Tag: The Big Sick
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Annapurna Television Inks ‘Big Sick’ Helmer Michael Showalter To First-Look Deal
Annapurna Television has inked a first-look deal with writer-director Michael Showalter and his new production company Semi-Formal Productions. The multiyear pact to produce, direct and write covers a current TV project in development at the company and future ones. Showalter directed dramedy feature The Big Sick, which debuted at Sundance last year and won an…
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Bill Nighy, Caleb Landry Jones & Jay Baruchel Join Lone Scherfig Drama, Shoot Underway In Toronto
Exclusive: Bill Nighy (Love Actually), Caleb Landry Jones (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri) and Jay Baruchel (Goon) are joining the cast of Lone Scherfig’s latest movie, I can reveal. The movie is now underway in Toronto and will soon head to Copenhagen and New York. As previously announced, Andrea Riseborough (Death Of Stalin), Tahar Rahim…
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‘The Big Sick’ Director Michael Showalter Plans Christmas Comedy with Jessica Chastain & Octavia Spencer
Director Michael Showalter is coming off plenty of acclaim for directing the consistently and frequently praised romantic comedy The Big Sick from last year (it’s on Amazon Prime right now if you haven’t seen it). It was his third film behind the camera, and it continued his meteoric rise in quality as a filmmaker following…
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Michael Showalter to Direct Jessica Chastain-Octavia Spencer Holiday Comedy (Exclusive)
Hot off the heels of his hit film “The Big Sick,” director Michael Showalter has lined up his next movie: Universal’s holiday comedy starring Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer.Following a heated bidding war, the studio won the rights to the untitled pitch from Chastain’s Freckle Films and fast-tracked, adding Showalter as helmer. Universal beat out…
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Specialty Box Office Heads for Cliff After Oscars
The specialty market has thrived this awards season, which will boost Sunday’s winners before diving off a precipitous cliff unless some fresh strong titles arrive to save the day. The problem is that little has opened recently to fill the Oscar void that will be left when award season hits led by “The Shape of…
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Allison Janney Wins Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female
Allison Janney has won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female, the first televised award of the day. Other nominees included Holly Hunter (“The Big Sick”), Laurie Metcalf (“Lady Bird”), Lois Smith (“Marjorie Prime”), and Taliah Lennice Webster (“Good Time”). It’s Janney’s first win and third nomination at the Spirit Awards; she has dominated…
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‘The Big Sick’ Wins Indie Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay
“The Big Sick” writers Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon took home top honors at the 2018 Indie Spirit Awards for Best First Screenplay. The married writing team beat out fellow nominees Ingrid Jungermann (“Women Who Kill”), Kogonada (“Columbus”), David Branson Smith and Matt Spicer (“Ingrid Goes West”), and Kris Avedisian with story by Kyle…
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Watch a 1-Hour Roundtable with Jordan Peele, Aaron Sorkin, Darren Aronofsky & More
The latest THR long-form roundtable has arrived! We’ve already shared the in-depth discussions with the directors, actors, and actresses roundtables, and now we’ve got the hour-long chat between some of 2017’s most celebrated screenwriters. The latest roundtable Q&A includes Jordan Peele (Get Out), Darren Aronofsky (mother!), Aaron Sorkin (Molly’s Game), Emily V. Gordon (The Big…
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66-Minute Producers Roundtable Talk With Ridley Scott, Jason Blum, Judd Apatow, Amy Pascal & More
THR sits down with the producers this week for the newest episode of their “Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter” roundtable. t’s an engaging and enlightening talk featuring Judd Apatow (“The Big Sick”), Seth Rogen (“The Disaster Artist”), Jason Blum (“Get Out”), Amy Pascal (“Molly’s Game”), Ridley Scott (“All the Money in the World”, “Blade…
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‘Get Out’, ‘Call Me By your Name’ win at 2018 Writers Guild Awards
The Handmaid’s Tale takes home two prizes in TV category.Jordan Peele won best original screenplay at the 2018 Writers Guild Awards for Get Out, while James Ivory won the adapted screenplay award for Call Me by Your Name.The Writers Guild of America, West and the Writers Guild of America, East handed out the prizes at…