Susanna Fogel Latest Celebrity News & Gossip

EXCLUSIVE: Emilia Jones (CODA) is set to lead director Susanna Fogel’s darkly comedic biopic Winner, which has started principal photography.

EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Steckler is exiting his post as President of Film Production at Imperative Entertainment to focus on producing under his newly launched shingle Enhanced Hammer. In addition to leading his production company, he will act as a consultant to Imperative Entertainment on select projects. Steckler arrived at Imperative in July 2019.

EXCLUSIVE: Amira Casar (The Contractor), Billie Boulet (The Worst Witch) and Ashley Brooke (The Blacklist) are set as series regulars, joining Bel Powley, Liev Schreiber and Joe Cole in A Small Light, a National Geographic limited series that tells the remarkable story of a Dutch woman who risked her life to shelter Anne Frank’s family from the Nazis for more than two years and then preserved Anne’s diary. The project comes from Grey’s Anatomy alums Joan Rater and Tony Phelan, Susanna Fogel, ABC Signature and Keshet Studios.

Bel Powley (The Morning Show) has been tapped as the lead and Liev Schreiber (Ray Donovan) and Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders) as the co-leads in Disney+’s A Small Light, a National Geographic limited series that tells the remarkable story of a Dutch woman who risked her life to shelter Anne Frank’s family from the Nazis for more than two years and then preserved Anne’s diary. The project comes from Grey’s Anatomy alums Joan Rater and Tony Phelan, Susanna Fogel, ABC Signature and Keshet Studios.

EXCLUSIVE: The remarkable story of a Dutch woman who risked her life to shelter Anne Frank’s family from the Nazis for more than two years and then preserved Anne’s diary, is the subject of A Small Light, a National Geographic limited series ordered by Disney+. The project comes from Grey’s Anatomy alums Joan Rater and Tony Phelan, Susanna Fogel (The Flight Attendant), ABC Signature and Keshet Studios.

Cory Finley’s feature adaptation of National Book Award winner Landscape With Invisible Hand has added Clifton Collins Jr. (Nightmare Alley, Jockey), Michael Gandolfini (The Many Saints of Newark), Josh Hamilton (Eighth Grade) and Brooklynn Mackenzie (Truth Be Told).

Josh Andrés Rivera, who plays the pivotal role of Chino in Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of West Side Story, has signed with Paradigm for representation. Rivera stars opposite Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler and Ariana Debose in the film that is currently in theaters nationwide.

EXCLUSIVE: Freeform has given a formal pilot order to What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding, a one-hour comedy based on Kristin Newman‘s (Only Murders in the Building) memoir, with Chelsea Frei (Dollface) set as the lead. Catherine Cohen (What We Do in The Shadows), Alice Hunter (Another Period) and Kosha Patel (Girlboss) also star in the pilot, written by Newman and to be directed by Becca Gleason (Summr ’03).

EXCLUSIVE: Hope Davis, Michael Gandolfini, Liza Koshy, Fred Melamed, Isaac Powell, Isabella Rossellini and Donald Elise Watkins have joined the cast of Susanna Fogel’s psychological thriller, Cat Person for Studiocanal and New Yorker Studios. They will co-star opposite the previously announced cast members Nicholas Braun Emilia Jones and Geraldine Viswanathan. Production starts today.

Kaley Cuoco brings the sunshine to the 2021 Emmy Awards on Sunday (September 19) at The Event Deck at L.A. Live in Los Angeles.

Guiding a show as unconventional as “The Flight Attendant” would be a tough task for any director. Adapted from Chris Bohjalian’s 2018 novel, the series was one part thriller, one part comedy, and one part mystery with a wee bit of grounded drama thrown into the mix.

Guiding a show as unconventional as “The Flight Attendant” would be a tough task for any director. Adapted from Chris Bohjalian’s 2018 novel, the series was one part thriller, one part comedy, and one part mystery with a wee bit of grounded drama thrown into the mix.

Studiocanal and Imperative Entertainment are teaming up on psychological thriller Cat Person, based on Kristen Roupenian’s well-received short story published in The New Yorker in 2017.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVChristina Choe and Susanna Fogel have served as writers and directors of film projects including “Nancy” (Choe) and “The Spy Who Dumped Me” (Fogel).

It was a wonderful night for female filmmakers as five women took prizes at the 2021 DGA Awards. From film to television to commercials, these directors proved that the Director’s Guild of America may be the most progressive guild of them all (already expecting pushback from the WGA members in my life).

EXCLUSIVE: Susanna Fogel, who co-wrote the critically acclaimed comedy Booksmart and also helmed the Lionsgate comedy The Spy Who Dumped Me, is set to direct The Mentor, based on a screenplay she is co-writing with her Spy Who Dumped Me collaborator David Iserson. Fogel and Iserson will produce the feature, which is based on an original idea, for Sony Pictures.