Oscar-winner and current nominee Octavia Spencer is set to reteam with her The Help director Tate Taylor for Blumhouse Productions’ twisted thriller, Ma. Production starts this month on the film that will also star Juliette Lewis and Luke Evans. Jason Blum and John Norris are producing. Plot details are sparse, but…

Fox has given a put pilot commitment to Filthy Rich, a soapy family drama from The Help writer-director Tate Taylor, Imagine Television and 20th Century Fox TV. Written and to be directed by Taylor, Filthy Rich is based on the New Zealand series of the same name. It revolves around the family of a mega-wealthy…

Emily Blunt practices what she preaches. As cinema is under increasing pressure to acknowledge and deliver work that appeals to more than white teenage males, so Blunt is using the profile she's developed through roles like The Devil Wears Prada, The Young Victoria and Sicario to bring to the screen fully-rounded…

EXCLUSIVE: The Help helmer Tate Taylor and partner John Norris have gotten help for their Wyolah Films banner, hiring producer Jacob Jaffke to be Head of Development & Production for Film & Television. This comes as Taylor is in post production on his adaptation of the Paula Hawkins bestselling thriller novel Girl On T…

Tate Taylor (The Help) is returning to DreamWorks to direct the NY Times bestselling novel, The Girl On The Train. Deadline exclusively revealed the news earlier this year that Erin Cressida Wilson (Secretary) was adapting  Paula Hawkins' thriller. Mark Platt and DreamWorks moved early to acquire the buzzy novel in…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. and Team Downey principals Robert Downey Jr and Susan Downey have enlisted Tate Taylor to direct and Mike Jones to script their untitled project on the USS Indianapolis. This is the harrowing WWII shark tale made famous by the chilling speech Robert Shaw's Quint character delivered to shipmates…

Veteran hair stylist Robert L. Stevenson has a clipping of a piece of fan art called "The Evolution of Samuel L. Jackson's Hair." He's very proud of it—a tribute to the many different styles he helped the actor create over 14 years of big-screen collaboration. "He was losing his hair at one point and said, 'If I just…

Star Chadwick Boseman and director Tate Taylor talk with Deadline’s Pete Hammond at our recent The Contenders event about making the James Brown biopic Get On Up. Boseman, in particular, shows his own magnetic personality in talking about playing the Godfather of Soul, one of music history’s most dynamic performers…

In The Heat Of The Night, a present-day drama series based on the Oscar-winning 1967 United Artists feature, has been put on fast-track development at Showtime. The project, written and directed by Tate Taylor — writer and director of The Help and director of the James Brown biopic Get On Up — was put together by the F…

Fox has its Miracle Mop project Joy with Jennifer Lawrence and director David O. Russell and now Sony Pictures’ has its Tupperware project. What’s next? Windshield wipers? Oh, wait, they made that movie already. Sony acquired author Bob Kealing’s non-fiction book Tupperware Unsealed for Sandra Bullock to star as the…

FilmNation Entertainment set The Help‘s Tate Taylor to helm In The Event Of A Moon Disaster, with liftoff scheduled for next year. FilmNation is producing and handling international and Taylor will produce with production partner John Norris. It’s based on a script by Mike Jones, and this premise: when Pulitzer Prize…

EXCLUSIVE: The Help helmer Tate Taylor will make his TV directing debut with the Netflix half-hour comedy Grace & Frankie toplined by Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. The 13-episode series, created by Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman and Howard J. Morris (Sullivan & Son) and executive produced by Paula Weinstein through…