Ma Rainey's Black Bottom director George C. Wolfe will direct Rustin, a movie about civil rights activist Bayard Rustin.
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Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black explains his creative process and teaches how to write a screenplay in a new video profile.
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As Carlton Cuse gets to work rewriting San Andreas 3D, he's about to get some stiff competition from his former Lost colleague J.J. Abrams. Abrams' Bad Robot and Universal are getting things moving again on their long-gestating disaster movie Earthquake, and have just set Milk scribe Dustin Lance Black to write the script. Bad Robot's Bryan…
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When Dustin Lance Black won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar in 2009 for Milk, his career exploded. He'd already written on HBO's Big Love but now Clint Eastwood wanted him for J. Edgar, he lined up a bunch of upcoming projects and even got to direct a screenplay of his own. That film, originally called…
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Every year during awards season, The Hollywood Reporter somehow organizes the schedules of basically every single actor, actress, writer and director of the year's best films to sit down and discuss them. This, in itself, is pretty spectacular. What's even better is they release the videos of the full conversations so we can watch. For…
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Clint Eastwood and Warner Bros. decided to skip this fall's festival circuit with the biopic J. Edgar. While a good many of the other major fall studio releases have been seen and reviewed in the past three weeks via Telluride, Venice and TIFF, we've seen nothing from this biography of America's most powerful lawman, the…
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Now that The Dark Tower has fallen at Universal, Ron Howard is free to explore some of the other projects that he has in various stages of development. As a start, he'll shoot the true-life Formula One racing movie Rush later this year, with Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl in the starring roles. Now we…
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Just as the original Broadway run of American Idiot is about to close, a movie based on Green Day's 2004 album -- something that has been a topic of discussion since the record first hit stands -- may have a screenwriter and a home at Universal. Dustin Lance Black (Milk, J. Edgar) is in talks…
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Formerly titled Hoover, Clint Eastwood's next film J. Edgar is slowly but surely putting its cast together and the latest piece of casting might provide a peak into the story. We already know that Leonardo DiCaprio is locked and loaded to play the original FBI director and that both Charlize Theron and Armie Hammer are…
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Clint Eastwood's biopic about original FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, written by Dustin Lance Black and set to star Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role, is preparing to add a new actor for a significant role. Armie Hammer from The Social Network is in talks to play Clyde Tolson, Hoover's second in command and rumored…
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Leonardo DiCaprio isn't married, but he's about to be unfaithful to his frequent collaborator Martin Scorsese. The pair met up via satellite in Hollywood this weekend to discuss several of their collaborations and each got to talking about their upcoming projects. Scorsese offered up some thoughts on Hugo Cabret ("It's going," he said) and DiCaprio…
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As we make the transition from fall to winter, a few things need to change.
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Clint Eastwood still hasn't got a final signed deal that will have Leonardo DiCaprio playing legendary FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, but the film Hoover is still moving forward. There's a report now saying that Joaquin Phoenix is Eastwood's top choice for another role in the film: associate FBI director and reported Hoover paramour Clyde…
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Here's another pack of new images for you. Bridesmaids may sound like a boilerplate matrimonial comedy to bookend the truly awful Bride Wars, but the film is from Kristen Wiig, Paul Feig and Judd Apatow. So barring any continued sense of Apatow fatigue (that is: hopefully the movie is under two and half hours long)…
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Last night we got a brief preview of some of the films that will appear in the always-entertaining Midnight Madness lineup at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Now we've got the full nine, which in addition to the three announced last night (Super, Bunraku and The Butcher, The Chef and the Swordsman) include John…
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Back in March, a bunch of news came out about a biopic of founding FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Milk's Dustin Lance Black wrote the script, and it was at Universal before the studio passed. The film ended up at Warner Bros. and Malpaso Productions, with Clint Eastwood set to direct. There was a rumor…
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Warner Bros has acquired the movie rights to Matt Kindt's graphic novel 3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man, which is published by Dark Horse Comics. HeatVision is reporting that the studio has already signed Dustin Lance Black, the Oscar-winning writer of Milk, to pen and direct the adaptation. Publisher's Weekly describes the…
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Leonardo DiCaprio is eyeing the lead role in the proposed biopic of original FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. The project is being written by Milk scribe Dustin Lance Black with Clint Eastwood attached to direct, and Brian Grazer on board to produce. This would be DiCaprio's first collaboration with Eastwood. According to Deadline, DiCaprio is…
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Just days ago we told you about a proposed biopic of original FBI director J. Edgar Hoover that is being written by Milk scribe Dustin Lance Black. Now the film has a director attached, and it isn't who I expected to hear signing on. Clint Eastwood is now attached as the film looks for a…
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Before Gus Van Sant's film Milk was released, many people who didn't watch Big Love wondered "who the hell is Dustin Lance Black?" That's the young writer who made his name on Big Love, and whose name was credited large in trailers for his collaboration with Van Sant. After seeing Milk, the question was more…
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