EXCLUSIVE: Even with his latest film Jay Kelly in the midst of award season following its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, George Clooney not only appears to have lined up his next project but also another A-list star with whom to share the screen. Sources tell Deadline that…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix and Sony are teaming to develop a series based on the 2021 film Fatherhood, in which Kevin Hart played a single dad who raises his daughter after losing his wife a day after the baby was born. After directing the film, Paul Weitz will write the series and direct it. This will be a…

Apple TV+ has officially picked up Murderbot, a 10-episode sci-fi drama series starring and executive produced by Emmy winner Alexander Skarsgård (Succession). Based on Martha Wells’ bestselling Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning book series The Murderbot Diaries, the project hails from Chris and Paul…

EXCLUSIVE: Roadside Attractions has acquired Moving On, an original comedy written and directed by About a Boy Oscar nominee Paul Weitz starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin as estranged friends who reunite to seek revenge on the petulant widower (Malcolm McDowell) of their recently deceased best…

Writer-irector Paul Weitz wrote the sublime road comedy Grandma for Lily Tomlin, and now at the suggestion of Tomlin, he wrote a new film for both Lily and Jane Fonda, one with characters unrecognizable from the pair they played for seven years on the Netflix sitcom, Grace And Frankie, in a story tinged with a…

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz will co-write and co-direct Spanish Dracula, the true story about how silent film star and Mexican actress Lupita Tovar found a second wind starring in Spanish-language versions of Hollywood films like the Universal classic Dracula. The Weitz brothers are her grandsons, and…

EXCLUSIVE: Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda have committed to a big screen reteam in Moving On, a comedy written and to be directed by Paul Weitz. Malcolm McDowell and Richard Roundtree join them in a film about two old friends who reconnect at a funeral, and decide to exact revenge on the widower who wronged them…

Chris and Paul Weitz's production company, Depth of Field, has closed a two-year first-look deal with Paramount Television for TV and digital series. The deal went into effect on February 1. The company’s Andrew Miano, who oversees film, will also shepherd TV projects under the pact. Dan Balgoyen will serve as…

EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Hart has committed to star in Fatherhood for Sony Pictures. It will be his next film, right after he reprises in Sony’s sequel to Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. Paul Weitz will direct and wrote the most recent draft of Dana Stevens’ script, which was adapted from the Matt Logelin memoir Two Kisse…

EXCLUSIVE: Longtime WME literary agent David Lubliner is moving to UTA. Lubliner is a stalwart agent who has worked with top-tier clients including About a Boy director and writer Chris Weitz, Man of Steel screenwriter David S. Goyer, Manchester by the Sea’s Kenneth Lonergan, Empire EP Ilene Chaiken, Dear White P…

In the Paul Weitz-directed Bel Canto, Julianne Moore plays a famous soprano who heads to South America to perform at a swanky birthday party for a wealthy Japanese industrialist (Ken Watanabe). But the fancy gathering is rudely interrupted when the house is taken over by a guerrilla rebel group demanding the…

"It was super nice to be in Venice," Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle star Gael Garcia Bernal said about Season 3. “It's so wet…we were all really wet all the time. That added to the magical moisture of music." Unspooling Season 3 on December 9, Mozart in the Jungle, based on Blaire Tindall's memoir Mozart in the Jun…