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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning Traffic scribe Stephen Gaghan will write and direct Barbarian Days for Amazon Studios, based on William Finnegan’s bestselling memoir Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life. The book won the Pulitzer Prize in 2016. Gaghan will produce alongside Ted Hope, who will produce under his multi-picture deal…

I was a fan of Eddie Murphy’s attempts to put a contemporary spin on the 100-year-old Hugo Lofting children’s book Dr. Dolittle in both its 1998 original and 2001 sequel. I even confess to really liking the critically bashed 1967 musical version starring Rex Harrison that still managed to nab a Best Picture…

Scandal alum Tony Goldwyn has been tapped as a lead opposite Uma Thurman in Chambers, Netflix's upcoming hourlong supernatural drama from Stephen Gaghan and Super Deluxe. Created and written by Leah Rachel, who co-showruns with Akela Cooper, Chambers centers on a young heart attack survivor who becomes consumed by the…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has set Antonio Banderas and is in talks with Michael Sheen for the key live action leads opposite Robert Downey Jr in The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle. Banderas plays a pirate named Rassouli and Sheen plays Mudfly alongside Downey’s title character in the Stephen Gaghan-directed film. In…

Netflix has given a 10-episode series order to Chambers, an hourlong supernatural drama. Created and written by Leah Rachel, with Akela Cooper (Marvel’s Luke Cage) as showrunner and Stephen Gaghan as executive producer, Chambers centers on a young heart attack survivor becomes consumed by the mystery surrounding the…

UPDATED – March 27, 2017: Universal Pictures' Untitled Doctor Dolittle project, starring Robert Downey Jr. as the title character, will be released on Friday, May 24, 2019. Directed by Academy Award winner Stephen Gaghan, the film is based on the enduring tales imagined by Hugh Lofting, with Gaghan writing the most…

Director Stephen Gaghan and producer Teddy Schwarzman came to Deadline’s all-day awards season event November 5th, The Contenders Presented By Deadline, as part of the Weinstein Company panel to tell the story of the making of their contender, Gold, a true movie adventure in the tradition of The Treasure Of The Sierra…

Working with Matthew McConaughey since 2001 romantic comedy The Wedding Planner, at a time when the actor was known primarily for a different kind of leading man, hair and makeup artist Felicity Bowring has found in the Oscar-winning actor a strong and involved collaborator on projects ranging from Bill Paxton’s Frailt…

EXCLUSIVE: The Weinstein Company-Dimension will move the Stephen Gaghan-directed adventure film Gold to a January 27 opening, from its original plan to open wide on December 25. TWC-Dimension co-chairman Bob Weinstein said that the film will have the required limited screenings to qualify for Oscars and Golden Globes…

Matthew McConaughey will receive the Caldwell Vineyards Maverick Actor Tribute at the 6th annual Napa Valley Film Festival, the festival organization has announced. The award honors outstanding contributions to the art of acting and cinematic story-telling. Along with the tribute, McConaughey’s upcoming film Gold…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney has closed a deal to acquire an untitled pitch that Oscar-winning Traffic scribe Stephen Gaghan will write to direct. Scant details were available, but I’m told that it is an adventure film involving Charles Darwin, the British naturalist and geologist who made breakthroughs in the areas of evolution…

EXCLUSIVE: The Weinstein Company has acquired U.S. rights to Gold, the Stephen Gaghan-directed film that will star Matthew McConaughey and Edgar Ramirez. The deal is in the vicinity of a $15 million minimum guarantee and a P&A guarantee north of $20 million to properly market a release on at least 2500 screens. That…