Acrimony continues to permeat relations between Netflix and most major theater chains, now that AMC, Regal, Cinemark and Carmike have all boycotted the release of Oscar-tipped African drama Beasts of No Nation following its $12 million acquisition by the streaming service.
In another aggressive foray into original feature acquisition, Netflix is nearing a $12 million deal to pick up Beasts of No Nation, the Cary Fukunaga-directed African drama starring Idris Elba.
Warner Bros. has snapped up rights to adapt It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War, a memoir by Lynsey Addario that the studio has snagged Steven Spielberg to direct and Jennifer Lawrence to star in.
Lifelong Oscar bridesmaid Leonardo DiCaprio is moving ahead with The Crowded Room, an extremely buzzy biopic in which he'll play Billy Milligan, the first person to successfully use multiple personality disorder as a legal defense.
Few names are on the tips of more Hollywood execs' tongues right now than John Green, the bestselling author behind The Fault in Our Stars. After that tearjerking novel became a cross-platform hit, landing atop bestseller charts and birthing a film adaptation that exploded at the box office, attention turned swiftly to Green's other books. Now, Temple Hill Entertainment has recruited Fault screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber to pen the adaptation of Looking for Alaska, with Fault producers Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen producing.
Yet another Hollywood star has been seduced by the creative freedoms of the small screen. Precious actress Paula Patton, who broke big with Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, just signed on to star in ABC's drug cartel drama pilot Runner, multiple sources confirm.
Once you're in with David O. Russell, you're really in. The Oscar-nominated director's next film, buzzy biopic Joy, will reunite him with American Hustle and Silver Linings Playbook stars Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro, ensuring another round of Oscar nominations for them all. Luckily, though, it won't be all familiar faces for Russell: Sideways actress Virginia Madsen has just joined the cast, The Hollywood Reporter confirms.
"I've spent three years making this film, and I don't really know what it's about," director Nicolas Winding Refn admits, head bowed as he sits on the edge of his bed, contemplating the agony and ectasy of Only God Forgives.
Between adaptations of John Green's The Fault in Our Stars and Gayle Forman's If I Stay, the summer of 2014 was an atypically soppy one for the YA crowd, but New Line is banking on there still being a hearty appetite for tearjerkers, having picked up film rights to Forman's latest, mystery romance I Was Here.
