Cher Is Ready To Turn Back Time With A Biopic From The Producers Of 'Mamma Mia!'
Forrest Gump writer Eric Roth is scripting a Cher biopic for Universal from the producing team behind Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again.
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Martin Scorsese's 'Killers Of The Flower Moon' Will "Be Like Nothing We've Ever Seen," Says Screenwriter Eric Roth
Eric Roth hypes up Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, saying "this one could be one of the great movies."
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'Killers Of The Flower Moon': Leonardo DiCaprio Demanded Rewrites On The Upcoming Martin Scorsese Movie
Writer Eric Roth confirms that Leonardo DiCaprio wanted some big rewrites on Martin Scorsese's upcoming Killers of the Flower Moon.
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David Fincher's 'Mank' Slated To Arrive On Netflix In October
The Mank release date has been set, bringing David Fincher's latest movie to Netflix sometime in October, according to the film's screenwriter Eric Roth.
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The Unmade 'Forrest Gump' Sequel Would've Been Out Of Its Damn Mind
Eric Roth drops some details of his Forrest Gump sequel script, and let's just say they sound pretty crazy.
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The Morning Watch: 'The LEGO Movie 2' Design Process, THR's Writers Roundtable & More
In this edition, go behind the scenes of The LEGO Movie 2 design process, watch an hour-long Hollywood Reporter writers roundtable, and more.
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The First Draft Of Denis Villeneuve's 'Dune' Is Done, Pre-Production Begins "Soon"
The Dune first draft has been completed, director Denis Villeneuve said of his adaptation of the notoriously dense sci-fi saga, confirming that the film project is set to enter pre-production soon.
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'House Of Cards' Spinoffs Being Planned At Netflix
Netflix is planning multiple House of Cards spinoffs, with one concept focused on Michael Kelly's Doug Stamper.
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'Forrest Gump' Writer To Pen Denis Villeneuve's 'Dune'
Oscar-winning Forrest Gump screenwriter Eric Roth is set as the Dune remake writer, which will be helmed by 'Arrival' director Denis Villeneuve.
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Cary Fukunaga Directing 'The Alienist' TV Series
An Alienist TV series is about to go into production, based on the Caleb Carr novel, and True Detective helmer Cary Fukunaga will direct.
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'Impossible' Director Juan Antonio Bayona To Do Sci-Fi Film For Warner Bros.
Briefly: Juan Antonio Bayona, a disciple of Guillermo Del Toro, first directed The Orphanage. He followed that with The Impossible, which garnered Naomi Watts an Oscar nomination. Next up, the former music video director will follow his famous friend to Warner Bros. where he'll direct an untitled sci-fi film written by Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, Munich, The Insider)…
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Watch THR's Hour Long Interview With 2011's Award-Worthy Writers
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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'Benjamin Button' Scribe Eric Roth To Rewrite 'Cleopatra,' Possibly For David Fincher
Eventually, audiences will see a new film about Cleopatra, it's just a question of when. Angelina Jolie has been attached to play the famous Pharaoh and filmmakers like James Cameron and Paul Greengrass have been attached to make a film based on Stacy Schiff‘s biography Cleopatra: A Life. The latest name attached is David Fincher…
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First Look: Tom Hanks And Thomas Horn In 'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close'
Warner Bros. evidently has high hopes for Stephen Daldry‘s adaptation of the Jonathan Safran Foer novel Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, as the studio recently set the film for a December 25 debut. Indeed, the novel, which is a quirky but heartfelt account of a young boy's attempt to uncover some family history in the…
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Eric Roth Rewriting 'Ripley's Believe It Or Not,' With Jim Carrey Still Attached To Star
A few years ago it looked like Tim Burton would direct Ripley's Believe It Or Not with Jim Carrey set to star as newspaperman Robert Ripley, who created an enduring brand as he collected stories of the exotic and unusual for his entertaining column. The movie didn't happen, but it turns out the script wasn't…
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Robert De Niro Confirms Al Pacino And Joe Pesci For Martin Scorsese's 'The Irishman'
Here's good news and bad news. The good news is that, yes, confirming recent reports, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci are still planning to be part of Martin Scorsese's film The Irishman, which is planned to star Robert De Niro as Mafia hitman Frank 'The Irishman' Sheeran. The bad news is that in talking about…
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Tom Hanks And Sandra Bullock Attached To Stephen Daldry's 'Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close'
Last time we checked in on Stephen Daldry's adaptation of the Jonathan Safran Foer novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Daldry had just officially signed on, though he'd been working on the project with producer Scott Rudin for some time. Now Warner Bros. and Paramount are close to a deal to co-produce the film, and…
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Crazy Heart Director May Helm 'The Hatfields And The McCoys' With Brad Pitt And Robert Duvall
I don't know how Brad Pitt really has time to schedule anything of late, but evidently he's trying to get The Hatfields and the McCoys made at Warner Bros. The film would cover the legendary American family feud, and now has Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper attached to direct. Jeff Wells got this info from…
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Scorsese And De Niro's 'The Irishman' To Be Two Films With A Heavy Fellini Influence?
It doesn't look like he's getting to it any time soon, but after Martin Scorsese finishes The Invention of Hugo Cabret and the planned follow-up Silence (his 'Jesuit priest drama') there has been talk of finally making The Irishman, which would reunite the director with Robert De Niro. The Irishman is based on the book…
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Stephen Daldry To Adapt Jonathan Safran Foer's Novel Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
The fiction of Jonathan Safran Foer represents a very specific way of looking at the world, and celebrate the ways in which language works and fails. Foer is extremely skilled at creating images that are both fantastic and genuine; his prose can generate such an impression of seeing things unfold that they seem like natural…
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David Fincher Adapting UK Mini-Series House Of Cards For Weekly US Series
Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of acclaimed UK television probably saw this coming. So many great series have been adapted or are on the verge, and one notable political project was missing: House of Cards, originally broadcast in 1990. Now David Fincher and his The Curious Case of Benjamin Button screenwriter Eric Roth are…
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Movie Review: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
[The following contains minor spoilers for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.] The premise of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button holds a great deal of promise: If you were forced to live life backwards, starting with old age and ending with infancy, how would you do it differently? If you experienced the tragic death…
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Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro And Eric Roth Want To Make A Film Within A Film
In October, it was reported that Martin Scorsese had signed on to direct Robert De Niro in an adaptation of Charles Brandt's 2005 novel I Heard You Paint Houses. Adapted by Schindler's List scribe Steve Zaillian, the movie will tell the story of Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran, a mob assassin who is believed to have…
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Eric Roth Goes Sci-Fi
Academy Award-winning screenwriter Eric Roth has announced that he will be going Sci-Fi. Roth has a "terrific idea" for a "BIG Space movie" for Warner Bros starting next year. Roth pitched his original concept to Collider as "somewhere between the intelligence of 2001 and the mythology of Star Wars". The idea is not "so intellectual…
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9/11 Killed The Forrest Gump Sequel
I just got off the phone with Academy Award winning screenwriter Eric Roth (Interview coming soon) and during my conversation about his latest film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, I had the opportunity to ask him about the long in development Forrest Gump sequel Gump & Co. Roth admitted that he hasn't been asked…
Read MoreSee The Movie Trailer For David Fincher’s The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Update: We've embedded the International version of the movie trailer in this posting. Want to see the movie trailer for David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button? I've heard it's playing in front of most prints of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. And word has it that the trailer won't…
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Forrest Gump 2 Back In Development?
It has been thirteen years since Forrest Gump captured audiences worldwide, and now we're hearing that the often talked about sequel is close to getting greenlit. CinemaBlend's "absolutely reliable, unfortunately anonymous source" is claiming that the project is back in development after years of sitting on the shelf. In 2001, Eric Roth wrote a screenplay…
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