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Steven Spielberg is the most commercially successful director of all time, and his movies have made over $10 billion at the global box office. In a career spanning over 50 years, Spielberg has excelled in a variety of genres, including sci-fi, action, horror and drama. One common thread in all his creative pursuits has been massive box office success. Spielberg has set the record for the highest-grossing movie of all time on three separate occasions.

According to Spielberg himself, his first ever movie made a profit of $1. He made Firelight with a $500 budget when he was just 17, and his ticket sales from the one-night showing totaled $501. From these humble beginnings, Spielberg developed a career as a director of box office smashes. His highest-grossing movies aren't necessarily his best, since Schindler's List, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Catch Me If You Can all fail to crack the top ten, but he has...

Steven Spielberg is rounding out his next secret project with a star-studded English cast. The legendary director of Saving Private Ryan, Jaws, E.T., and so, so, so many more is returning to theaters in 2026 with a project that could be his next big blockbuster. The film still remains untitled, and plot details are scarce, but we've just learned who will be joining the already amazing ensemble cast.

Per Deadline, Challengers star, Josh O'Connor will co-star in Steven Spielberg's next movie, alongside the already announced Emily Blunt. O'Connor comes off the back of Luca Guadagnino's smash-hit tennis/sex drama (which is the only acceptable description for the movie), Challengers. The actor also had a phenomenal 2023, starring in the Kate Winslet-led Lee and the insanely underrated La Chimera.

Steven Spielberg's untitled project has already amassed Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, and Eve Hewson, with Blunt and O'Connor filling out the A-list ranks.

Steven Spielberg is rounding out his next secret project with a star-studded English cast. The legendary director of Saving Private Ryan, Jaws, E.T., and so, so, so many more is returning to theaters in 2026 with a project that could be his next big blockbuster. The film still remains untitled, and plot details are scarce, but we've just learned who will be joining the already amazing ensemble cast.

Per Deadline, Challengers star, Josh O'Connor will co-star in Steven Spielberg's next movie, alongside the already announced Emily Blunt. O'Connor comes off the back of Luca Guadagnino's smash-hit tennis/sex drama (which is the only acceptable description for the movie), Challengers. The actor also had a phenomenal 2023, starring in the Kate Winslet-led Lee and the insanely underrated La Chimera.

Steven Spielberg's untitled project has already amassed Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, and Eve Hewson, with Blunt and O'Connor filling out the A-list ranks.

Netflix’s pioneering animated adaptation of League of Legends lore, Arcane, has returned with its second season after a three-year hiatus, and as the three-episode premiere highlights, the intense conflict between Piltover and Zaun has only worsened ever since, moving in parallel with the broken relationship between the estranged sister duo, Vi and Jinx. The second and final season of Arcane is separated into three segments consisting of three episodes each, which will be released over the span of three weeks. The recently released first batch of three episodes mostly focuses on the fates of the characters after Jinx’s deadly attack in the final moments of the first season forever destroyed the possibility of a peace treaty between the privileged Piltover council and the persecuted residents of Zaun. However, with Hextech at play in different spheres, an unknown threat looms around the corner, which might change the equation between rival factions forever.

20 Days In Mariupol, the Oscar-winning Frontline/PBS and Associated Press documentary, was one of the big victors at the UK’s prestigious Grierson Awards on Wednesday.

20 Days In Mariupol won Best Current Affairs Documentary and Best Cinema Documentary at the event staged at London’s Roundhouse (full winners below).

Other winners included Me and the Voice in My Head, Channel 4’s documentary spotlighting Joe Tracini, a comedian who lives with Borderline Personality Disorder. As well as picking up Best Single Documentary, Tracini won Best Documentary Presenter.

The Grierson Awards has found itself at the crucible of industry debate about the Israel-Gaza conflict after removing Oscar-winning director Asif Kapadia as a patron amid a backlash over social media posts considered to be antisemitic.

The decision, first revealed by Deadline, sparked a boycott among members of UK television’s Muslim and South Asian community. Senior industry figures wrote to...

Oscar-winning Ukraine-Russia war documentary 20 Days in Mariupol from Frontline, PBS and The AP, took home awards in two categories at The Grierson Trust’s 2024 British Documentary Awards on Wednesday night.

In association with All3Media, the ceremony took place at London’s Roundhouse arts and music venue, where Channel 4 took home the highest number of prizes with five, followed by the BBC with three and Netflix with two.

Mstyslav Chernov’s 20 Days in Mariupol, which won the Academy Award for best documentary earlier this year, earned the best current affairs documentary and best cinema documentary awards Wednesday. Me and the Voice in My Head, produced by Hungry Bear Media for Channel 4 won the best single documentary – Domestic award, with Joe Tracini winning the best documentary presenter.

This year’s award winners spanned a wide range of subjects with powerful documentaries on the war in Ukraine, a Turkish singer...

SNL or Saturday Night Live has just reached it's 50th season! That is a lot of years of comedy, coming from some of the most talented comedians and celebrities alike, performing opening monologues and skits.

When done right, these moments leave a lasting impact, whether they are touching on current affairs or events of the past. Seeing as how Halloween is right around the corner we wanted to compile a list of 7 of the best Halloween moments in SNL history.

From the nostalgic to the downright sidesplitting, which moments do you think made our list?

1. Michael Keaton on Trick-or-Treating (Season 8)

Our list begins with something a little different. While no one can deny that Michael Keaton has been exuding humor and star power from the beginning, his monologue about Trick-or-treating has us feeling a little nostalgic.

Who doesn't remember Trick-or-treating as a kid? Who doesn't recall how lucky they felt...

Russell Crowes 2020 road-rage thriller Unhinged took influence from Steven Spielbergs very first movie: the acclaimed 1971 made-for-tv actioner Duel. Unhinged begins with a frustrated woman getting into a heated verbal altercation with a fellow commuter in rush-hour traffic, played by Crowe. When the other driver turns out to be violent and obsessive, he spends the rest of the day stalking and terrorizing her and her family in pursuit of revenge. Unhinged was notable for being the first wide theatrical release after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Unhingeds story of a commuter getting relentlessly pursued by another driver over the course of a really bad day was loosely inspired by the very first feature film directed by Spielberg. Technically, Spielberg made his feature directorial debut with the amateur film Firelight in 1964, which he helmed at age 17. But Firelight has never been officially released. Spielbergs first professional directing gig was the made-for-tv road thriller Duel,...

Steven Spielberg is known for his blockbuster-scale sci-fi films with a strong emotional core. While he has ventured into serious dramatic territory and has succeeded with films like Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, and The Post, his contribution to genre-filmmaking is unparalleled.

Before the filmmaker made the iconic E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Spielberg ventured into sci-fi territory immediately after the Summer hit Jaws. With Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Spielberg seemed to have his first stint at the UFO film. Like E.T., the film seemed to connect to his parents, which he only to realize after an interviewer pointed it out.

Steven Spielberg Thanked An Interviewer For Noticing The Personal Connection In Close Encounters of the Third Kind A still from Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Credits: Columbia Pictures

After Jaws became the highest-grossing film of all time upon its release, Steven Spielberg went against type and...

Steven Spielberg’s currently putting together the cast for his 2026 event film, The Dish. The Perfect Couple’s Eve Hewson could be about to join.

Irish actor Eve Hewson is the latest potential addition to The Dish, Steven Spielberg’s secretive project due out in 2026. Most recently seen in Netflix miniseries The Perfect Couple, Hewson is said to be in “early talks” to appear in Spielberg’s film according to a report at Deadline.

Hewson therefore joins Emily Blunt, Colin Firth and Josh O’Connor on the short list of actors who are said to be in the running to join Spielberg’s first movie since his 2022 drama, The Fabelmans.

Previously billed as a “new original event film,” The Dish’s title was revealed – perhaps inadvertently – during a July IMAX presentation; the name popped up on a PowerPoint slide, sandwiched between the next Avengers film and The Mandalorian And Grogu. Universal Pictures...

Oppenheimer’s Emily Blunt is reportedly in talks to play one of the leads in Steven Spielberg’s next film, due out in 2026.

Having co-starred in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer last year, Emily Blunt could be about to work with another household name director. According to a new report, she’s in ‘early talks’ to play one of the leads in Steven Spielberg’s currently untitled 2026 film.

According to Deadline, the secretive film will have two lead characters, one of which would most likely be Blunt if the deal’s made.

As we heard last month, Universal and Amblin have set the release date for Spielberg’s mystery film: the 15th May 2026. That’s a similar summer slot to Spielberg’s biggest, most accessible movies, including Jaws (June 1975), E.T: The Extra Terrestrial (June 1982), Jurassic Park (June 1993) and Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull (May 2008). We’ll...

Renowned for his timeless contributions to cinema with classics like Et, Jaws, and Schindler’s List, Steven Spielberg stands as one of the industry’s most celebrated filmmakers. With a career spanning decades, his influence has inspired countless aspiring filmmakers striving for similar greatness.

Hollywood director Steven Spielberg (image credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons)

Spielberg has also been open to sharing his advice, one of which includes watching old movies. Though it may seem intimidating to some, the Oscar-winning director insists it’s an essential step every aspiring filmmaker should take.

Steven Spielberg’s Sage Advice for Aspiring Filmmakers

Growing up immersed in Hollywood classics like Firelight, Steven Speilberg found profound inspiration in these timeless films. And he passionately advocates for aspiring filmmakers to familiarize themselves with iconic classics, as he emphasized during a press conference.

Steven Spielberg at Berlinale 2023 | Credit: Elena Ternovaja via Wikimedia Commons

“I continue to...

Steven Spielberg has had a lifelong fascination with alien beings from beyond the stars. When the legendary director was just 17, he made a nearly two-and-a-half-hour epic on his 8mm camera called Firelight, a film that he more or less remade 14 years later as Close Encounters of the Third Kind. That 1977 classic would be the first of three professional movies Spielberg would make about aliens arriving on our planet, the other two being E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and War of the Worlds (2005). And each trip into the extraterrestrial has led to one of the director’s most successful and acclaimed films (we’re not counting 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull since Spielberg didn’t actually want aliens in the movie).

It’s also a subject that continues to fascinate the filmmaker, with Variety recently reporting that Spielberg’s next film is going to be another...

With TV and films stalled due to the ongoing writers and actors strike, director Judd Apatow and filmmaker J.J. Abrams sat down for a virtual conversation with Ed Solomon on Tuesday evening to talk in-depth about their writing process and working alongside filmmaker Matt Reeves as teenagers. During the 11th episode of The Black List’s Word by Word, the trio steered clear of conversations about the double strike.

At the start of the conversation, Solomon shared that Abrams and Apatow were eager to jump on the episode when learning...

History Channel has set the premiere date and launch plan for its original documentary “After Jackie,” a look at the second wave of Black professional baseball players who followed the trailblazing Jackie Robinson.

History Channel will premiere the two-hour documentary from LeBron James’ Uninterrupted production imprint, director Andre Gaines (“The One and Only Dick Gregory”) and producer Stanley Nelson on Saturday, June 18 at 8 p.m. Nelson’s Firelight Films also produced in association with Major League Baseball and in consultatin with the Jackie Robinson Foundation.

History Channel disclosed the launch plan on Friday to coincide with the 75th anniversary of Robinson’s history-making move to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball. On April 15, 1947, Robinson started at first base with the Brooklyn Dodgers, marking the first time a Black man played in the modern Major Leagues and breaking the color barrier in the sport.

“When the Hall of Famer...

DeWanda Wise has been cast in the upcoming Showtime series adaptation of the Lisa Taddeo novel “Three Women.”

Wise joins previously announced cast member Shailene Woodley. In the series, three women are on a crash course to radically overturn their lives.

Wise will play Sloane, a glamorous entrepreneur in a committed open marriage until two sexy new strangers threaten their aspirational love story.

In addition to Sloane, there is Lina, a homemaker in suburban Indiana who is a decade into a passionless marriage when she embarks on an affair that quickly becomes all-consuming and transforms her life, and Maggie, a student in North Dakota who weathers an intense storm after accusing her married English teacher of an inappropriate relationship. Gia (Woodley), a writer grieving the loss of her family, persuades each of these three spectacular “ordinary” women to tell her their stories, and her relationships with them change the course of her life forever.

Newcomer Gabriel Labelle is in talks to play a young Steven Spielberg in an untitled film based on the famed filmmaker’s childhood that Spielberg will direct and co-write himself.

Labelle was last seen on the big screen in the 2018 horror reboot “The Predator” and is also attached to appear in Showtime’s series adaptation of “American Gigolo.” Here, Labelle will play Spielberg as a teenager in a film that will visit different periods of the director’s childhood in Arizona, where he made his first feature film, “Firelight,” at age 17 and screened it at his local cinema in Phoenix with the help of his family.

Michelle Williams and Paul Dano will play characters based on Spielberg’s parents, while Seth Rogen will play a character based on Spielberg’s uncle.

The project will be the first one Spielberg holds writing credit on since “A.I.” 20 years ago. He will...

Arnold Spielberg, a pioneering computer designer who encouraged his only son, Steven Spielberg, to become a filmmaker, has died. He was 103.

Spielberg died Tuesday of natural causes in Los Angeles, his family announced.

In 1960, Arnold Spielberg helped design the Ge-225 mainframe computer that enabled researchers at Dartmouth College to develop the coding tool known as Basic, which ushered in the era of personal computers.

“I remember visiting the plant when dad was working on the Ge-225,” Steven said in 2015. “I walked through rooms that were so bright, I recall it hurting my eyes. Dad explained how his computer was expected to perform, but the language of computer science in those days was like Greek to me.

“It all seemed very exciting, but it was very much out of my reach until the 1980s, when I realized what pioneers like my dad had created were now the things I could not live without.

ABC Signature has hired Starz programming exec Susan Lewis as SVP and head of drama development, replacing Patrick Maguire at the recently restructured studio.

In her new role, Lewis will head the label’s drama team and report to Tracy Underwood, EVP of creative affairs for ABC Signature, beginning Aug. 31. The studio, led by president Jonnie Davis, is the result of a merger between ABC Studios and ABC Signature, as part of an overall restructuring and re-naming at Disney Television Studios earlier this month.

Former drama head Maguire, who has been with the company for almost two decades, is leaving to pursue other opportunities.

“I feel very lucky to be joining the incredibly talented team at ABC Signature,” Lewis said. “The breadth of projects that they have brought to audiences is unparalleled, and I am excited to be at a company that is doing everything possible to tell stories about...

Susan Lewis is joining ABC Signature as senior vice president and head of drama development.

Lewis will officially join the studio on Aug. 31 and will report to Tracy Underwood. She takes over the role from Patrick Maguire, who exited the studio amid the recent restructuring that saw ABC Studios and ABC Signature combine under the ABC Signature banner as part of Disney Television Studios.

“I feel very lucky to be joining the incredibly talented team at ABC Signature,” Lewis said. “The breadth of projects that they have brought to audiences is unparalleled, and I am excited to be at a company that is doing everything possible to tell stories about people that have not been told before.”

Lewis most recently worked at Starz Entertainment, where she has been senior vice president of original programming since 2017. During her tenure, she oversaw multiple series including “Dublin Murders,” “Hightown,” and the new critically-acclaimed series “P-Valley.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the recipients of its 2020 FilmCraft and FilmWatch grants.

A total of $2.5 million has been allocated to 96 organization, including recipients of the emergency grant funds announced last month in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

“The Academy’s first priority remains to help those in our film community most impacted by the current global crisis. Our contribution of $2 million in emergency funds to the Academy Foundation, along with the grants we bestow on an annual basis, will surely benefit struggling organizations so they may continue to encourage diverse storytelling and enrich cinema and its artists,” Searchlight Pictures’ Nancy Utley, an Academy governor and the Education and Outreach Committee chair, said in a statement.

“The Academy’s Grants committee is honored to continue to provide much-needed support to these 96 worthy organizations — their impact on the world of film is truly immeasurable,” grants committee chair Marcus Hu added.

Mind the Gap: Nicholson’s Intimate Divorce Story Drama

The emotional devastation of a divorce girds the intimate dramatic underpinnings of Hope Gap, a quiet and unassuming new drama from writer William Nicholson, who returns to the director’s chair over two decades since his 1997 debut Firelight. Better known as a celebrated scribe, who penned Ridley Scott’s award-winning Gladiator and a slew of other notable motion pictures, including the underrated C.S. Lewis drama Shadowlands, he returns to a significantly personal arena with his latest, based on his own play The Return from Moscow.

Considering the pedigree of his leads, including the continually underrated Annette Bening and Bill Nighy, his latest is both a painfully blunt and significantly poignant of unconscious uncoupling usually reserved for overblown melodrama.…...

Ellenor Cox.

Emmy and Aacta Award winning producer turned screen sector executive coach Ellenor Cox explains why she feels curiosity is the single most defining feature of a successful creative career.

I clearly remember the moment as a 21 year old, freshly inducted into the hallowed halls of Qantas’s marketing department, when I came across an article stating that the average Australian will change their careers three times in their lives.

“Well, that will never be me!” I proclaimed, still chuffed at being accepted into this insanely competitive graduate management trainee program, envisaging myself grey-haired but with the corner office.

Yet six years later I experienced what’s now known as a ‘quarter life crisis’ and I took myself off backpacking indefinitely through Europe to ‘find myself’.

Fast forward and after an almost 25 year career as a film producer, I’m reaching that statistical average; I’m revelling in my...

Exclusive: A24 and Oscar-nominated producer Jennifer Fox are teaming to develop Ursula Le Guin’s acclaimed Earthsea fantasy books for television. A24 is the studio and will finance the series project, which will be shopped to networks soon. Fox is producing.

Fox originally optioned the book series last year. Before she died in January 2018, Le Guin had given the producer her blessing to turn her work into a series of films. The adaptation since has been re-envisioned as a television series. An Earthsea miniseries based on the book series, with the teleplay co-written by Le Guin, aired on Sci Fi Channel in 2004.

The Earthsea books are an introspective fantasy series that Le Guin began in 1968 with the publication of Book 1, A Wizard of Earthsea, and finished in 2017, with the final short story “Firelight” published in 2018 in The Paris Review.

The book series, which has drawn comparisons to...

Roadside Attractions and Screen Media have acquired North American rights to “Hope Gap,” a family drama from Oscar nominee William Nicholson starring Annette Bening, Roadside co-founders Howard Cohen and Eric d’Arbeloff and Screen Media’s Seth Needle jointly announced Thursday.

Roadside and Screen Media acquired the rights from Protagonist and CAA Media Finance. The distributors will release “Hope Gap” in 2020, and levelFILM will distribute in Canada.

Bening stars in “Hope Gap” alongside Bill Nighy and Josh O’Connor in an adaptation of Nicholson’s play “The Retreat From Moscow.” “Hope Gap” is the story of a woman who learns her husband is leaving her for another woman after 29 years of marriage. It charts the emotional fallout experienced by their grown son and how the woman regains her footing and discovers a new voice.

Also Read: 'All My Sons' Broadway Review: Annette Bening and Tracy Letts Face the...

Firelight Media has its 12 filmmakers for the 2018-20 Firelight Documentary Lab, an 18-month fellowship supporting filmmakers from racially and ethnically underrepresented communities. See their names and project below.

The filmmakers are culturally diverse, with impressive backgrounds ranging from public and commercial media to investigative journalism and digital production. The projects they bring to the fellowship tell stories of the aftermath of Hurricane Maria’s impact on Puerto Rico, domestic violence, federalization of the war on drugs, Indigenous identity, Kkk hostilities against Vietnamese refugees, and the mothers left in the wake of police brutality.

“We are honored to support the work of this new Doc Lab cohort because we believe they collectively embody the future of nonfiction — which is inclusive, centers those who have traditionally been on the margins, and pushes the boundaries of the documentary form,” said Loira Limbal, VP and Documentary Lab Director at Firelight.

Firelight Documentary Lab has...

Exclusive: William Nicholson’s (Gladiator) drama Hope Gap, starring Annette Bening (American Beauty), Bill Nighy (Love Actually) and Josh O’Connor (God’s Own Country), has sold into key markets for UK sales firm Protagonist Pictures.

Deals have closed in Germany/Austria (Tobis), Spain (A Contracorriente), Italy (Cloud 9), Australia and New Zealand (Transmission), Scandinavia and Iceland (Sf Studios), China (Dd Dream), Japan (Kino Films), Latin America (California Filmes), Poland (M2), Former Yugoslavia (McF), Middle East (Front Row), Israel (Forum Films), Hungary (Cinetel) and Airlines/Ships (Eim). CAA co-reps North America.

Hope Gap, currently in final post-production, is Nicholson’s second feature as a director after 1997’s Firelight starring Sophie Marceau and Stephen Dillane. The acclaimed writer was Oscar-nominated for his screenplays for Gladiator and Shadowlands and further writing credits include Les Miserables, Breathe and Everest.

Hope Gap charts the unraveling of a marriage after 29 years and the impact on a family unit.

Project wrapped UK shoot earlier this month.

Screen can reveal the first look at Josh O’Connor, Annette Bening and Bill Nighy in William Nicholson’s family drama Hope Gap for Origin Pictures.

Principal photography wrapped on the project earlier this month after shooting for five weeks in the eponymous Hope Gap in Seaford, Sussex as well as in Leeds and Doncaster.

Hope Gap is Nicholson’s second feature as a director after 1997’s Firelight with Sophie Marceau. He was Oscar-nominated for his screenplays for Gladiator and Shadowlands and his further writing credits include Breathe and Everest.

O’Connor, whose...

In mid-April, Starbucks faced a publicity nightmare when two black men were arrested in a downtown Philadelphia store after an employee called the police when they declined to leave. The video of their arrest went viral, receiving millions of views on Twitter and leading to a firestorm of criticism and calls for boycotts. Two days later, Starbucks announced it would close its stories nationwide for a day of “racial-bias education.”

A few weeks later, Starbucks contacted filmmaker Stanley Nelson; it wanted to hire him to make a short film. “They came directly to us,” said Nelson, the founder of Firelight Media and the director of several documentaries about the African-American experience, including “Freedom Riders” and “The Black Panthers: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities.”

Nelson, who was referred to the company by NAACP director Sherrilyn Ifill, said he was keen to contribute to the bias training workshops. “I felt...

Annette Bening, Bill Nighy co-star in William Nicholson’s family drama.

God’s Own Country star Josh O’Connor has joined Annette Bening and Bill Nighy in the cast of Hope Gap.

William Nicholson, the Oscar-nominated writer of Breathe, Everest, Gladiator, Shadowlands, writes and directs the family drama, which is currently in pre-production and will shoot in summer 2018. It is his second feature as a director after 1997’s Firelight with Sophie Marceau.

O’Connor, nominated for a Bafta and winner of a Bifa for his breakout role in God’s Own Country, will play Jamie, the son of married couple Grace (Annette Bening) and Edward (Bill Nighy). When Jamie comes to visit for the weekend at their seaside home, Edward informs him that he plans to leave Grace. Hope Gap tracks the unravelling of three lives, through stages of shock, disbelief, anger and resolution.

David M Thompson (Woman In Gold) of Origin Pictures produces. Protagonist is handling...

Ryan Lambie Jun 12, 2019

Intended as a sequel to Close Encounters, Night Skies began in the 1970s and eventually became E.T.

Having scored a phenomenal hit with Jaws in 1975, director Steven Spielberg used his considerable industry clout to make Close Encounters Of The Third Kind - a science fiction fairytale for the UFO age. It was a personal project for Spielberg, conceived and partly written by the director himself (several other writers made uncredited passes on the script), and based on Firelight, the UFO film he'd shot for $500 while he was a teenager.

“I had a real, deep-rooted belief that we had been visited in this century,” the director once said of his fascination with the UFO phenomenon. “I was a real UFO devotee in the 1970s, and really into the UFO phenomenon from reading. For me, it was science.”

Like Jaws, the production on Close Encounters was difficult; as...

The author and screenwriter talks to Nicholas Wroe about emotional openness, storytelling and how Hollywood critiques help you focus as a novelist

'If you are a screenwriter and you write a novel, then you are still a screenwriter," explains William Nicholson. "With two novels you become a screenwriter who writes novels, and with three you are a novelist and screenwriter. But write seven or eight novels …? At the moment the people in my different worlds don't have much idea of the other things I do. The film world especially has no clue that I've written children's books, adult novels and plays. What I'd really like is to be up for a film award and literary award in the same year. That would confuse them."

A bold ambition, and looking at Nicholson's track record, not an entirely fanciful one. As a screenwriter he has been Oscar-nominated for adapting his own play about Cs Lewis,...

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William Nicholson is set to write Shine Pictures' "1066," about the confrontation between King Harold and William the Conqueror that eventually led to the battle of Hastings.

Variety says "Nicholson's script will focus on the comradeship-turned-deadly rivalry between England's King Harold and William."

William's triumph in the battle and the following Norman takeover of England brought an end to the Dark Ages in Blighty.

A director and lead actors have not been announced yet, but the trade says Shine may already be talking to some big stars. New Regency and Fox are backing the project.

Nicholson most recently co-wrote "Elizabeth: The Golden Age." In 1997, he made his directorial debut with "Firelight," starring Sophie Marceau and Stephen Dillane.

The screenwriter also got nominated for two Oscars: in 2001 for "Gladiator" and in 1994 for "Shadowlands."...

Wind Dancer Films said Thursday that partner David McFadzean will oversee the development of family films at the company.

McFadzean, a veteran writer-producer, is involved with three projects for Wind Dancer, including Hello, I Love You, The Fulton Street Gang and The Motel Galileo. He plans to develop four to five additional projects over the next year.

"I'm thrilled to put my energies into family comedies. After eight years of Home Improvement, I know there is a substantial audience out there," McFadzean said. "My goal is to keep production costs down while delivering the highest quality entertainment."

McFadzean's previous film producer credits include What Women Want, starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt; Where The Heart Is, starring Natalie Portman and Ashley Judd; Firelight, starring Sophie Marceau; and Walker Payne, with Jason Patric and Sam Shepherd.

He has been a partner in Wind Dancer since its inception.