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EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that The Discovery filmmaker Charlie McDowell has inked with CAA and Black Bear Management. McDowell will be managed by Black Bear in tandem with LBI. McDowell most recently directed Windfall, starring Lily Collins, Jason Segel, and Jesse Plemons, which sold to Netflix in an…

Whenever marketing materials label anything “a Hitchcockian thriller,” beware. The invoking of the great Sir Alfred’s name for any run-of-the-mill suspense drama should not imply it is on the level with the best works of the filmmaker who defined a genre and has become perhaps the most copied director of all time. The…

Netflix’s Formula 1: Drive To Survive director Nick Hardie is behind a documentary feature following elite Olympic climbers from the US, UK, Slovenia and Japan, which is being backed by Adidas. The Wall – Climb for Gold will chart Brooke Raboutou, Shauna Coxsey, Janja Garnbret and Miho Nonaka’s journey to this year’s…

Netflix has acquired the modern-day noir pic Windfall, from director Charlie McDowell with Jason Segel, Lily Collins and Jesse Plemons starring. Segel and McDowell also developed the story, with Justin Lader and Andrew Kevin Walker penning the script. Production wrapped earlier this year. Sources say Netflix…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has added a bevy of actors to the Michael Scott-directed original feature thriller Windfall including Jessie T. Usher (Independence Day: Resurgence, Shaft), Jamie Chung (The Gifted, Big Hero 6), Cam Gigandet (Ice, Twilight, The Magnificent Seven) with Sasha Alexander (Shameless, Bernard and Huey)…

EXCLUSIVE: Camila Mendes, one of the stars of CW’s hit YA series, Riverdale, has been tapped to topline the Netflix original film, Windfall, which will be directed by Michael Scott. Mendes stars as Katie, a young woman who abandons her medical profession dreams in order to support her husband’s ambitions. Written by…