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A second group of filmmakers have petitioned WarnerMedia to reconsider its decision to shutter FilmStruck at month’s end. Here is . the second letter To whom it may concern at Turner and Warner Bros. Digital Networks: Roger Ebert once said "the movies are like a machine that generates empathy. It lets you understand a…

“I never lost the feeling that I had when I first read the book. I never lost the feeling that it was such a redemptive story and a story from a broken human spirit and that journey through and into the light, ” said A Million Little Pieces director Sam Taylor-Johnson despite the controversy surrounding the film’s…

A Million Little Pieces is as raw, bloody and messy as James Frey wrote it. With the startling intensity he shocked Toronto with in Nocturnal Animals two years ago, Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays Frey through his evolution from a hopeless, cornered animal descending down a drug-induced death spiral to someone who pulls…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA just signed best-selling author James Frey. This comes as Brad Weston’s Makeready and The Picture Company prepare to launch A Million Little Pieces, the screen version of the semi-autobiographical and controversial addiction novel that was adapted into a feature by Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Sam Taylor-Joh…

EXCLUSIVE: A Million Little Pieces, the screen adaptation of the James Frey book, is fast assembling for a January 25 production start. Billy Bob Thornton has joined Aaron Taylor-Johnson and director Sam Taylor-Johnson for the first film to go into production for Brad Weston’s producing/financing company Makeready…

EXCLUSIVE: Fifty Shades of Grey helmer Sam Taylor-Johnson has signed on to direct Netflix’s new, one-hour series Gypsy. By doing so, she leaves the indie feature Chappaquiddick. Both projects were vying for a summer start and Gypsy got the go-ahead from Netflix. Gypsy is a 10-episode psychological thriller created by…

Sam Taylor-Johnson is in talks to helm the Apex Entertainment feature Chappaquiddick, about the 1969 Ted Kennedy scandal. She has been available after declining to come back to the sequels after directing the smash adaptation of the EL James novel Fifty Shades Of Grey. Written by Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan, Chappaqu…

BREAKING: The rampant speculation that novelist EL James is adapting Fifty Shades Darker, the second installment of Fifty Shades Of Grey was off. The writer is Niall Leonard, who happens to be her husband. Director Sam Taylor Johnson fled after the first movie because she fought so hard with James over creative moves…

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Taylor-Johnson has made official what many suspected. She will not return for the second installment of the film franchise adaptation of E L James’ best-selling Fifty Shades Of Grey book trilogy for Universal. In an exclusive statement to Deadline, Taylor-Johnson said: “Directing Fifty Shades Of Grey…

Easily the most anticipated movie to be released so far in 2015, Fifty Shades Of Grey is finally upon us. So just in time for Valentine’s Day, we have a sado-masochistic love story. Well, maybe not, but it should do wonders for sales of sex toys. And, as I say in my video review above, there’s no question this movie…

The latest spot from 50 Shades of Grey, in what seemed like the 400th Universal Pictures-related trailer of the Super Bowl, debuted late in the game. In it, Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson star in the film adaptation of the hit book series. Sam Taylor-Johnson directs. The movie premieres on Valentine’s Day weekend…