• 'True Blood' Creator Alan Ball To Direct Dark Comedy For Paramount

    By Russ Fischer November 2nd, 2010

    Briefly: Alan Ball has quite a career as a writer and producer (Six Feet Under, True Blood, and there's his Oscar for American Beauty) but a thinner resume when it comes to directing theatrical features. In 2007, his adaptation of Alicia Erian's novel Towelhead was better than some narrow-minded controversy-stirring appraisals made it out to…

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  • The F-Word

    Alex Holdridge To Direct The F-Word - Fox Searchlight's Next 500 Days Of Summer?

    By Peter Sciretta August 11th, 2021

    Fox Searchlight has signed In Search of a Midnight Kiss helmer Alex Holdridge to direct The F-Word, a screenplay which was listed on the 2008 Black List (an insider Hollywood listing of the best unproduced screenplays of the year). The biggest surprise about the F-Word is that it isn't the four letter word F***. It's…

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