‘Minari’s’ Lee Isaac Chung To Write & Direct ‘Your Name’ Reimagining For Producer JJ Abrams

2020 didn’t necessarily start off well for writer-director Stephen Gaghan. The Oscar-winning filmmaker released the Robert Downey, Jr.-starring feature “Dolittle,” which was universally panned by critics when it was released in January (the film currently sits at 14% on Rotten Tomatoes).

In a non-pandemic alternate universe, we’d be six months removed from the release of Scott Cooper’s highly-anticipated horror film, “Antlers.” However, this isn’t that idyllic world and the pandemic forced the studio to push “Antlers” until 2021. So, sadly, we have months still to wait and see what the filmmaker has up his sleeve.

Spike Lee still gets recognized on a walk in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.On this sunny September morning, the 63-year-old director and activist is participating in a socially distanced photo shoot on the street outside his production company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks. As Lee stands on the corner, a dark Subaru screeches to a halt.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Oscar winning Traffic scribe Stephen Gaghan will write and direct Barbarian Days for Amazon Studios, based on the bestselling memoir by William Finnegan Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life. The book won the Pulitzer Prize in 2016.Gaghan will produce alongside Ted Hope, who will produce under his multi-picture deal with the studio.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Black Bear Televison has partnered with writer/director Scott Cooper Crazy Heart to develop a limited dramatic series Angels & Demons. Making his television debut, Cooper will write and direct all the episodes.The drama is based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning St.

Thomas Jefferson Byrd was an actor known for roles in Spike Lee films including “Clockers” and “Get on the Bus.”Byrd worked with Lee in a number of the acclaimed director’s films, beginning with 1995’s “Clockers,” in which he played a drug lord’s enforcer. Byrd would return to the big screen in Lee’s “Girl 6” (1996), “Get on the Bus” (1996), “He Got Game” (1998), “Bamboozled” (2000), “Red Hook Summer” (2012), “Da Sweet Blood of Jesus” (2014) and “Chi-Raq” (2015).

Naman Ramachandran Ang Lee leads Taipei masterclasses; ITV Studios/Something Special strike formats deal; Sky hires “The Office” producer Anil Gupta; U.K.

coronavirus pandemic.The move comes after it was confirmed that venues that have applied for the government’s £1.57 billion Cultural Recovery Fund will have to wait a week longer than anticipated to find out whether they will receive a grant.In their latest drive, the MVT will try to persuade a cross party majority of MPs to change the approach of government and ensure that restrictions on grassroots music venues are always accompanied by appropriate economic support.They are asking supporters

Spike Lee is paying tribute to late actorThomas Jefferson Byrd, who starredin a myriad of the director's films including Clockers, He Got Game and Red Hook Summer. Lee took to Instagram Sunday to reveal that Byrd was murdered Saturday night in Atlanta, Georgia.In his post, Lee shared a photo of Thomas as the character Errol Barnes in his 1995 film, Clockers.

Also Read: 'Your Name' Live-Action Adaptation Taps 'Minari' Director Lee Isaac Chung“Warner Animation Group truly understands the timelessness of Dr. Seuss, the incredible impact of the characters and stories, and how to translate the magical appeal to truly come to life on screen,” Susan Brandt, president of Dr.

Thanks to being released in the winter of 2020, “The Gentlemen” narrowly avoided being caught up in the pandemic shutdown of the cinemas around the world. And because of that, the modestly-budgeted Guy Ritchie crime film was able to turn a tidy little profit at the box office.

It’s really easy to forget, given it happened roughly 3 years ago —though I do mean in 2020 years— but earlier this year, before the second age of dark times, Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari” was the big winner at the Sundance Film Festival.

Disney star Peyton Elizabeth Lee has spoken about the challenging stunts in her new film Secret Society Of Second-Born Royals.

Also Read: 'Minari' Director Shares the 'Poetic' Meaning Behind Immigrant Tale's Title (Video)Bad Robot’s J.J. Abrams will produce the live-action adaptation along with Genki Kawamura, who produced the original.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Lee Isaac Chung will rewrite and direct Paramount, Bad Robot and Toho’s live-action adaptation of Your Name, the reimagined adaptation of the 2016 animated romantic fantasy drama film which was an instant classic in Japan. Chung will work off the draft by Emily V.

The Material Girl has lived long enough to tell and express herself on the big screen. Madonna has teamed with screenwriter Diablo Cody, producer Amy Pascal and Universal for a biopic on herself.

Ben Lewis and Blake Lee, who are a real-life married couple, will be starring in Lifetime’s first holiday movie to revolve around an LGBTQ storyline.

@middo4789 shared her MALM upcycle video along with the caption: "So simple yet so effective." The clip begins with a shot of the handle-less MALM chest of drawers in white (the six-drawer version that costs £115 on the website).The user then shows gold cupped handles that she purchased from eBay for £6.99 for 12.After adding each of the new drawer handles, she dresses the top of the drawers with diffuser sticks, a lamp made from a light bulb in a wire mesh vase and a house plant on a gold tray