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EXCLUSIVE: Over three years after The Black List and the then MGM launched their feature film script writing partnership to find and amplify new voices, the team-up has found their fourth and final recipient. Audrey Rosenberg will receive a two-step Guild minimum open script deal with Amazon MGM…

EXCLUSIVE: It is only after Eric Roth invites you to sit on his front porch and discuss screenwriting and the thorny process of making great movies that you find yourself saying, wait, you wrote that one too? He’ll tell you you’re sitting in a chair where Nobel Laureates and Pulitzer winners held court…

Apple Original Films today set the Martin Scorsese-directed Critics Choice and Golden Globe Award-nominated Killers of the Flower Moon to begin streaming globally on Apple TV+ on Friday, January 12.  This comes after a $156 million global box office performance on the film that stars Leonardo…

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Killers of the Flower Moon, the Apple Original Films epic that sports the season’s biggest list of bona fides. Oscar winner Martin Scorsese directed the film, which he co-wrote with Oscar-winning…

Few living screenwriters boast the credits of Eric Roth, even before he teamed with Martin Scorsese on an adaptation of David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon. Besides his Oscar-winning job adapting Forrest Gump, Roth’s work includes Dune, A Star Is Born, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Good She…

Eric Roth, former executive director of the Visual Effects Society, will be the recipient of the VES Board of Directors Award "in recognition of his leadership in presiding as the Society's top executive leader."   Roth, who led the organization for 19 years, retired from the post in September. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has picked up Before, a limited series starring Billy Crystal, who also will serve as executive producer, Deadline has learned. I hear details on the project, including the size of the order, are being finalized. Written by Sarah Thorp (The Bounty Hunter) and to be directed by Barry Levinson, Befor…

Eric Roth, the longtime executive director of the Visual Effects Society, is retiring after nearly 19 years on the job, effective September 30. "At this time in my life, while being mindful of some underlying health issues, I am looking forward to spending more time with my family, traveling, and pursuing my next…

EXCLUSIVE: Here is the hot project for international buyers for next week’s Cannes Market. Sony Pictures has preemptively acquired U..S rights to Miramax's Here, a film adaptation of the celebrated Richard McGuire graphic novel that will reunite the Forrest Gump team: Academy Award winners director Robert Zemeckis…

EXCLUSIVE: Here is the hottest package to come along in awhile. Deadline hears that studios and streamers are poring over Here, an adaptation of the celebrated Richard McGuire graphic novel that will reunite the trio behind the 1994 film Forrest Gump. Tom Hanks will star, Robert Zemeckis will direct, and the script is…

Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year's movie awards race. For filmmaker Denis Villeneuve (Arrival, Blade Runner 2049), the opportunity to bring renowned sci-fi novelist Frank Herbert's 1965 literary-franchise-launching…

EXCLUSIVE: Cher just tweeted out that on the eve of celebrating her 75th birthday Thursday, she’ll have her life story unfold on movie screens through Universal Pictures. It is a major effort with heavy hitters, and here’s what is happening. The as yet untitled film will be scripted by Oscar-winning screenwriter Eric…