Okay, let’s make this quick because I’m logging off, going outside and sitting quietly under a tree for the rest of eternity. Writer Aaron Sorkin (Charlie Wilson’s War, Studio 60) has joined Facebook. More importantly, he’s created a Facebook group where it’s announced he’s penning Facebook: The Movie (our title) for mega-producer Scott Rudin (NCFOM, [...]

A writer’s writer, author Richard Price (Clockers, The Wire) just released what is possibly his best reviewed novel yet, Lush Life, and now Oscar-winning producer Scott Rudin (No Country For Old Men) will produce the feature film adaptation with Miramax. Price will write the screenplay.
The novel centers around a murder that occurs when a restaurant [...]

In what will mark their second consecutive film examining the Jewish experience following 2009’s A Serious Man, Joel and Ethan Coen will write, direct and produce an adaptation of feted author Michael Chabon’s 2007 bestseller The Yiddish Policemen’s Union. Mega-producer Scott Rudin, who was behind the Coens’s No Country for Old Men as well as [...]