NYFF: Film Society Announces 2016 Projections Section Lineup
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the complete lineup for the Projections section of the 54th New York Film Festival. Heading into its third year, the annual celebration will take place October 7th through October 9th and include 44 films in 11 programs with 10 world premieres, five North American premieres and 13 U.S. premieres. (IW)
‘Inside Amy Schumer’ Not Over But No Season 5 “In Foreseeable Future”
Amy Schumer’s Comedy Central series is not over, according to the actress/comedian, but the show is on an indefinite hiatus and there is no Season 5 “in the foreseeable future.” Schumer was clarifying her earlier Tweets that suggested the show was ending. Inside Amy Schumer was renewed for a fifth season in January and wrapped Season 4 in June. (DH)
Marvel Reconfigures ‘Runaways’ As Hulu Series
While Marvel has been pretty orderly about their cinematic universe early on, at least one movie fell through the cracks: “Runaways.” However, the movie never got in front of cameras despite a few tentative timelines for filming, and eventually was taken off the slate altogether. Now, Hulu has stepped up and ordered Marvel’s Runaways to series, with the project being shepherded by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage. (TP)
Billy Crudup to Star Opposite Naomi Watts in Netflix Drama ‘Gypsy’
Picked up to series in January, the project follows the journey of Jean Holloway, a therapist who begins to develop dangerous and intimate relationships with the people in her patients’ lives. Watts will star as Holloway and also be credited as an executive producer. (LF)
Keira Knightley and Alexander Skarsgard Reportedly in Negotiations for WWII Drama ‘The Aftermath’
Fox Searchlight won a bidding war for the rights to Rhidian Brook’s novel and is getting Knightley and Skarsgard to star in the post-World War II tale of “passion and betrayal.” Story centers on a woman who goes to Hamburg with her only surviving son after the shelling has stopped to reunite with her husband, a colonel in the British army, who is tasked with aiding in the rebuilding effort. (VUL)
‘The Hunger’: 20th Century Fox Plans Donner Party Tale
Plans are underway for a film that will tell the true story of North America’s infamous Donner Party expedition with a Walking Dead-style twist. Twentyeth Century Fox has picked up the big screen rights to the upcoming novel by former CIA and Department of Defense intelligence analyst Alma Katsu. Luke Scott, the son of filmmaker Ridley Scott, is attached to adapt and direct. (CS)
Sofia Vergara Gets a Whole Bunch Of Talented Company In Ensemble Comedy ‘The Female Brain’
James Marsden, Lucy Punch and Toby Kebbel have joined the cast of Whitney Cummings’ directorial debut. The film also stars Cecily Strong, Beanie Feldstein, NBA player Blake Griffin, Xosha Roquemore, Chris D’Elia and Deon Cole and Cummings. Cummings is directing from her own script, co-written with Neal Brennan and based on the book by neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine. (VAR)
Today In Remake News: ‘Clue’ Remake Heads to Fox with “Action-Adventure” Twist
Twentieth Century Fox has landed the new Clue movie with Josh Feldman producing for Hasbro Studios and Ryan Jones serving as the exec. While it’s still early days, there’s apparently a desire to up the scale of the story with a “worldwide mystery” that has “action-adventure elements.” And, obviously, it’s being envisioned as a franchise-starter with global appeal. (COL)
Every Good Streak Has To End Some Time, Even For Fox Searchlight (Studio Series)
Whether you’re a filmmaker or a distributor, winning a Best Picture trophy doesn’t happen very often. Even rarer is winning two in a row, and yet that’s what Fox Searchlight just did in 2014 and 2015 with 12 Years a Slave and Birdman. Consider, also, that the company has either released a Best Picture nominee or a film that won another major Oscar each year since 2006, and in several years, it has done both. That’s a nice run, but it might very well end in 2016. (TB)
Screenwriters: Anatomy of a Writing a Scene: ‘Defiance’ – Another Exodus
Hollywood first acknowledged the existence of the Nazi death camps in 1961’s Judgment at Nuremberg, meaning there’s been a half-century of opportunity to explore the ramifications of the Hitler regime. And by and large, cinema has muffed it. Of course, the images of the victims behind barbed wire and shuffling toward extinction are indelible and must remain so. But where are all the stories of heroic refugee resistance? Mostly MIA. (SM)