'Dopesick': Michael Keaton To Star In Hulu Series About America's Opioid Crisis
Michael Keaton returns to television to star in Dopesick, a new series from director Barry Levinson (Rain Man) that's heading to Hulu.
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Disney's 'Oliver!' Remake Hires Danny Strong To Write Script
I'd do anything to see the meetings that lead to a Disney Oliver! remake starring Ice Cube, written by Danny Strong, and directed by Hamilton's Tommy Kail
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Nicholas Hoult Will Play JD Salinger In 'Rebel In The Rye'
A new JD Salinger movie is in the works, this time a biopic rather than a documentary, from Empire TV series creator Danny Strong.
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Danny Strong Directing Dramatized JD Salinger Biopic
A new JD Salinger biopic, Salinger's War, is in the early stages based on efforts from actor/writer Danny Strong.
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'Hunger Games' Writer Penning 'Guys And Dolls' Remake
20th Century Fox's remake of the musical Guys and Dolls is starting to get lucky. Earlier this year, the studio closed a deal to remake the Broadway musical turned award-winning Hollywood film starring Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando. Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt were mentioned as two possible stars. However, at that time, no one…
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George Clooney, Julie Delpy, Jonas Cuaron And More Discuss Screenwriting In 50-Minute Video
One of the highlights of each new Oscar season is the set of roundtable discussions created by THR. In each of these, the trade gathers a set of people involved in various films likely to be highlighted in the awards season, and just allows them to talk about making movies. They can be pretty great,…
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Screenplay For 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1' Complete, 'Part 2' Now Underway
How is director Francis Lawrence possibly going to go from directing The Hunger Games: Catching Fire this year right into The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2 in 2014 and 2015 respectively? Might not be easy, but having his screenplays completed nice and early will help. Emmy-award winning screenwriter Danny Strong, recently in the news due to…
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Sequel Bits: 'Jack Reacher' Needs Asian Coin To Buy A Sequel, Plus Possible Dan Brown Movies, 'G.I. Joe: Retaliation,' 'Twins 2'
When Christopher McQuarrie was set to direct One Shot, which eventually became Jack Reacher starring Tom Cruise, the idea was to launch a franchise based on the dozen-plus Reacher books by Lee Child. Turns out that Jack Reacher may be the character's one shot at the big screen, at least in this incarnation. The movie wasn't…
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HBO Planning A 'Game Change' Sequel About The 2012 Election
Just one month after election night, the 2012 presidential campaign already feels like a distant memory. For most of us, that feels like a good thing. It's a relief to not have to think about debates, polls, stump speeches, email campaigns, political ads, and what have you for another couple of years. But HBO's eagerly preparing…
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'Game Change' Writer Danny Strong To Script 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay'
Briefly: The second Hunger Games film, Catching Fire, has just been shooting in and around Atlanta, but Lionsgate is already thinking forward to the next two films in the series which will adapt the third novel as two films. The first stage of the process in getting Mockingjay to work as a two-parter is scripting,…
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David O. Russell To Direct Robert De Niro-Produced, Danny Strong-Scripted Legal Drama For CBS
David O. Russell's experience working with his Silver Linings Playbook star Robert De Niro must've been a good one, because the pair are already looking to reunite. Nope, not for a sequel -- Russell and De Niro are headed to CBS, for a new legal drama written by Game Change scribe Danny Strong. The plot…
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Sequel Bits: '3D Sex And Zen' Sequel Goes 4D, Plus: 'Star Trek 2', 'The Lost Symbol', 'Men In Black 3'
Apparently, this tradition of each sequel going bigger than the last isn't just a Hollywood thing. It seems the folks behind that Avatar-defeating Chinese softcore film 3D Sex and Zen are determined to get even wilder this time around, and they've figured out just the way to do it. After the jump: - 3D Sex…
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Puffer Vests Aren't Going Anywhere This Winter — Ways To Style The Trend
We know that athleisure brands have perfected the puffer vest, but luxury brands are proving that the winter essential can be glamorous.
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'Game Change' Trailer – Julianne Moore's Sarah Palin Impersonation Gives Tina Fey's A Run For Its Money
Though the actual presidential elections are still eleven months away, if you've been paying even casual attention to the news you'll know the Republican fight for the nomination is already speeding along. What better time, then, to look back and remember the high drama of the last time we all went through this as a…
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Julianne Moore To Play Sarah Palin In 'Game Change'
Julianne Moore acted opposite Tina Fey last season on 30 Rock; now she'll be stepping into the comedienne's best-known role: Sarah Palin. Julianne Moore will play the former Alaska governor in Game Change, the Jay Roach-directed adaptation of John Heilemann and Mark Halperin's book about John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign. EW reports that Ms. moore…
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Jay Roach To Direct Obama-McCain Election Drama 'Game Change'
What do Austin Powers, the Fockers and Barack Obama have in common? As of this weekend, they're all characters directed by Jay Roach. HBO Films has confirmed that Roach would be directing Game Change, about the 2008 presidential race. The script will be adapted by screenwriter Danny Strong (a.k.a. Jonathan from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) from…
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Sugar Ray Robinson Biopic In The Works
To this day, Sugar Ray Robinson is still frequently cited as the greatest boxer of all time, but does his life warrant the big screen treatment? Producer Rachael Horovitz (State and Main, About Schmidt) seems to think so, as she and Recount screenwriter Danny Strong have optioned his biography Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times…
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What's Next For Tobey Maguire? Avatar Style Sci-Fi? True Story Drama?
Now he's had his webby tights ripped off, what might be next for Tobey Maguire? The answer, according to Steven Zeitchik's synidcated article (see it at AZCentral, for example) might hinge on what kind of career Maguire is looking to mold. There's a big-budget franchise-friendly path, and there's a lower road of more 'dramatic' work,…
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Recount Teaser Trailer
Each year a poll of 150 development executives and high-level assistants is compiled called the Black List. The resulting list contains a ranking of the hot screenplays making the rounds in Hollywood, which will not be released in theaters during that calendar year. The top three entries of the 2005 list where Things We Lost…
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