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Exclusive: HBO’s Untitled Brad Ingelsby Task Force Project (working title) has three new recurring cast members: Owen Teague (Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes), Dominic Colón (Power), and Margarita Levieva (The Deuce).

Teague plays Peaches, Robbie and Cliff’s co-worker by day and henchman by night. Colón portrays Deric “Breaker,” the Vice-President of a dangerous biker gang and Jayson’s right hand. Levieva’s character is Eryn, Jayson’s tough and cunning wife.

Mark Ruffalo leads the ensemble as FBI agent Tom. Additional previously announced cast includes Tom Pelphrey as Robbie; Emilia Jones as Maeve; Thuso Mbedu as Aleah; Raúl Castillo as Cliff; Jamie McShane as Perry; Sam Keeley as Jayson; Fabien Frankel as Anthony; and Alison Oliver as Lizzie.

A crime drama based on an original idea from Mare of Easttown creator Ingelsby, the show is set in the working class suburbs outside of Philadelphia, where Ruffalo...

The list of directors who put their trust in Robby Müller could constitute a nice history of post-war cinema. A retrospective of films on which he served as Dp reflects accordingly––so’s the case with Metrograph’s “Robby Müller: Remain in Light,” which starts on Friday, September 29, and for which we’re glad to debut the trailer.

Contained therein are bits and pieces of what Metrograph attendees can anticipate. The series will offer a chance to see (among others) 24 Hour Party People, Alice in the Cities, The American Friend, Barfly, Breaking the Waves, Dead Man, Down by Law, Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai, Kings of the Road, Korczak, Living the Light – Robby Müller, Mystery Train, Repo Man, Saint Jack, To Live and Die in L.A., When Pigs Fly, The Wrong Move, and Paris, Texas. The opening night will be anchored by “a panel on Müller’s continued influence on filmmaking,...

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It's been ten years this week since Blue Jasmine arrived in theaters, kickstarting one of the most unwavering award sweeps in living memory. After a period where she dedicated most of her attention to the theater, Cate Blanchett returned to big screen leading lady status with Woody Allen's San Francisco-set Madoff-inspired spin on A Streetcar Named Desire. Her Jasmine is a modern Blanche Dubois bedecked in Chanel, a showcase for thespian pyrotechnics so immense nobody can be left indifferent. No wonder so many count the performance as Blanchett's best and one of the top Best Actress winners of the 21st century. I understand and even grasp the grandeur that enchanted Oscar voters, critics, cinephiles everywhere.

And yet, I can't deny a certain skepticism when faced with the achievement itself, finding it highlights many of the issues I often have with Blanchett on screen. Maybe I am a Blanchett agnostic…...

Exclusive: Veteran actor Richard Dreyfuss, best known for his Oscar-winning turn in The Goodbye Girl, has signed with Innovative Artists for representation.

Dreyfuss made his name starring in many of the most influential films of the New Hollywood period, including George Lucas’s pre-Star Wars, hangout pic American Graffiti alongside Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Other credits include The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, and What About Bob?

Dreyfuss won the Best Actor Oscar in 1978 for his performance as Elliot Garfield in Herbert Ross’ popular romantic comedy The Goodbye Girl. At the time, Dreyfuss became the youngest man (age 30) to win an Oscar for Best Actor. That year Dreyfuss beat out Woody Allen, who was nominated for Manhattan, and John Travolta for Saturday Night Fever.

The film, written by Neil Simon, follows an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter who,...

Exclusive: Michael Urie (Shrinking), Laura Benanti (Gossip Girl) and Danny Deferrari (Oppenheimer) will round out the cast of the comedy Goodrich toplined by Michael Keaton and Mila Kunis, which is currently in production in Los Angeles. No details on their roles have been disclosed.

The film set in contemporary Los Angeles during the holidays tells the story of art dealer Andy Goodrich (Keaton), a man whose life is upended when his younger second wife leaves him and enters a 90-day rehab program while also threatening divorce. Andy takes charge of their nine-year-old twins, thrusting him into the world of modern parenthood for which he is deeply unprepared. With his career falling by the wayside, Andy leans on his grown and pregnant daughter Grace (Kunis) for support, and ultimately evolves into the father Grace never had. With all his relationships being put to the test, Andy learns the true meaning of having it all.

Exclusive: Sunita Mani will topline the horror Wilder Than Her from Bombo Sports & Entertainment, which has wrapped production in Guerneville, CA. The three other leads for the film, written and directed by Jessica Kozak, are Kate Easton (When They See Us), Kayla Foster (Call Jane) and Danny Deferrari (Oppenheimer).

Examining grief, gaslighting and female friendship with a thriller twist, Wilder Than Her picks up with tight-knit friends Emilia, Finn and Lucey as they attempt to reconnect on an annual camping trip, after the death of their best friend Bea. But things grow increasingly strange and uncomfortable in the isolated forest as their friendship unravels.

Kozak’s script for Wilder Than Her was selected for the 2020 Blood List as one of the best unproduced genre scripts of the year. Bombo’s Head of Development, Shannon Reilly, is producing the film alongside Chelsea Davenport and Kimberly Hwang, with...

Exclusive: Guy Burnet (Counterpart) and Danny Deferrari (Shiva Baby) are the latest additions to the cast of Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer for Universal.

They join an ensemble led by Cillian Murphy that also includes Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Rami Malek, Benny Safdie, Josh Hartnett, Dane DeHaan, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Dylan Arnold, David Krumholtz, Alden Ehrenreich, David Dastmalchian, Olli Haaskivi, Jason Clarke, James D’Arcy and Michael Angarano, as previously announced.

In Nolan’s latest, which is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin, Murphy plays the theoretical physicist whose work on the Manhattan Project led to the atomic bomb. The film is a paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.

Nolan is directing from his own script...

Actor Peter Scolari is dead at age 66 after a two-year battle with cancer. He starred alongside Tom Hanks in “Bosom Buddies” for two years in the early 1980s for ABC. He then followed up with a long-running role as a small town TV producer opposite Bob Newhart on “Newhart,” which brought him three Emmy nominations.

He finally won an Emmy Award in 2016 as Best Comedy Guest Actor after initially not even being nominated. Following Gold Derby’s reporting that summer (see report here), Peter MacNicol was deemed ineligible for “Veep” due to appearing in too many episodes of that HBO comedy. Scolari was just out of a nomination in seventh place for “Girls” on HBO where he played the father of Lena Dunham‘s character Hannah, so the Television Academy gave him that nomination slot instead. Watch our short backstage video in the Emmy press room has Scolari discusses that unusual turn of events.

Peter Scolari, who rose to stardom on the brilliant-but-canceled “Bosom Buddies” alongside Tom Hanks, died Friday morning at age 66 of cancer, after a two-year illness.

His death was confirmed by his manager Ellen Lubin Sanitsky at Wright Entertainment.

Scolari was a prolific actor, both on television and on Broadway. He won an Emmy in 2016 for his portrayal of Tad Horvath on “Girls,” the father of Hannah (Lena Dunham). From 1987-1989, he was nominated three times for supporting actor Emmys for his role as Michael Harris on “Newhart,” Bob Newhart’s beloved CBS comedy.

On Friday, Newhart issued a statement to Variety: “I knew that Peter was sick, but his death still comes as a great shock. We were friends and colleagues for over 40 years. Julia [Duffy] and Peter, as a vacuous couple (Michael and Stephanie), were an essential part of the success of ‘Newhart.’ In life, he was a fantastic person,...

Ellie Kemper (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Luke Grimes (Yellowstone), Nico Santos (Crazy Rich Asians) and Blythe Danner (I’ll See You in My Dreams) have signed on to star in Happiness for Beginners, a Netflix romantic comedy from writer-director Vicky Wight.

The film is based on Katherine Center’s novel of the same name and centers on Helen (Kemper), who signs up for a wilderness survival course a year after getting divorced. She discovers through this experience that in getting she has found herself.

Wight is producing the film with Geoff Linville and Berry Meyerowitz. Jeff Sackman and Larry Greenburg are its executive producers. Information on the roles to be played by Grimes, Santos and Danner has not yet been disclosed.

Kemper is a two-time Emmy nominee perhaps best known for her starring turn in Netflix comedy series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and for her portrayal of Erin Hannon...

What makes a great TV showrunner or producer? What do you wish you knew when you first started out about the ups and downs of TV production that you know now? What film or series inspired you to work in television?

These were some of the questions answered by five of today’s top TV showrunners and producers when they joined Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2021 Emmy nominees. Watch our full group chat with Courtney Lilly (“black-ish”), Robin Thede (“A Black Lady Sketch Show”), Eric Kripke (“The Boys”), Linda Berman (“Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia”) and San Heng (“RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked”) above. Click on each name above to view each person’s individual interview.

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“It’s taking the time to listen to people,” Lilly reveals when asked what makes a great showrunner.

“She’s just a joy to work with and to be with on set and off set,” producer Linda Berman says about working with leading lady Danielle Brooks on the Emmy-nominated Lifetime TV movie “Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia.”

“She’s funny, she’s genuine, she’s smart and she embodied Mahalia. Her sense of humor, her strength, her voice, everything about her screamed Mahalia Jackson,” Berman explains. We talked with Berman as part of Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2021 Emmy nominees. Watch our exclusive video interview above.

See 2021 Emmy nominations complete list: All the nominees for the 73rd Emmy Awards

In “Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia” tells the story of New Orleans-born crooner Mahalia Jackson (Tony nominee and Grammy winner Brooks) who began singing at an early age and went on to become one of the most revered gospel figures in American history and a...

Academy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss is one man, all revenge in the newly released trailer for Paramount's upcoming thriller Crime Story. Much like Liam Neeson before him, Dreyfuss will prove to be an unexpected threat as he punches and shoots his way through the bad guys foolish enough to slither their way into his now-peaceful life.

The era of the aged action star continues in Crime Story, which is led by Jaws and The Goodbye Girl star Richard Dreyfuss as ex-mob boss and hitman Ben Myers, who is targeted in a home robbery. As you might expect this is a big mistake, and Myers decides to take his particular set of skills out of retirement, taking justice into his own hands and embarking on a deadly rampage of vengeance. But with his family caught in the crosshairs, Myers must finally face the consequences of his dark past in this...

Exclusive: Lyne Renée (Motherland: Fort Salem) is set for a recurring role in HBO Max’s Gossip Girl reboot. The 10-episode series comes from Joshua Safran, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s Fake Empire, Alloy Entertainment, Warner Bros TV and CBS Television Studios.

Like the original series, the new iteration of Gossip Girl, written by Safran, is based on the book by Cecily von Ziegesar. Eight years after the original website went dark, a new generation of New York private school teens is introduced to the social surveillance of Gossip Girl. The prestige series will address just how much social media — and the landscape of New York itself — has changed in the intervening years.

Renée will play Helena Bergman, a cold as ice global real estate magnate and former top model, who is the mother to Otto “Obie” Bergmann (Eli Brown.)

In addition to Brown, the series stars Jordan Alexander,...

Charles Grodin, an Emmy-winning writer and actor who starred in films like Beethoven and The Heartbreak Kid, died of cancer Tuesday at his home in Wilton, Conn. He was 86.

Throughout his career, Grodin was known for his extremely deadpan style of humor. In addition to his big-screen work, which also included Rosemary’s Baby and Midnight Run, Grodin had several TV roles over the course of his prolific career. He played Cane Kensington in Fresno, a mini-series starring Carol Burnett and Dabney Coleman that lampooned prime-time soap operas of the 1970s and ’80s like Dallas and Dynasty. He also appeared on...

Charles Grodin, the comic, scene-stealing actor of such films as The Heartbreak Kid, Midnight Run and Beethoven who later established himself as a curmudgeonly talk show guest without rival, died today at his home in Wilton, Conn. He was 86.

His son, Nicholas, told The New York Times that the cause of death was bone marrow cancer. A spokesperson said Grodin died peacefully at his home.

Born Charles Sidney Grodin in Pittsburgh, Grodin, who studied under Lee Strasberg, made his big-screen debut in the small role as the duped obstetrician who turns Mia Farrow’s Rosemary over to a coven of witches in Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby (1968), Grodin graduated to leading man by 1972’s The Heartbreak Kid, the Elaine May film that established his career and set the hapless, dry-wit style that would become his signature.

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Exclusive: Unanimous Media’s newly formed development arm Pathways Alliance is adapting Wes Moore’s best seller, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates for the big screen.

The book is based on the true story of two men with the same name who lived just blocks away from each other in Baltimore and ended up in very different places. Author Moore became a Rhodes Scholar, Army Officer, White House Fellow and currently is the CEO of a major New-York based antipoverty foundation, Robin Hood. The other Wes Moore is serving a life prison term for taking part in a robbery where an off-duty policeman was killed. It’s a story that shows that family support and societal intervention play an important role in shaping the lives of young men in the inner city.

Stephen Curry and Erick Peyton will executive produce for Unanimous Media, along with Kalyna Kutny...

Exclusive: The Goodbye Girl Oscar winner Richard Dreyfuss and 3x SAG ensemble winner Taryn Manning are joining the Mike Hatton action thriller production Every Last One of Them, which Green Book actor Hatton will also star in with Paul Sloan. Cameras are set to roll before the end of this year in Southern California adhering to Covid-19 safety protocols.

Christian Sesma is directing from a screenplay co-written with Chee Keong Cheung, Alistair Cave, Edward Thomas.

Hatton will produce under his Ton of Hats banner along with Michael Walker of 101 Films International, as well as Christian Sesma. EPs are Andy Lyon, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross, Tom Conigliaro, Kimberly Hines, Rick Morse, and Sheila Legette. 101 Films International, an Amcomri Media Group company will handle international sales.

Brian Hayes Currie and Nick Vallelonga of Green Book will also appear in the cast as well as Mary Christina Brown and Claire Kniaz.

Ton...

Ever since viewers were introduced to Maxwell Lord, the main villain of Wonder Woman 1984 in the film's promotional material, the character has been compared to Donald Trump, with some believing director Patty Jenkins may have inserted veiled references to the current US President in Lord's opulent, blonde-haired persona. But in an interview with Screenrant, Jenkins stated firmly that is not the case.

"The funny thing is he is [an influence], but I'm not trying to make...We even have the president in this movie, and I've gone out of my way not to make it look like Ronald Reagan. I don't want to get political, it's not about being political."

In Wonder Woman 1984, Maxwell Lord, played by Pedro Pascal, is a media conglomerate giant with plans to expand his power and influence through unlawful means. In that sense, Patty Jenkins looked to another real-life personality to fill out the character of Lord.

We’ll be seeing more of General Alder on the upcoming second season of Motherland: Fort Salem. Lyne Renee, who recurred in nine episodes as the character, has been promoted to series regular for season 2 of the Freeform thriller drama series.

Renee’s General Sarah Alder is the commanding general of the United States’ witch armed forces and in charge of Fort Salem.

Written and created by Eliot Laurence, Motherland: Fort Salem is set in an alternate, present-day America where witches ended their persecution over 300 years ago by cutting a deal with the U.S. government to fight for their country with supernatural tactics and weapons. Taylor Hickson, Jessica Sutton, Ashley Nicole Williams, Amalia Holm, Demetria McKinney and Renee star.

Laurence executive produces with Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Kevin Messick. Steven Adelson, Erin Maher, Kay Reindl and Bryan Q. Miller also serve as executive producers on the series.

Renee’s...

Nearly two decades after scoring an audience award at Sundance for “Two Family House,” a smartly understated yet deeply affecting indie about a Staten Island factory worker who deeply regrets stifling his showbiz ambitions, director Raymond De Felitta steps back up to the plate with “Bottom of the 9th,” another dramatically solid and emotionally satisfying drama that pivots on a long-shot attempt to fulfill long-delayed dreams.

De Felitta — whose resume also includes “City Island,” “Rob the Mob” and the 2016 TV miniseries “Madoff” — takes an admirably restrained approach to a familiar scenario that could have come off as sappy in the wrong hands. At the same time, however, he allows his most valuable players, led by Joe Manganiello and Sofia Vergara, more than enough freedom to make vivid and compelling impressions within the lines he has drawn.

Manganiello plays Sonny Stano, a once-promising baseball player who was on his way to...

Exclusive: Belgium-born actress Lyne Renee is joining Guy Ritchie’s Toff Guys and will play Jackie, the wife of Jeremy Strong’s Cannabis Kingpin character.

Written by Ritchie, Marn Davies and Ivan Atkinson, the Miramax pic explores the collide between old European wealth and the modern marijuana industrial complex with new gang entrants swarming. The movie, which is shooting, is a throwback to Ritchie’s visually kinetic gangster pics. Matthew McConaughey, Henry Golding, Colin Farrell, Hugh Grant star as well as Michelle Dockery, who recently replaced Kate Beckinsale in the film.

Renee is a series regular on the Epix/Fox International series Deep State. Straight off that Renee shot a recurring role on the Gary Sanchez pilot Motherland. She is also stars in the feature An L.A. Minute opposite Kiersey Clemons and Gabriel Byrne. Other credits include a series regular role in Ridley Scott’s Mercy Street, M. Night Shyamalan’s Split,...

Richard Dreyfuss‘ movie paychecks went straight to his son, as Twitter learned through a hilarious and very candid exchange between the pair on Tuesday.

The actor’s 31-year-old son Ben replied to a tweet asking followers to name their favorite Steven Speilberg film, to which he pointed to an iconic movie in which his father played a key role.

“Jaws because I didn’t get a scholarship to college and my dad had to pay for it,” Ben wrote.

Richard, 69, saw the wisecrack and responded with one of his own.

“I used the Poseidon money for your college,” he replied,...

Chicago – The 40th anniversary edition of ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind,’ directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Richard Dreyfuss, is in a limited run in theaters now. What better time to resurrect a 2009 HollywoodChicago.com interview with Dreyfuss, and publish it as a podcast talk.

Richard Dreyfuss, Chicago, 2009

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At the time Dreyfuss did “Close Encounters” he was on an hot streak, preceded by “Jaws” (1974) and culminating in “The Goodbye Girl” (1977), and became the youngest Best Actor Oscar winner for “Goodbye” (at age 30). With a career that began in 1964, he also had prominent roles in “American Graffiti” (1973), “Stand by Me” (1986), “What About Bob” (1991) and “Mr. Holland’s Opus” (1995). More recently, he portrayed Bernie Madoff in the TV mini-series “Madoff” (2016) and has four films in production or currently unreleased. The 2009 interview took place at the Hollywood Palms Cinema in Naperville, Ill.

The heart of Paris beats for film industry in June. Industry Week is the professional part of the Champs-Elysées Film Festival.

The submissions for Us in Progress are now open till August 15th here.

This label includes the Us in Progress (USiP) and Les Arc Film Fesstival’s team presenting the Paris Coproduction Village and La Residence de la Cinefondation which welcomes a dozen young directors who come to Paris to work on their first or second fiction feature project for 4 and 1/2 months. All together, they offer 24 film projects at different stages, from development to post production. More than 200 professionals from the industry, producers, international sellers, distributors, etc. are welcomed.

This year Us in Progress broke out. It has become a top event for discovering American independent cinema not only for the Europeans invited to attend, but for Americans who find themselves in Paris for the event or who even...

Exclusive: Joe Manganiello is set to star in the feature drama Stano from Madoff and City Island director Raymond De Felitta. Joe and Nick Manganiello's production company 3:59 are producing along with Bill Chartoff (Creed) and Lynn Hendee (Ender’s Game) through Off the Chart Entertainment along with Eric Fischer. The film follows a man who returns to the Bronx after serving 17 years in prison for a violent mistake he made as a kid that ultimately robbed him of a…...

Move it on over, Richard Dreyfuss: Robert De Niro is the one playing Bernie Madoff on TV now. On Wednesday, HBO released the official trailer for its upcoming “The Wizard of Lies,” which also stars Michelle Pfeiffer and Hank Azaria. The premium cable movie will walk viewers through the most famous Ponzi scheme since swindler Charles Ponzi. It also explores what — if anything — other members of the Madoff clan may have known. Dreyfuss portrayed the famous Wall Street crook last year on ABC miniseries, “Madoff.” That one put up modest Nielsen ratings, but was a pretty big hit among.

In a major setback for the Kardashian PR machine, The Insider has been cancelled after 13 years, TVLine has confirmed.

Our sister site Deadline first reported the syndicated news magazine’s demise, noting the the show — a spinoff of Entertainment Tonight — will end its run in September with current hosts Louis Aguirre and Debbie Matenopoulos at the helm.

The Insider, which launched in 2004 with Pat O’Brien as the solo host, partnered with Yahoo several years ago and briefly re-branded itself as omg! Insider in a bid to gain relevance and jumpstart its relatively anemic ratings. The experiment failed to do either.

How much Madoff are you ready to handle on TV? The man who became of the face of Wall Street’s worst tendencies after his empire came crumbling down when it was revealed to be built on a Ponzi scheme is now headed to your small screen. Last year, ABC dropped a mini-series take simply called “Madoff” starring Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner, but if you’re looking for a more concise version of the story with a slightly starrier cast, you can turn to HBO.

Continue reading Robert De Niro Is Bernie Madoff In First Trailer For HBO’s ‘The Wizard Of Lies’ at The Playlist.

The Directors Guild Of America on Wednesday unveiled nominees in the documentary, television and commercials categories.

The winners will be announced at the 69th Annual DGA Awards on February 4 in Beverly Hills.

Documentary

Otto Bell, The Eagle Huntress

Ezra Edelman, O.J.: Made in America

Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg, Weiner

Raoul Peck, I Am Not Your Negro

Roger Ross Williams, Life, Animated

Dramatic Series

The Duffer Brothers, Stranger Things, “Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers”

Ryan Murphy, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, “From The Ashes Of Tragedy”

Jonathan Nolan, Westworld, “The Original”

Miguel Sapochnik, Game Of Thrones, “The Battle Of The Bastards”

John Singleton, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, “The Race Card”

Comedy Series

Alec Berg, Silicon Valley, “Daily Active Users”

Donald Glover, Atlanta, “B.A.N.”

Mike Judge, Silicon Valley, “Founder Friendly”

Becky Martin, Veep, “Inauguration”

Dale Stern, Veep, “Mother”

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The Directors Guild of America has announced the nominees in the documentary and television categories for this year’s DGA Awards, with O.J. Simpson present in both fields: “O.J.: Made in America” and “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” both picked up nods. Other contenders include “Atlanta,” “Westworld” and “The Eagle Huntress.” The feature film nominees, meanwhile, are scheduled to be announced tomorrow.

This year’s ceremony takes place on February 4 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Full list of nominees below:

Read More: 2016 Producers Guild Awards TV Nominations: ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Atlanta’ and ‘Westworld’ All Land Nods

Dramatic Series

The Duffer Brothers, “Stranger Things,” “Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers”

Ryan Murphy, “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story,” “From the Ashes of Tragedy”

Jonathan Nolan, “Westworld,” “The Original”

Miguel Sapochnik, “Game of Thrones,” “The Battle of the Bastards”

John Singleton, “The People v.

Writers of Hell or High Water, La La Land, Arrival and Deadpool are among the nominees for this year’s Writers Guild Awards.

Writers of Hell or High Water (pictured), La La Land, Arrival and Deadpool are among the nominees for this year’s Writers Guild Awards, set to be presented at ceremonies hosted by the West and East branches of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) on Feb 19.

Also nominated in the WGA’s original screenplay category are the writers of Loving, Manchester By The Sea and Moonlight. Fences, Hidden Figures and Nocturnal Animals produced the other nominations in the adapted screenplay category.

Documentary nominations went to Author: The Jt Leroy Story, Command And Control and Zero Days, while dramatic TV series getting nods were The Americans, Better Call Saul, Game Of Thrones, Stranger Things and Westworld.

Full list of feature nominees and selected TV nominees:

Original Screenplay

Hell or High Water Taylor Sheridan

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Writers of Hell or High Water, La La Land, Arrival and Deadpool are among the nominees for this year’s Writers Guild Awards.

Writers of Hell or High Water (pictured), La La Land, Arrival and Deadpool are among the nominees for this year’s Writers Guild Awards, set to be presented at ceremonies hosted by the West and East brances of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) on Feb 19.

Also nominated in the WGA’s original screenplay category are the writers of Loving, Manchester by the Sea and Moonlight. Fences, Hidden Figures and Nocturnal Animalsproduced the other nominations in the adapted screenplay category.

Documentary nominations went to Author: The Jt Leroy Story, Command and Control and Zero Days, while dramatic TV series getting nods were The Americans, Better Call Saul, Game of Thrones, Stranger Things and Westworld.

Full list of feature nominees and selected TV nominees:

Original Screenplay

Hell or High Water Taylor Sheridan

La La Land [link...

Scott Foley‘s got a killer (or is it?) new role.

The Scandal star has signed on to Investigation Discovery’s Fatal Vision, in which he’ll play an Army captain convicted of murdering his family, our sister site Deadline reports.

The TV movie, based on Joe McGinniss’ nonfiction bestseller of the same name, chronicles the 1970 murders of pregnant Colette MacDonald and her daughters, Kimberly and Kristen. Foley’s character, Jeffery MacDonald, also was wounded in what he later told investigators was a ritualistic, Manson Family-style home invasion.

Exclusive: Abrams Artists Agency has signed Frank Whaley and Gabrielle Anwar for representation in all theatrical areas including television, film and stage. Whaley plays Detective Raphael Scarfe in Netflix’s Marvel series Luke Cage and appeared in this year’s ABC miniseries Madoff. Other recent TV credits include Under the Dome and Ray Donovan. On the film side, he appears in Paramount’s upcoming Monster Trucks directed by Chris Wedge. His long list of features credits…...

Exclusive: Abrams Artists Agency has signed Frank Whaley and Gabrielle Anwar for representation in all theatrical areas including television, film and stage. Whaley plays Detective Raphael Scarfe in Netflix’s Marvel series Luke Cage and appeared in this year’s ABC miniseries Madoff. Other recent TV credits include Under the Dome and Ray Donovan. On the film side, he appears in Paramount’s upcoming Monster Trucks directed by Chris Wedge. His long list of features credits…...

Four individuals and one writing team have been selected as winners of the 2016 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. The Academy Nicholl Fellowships Committee announced the winners via Livestream today. The fellows will each receive a $35,000 prize, the first installment of which will be distributed at the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Awards Presentation & Live Read on Thursday, November 3, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. For the fourth consecutive year, an ensemble of actors will be reading selected scenes from the winning scripts.

The 2016 winners are (listed alphabetically by author):

Michele Atkins, “Talking About the Sky” (Seattle, Wa)

Spencer Harvey and Lloyd Harvey, “Photo Booth” (Balgowlah, Australia)

Geeta Malik, “Dinner with Friends” (Los Angeles, CA)

Elizabeth Oyebode, “Tween the Ropes” (Sunnyvale, CA)

Justin Piasecki, “Death of an Ortolan” (Los Angeles, CA)

A total of 6,915 scripts were submitted for this year’s competition. Eleven individual screenwriters and one...

“Inside of all of us is Hitler and Jesus. You’ve got to find the right balance of those things,” admits Richard Dreyfuss as we chat via webcam (watch above) about his preparations to play Bernie Madoff in the ABC limited series “Madoff.” To portray the infamous financier who caused his clients to lose billions he had to find those bad qualities […]...

Just a few years ago, Richard Dreyfuss turned his back on Hollywood and left for Oxford, England, where he immersed himself in research about his passion: civics. Now he’s back and, after a self-imposed retirement, he appeared this season as Bernard Madoff in ABC’s Madoff, an acclaimed mini-series about the life of the disgraced (and jailed) stockbroker, recounting his rise and fall with his arrest in 2008. Madoff is currently serving a 150-year prison sentence. Dreyfuss, 68, an Oscar winner for 1978’s The Goodbye Girl and the star of such movies as 1975’s Jaws and 1977’s Close

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Richard Dreyfuss is slamming ABC for refusing to name all the big banks involved with disgraced financier Bernie Madoff in its February miniseries about the architect of the most notorious pyramid scheme of the 1980s. In a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, the Oscar winner, who returned to the spotlight to tackle the title role in Madoff, lambasts the network's standards and practices department. "They were afraid [the banks] would sue," Dreyfuss says. "And I said, 'Not only will they not sue us — because if they did, they would have to open their books — but we should

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Emmy contender Richard Dreyfuss talks about conveying the financial villainy in Madoff And when you’re doing television, the one thing that can change is the producers can walk in the next day and say,...

Frank De Felitta, who adapted his own horror novel for 1977’s Audrey Rose, died Tuesday in Los Angeles at age 94. The death was confirmed by his son, Madoff director Raymond De Felitta. Audrey Rose, which along with The Exorcist and The Omen formed the decade’s unholy trinity of scary-child pics, starred Anthony Hopkins and Marsha Mason, with Robert Wise directing from De Felitta’s screenplay. Like the novel, the film told the eerie story of a little girl who might be the…...

Frank De Felitta, who adapted his own horror novel for 1977’s Audrey Rose, died Tuesday in Los Angeles at age 94. The death was confirmed by his son, Madoff director Raymond De Felitta. Audrey Rose, which along with The Exorcist and The Omen formed the decade’s unholy trinity of scary-child pics, starred Anthony Hopkins and Marsha Mason, with Robert Wise directing from De Felitta’s screenplay. Like the novel, the film told the eerie story of a little girl who might be the…...

Fox’s event series Shots Fired just hooked three big fish.

Oscar winners Helen Hunt, Richard Dreyfuss and True Blood vet Stephen Moyer have joined the drama in lead roles, TVLine has learned.

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Co-created by Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love & Basketball) and Reggie Rock Bythewood (Notorious), the project stars Sanaa Lathan (Love & Basketball) as an expert investigator digging into a series of racially charged shootings in a small Tennessee town.

Hunt, Dreyfuss and Moyer will respectively play Patricia Eamons, the fictional governor of North Carolina; Arlen Cox, a real...

While he is known for being a staunch Democrat, actor Richard Dreyfuss has been playing the role of political tourist of late, soaking up all the sights and sounds that this election season has to offer. However, his appearance at a recent Ted Cruz rally sparked sparked an angry response from some liberals, so the star of ABC’s recent miniseries “Madoff” appeared on Fox News’ “The Kelly File” Thursday night to explain why he attended the Republican candidate’s event in Iowa on Jan. 30. “I went to hear whether or not there’d be a difference between what I...

ABC’s “Madoff” opened and closed to modest numbers, especially in the key 18-49 demographic — but the miniseries premiered far better among the affluent. On Wednesday night, Part 1 of “Madoff” debuted to a 1.2 rating in the 18-49 demographic, which was only good enough to be the No. 8-rated broadcast show of the night. In other words, not “good” at all. However, when adjusting for just those with a six-figure annual income, the Richard Dreyfuss-starrer jumped 25 percent to a 1.5 rating, making it fifth-best for the evening. And among those in the age range with $200,000-plus in annual income, “Madoff” rose.

The saga and scams of Bernie Madoff took over ABC on Wednesday in the first part of a two-night miniseries, but Madoff (1.2/4) didn't really prove that great an investment – at least in the ratings. While the Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner starrer snagged 7.03 million viewers overall, among adults 18-49 the 2-hour Part 1 last night was way down from the average that ABC commonly pulls in from 8 -10 Pm. In the 8 Pm slot, only NBC's The Mysteries Of Laura (1.1/3), which…...

Part one of ABC’s two-part special “Madoff” started off strong with 7 million viewers on Wednesday night. The special, which stars Richard Dreyfuss as Ponzi scheme perpetrator Bernie Madoff, skewed older as it pulled in only a 1.2 rating in the advertiser coveted adults 18-49 demographic. “American Idol” was again the top rated program of Wednesday night, attracting 9.1 million viewers and a 2.3 rating. That is consistent with its performance last week, when it pulled in 9.6 million viewers and a 2.5 rating. Also Read: 'Madoff' Review: Ponzi Schemer's Story Is Surprisingly Humane Fox won the night in the key demo with...

While Bernie Madoff continues to serve his 100-year sentence for his massive financial fraud scheme, Robert DeNiro and Richard Dreyfuss will be portraying him on the small screen. Bernie Madoff On TV The first Madoff-centered project, ABC miniseries Madoff, stars Dreyfus as the New York financial investor, while Blythe Danner plays his wife Ruth. Directed by Raymond […]

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If you can't wait until Tuesday for the next installment of The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, you're in luck - kind of. In the same vein, ABC is debuting its own true crime mini-series tonight, Madoff, a two-parter starring Richard Dreyfuss as Bernie Madoff, the financier who ran a billion-dollar Ponzi scheme, and Blythe Danner as his wife Ruth. Fuzzy on the details? Ahead of the Madoff debut tonight at 8 p.m. Et on ABC, brush up on the facts you need to know: Who is Bernie Madoff?A world-famous New York City-based investor who was...