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Roadside Attractions and Vertical have co-acquired U.S. rights To the WWII drama Lee, marking the feature directorial debut of veteran cinematographer Ellen Kuras (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). which stars Academy Award winner Kate Winslet (The Regime) as famed American war correspondent and…

A new trend on the fall festival circuit this year is the biopic of the unknown hero, something that seems unthinkable now in the digital age. There's One Life, about the Schindler-like achievements of Nicholas Winton, who saved nearly 700 Jewish children…

LEE Director: Ellen KurasScreenwriters: Liz Hannah, Marion Hume, John ColleeLogline: Kate Winslet stars as the great American war correspondent Lee Miller, whose singular talent and ferocious tenacity gave us some of the 20th century's most indelible images. Panelists:  Ellen Kuras (director)…

Chatting away to Sally Hawkins, as you do, in the fabled Abbey Road Studios in posh North London neighborhood of St. John's Wood, she tells me "I feel fine" when I inquire after her well-being. Our feet are planted in the very spot where The Beatles recorded the track for “I Feel Fine,” a single that…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the striking first official image of Kate Winslet as Lee Miller in feature Lee. The image, shot during filming on location in Croatia, shows Oscar winner Winslet as the pioneering American war correspondent and photographer who covered WWII in Europe for British Vogue. Filming…

EXCLUSIVE: In a development that makes for as hot a package as you’ll find at the Virtual American Film Market, Marion Cotillard, Jude Law, Andrea Riseborough and Josh O’Connor will join Kate Winslet in LEE, the Ellen Kuras-directed film about the wartime experiences of Lee Miller. Miller traded a glamorous career as…

Oscar nominated director of feature documentary The Betrayal, Ellen Kuras, will direct Oscar winner Kate Winslet as Vogue cover model turned war correspondent, Lee Miller. Golden Globe-nominated screenwriter Liz Hannah (The Post, Long Shot) is adapting the project from the Anthony Penrose (Lee’s son) book The Lives of…

Catch-22 recently made its highly-anticipated debut on Hulu. George Clooney directs and co-stars in the adaptation of Joseph Heller’s seminal novel about artful dodger Yossarian (Christopher Abbott). The book contained nearly four dozens characters, which made it extremely difficult for writers Luke Davies and David…

Ellen Kuras broke the glass ceiling as one of the first female cinematographers ever admitted into the American Society of Cinematographers. She is continuing to break into the top ranks of directors this season alone, helming segments of Ozark, The Umbrella Academy and joining George Clooney and Grant Heslov as one…

If you’ve followed the news at all today, you know Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen abruptly resigned amid tension in the Trump administration over its failure to stop Central American migrants from crossing the southern border. President Donald Trump tweeted news of Nielsen’s departure at 6:02 p.m. ET. He…

Jane cinematographer Ellen Kuras won for Outstanding Cinematography on the National Geographic documentary about the titular primatologist Jane Goodall and backstage, she addressed the lack of females in the field. She said that there were a “handful of women in the field” when she first started in the industry…

Ellen Kuras, an award-winning director and cinematographer, is set to direct two episodes of the six-part Hulu series Catch-22, from Paramount Television, Anonymous Content and George Clooney and Grant Heslov's Smoke House Pictures. Kuras joins Clooney and Heslov, with the trio set to direct all six episodes of the…