Many years ago, Oscar winner Tom McCarthy was approached with Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made, one in a series of best-selling children's books by Stephan Pastis.
"A colleague of mine, Kate Churchill, put it on my desk and said, 'I just read this book. It just came out, and I thought it was really funny. I don't…
Tom McCarthy, Oscar-winning writer, director and producer behind films such as Spotlight and Up, Netflix’s hit series 13 Reasons Why and Showtime’s The Loudest Voice, has signed a multi-year overall deal with Fox 21 Television Studios to create, develop, direct and produce series for network, cable and streaming…
Focus Features will open Participant Media's untitled Tom McCarthy project ne Stillwateron Friday, Nov. 6, 2020 in limited release with a further expansion on Nov. 13 and Nov. 20. That’s the same platform release pattern as McCarthy’s Best Picture Oscar winner Spotlight back in November 2015, which he took home an…
Oscar winners Matt Damon and Tom McCarthy are joining forces for Stillwater, a feature to star Damon directed by McCarthy. Participant Media is on board to finance and produce the pic which is planned for release through Participant's output arrangements via Amblin Partners.
Co-written by McCarthy, Thomas Bidegain and…
EXCLUSIVE: British actress Ophelia Lovibond has landed the role of Patty Failure in Disney’s Timmy Failure, the Tom McCarthy-directed film, which will be released on the studio’s forthcoming streaming service.
Based on the book of the same name, the storyline centers on Timmy, the clueless, comically self-confident…
EXCLUSIVE: Participant Media has acquired feature rights to S-Town, the This American Life podcast. Spotlight‘s Tom McCarthy is in negotiations to direct the film and playwright Samuel Hunter is in talks to write the script. This American Life will also produce.
S-Town began as a podcast from Serial and This American L…
EXCLUSIVE: The Disney streaming service is beginning to crystallize, and Deadline can provide some details of the initial slate. The studio has been conducting meetings within the creative community to give a sense of its new OTT service that will launch in fall 2019. Perhaps not surprisingly at this point, there was…
Booking her first lead role with Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, Katherine Langford left her native Australia behind, getting a crash course in screen acting while confronting tremendously dark and challenging material.
Based on the bestselling novel by Jay Asher, the series centers on the suicide of Hannah (Langford)…
BREAKING: Blumhouse has launched an independent television studio with ITV Studios acquiring a 45 per cent stake. This investment, which values the company at $80 million, according to sources, gives Blumhouse Television the ability to be a true independent studio with the ability to finance and producing original…
Launching its 13-episode first season at midnight on Netflix, 13 Reasons Why — written by Brian Yorkey and executive produced by Selena Gomez — is really quite well done and worth watching. Based on Jay Asher's bestselling 2007 YA novel, the small-screen adaptation powerfully and astutely addresses the many unseen…
Spotlight director Tom McCarthy helms some episodes of Netflix’s anticipated Young Adult drama 13 Reasons Why, the series created by Pulitzer Prize winner Brian Yorkey. The streaming service has now debuted the first official trailer for the Dylan Minnette- and Katherine Langford-led mystery that’s set amid the…
Roger Ailes is getting the Spotlight treatment. The recently ousted Fox News topper will be the subject of a limited series from Oscar-winning Spotlight co-writer/director Tom McCarthy, Blumhouse Television (Emmy-winning The Jinx, The Normal Heart) and journalists Gabriel Sherman and Jennifer Stahl.
The series will be…
