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EXCLUSIVE: Take a prurient peek at the first Netflix trailer for Voyeur, the Josh Koury & Myles Kane-directed documentary feature which had its premiere at the New York Film Festival and opens in a handful of theaters and on the streaming site December 1. The film follows iconic journalist Gay Talese as he researched…

The Bart & Fleming Podcast this week focuses on why Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is investigating China's big buys in Hollywood. Also up for discussion: Will Martin Scorsese's new film Silence play as well for Oscar voters as it did for the Vatican? And how did deals for The Voyeur's Motel blow away for both Sam Mendes…

Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business. FLEMING: We have some more news to reveal on Voyeur's Motel, the Gay Talese book that sold movie rights to DreamWorks — with Sam Mend…

This week’s installment of The Bart & Fleming Podcast, Episode #4, centers on the resurgence of fact-based movies this awards season, ranging from Jackie to Mark Wahlberg’s Patriots Day, and the controversies they inevitably stir. Also discussed: The reasons why DreamWorks and Sam Mendes abruptly cancelled plans to…

It's the deal that blew away, but no one agrees on why. The million-dollar deal for The Voyeur's Motel involved such high-profile players as Steven Spielberg, Sam Mendes, Jason Blum and Gay Talese, but now it has disappeared into a rabbit hole. The project started as a 15,000-word article in The New Yorker by Talese…

EXCLUSIVE: The movie adaptation of the Gay Talese book The Voyeur's Motel that Sam Mendes planned to direct and produce with Steven Spielberg at DreamWorks has just been killed. This is the latest and most jarring turn in a twisted and messy road the project has followed after Talese published a book excerpt in The New…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s yet another new twist in the saga of The Voyeur’s Motel, the Gay Talese book about a voyeuristic motel owner named Gerald Foos that sold in a million-dollar screen rights auction to DreamWorks for a film that Sam Mendes might direct. While there was speculation over that film’s future after the Wash…

Yesterday Gay Talese disavowed his book The Voyeur’s Motel citing credibility problems with the man who told him the story. This morning, he and the publisher now stand by it. As the flip-flops surface this AM, those in Hollywood who optioned what they thought was a true story for close to $1M earlier this year are…

EXCLUSIVE: Krysty Wilson-Cairns is set to write the film adaptation of Gay Talese's The Voyeur’s Motel which Sam Mendes will direct and produce at DreamWorks Pictures with Steven Spielberg also producing. The hot project that was taken off the market for close to $1M two months ago is being adapted from Talese’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Mendes and DreamWorks have captured screen rights to the Gay Talese article The Voyeur’s Motel that got the town all hot and bothered when the April 11th The New Yorker article hit. Mendes will direct and produce with Steven Spielberg a film based on the article and a book that Talese has written. The…