Warner Bros. has pushed John Crowley’s feature adaptation of Donna Tartt’s novel The Goldfinch up a month from Oct. 11 to Sept. 13, as the drama starring Nicole Kidman, Sarah Paulson and Ansel Elgort is positioned for awards season (remember the Feb. 9 Oscars are earlier than usual in 2020). The Goldfinch follows a…

Former Warner Bros. global marketing and distribution boss Sue Kroll has announced her upcoming production slate in her new role as producer on the lot with her shingle Kroll & Co. Entertainment. While it has already been announced that Kroll will be an EP on the upcoming Oct. 5 Bradley Cooper movie A Star Is…

EXCLUSIVE: Willa Fitzgerald, who starred on MTV’s Scream offshoot, is in talks to co-star opposite Ansel Elgort and Sarah Paulson in the John Crowley-directed film adaptation of The Goldfinch, based on Donna Tartt's Pulitzer-winning novel. Peter Straughan wrote the screenplay, which centers around Theodore Decker…

Warner Bros. is moving the New Line Cinema Jeremy Renner-Ed Helms-Rashida Jones-Annabelle Wallis comedy Tag up from June 29 next year to June 15.  That’s where Disney’s Pixar The Incredibles 2 is, so Tag will counterprogram that film. We heard Incredibles 2 tested last night to great results. Tag runs away from the…

EXCLUSIVE: Brett Ratner reveals he has found his next directing project. It’s called The Libertine, and Johnny Depp is attached to a Ben Kopit script, with Lloyd Braun and Andrew Mittman producing. The focus is a powerful French politician who endures house arrest in a luxury NYC apartment while awaiting trial for…

Warner Bros has set Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy scribe Peter Straughan to adapt The Goldfinch, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Donna Tartt novel that RatPac Entertainment and Warner Bros acquired last summer. Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson of Color Force will produce with RatPac's Brett Ratner. James Packer is executive…

RatPac Entertainment has joined Warner Bros in the pursuit of movie rights to Donna Tartt's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller The Goldfinch. They finally closed the deal today for a film that will be produced by Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson of Color Force, along with RatPac's Brett Ratner, whose Hercules opened…