WME has come out on top of a competitive situation to sign writer Laline Paull.
Paull is a London-based scribe who has worked in film and television on both sides of the pond and has had two plays performed at the Royal National Theatre London. But it’s her upcoming manuscript that piqued agency interest.
Paull has written a dark thriller titled Fear of August that is set entirely in a beehive and rooted in biological fact. Here is the logline:
Rising stars Joel Kinnaman and Noomi Rapace have abruptly left United Talent Agency, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Sources say the Swedish actors individually informed the agency of their plans to sever ties on Friday morning. Both continue to be represented by manager Shelley Browning and Magnolia Entertainment.
Actor and singer Justin Timberlake is taking his music touring business to WME.
Although previously signed with talent agency CAA, WME had been repping Timberlake as an actor since 2009. It will now inherit all of his future business, including touring and endorsements.
Phase 4 Films has acquired all U.S. and Canadian rights to Matt Johnson’s The Dirties.
The film, which debuted at the 2013 Slamdance Film Festival, stars Johnson and Owen Williams from a screenplay written by Johnson, Evan Morgan and Josh Boles.
The Dirties follows two best friends as they film a comedy about killing the bullies in their school. One of them isn't joking.
ICM Partners is making a concentrated foray into digital strategy and global branded entertainment, hiring three agents to expand its footprint in the fields.
Sarah Early and Matthew Murray are joining ICM’s Los Angeles office in the digital strategy division, which is led by by the division's managing director Keyvan Peymani.
Madison Wojciechowski is boarding the agency’s New York office and will work under global branded entertainment division head Carol Goll.
CNN has picked up director Penny Lane’s Our Nixon, which is culled from hundreds or hours of intimate home videos shot by the 37th president’s closest aides. The cable network plans to premiere the film in August, while Cinedigm will release it theatrically.
As if film production and distribution hasn't been fundamentally fractured enough, here comes Vine to smash the traditional models of storytelling and viewership into a million little six-second pieces.
The line between reality and fantasy is seemingly blurred in the new film Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes, which released its first trailer Thursday.
Written, directed, and co-produced by Francesca Gregorini (Tanner Hall), the film takes a look at the life of Emanuel, a young woman who has grown up without a mother. Played by Kaya Scodelario (Skins), Emanuel develops a strange fascination with her new neighbor, Linda (Jessica Biel), who closely resembles Emanuel's deceased mother.
The Project is a movie about pirates without Johnny Depp. It's also a movie about life-or-death military operations, but there are no duty-bound, Stars and Stripes-waving patriots to be found. Instead, this documentary, premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, is a stark and shocking look at the outlaw police force that seems a world away, but has a vast impact on the way we live in America.
Shane McConkey's legacy continues to reach new heights.
The Canadian-born skier helped revolutionize and legitimize extreme sports in the 1990s, bringing fame and great attention to a growing group of mountain athletes that sought to redefine -- and push the boundaries of -- sanity on the slopes. A pioneer of the BASE jumping-skiing hybrid, McConkey's resume was filled with medals, honors and trophies by 2009, when he died -- at just 39 years of age -- while attempting an especially difficult stunt on a mountain in Italy.
For many adolescents, summer signals the start of endless days spent in a homemade tree house. But the in The Kings of Summer -- formerly titled Toy's House -- three boys are looking to be free of more than just school.
