Don Winslow's 'City On Fire' Mob War Trilogy Acquired By Sony In 7-Figure Deal
Sony has acquired the City on Fire movie rights to Don Winslow's crime trilogy in a mid-seven figures plus performance bonuses.
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'A Cool Breeze On The Underground': Cory Finley Will Direct Don Winslow TV Adaptation Executive Produced By Rian Johnson
Don Winslow's A Cool Breeze On The Underground is being adapted for TV by Cory Finley, with Rian Johnson executive producing.
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Don Winslow Says No Adaptation Of His Books Will Film In Georgia Until Voter Suppression Is Addressed
The author of The Force wants Hollywood to boycott Georgia, promising no adaptation of his books will film in the state until voter suppression is fixed.
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'The Force' Movie: Matt Damon Reunites With Director James Mangold For Don Winslow Crime Thriller
Matt Damon will reunite with his Ford v Ferrari director James Mangold in The Force movie, an adaptation of Don Winslow's 2017 bestselling thriller novel.
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Don Winslow's 'Cartel' Trilogy Is Becoming An FX Series
FX has picked up The Cartel TV series rights to adapt the Don Winslow Cartel trilogy, which include The Power of the Dog, The Cartel, and The Border.
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'Logan' Filmmakers Reunite For 'The Force' Movie
The Logan team of James Mangold and Scott Frank will reunite for The Force movie, adapted from the novel by Don Winslow.
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'Logan' Director James Mangold In Talks To Direct Don Winslow's 'The Force'
Coming off the success of Logan, James Mangold is in talks to direct an adaptation of Don Winslow's The Force. Learn about the James Mangold cop movie.
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Michael Mann And Don Winslow Working On A Tony Accardo And Sam Giancana Biopic
The other day we learned of Michael Mann Books. Michael Mann's new venture is already working on a Heat prequel and a Tony Accardo and Sam Giancana biopic.
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William Friedkin Developing Don Winslow's 'The Winter Of Frankie Machine'
It's a thrill to see William Friedkin developing new projects. He's got his hands in a TV show based on his own film To Live and Die in L.A., and now he's moving forward with a film based on Don Winslow's novel The Winter of Frankie Machine, about a retired mob killer with a new life as…
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Ridley Scott To Direct Film Based On Don Winslow Novel 'The Cartel' [Updated]
Ridley Scott may go back to the drug trade at some point in the future. The director explored some ugly inevitabilities of the drug trade in The Counselor, and now he is signed to make a film based on Don Winslow's recent novel The Cartel. The novel, which follows ten years' worth of the diverging paths…
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First Footage From Oliver Stone's 'Savages' Has A Colorful '90s Glow
Think back to the Oliver Stone films of the 1990s. Not so much JFK and Nixon; more like U-Turn, Natural Born Killers and Any Given Sunday. Those films had a stylized, hyper-saturated color palette that clearly gave Tony Scott some ideas. For instance, on U-Turn, Stone's cinematographer Robert Richardson shot on reversal film stock --…
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Warner Bros. Could Launch A Leonardo DiCaprio Spy Franchise With 'Satori'
Would you like to see Leonardo DiCaprio playing a WWII-era character raised in Japan, trained as an assassin and playing a part in the political power games of the early '50s? Warner Bros. is thinking you might, and so the studio is developing a film based on Don Winslow's novel Satori, which features exactly that…
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Casting Bits: Scarlett Johansson In 'Can A Song Save Your Life?', Mia Maestro In 'Savages', Jake T. Austin In 'Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn', Brandon Fehr In 'Roswell FM'
Scarlett Johansson may seem like an unlikely lead for a Judd Apatow film, but in this context her casting actually makes a lot of sense. Johansson has signed on to star in Can a Song Save Your Life?, which will be written and directed by John Carney (Once) and produced by Apatow. The film follows “a…
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Casting Bits: Robin Williams In 'Gently Down The Stream;' Joel David Moore In 'Savages;' Katie Cassidy In 'Freaky Deaky'
We had a couple of days where mid-level casting for a lot of projects was going crazy. Maybe there was something in the air; maybe casting directors and agents just all got together and had a field day. It's been a bit slower today, but still there are a couple of items to catch up…
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Demian Bichir Joining Oliver Stone's 'Savages,' Which Is Also Getting A Print Prequel
From Weeds to weed -- Demian Bichir is making the move into Oliver Stone's world. The director is making Savages, based on the book by Don Winslow. He already has quite the cast lined up: Taylor Kitsch and Aaron Johnson play up and coming pot dealers coerced into working for a drug cartel when their…
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Jennifer Lawrence To Star In 'Savages' For Oliver Stone
At this time last year, the name Jennifer Lawrence meant very little to casting directors in Hollywood. Now she has an Oscar-nomination under her belt, is about to be a super hero and is set to top line an Oliver Stone movie. Lawrence is in final talks to star in Savages, based on a critically-acclaimed…
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Oliver Stone To Direct Don Winslow's Drug Cartel Thriller Savages
Deadline is reporting that Oliver Stone has signed a deal to direct a big screen adaptation of Don Winslow's drug cartel thriller Savages, which the director hopes to helm after Wall Street 2. The 320-page novel will be published by Simon & Schuster in July (available for preorder on Amazon for $16.50). The book tells…
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