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Netflix has dropped a trailer for Richard LaGravenese rom-com A Family Affair, which stars Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron, Joey King, Kathy Bates, Liza Koshy, and Sherry Cola. The film is produced by Alyssa Altman, Jeff Kirschenbaum, and Joe Roth. Michelle Morrissey serves as executive producer. Written…

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Amazon in a competitive situation has taken the Jennifer Lopez-produced Skydance TV series Backwards in Heels off the table. The show will be written and directed by Oscar nominee Richard LaGravenese and follows the aspirational and timeless story about the glamourous women living at the…

With the 93rd Oscars forced to adapt and change with the coronavirus pandemic still a major factor, the production team for the April 25 ceremony announced Wednesday reflects those conditions. Producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh unveiled 14 key members of their team for the show, which will air…

NBC has put in development Find The Good, a family drama project penned by Nashville writer-producer Geoffrey Nauffts based on memoirs by best-selling author Heather Lende. It comes from Wonderthink, a production company launched recently by Scandal star Tony Goldwyn, writer-director Richard LaGravenese and veteran TV…

STX Entertainment is taking on the task of reviving Gypsy for the big screen, with Barbra Streisand still attached to star as Momma Rose and Barry Levinson aboard to direct Richard LaGravenese’s script, which Streisand also is involved in. Studio sources confirmed that a deal is being finalized now after Deadline broke…

Screenwriter Richard LaGravenese, the Academy Award nominated writer of Terry Gilliam’s The Fisher King, will be honored by his peers with the Ian McClellan Hunter Award for Career Achievement at the 68th Annual Writer’s Guild Awards, it was announced today. LaGravenese has written seventeen scripts over his career…

Fox has given a script commitment with penalty to two drama projects from Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen’s Temple Hill (Rosewood) — a dance show written/executive produced by Richard LaGravenese and executive produced by Dancing With The Stars’ Julianne Hough and medical show Juarez General from Oz creator Tom Fontana…

Sherie Rene Scott, the actress and singer who created the role of a struggling young wife in Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years (soon to be released as a feature film by Richard LaGravanese), is re-teaming with writer Dick Scanlan on Whorl Inside A Loop, set to premiere in August at off-Broadway’s Second Stage…

Is WE tv's first original scripted drama The Divide the network's own Mad Men? The new 8-episode series, written by Richard LaGravenese (Behind The Candelabra) and co-created by LaGravenese and Tony Goldwyn (Conviction), does not resemble that AMC drama's story line or midcentury setting in any way. Rather, the…

Coming off his directorial debut on Sundance pic Hits, David Cross has been tapped as a guest star on Fox‘s half-hour pilot Dead Boss, from WBTV and Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment. An adaptation of the BBC3 series created by Sharon Horgan and Holly Walsh, Dead Boss is a comedic mystery that finds overachiever…

Melissa George has been tapped as the female lead opposite Rufus Sewell in ABC's Richard LaGravenese drama pilot. Also cast in the pilot, in the vein of Dangerous Liaisons, is Elliot Knight. The untitled project is set in New York and revolves around the love and rivalry between two equally matched, powerful…

Oded Fehr (The Mummy franchise) has landed a series regular role in ABC's Richard LaGravenese drama pilot. In the vein of Dangerous Liaisons, the untitled project is set in New York and revolves around the love and rivalry between two equally matched, powerful socialites, Philip Fitzgerald Julien (Rufus Sewell) and…