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EXCLUSIVE: Production has started in South Africa on Oscar-winning director Gore Verbinski's new action adventure film Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, starring Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz and Juno Temple.  The film, written by Matthew Robinson (Love & Monsters)…

EXCLUSIVE: Hello From The Magic Tavern, the hit comedy fantasy podcast, is being turned into an animated series. Sam Rockwell and Mark Berger's Play Hooky Productions and Starburns Industries, the company behind Rick and Morty, are developing the podcast in cartoon form. This news comes ahead of…

EXCLUSIVE: The EFM packages aren’t done just yet. A good one has come together late in the day as we can reveal that Pirates Of The Caribbean director and Oscar winner Gore Verbinski has pulled together a strong cast for his fun-sounding next movie, titled Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. Leading the…

Sam Rockwell probably isn’t anyone’s idea of a suave secret agent, but that seems to be just the point for director Matthew Vaughn. He cast the Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Oscar winner against type and let him rip with a witty, eminently watchable performance that lets him steal every scene…

EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Vaughn reveals that last year he received what he terms "flattering” offers to sell Marv Films, the production company behind productions that include the Kick-Ass and Kingsman franchises and the Apple Original Films romance spy-thriller Argylle. That film is having its world premiere…

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) and Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick) have closed deals to star in A Guy Walks Into a Bar, a dark comedy from director Gary Fleder (Runaway Jury) that has secured an Interim Agreement from SAG-AFTRA and will go into production by year’s…

Aubrey Plaza, making her stage debut, and Christopher Abbott will star in an Off Broadway revival of John Patrick Shanley's 1984 classic Danny and the Deep Blue Sea this fall, with a producing team that includes Sam Rockwell. The revival will begin previews Monday, October 20, at the Lucille Lortel…

Searchlight Pictures has dropped the first trailer for its 1950s murder mystery, See How They Run. You can see it above. Starring Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan, the movie is set in London's West End where plans for a film version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is…

Offstage, and sometimes on, David Mamet can be infuriating and exasperating, as anyone who has witnessed his recent nonsensical, offensive media blitz can attest, and then along comes something like American Buffalo – possibly his greatest work, all due apologies to Glengarry Glen Ross – with a cast so in sync with…

EXCLUSIVE: This is turning into an AFM unlike any we can recall, with multiple prestige scripts in the offing in addition to the more traditional brawny fare. A big one just got put in play this morning, and we hear there are already four offers for an untitled script that Oscar-winner Martin McDonagh has written to…

The Broadway revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo starring Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss – postponed from 2020 due to the Covid shutdown – will open at Circle in the Square Theatre on Wednesday, April 14, 2022, two years to the day after its original target. Previews for the strictly limited…

Apple is near completion on another seismic film package streamer deal. Apple Original Films is closing worldwide rights on Argylle, the next film to be directed by Matthew Vaughn and produced by his MARV banner. First unveiled with cast recently, the package bore an ask of $200 million and Deadline hears that this…