Hilary Swank Latest To Board Steven Soderbergh Heist Film ‘Logan Lucky’
Hilary Swank is joining Steven Soderbergh’s heist film Logan Lucky. She joins Daniel Craig, Channing Tatum, Katherine Heigl, Adam Driver, Seth MacFarlane and Riley Keough. (DH)
WME/IMG, Sequoia Capital China, Tencent Set Joint Venture Targeting Sports and Entertainment
WME/IMG is looking to grow its operations in China, setting a joint venture with Sequoia Capital China to help expand its activities in sports and entertainment. (VAR)
Box Office: ‘Warcraft’ Soars To Record $90M-Plus In China
Legendary and Universal’s big-budget tentpole opened Wednesday is getting the widest release of all time in mainland China. (THR)
GKIDS Teams With Angelina Jolie To Produce Taliban Tale ‘The Breadwinner’
GKIDS has joined Angelina Jolie Pitt as executive producers of The Breadwinner, an animated film about a young girl living under the Taliban in Afghanistan. (WRAP)
Open Road Buys Chadwick Boseman’s Thurgood Marshall Movie
Open Road Films has acquired all U.S. rights to Marshall, starring Chadwick Boseman as Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and Josh Gad as lawyer Sam Friedman. (VAR)
‘You Me Her’ Scores 2-Season Renewal From DirecTV
Polyromantic comedy “You Me Her” has been renewed for Season 2 and Season 3 on AT&T and DirecTV’s Audience network. (TVN)
The Legend Of Muhammad Ali
There were at least a few lists about who the greatest athletes were, and Ali was at the top of all of them. A boxer ahead of ballplayers and track stars and soccer players and quarterbacks and point guards, but that wasn’t just because of his prowess in the ring, it was because of his prowess at life. (TB)
Screenwriters: Q&A with Director Caroline Case, ‘Nobody Knows Anything (except William Goldman)’
‘Nobody Knows Anything (except William Goldman)’ is an upcoming documentary feature about two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter, bestselling novelist, non-fiction author and playwright William Goldman. (SM)