is the first eight-figure deal of the Sundance Film Festival. NEON acquired the picture with AGBO for north of $10 million for worldwide rights, and a wide release commitment. AGBO is the new progressive production company…

Premiering his wicked and wild first feature Another Happy Day at Sundance seven years ago, writer/director Sam Levinson returns this year with another stylish and haunting feature, Assassination Nation, which takes on a number of timely topics. A “thousand percent true story,” Levinson’s latest follows high school…

Sam Levinson returns to Sundance for his second feature film Assassination Nation, a wild ride that tells the story of how one town lost its mind when a provocateur starts posting details from the private digital lives of everyone in the small town of Salem. The pic is set for its world premiere tomorrow night in the…

"Do you think I'm a sociopath?" Bernie Madoff asks, in HBO TV movie The Wizard of Lies—a question posed to journalist Diana Henriques, but equally, to himself. Sentenced to 150 years in prison in 2009 at the age of 71, Bernie Madoff is one of America's most reviled and mythologized villains. As seen in Oscar-winning…

HBO has put in development Euphoria, an adaptation of the 2012 Israeli series of the same name. Written for American television by Sam Levinson (HBO’s Wizard of Lies), Euphoria is a look at the brutality and pleasures of teen existence today. It follows a group of high school students as they attempt to cope through…