EXCLUSIVE: Bleecker Street has partnered with ShivHans Pictures for the release of Brian Banks, the true story about an All-American football player who went to prison for a crime he did not commit. Directed by Tom Shadyac, the pic premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival, where it picked up the Audience Award. It…

EXCLUSIVE: The Los Angeles Film Festival is on the move from June to this month, where it opens on Thursday with the world premiere of the music documentary Echo in the Canyon. Over the course of the next week, the festival will be offering an array of cinematic programming of all kinds including several more world…

EXCLUSIVE: Melanie Liburd, who co-stars on Netflix’s Gypsy, has been set to join the cast of Brian Banks, a biopic starring Aldis Hodge and Greg Kinnear. The Tom Shadyac-directed biopic tells the story of Banks (Hodge), an All-American high school football player committed to USC whose life was upended in 2002 when he…

EXCLUSIVE: Aldis Hodge (Underground) and Greg Kinnear are set to topline the Tom Shadyac-directed Brian Banks for producer Amy Baer’s Gidden Media and ShivHans Pictures. The biopic tells the story of Banks (Hodge), an All-American high school football player committed to USC by his junior year whose life was upended…

Tom Shadyac will direct the Doug Atchison-scripted drama revolving around Brian Banks, a star football player whose path to the pros was undone by a wrongful imprisonment and ultimate exoneration. Trumbo and Captain Fantastic financier Shivani Rawat will back this through her ShivHans Pictures label. Production will…

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Shadyac has signed with Paradigm. The agency will try to help the writer-director-producer regain the early career mojo he enjoyed when he was as close to a can’t-miss hitmaker as any comedy director in Hollywood. His billion-dollar run started with his feature debut Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, and the…

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Shadyac, once a prolific director of blockbuster comedies before a near-death experience sent him on a life-changing journey chronicled in his feature documentary I Am, is returning to laffer mode. Shadyac is in talks with The Weinstein Company to helm its remake of the Olivier Nakache/Eric Toledano…

EXCLUSIVE: After Dan Aloni exited CAA and was quickly named a WME partner, the big question was how many of the clients he worked with would jump. Deadline told you that his biggest client, Chris Nolan, declared before Aloni landed that he was staying with his longtime agent wherever he went. I’m hearing that aside…

Tom Shadyac’s documentary I Am will kick off OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network’s Super Soul Sunday programming block on January 1, 2012. Onetime hit feature director Shadyac’s life took quite a turn after he suffered a concussion in a cycling accident that left him unable to work for months. The director of Liar Liar, The Nut…

Here’s a trailer for I Am, the documentary chronicling Tom Shadyac’s radical change of life. As a director, Shadyac was a hit machine until Evan Almighty. As Deadline previously <a href="http://Tom%20Shadyac%20Makes%20Paladin%20Deal%20For%20His%20Change-Of-Life%20Documentary%20'I%20Am'" rel="nofollow"…

Last we heard from Tom Shadyac, he’d captained the first giant flop of a mostly hit-filled resume, with the bloated Noah’s Ark pic Evan Almighty. That led to his exit from the Universal lot where he generated such blockbusters as Bruce Almighty,  Liar Liar, Patch Adams and The Nutty Professor. Turns out, Shadyac has…