Latest in Zoey Deutch

Before I Fall star Zoey Deutch will test her zombie apocalypse survival skills in Zombieland 2, Sony’s follow-up to the 2009 sleeper hit. Ruben Fleischer, who is coming off the box office success of Venom, is returning to helm the sequel with the original stars — Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, and…

EXCLUSIVE: Saban Films and DirecTV have closed a deal worth around $3 million for the North American rights to Richard Says Goodbye, the Wayne Roberts-directed drama that stars Johnny Depp, Zoey Deutch and Rosemarie DeWitt. The drama follows a college professor who lives his life with reckless abandon after being…

EXCLUSIVE: Judy Greer, last seen in Disney/Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp, has signed on to co-star in Buffaloed, an indie comedy-drama starring Zoey Deutch, who also is producing. Tanya Wexler is directing the film, which is set in the underworld of debt collecting and follows homegrown hustler Peg Dahl (Deutch), who…

Before I Fall actress Zoey Deutch will star in and produce the debt collector dramedy Buffaloed, which begins production tomorrow in Toronto. Lost City, producers of Drake Doremus's Newness, and Bold Crayon will produce and finance the film that Tanya Wexler (Hysteria) will direct from actor-turned-writer Brian…

Zoey Deutch, Lucy Boynton, Laura Dreyfuss and Rahne Jones have been cast as series regulars opposite Ben Platt in Ryan Murphy's Netflix hourlong comedy series The Politician. Gwyneth Paltrow also is expected to be in the series, from Glee creators Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan, while Barbra Streisand has been…

Max Winkler has mastered both sides of TV and film as director of such comedy series as Brooklyn Nine-Nine and New Girl as well as indie films like 2010 Ceremony starring Uma Thurman and Michael Angarano. He comes to the Tribeca Film Festival this year with Flower, a sexually charged teenage comedy that not only is a…

Deadline’s studio at the Tribeca Film Festival kicked off the first of five talent-filled days at the NYC fest with visits by Zoey Deutch and Max Winkler (Flower), Julian Sands (The Escape), Tom Bernard & Michael Barker of Sony Pictures Classics, and many more. Photographer Mark Mann is behind the lens for our series…

"The story behind how he came to write the book is unbelievable," Danny Strong said at the Sundance Film Festival about J.D. Salinger and the creation of The Catcher in the Rye. "It's this unbelievably powerful story of someone who went to war and was traumatized," the Rebel in the Rye director and writer added of the…

A filmmaker known largely for 2012’s Nobody Walks—a 2012 Grand Jury Prize nominee starring Olivia Thirlby and John Krasinski—filmmaker Ry-Russo Young is back at Sundance in 2017 with Before I Fall, a young adult drama based on Lauren Oliver’s bestselling novel. Set for distribution by Open Road Films for a March 3…

EXCLUSIVE: Zoey Deutch, Kathryn Hahn, Tim Heidecker and Adam Scott have been set to star in Flower, the Max Winkler-directed coming-of-age story. The script, which made the Black List, was written by YA author-turned scribe Alex McAulay. Pic, about an unlikely bond that forms between a sexually adventurous teenage…

EXCLUSIVE: Open Road closed a deal last night in Cannes for U.S. rights to Before I Fall, the Ry Russo-Young-directed adaptation of the  2010 Lauren Oliver bestselling YA novel. Open Road committed to a wide release of 2000 screens and won the film, which screened here for U.S. and international buyers. UTA…

The crowd full of Austinites at the city’s Paramount Theater absolutely loved Everybody Wants Some, Richard Linklater’s latest film that is to Texas in 1980 what his earlier Dazed and Confused was to Texas in 1976. They laughed so loudly at the jokes it obscured subsequent dialogue, clapped outright during a couple of…