Two-time Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali has signed on to produce and star in the “genre-bending drama” Swan Song for Apple TV+. Fellow Academy Award winner Benjamin Cleary – who secured an Oscar for Best Live-Action Short in 2016 for Stutterer – will write and direct the film. The project is set in the near future and “explores[…]
Adam McKay is an incredibly busy man. The Big Short filmmaker has multiple HBO projects in the works; one about the Showtime-era Los Angeles Lakers, and another covering the Jeffrey Epstein story. Alongside those, he’s also collaborating with Bong Joon-ho on a Parasite limited series, and will write and direct an anthology series titled The Uninhabitable Earth. […]
A24 has secured the North American rights to one of the hottest indies that was about to enter the European Film Market. French auteur Claire Denis made her first English-language film two years ago with the beguiling and atmospheric sci-fi High Life, which A24 snapped up, and they’ve done so again for her latest film, The Stars At Noon.[…]
Martin McDonagh had already been a popular director in some circles before 2017’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri truly put him on the map thanks to a host of Oscar nominations, including acting wins for Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell. In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths had already become cult favourite black comedies, and the director may be heading back[…]
Dexter Fletcher‘s Elton John biopic Rocketman was a success for Paramount last year, and the studio wants to do business with the filmmaker again. The studio has hired Fletcher to helm a reboot of action/thriller The Saint. The Saint is based on a series of books written by Leslie Charteris in the 1920s. They revolved around Simon Templar,[…]