Oscar Winning Filmmaker Cameron Crowe Signs With UTA

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed producer and former FBI special agent Anne Beagan for representation in all areas.

EXCLUSIVE: Director Peter Farrelly finally is ready to follow his Best Picture Oscar winner Green Book. Apple Studios is in talks to finance The Greatest Beer Run Ever, with Zac Efron and Russell Crowe in talks to star and Bill Murray is being courted for a supporting role.

Filmmaker Oge Egbuonu, who directed the buzz-generating documentary (In)Visible Portraits, has signed with Sugar23, the company founded by Oscar-winning producer and manager Michael Sugar, for representation. Egbuonu was previously an executive at Raindog Films, the shingle run by Ged Doherty and Colin Firth, and served as an associate producer on Loving, the 2016 drama starring Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton.

EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning theater and television director-producer and overall queen Kamilah Forbes has signed

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Disney Channel has ordered Descendants: The Royal Wedding, an animated special set to premiere this summer.

Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in 1974; the two decades it took Gast to bring his footage of the fight to the screen were vindicated when the film triumphed at the Oscars in 1996. The bout was staged in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) by the promoter Don King, who had convinced the country’s dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, to put up a purse of $10 million on the basis that the televising of the fight would hugely enhance Zaire’s profile.

Jamie Lang Mexican-American filmmaker Sofia Garza-Barba made waves with her award-winning short film “Death After Pancakes,” taking prizes at the Independent Filmmakers Showcase and Lady Filmmakers Film Festival, and has shared with Variety that it’s time to announce her debut feature outing, a supernatural fairy tale thriller “Santos Remedios,” pitching at this month’s Sanfic-Morbido Lab.“Santos Remedios” – Holy Remedies in English – turns on eight-year-old Amapola, who idolizes her father,

Randall Wallace is set to direct the action-adventure thriller The Swiss Guard off his screenplay. Cameras will roll this fall in Rome, and casting is already underway.

Emmy-winning and Grammy-nominated filmmaker Jake Scott has signed with Range Media Partners.

Leon Gast, the celebrated Oscar-winning documentarian behind When We Were Kings, which chronicled the 1974 "Rumble in the Jungle" bout between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, has died. He was 85.

tweeted. “Leon passed away peacefully this morning at his home.

Leon Gast, the veteran filmmaker who won a Documentary Feature Oscar for helming the 1996 “Rumble in the Jungle” pic When We Were Kings, died Monday. He was 85.

Natalie Oganesyan editorLeon Gast, the Academy Award-winning director behind sport documentary “When We Were Kings,” died on Monday, according to Meira Blaustein, his close friend and the co-founder of Woodstock Film Festival. He was 85.Blaustein shared the news of Gast’s death in a Facebook post.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaCameron Crowe, the writer and director of “Jerry Maguire” and “Almost Famous,” has signed with UTA.The Oscar winner was previously at CAA. UTA will work with Crowe’s longtime manager, Irving Azoff, to represent Crowe in all areas, including film, television and other media.Crowe won an Academy Award for writing the script for “Almost Famous,” his semi-autobiographical look at the rock scene of the 1970s.

Also Read: David Crosby Sells Music Catalog to Irving Azoff's Iconic ArtistsSome of his other directing credits include “Vanilla Sky,” “Singles,” “Elizabethtown” and “We Bought a Zoo,” and he also wrote the screenplays for the ’80s classics “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” and “Say Anything.” As a documentary filmmaker, he’s been behind “Pearl Jam Twenty” and “The Union.”Cameron Crowe’s “Almost Famous” was loosely based on his experience as a young correspondent for Rolling Stone magazine.

Alan Robert Murray, a two-time Oscar winner and sound editor who has worked on films such as “American Sniper,” “Joker” and “Letters From Iwo Jima,” has died. He was 66.Murray’s passing was confirmed by his family via Kim Waugh, an executive with Warner Bros.