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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Kate Winslet has boarded Fake! a project that MGM has acquired for producer Jennifer Todd under her first look deal at the studio. Scott Z. Burns, who won rave reviews for his 2019 political drama The Report about idealistic Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones and his investigation into the CIA’s…

AMC has greenlighted National Anthem, an eight-episode musical dramedy anthology series from writer/director Scott Z. Burns (The Report, Contagion), and Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul executive producer Mark Johnson. Oscar and Grammy winning musician T Bone Burnett (Crazy Heart) is attached as the series' music…

How do you turn a 6,700-page government report into a gripping cinematic drama? That was the formidable challenge facing writer-director Scott Z. Burns for Amazon’s The Report, his true-life film on the investigation into the CIA's use of torture on terrorism suspects after the 9/11 attacks. "The story of the…

Director Scott Z. Burns is challenging Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to explain what parts of The Report are “fiction,” after Pompeo slammed the film on Twitter. The Amazon Studios drama centers on the CIA’s use of enhanced interrogation or torture. On Friday Pompeo tweeted: “I watched The Report. Fiction. To be…

EXCLUSIVE: It took more than five years and 20 drafts for Scott Z Burns to complete his screenplay for The Report, the Amazon Studios movie based on real events that centers on Daniel J Jones, a staffer of Sen. Dianne Feinstein who investigated the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program created post-9/11. Adam Drive…

Between her celebrated performances as the unraveling Nic in The Kids Are Alright, dying legend Gloria Grahame in Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, and one-third of the devious Grifters, Annette Bening has created a highly-respected filmography of complex female characters over three decades. But in the political…

At Deadline’s recent The Contenders Los Angeles all-day event at the DGA Theater in Hollywood, a main focus for the Amazon Studios portion of the day was its new drama The Report, which while still in theaters just began streaming on Amazon Prime. In front of a packed audience of Academy and key guild members…

Whistleblowers are quite the topic du jour, not only in the nation’s capital but also in the movies. Upcoming next week is Dark Waters, about one lone lawyer’s battle against DuPont Chemical, but this week brings The Report, which chronicles one man’s dogged five-year journey to shine a light on the U.S. government’s…

Debuting at the Sundance Film Festival in January, the second feature film by writer and producer Scott Z. Burns brings a stellar cast headed by Adam Driver. Driver stars as FBI agent Daniel J. Jones, a U.S. Senate investigator who questioned the CIA’s use of psychological torture on suspected terrorists after the…

At last night's AwardsLine Screening Series event for The Report, Annette Bening, who plays Senator Dianne Feinstein in Scott Z. Burns' movie, pointed to recent headlines about the whistleblower who raised concerns about the Trump White House's communication with a foreign leader as emblematic of the need for The Repor…

As this year's TIFF continues to spotlight stories of individuals taking on systemic injustice, Scott Z. Burns' The Report, which first premiered at Sundance, celebrates the indefatigability of Senate Select Committee investigator Daniel J. Jones as he struggled to pull together a 7,000-page report on the use of…

Scott Z. Burns has tackled some of the weightiest subject matter in a series of movies made in concert with Steven Soderbergh—movies like The Informant!, Contagion and Side Effects—in ways that are equal parts in-depth and accessible. But this year's double bill might represent his most comprehensive, and ever so…