Nile have announced their 10th studio album, The Underworld Awaits Us All, arriving August 23rd via Napalm Records. The LP marks their first full-length effort in five years.

The South Carolina death metal vets also offered up the lead single, the title of which we’ll put here verbatim: “Chapter for Not Being Hung Upside Down on a Stake in the Underworld and Made to Eat Feces by the Four Apes.”

It’s a vicious number with frenzied percussion, whiplashing stop-starts, and classic thrash riffs that have a hint of late ’80s Sepultura. True to the band’s Egyptian concept, the video sees the band playing amidst a sandstorm at the pyramids thanks to some effective green-screen captures.

“’Chapter for not being Hung Upside Down’ is one of our favorite tracks on the new record,” stated singer-guitarist Karl Sanders. “It’s a lot of fun to play, challenging and unpredictable,...

Living Colour frontman Corey Glover has formed a new band, Sonic Universe, who have shared their debut single “I Am” from their forthcoming album, It Is What It Is, out May 10th.

The group sees Glover in collaboration with guitarist/producer Mike Orlando (Adrenaline Mob), bassist Booker King, and drummer Taykwuan Jackson.

Glover’s longtime band Living Colour — which remains active — is a good frame of reference for Sonic Universe. On “I Am,” the band lays down a very Living Colour-esque brand of funk metal while Glover’s commanding voice soars in full flight. Doubling as the album opener, the upbeat jam is a fitting way to launch a new chapter in the singer’s career.

Running 10 tracks in length, It Is What It Is was produced, engineered, and mixed by Orlando at Sonic Stomp Studios. Pre-orders are available via earMUSIC.

As mentioned, Glover still remains active with Living Colour...

Buckcherry have announced that their 10th studio album, appropriately titled Vol. 10, will arrive on June 2nd. The 11-song album will offer 10 new Buckcherry originals, as well as a cover of Bryan Adams’ “Summer of 69” as a bonus track.

In advance of the album, Buckcherry have debuted the first single, “Good Time.” Tom Flynn and Mike Watts directed the music video (below), which was filmed in Los Angeles.

Vol. 10 was recorded at Sienna Studios in Nashville with famed producer Marti Frederiksen. Pre-orders are available here and here.

Meanwhile, Buckcherry just kicked off a co-headlining US tour with Skid Row on Thursday night (March 9th). A fall leg was recently added, making for an extensive outing. Pick up tickets here.

Watch the video for Buckcherry’s new single, “Good Time,” below.

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Piers Morgan’s Twitter account was hacked overnight and spewed a series of crass and racist comments for nearly an hour before it was shut down and wiped clean.

The feed for British TV commentator’s program on Sky, “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” posted a screenshot of his now-blank profile, stating, “In case you were wondering, @piersmorgan has been hacked.”

In addition to removing the F-word and N-word strewn comments, Twitter wiped clean all other posts Morgan has shared with his 8.3 million followers since he joined the platform in November 2010.

“Any chance of getting him back, @elonmusk?” the “Piers Morgan Uncensored” post asked Twitter’s owner.

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The incident began late Monday, and Twitter users, including journalist Yashar Ali, quickly began posting screenshots of some of the racist and abusive posts with comments that it appeared Morgan’s account had been hacked.

Shelley H. Surpin, a longtime entertainment lawyer and partner at Surpin, Mayersohn & Coghill in Los Angeles, has died. She was 72. Her firm said Surpin died September 3 of complications following a stroke.

A champion for independent film, helped with the careers of such filmmakers as Greg Araki, Nicole Holofcener, Paul Mazur, Allison Anders, Zal Batmanglij, Brit Marling, Mike Cahill and Tom Flynn, among many others.

Surpin began practicing entertainment law at Pollock, Rigrod and Bloom (later Bloom Hergott), eventually becoming partners with Andy Rigrod and founding Rigrod and Surpin.

She produced writer-director Batmanglij’s dramatic feature Sound of My Voice, a 2012 Fox Searchlight release that earned Indie Spirit Award noms for supporting actress Marling — who also co-wrote the pic — and Best First Feature. Surpin also executive produced the feature Jake Squared, which premiered at the 2013 Raindance Festival in London.

Surpin received her law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law at Uc Berkeley,...

In its first-ever chance to be part of Deadline’s Contenders Television event, Disney+ chose its original movie Togo to highlight in its panel session, with director-cinematographer Ericson Cole, writer Tom Flynn and star Willem Dafoe joining a virtual panel to discuss the imposing logistics of mounting this true-life family adventure about an extraordinary sled dog and his master as he leads a team in a harrowing journey to deliver much-needed serum in 1925 in Nome, Alaska.

In this case, Dafoe explained it was important to use real dog actors, not CGI versions, since most of the film was done with practical action in actual challenging locations. “The animals are there because we want them to be animals. You have to be patient and we were pretty loose with it,“ said Dafoe. “The sled dogs are very athletic, very trained. I had to really learn from them.”

He said he had...

“I was struck by the fact that the story was wrong,” exclaims writer Tom Flynn of his new Disney+ film “Togo.” The thrilling movie details the true story of the 1925 Great Race of Mercy in Alaska, and the heroic dog Togo who led the journey. Watch the exclusive video interview above.

Many people incorrectly believe that the sled dog who saved the day was Balto. After all, that husky has plenty of accolades, statues, and an animated feature of his own. “Balto is not to be diminished” admits Flynn, but he only completed the final leg of the serum run. Musher Leonhard Seppala (portrayed in the film by Oscar nominee Willam Dafoe), and his dog team led by Togo, ran the majority of the trek through dangerous conditions. Flynn’s film sets out to tell the true tale of this brave canine.

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Two high-profile new streaming platforms, Apple TV+ and Disney+, launched last month, just as awards season was starting to gear up. Following the Gotham Awards and AFI Awards earlier this week, which both feature TV categories, today the WGA Awards unveiled their TV nominees.

The list included the first major nomination for a program from the two newly launched streamers, Disney+’s upcoming original movie Togo, which is being released Dec. 20. Its writer, Tom Flynn, was nominated in the Original Longform category alongside writers for HBO’s Chernobyl and True Detective and AMC’s The Terror: Infamy.

This is the first creative awards nomination for a Disney+ program. The marketing campaign for the platform’s Star Wars world drama series, The Mandalorian, was recently nominated for the 57th Annual Icg Publicists Guild Awards.

Walt Disney Pictures’ Togo, is based on the true story of the 1925 serum run to Nome, in...

Dead To Me, Russian Doll in running for new series honours.

Writers of The Crown, Succession and Watchmen are among the television nominees for this year’s Writers Guild Awards, unveiled on Thursday (5) by the East and West branches of the Writers Guild of America (WGA).

Joining the three projects in the list of drama series nominees are writers of The Handmaid’s Tale and Mindhunter. Nominees in the WGA’s new series category include PEN15, Russian Doll and Watchmen.

In the original long form category, nominees include the writers of Chernobyl and True Detective and the adapted long form category includes Fosse/Verdon and Unbelievable.

Writers Guild of America West and Writers Guild of America, East have announced nominations for outstanding achievement in television, with Netflix’s The Crown, Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Netflix’s Mindhunter and HBO’s Succession and Watchmen competing for the top drama trophy.

The outstanding comedy nominees are HBO’s Barry, Amazon Prime’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Hulu’s PEN15, Netflix’s Russian Doll and HBO’s Veep.

Best new series nominees are PEN15, Russian Doll, Watchmen, Netflix’s Dead To Me and FX’s What We Do In The Shadows.

Also announced were nominees in the new media, news, radio/audio and promotional writing categories.

Winners will be honored at the 2020 Writers Guild Awards on Saturday, February 1, 2020, at concurrent ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York City.

Here is the complete list of nominees:

Television, New Media, And News Nominees

Drama Series

The Crown, Written by James Graham,...

The Writers Guild of America released the nominees for its 2020 awards on Thursday, which saw newcomers “Watchmen,” “Russian Doll” and “Pen15” each bag a pair of nominations.

Other series to get multiple nods include “Veep,” “Succession,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” and “The Crown.”

Ava DuVernay’s Netflix miniseries on the Central Park 5, “When They See Us” did not recieve any nominations, with the WGA instead picking “El Camino,” “Fosse/Verdon,” “The Loudest Voice” and “Unbelieveable” in the adapted longform category. In the original longform category, the nominees were “Chernobyl,” “The Terror: Infamy,” “True Detective” and the upcoming Disney+ movie “Togo.”

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Winners will be honored at the 2020 Writers Guild Awards on Saturday, February 1, 2020, at concurrent ceremonies in New York City and Los Angeles.

See all the nominees below:

Drama Series

The Crown, Written by James Graham, David Hancock, Peter Morgan; Netflix

The Handmaid’s Tale,...

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Disney+ movie Togo tells the true story of a musher and his hero dog on an Alaskan tundra trek to deliver serum for an outbreak.

Togo, a fact-based movie about a legendary dog sled run to deliver an outbreak-combatting serum, may have the makings of an inspirationally adventurous family-driven Disney theatrical offering, but the film is instead headed to a device near you as a (non-Mandalorian) offering on streaming platform Disney+.

Four-time Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe headlines Togo as Norwegian sled rider Leonhard Seppala, sharing top billing with the film’s eponymous character, a 12-year-old hero dog who, despite his advanced age, leads Seppala’s team on a perilous 1925 trek across 674 miles of the Alaskan tundra from Seward to deliver life-saving serum to those suffering from a diphtheria outbreak in Nome.

Ericson Core directed Togo, bringing experience from 2015’s Point Break remake and 2006 Mark Walhberg-headlined Vince Papale biopic Invincible.

Yes, yes, there’s Willem Dafoe, but Ericson Core’s moving historical drama “Togo” is a canine-obsessed affair. And why shouldn’t it be? The Disney+ original joins a long line of classic predecessors like “Balto,” “Iron Will,” “White Fang,” and a ballooning number of “Call of the Wild” adaptations, though this one has a bit more on its mind than the rest of its doggy brethren. While even casual dogsledding fans likely know the name of Balto — a brave sled dog who inspired both his own animated franchise and a popular statue in Central Park — few are familiar with Togo, arguably the real hero of the so-called “Great Race of Mercy.”

, and Core’s drama seems poised to break out as the streaming service’s first true crowdpleasing hit. Tom Flynn’s screenplay wedges in a hefty amount of fact-based drama (with a few curious tweaks), and while those...

Walt Disney Studios President of Production Sean Bailey provided insight and showed off trailers for the Disney+ streaming service’s slate of upcoming films, including the live-action version of Lady and the Tramp which will be available at launch on Nov. 12, 2019.

Charlie Bean directs and Tessa Thompson stars as Lady, Justin Theroux as Tramp in the remake of the 1955 animated romance movie.

Marc Lawrence’s Christmas movie Noelle, which once had a theatrical release date, follows Santa’s daughter played by Anna Kendrick who must track down her brother Nick when he goes missing. Lawrence wrote and Bill Hader, Billy Eichner, and Shirley MacLaine star.

Also hitting streaming is Tom McCarthy’s Timmy Failure based on Stephen Pastis’ illustrated book. The pic follows an 11-year old boy who believes that he is the best detective in town runs the agency Total Failures with his best friend, a 1,200 pound polar bear.

Willem Dafoe will star in Disney’s “Togo” live-action movie about two of the key figures in the 1925 Nome Serum Run — sled dog Togo and sled driver Leonhard Seppala.

Disney is developing “Togo” for its streaming service, which will launch late next year. Ericson Core, whose credits include “Invincible” and the remake of “Point Break,” is directing.

Nome, Alaska became famous in 1925 as the destination of the serum run, also known as the Great Race of Mercy, in which dog sleds played a major role in transporting diphtheria serum through harsh conditions over nearly 700 miles to save the city from an epidemic. Gunnar Kaasen and his lead sled dog Balto became known for running the final leg of the run while the 12-year-old lead dog Togo and Seppala ran the penultimate and longest leg in temperatures that were 30 degrees below zero in gale force winds.

The story will focus on...

Gifted Fox Searchlight Pictures Director: Marc Webb Written by: Tom Flynn Cast: Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace, Lindsay Duncan, Octavia Spencer, Jenny Slate Screened at: Critics’ DVD, NYC, 11/16/17 Opens: April 7, 2017 There’s a popular assumption that critics and general audiences for movies usually cannot meet and accept one another’s views. A strong package of […]

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Marc Webb’s child-custody weepie has an honest edge, while Brendan Gleeson and Emma Thompson raise the stakes of a Nazi resistance drama

My esteemed colleague Mark Kermode often talks of Altitude Adjusted Lachrymosity Syndrome (Aals), the tendency we have to vulnerably cry buckets while watching films – often wholly unremarkable ones – on planes. That would handily explain my reaction to Gifted (Fox, 12), a slick, soap-scrubbed and shamelessly tear-engineered child-custody drama, if not for the annoying detail that it caught me very much on terra firma. Perhaps it’s not that unremarkable after all.

A sore streak of honest feeling runs through The Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb’s weepie; ditto the fresh, true performances from Chris Evans, as the adoring but no-bullshit uncle and guardian of a seven-year-old maths genius, and from McKenna Grace, beguiling but never cutesily camera-trained as the tyke in question. Together, they have an utterly credible,...

Marc Webb goes from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 to Gifted, starring Chris Evans. Here's our review...

When the moment comes for Chris Evans to put down Captain America's shield, we'll be sorry to see the back of one of the best big screen superhero portrayals ever. But Marvel's loss will be cinema's gain, going by the interesting projects he's chosen between his more red, white and blue escapades. In Gifted, he's put whatever blockbuster clout he may have behind a project that deserves it, and the result is one of the year's nicest surprises.

Evans plays Frank Adler, a boat mechanic who lives in Florida with his seven-year-old niece Mary (Mckenna Grace) and a one-eyed rescue cat called Fred. Mary is a child prodigy who immediately captures the attention of her first-grade teacher Bonnie (Jenny Slate) with her advanced grasp of maths.

When she asks if Frank has ever...

Stars: Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace, Lindsay Duncan, Octavia Spencer, Jenny Slate | Written by Tom Flynn | Directed by Marc Webb

Having escaped the web of the Spider-Man franchise, Marc Webb returns to (500) Days of Summer-sized moviemaking with this soft-focus indie, combining the maths genius elements of Good Will Hunting with the child custody torture of What Maisie Knew. It’s not as smart or original as the former, nor as grotesque as the latter, instead falling into a crevice of mediocrity somewhere between.

Mary (Mckenna Grace) is a precocious, “one-in-a-billion” 7-year-old who, following the death of her mother, lives in her uncle’s ramshackle home. Frank (Chris Evans) left his career as a professor to live a regular-type life as a mechanic. Previously home-schooled, it’s now time for Mary to mix with other kids and make some friends. So, Frank enrols her at a normal school. After she batters a fellow pupil,...

Plot contrivances and a copout ending compromise a film that tries to tackle the issue of a child prodigy caught up in family battles

There are one or two first-act laughs and nice moments in this spirited heartwarmer from screenwriter Tom Flynn, once much admired in script form on the 2014 Black List of unproduced screenplays. Yet the interesting touches give way to unconvincing contrivances and a final copout. Marc Webb (of The Amazing Spider-Man and (500) Days of Summer) directs. Chris Evans plays Frank, a hunky, beardedly handsome single guy in Florida with the entirely preposterous Kevin-Costner-ish job of “fixing boats”. His former job is, incidentally, no less implausible – disillusioned college professor. Frank is now legal guardian to his orphaned niece, Mary, who at seven years old is a brilliant maths whiz, and so was her troubled mum whom we see in a photo with a super-brainy short haircut. Young Mary...

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It’s not often that one goes into a movie expecting yet another piece of Hollywood schmaltz, only to be completely taken aback by its simple yet hugely effective premise. In Gifted, director Marc Webb (The Amazing Spider-Man 2) offers a beautifully crafted story, which while not being completely without fault, manages to be charming and thoroughly engaging. Written by Tom Flynn and staring Chris Evans, Gifted could easily be missed in this summer of big blockbusters, but if you’re looking for something less noisy and more heartfelt, then look no further.

Mary Adler (Mckenna Grace) is a bright, funny and astute eight year old living in a small Florida town with her uncle Frank (Chris Evans). When Frank finds he is no longer able to home-school the child himself, he is forced to finally send her to school with kids her own age. Things don...

In just a couple of days the Summer blockbuster season will get a big jump-start (hey Spring’s not yet a month old) when those magnificent men (and women) in their flying “muscle-car” machines start spinning their wheels and defying gravity at the multiplex. As they rev their engines here’s a quiet little “heart-tugger’ about family and kids that stars a guy that usually helps usher in the big popcorn flicks as Marvel Studios’ patriotic powerhouse. Like many “swinging” singles from TV (“Family Affair”) and cinema (Raising Helen), he’s tackling unexpected parenthood after the tragic demise of the birth mother. And things get even more complicated, when (as in other recent films like Little Man Tate) the child is a genius, brainy, or as the title proclaims, Gifted.

Frank Adler (Chris Evans) is living a pretty good life in the southern “sunshine state” of Florida. He keeps busy...

There are few words that can kill a film quicker than cute – just say to yourself, "Gosh, what a cute movie that was," and you can practically feel the inside of your mouth lined with a thin, granular film of Nutra-Sweet. It's one thing, of course, to plunk down cash to watch grumpy old coots and/or kids say the darnedest things, or bask in the cinematic equivalent of a puppy licking a baby's head. We, too, have done this. We don't judge you. Those things are a shucks-and-awww attack,...

Stories about prodigies are too often mired in tragic mental health issues or careers with boundless accolades and successes. Some can be done very well and others are redundant to the point of avoidance. The sub-genre of child prodigies is oftentimes even worse because it generally targets young audiences and therefore never possesses the nuance to be anything more than an upward trajectory with few pitfalls to traverse along the way. Either the child is stewarded by a selfless adult to greatness or the child is positioned to remind the adult what is great about his/her life. An authentic depiction of humanity’s familial messiness and misguided self-interest rarely appears. So Marc Webb‘s Gifted proves a welcome variation on the model despite also falling prey to its conventions.

The script is written by Tom Flynn, its 2014 Black List selection his first to receive a theatrical treatment since his...

Spending the better part of five years caught up in the meat-grinder gears of the superhero industrial complex has to do certain things to a director. Especially a director who started out making a handcrafted, small-scale bauble like 2009’s 500 Days of Summer. But Marc Webb has emerged from his pair of Andrew Garfield Spider-Man flicks in one piece—alive to tell the tale. Unfortunately, he should have held out for a better tale to tell.

Gifted, a return to modest-budget Hallmark-shop sentimentality for the filmmaker, is a custody battle melodrama that’s as schmaltzy as all get out. Chris Evans stars as Frank,...

Ever since Sony cut Marc Webb’s Spider-Man trilogy short, he’s silently focused on television producing (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, anyone?). Despite the time away, Gifted – his feature “comeback” of sorts – doesn’t flake any rust. It’s a return to heartfelt, human dramatics, more attuned to 500 Days Of Summer than spandex-clad photographers or a musical psycho romantic. Chris “Captain America” Evans may lead, but Webb’s only superhero is young Mckenna Grace whenever she’s outshining her adult cast. We’re talking Onata-Aprile-in-What-Maisie-Knew levels of childhood stardom, before the searing lights of Hollywood have blasted away pure, adolescent innocence. Go ahead and find me another 11-year-old who can outshine Octavia Spencer. I dare you.

Evans stars as Frank Adler, a single guardian who cares for his sister’s daughter post-suicide. Frank lives with Mary (Mckenna Grace) in a mosquito-trap Florida shack, where the two pursue a “normal” life. Mary isn’t just another 7-year-old,...

It’s been over two years since director Marc Webb finished his four-year run of revamping The Amazing Spider-Man for Sony Pictures, and some may not be surprised he decided to return to smaller character-driven films like his directorial debut (500) Days of Summer.

Written by Tom Flynn, Gifted is a movie that’s bigger for its emotions than it is for the type of CG-driven action we saw in Webb’s Spider-Man movies, although it does star another superhero, Captain America’s Chris Evans, playing Frank, the uncle and guardian of a 7-year-old girl named Mary (Mckenna Grace). Frank has been home-schooling Mary in their Florida trailer park home, but when she’s finally sent to public school, her teacher (Jenny Slate) discovers the girl’s amazing math skills.

As word gets around about Mary’s ability to solve complex math equations, her grandmother Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan) wanting to claim custody for the girl,...

Frank Adler (Chris Evans) is a single man raising a child prodigy – his spirited young niece Mary (Mckenna Grace) – in a coastal town in Florida. Frank’s plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven-year-old’s mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank’s formidable mother Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan) whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary. Octavia Spencer plays Roberta, Frank and Mary’s landlady and best friend. Jenny Slate is Mary’s teacher, Bonnie, a young woman whose concern for her student develops into a connection with her uncle as well.

Marc Webb ((500) Days Of Summer, The Amazing Spider-man) directs from an original screenplay by Tom Flynn (Watch It).

Gifted Opens In St. Louis On Wednesday, April 12th.

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Marc Webb managed to make just one character-driven feature, the quirky rom-com “(500) Days of Summer,” before he turned his attentions to the studio world, with “Amazing Spider-Man” and its sequel. Webb’s foray into the superhero world yielded uneven results: While both films cracked over $700 million at the global box office and made an effective case for Andrew Garfield as the web-slinger, overall returns were not nearly as hefty as Sony had hoped (Webb’s “Amazing Spider-Man 2” is the lowest earner of the franchise) and critical reception was decidedly mixed.

Now Webb is back to his roots with “Gifted,” a good-hearted family drama that’s a bit like “Good Will Hunting” for the elementary school set — which is to say, solid and familiar, but not exactly a triumphant return to form.

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Fox Searchlight has released the trailer for the upcoming Marc Webb-directed indie drama Gifted that stars Chris Evans as a single man raising his math-prodigy niece (McKenna Grace). In theaters April 12, the pic co-stars Octavia Spencer, Lindsay Duncan and Jenny Slate. Written by Tom Flynn, Gifted tells the story of Frank Adler (Evans), whose plans for a normal life for his spirited niece Mary are interrupted when the 7-year-old's mathematics abilities come to the…...

After a couple bouts with The Amazing Spider-Man, director Marc Webb is returning to his romance-drama roots with Gifted, which has just received its first trailer. Also coming out of the superhero realm, Chris Evans stars as Frank, a single man raising his niece Mary (Mckenna Grace), a prodigy of sorts. Their world is thrown into turmoil when he gets into a custody battle with his mother (Lindsay Duncan). Helping him on his journey is Bonnie (Jenny Slate), one of Mary’s teachers who forms a connection with Frank through her concern for Mary.

Penned by Tom Flynn, who only has one feature script under his belt, the film seems to be shooting for heartfelt and heartbreaking, and it will be interesting to see if Webb can make Gifted a return to form. See the trailer below for the film that also stars Octavia Spencer.

Frank Adler (Chris Evans) is...

Julie Ann Emery, whose TV credits include “Better Call Saul” and the first season of FX’s “Fargo,” has joined Chris Evans in Marc Webb‘s “Gifted,” TheWrap has learned. Fox Searchlight will distribute “Gifted,” which is currently filming in Georgia. The movie co-stars Oscar winner Octavia Spencer and Tony winner Lindsay Duncan as well as Jenny Slate, Keir O’Donnell and young actress Mckenna Grace. Webb (“The Amazing Spider-Man”) directs from an original screenplay by Tom Flynn. Karen Lunder and Andy Cohen are producing “Gifted,” while Molly Allen, Glen Basner and Ben Browning serve as executive producers. Also Read: Emmy Breakout Bob Odenkirk on.

All Our Wrong Todays

Paramount Pictures and Pascal Pictures have scored the film rights to Elan Mastai's debut novel "All Our Wrong Todays". Mastai will write the script for the adaptation while Amy Pascal is attached to produce.

The story follows a man from a utopian alternate universe who, through a time travel malfunction, winds up marooned in the real (and messy) 2015. He must decide if he wants to establish a life in this new world or head back home. [Source: Heat Vision]

Untitled Disney Sled Dog Project

Disney Pictures are developing a live-action film about Togo and Leonhard Seppala, two of the key sledding figures in the 1925 Nome Serum Run (aka. The Great Race of Mercy). Tom Flynn will pen the script.

In the incident, dog sleds played a major role in transporting diphtheria serum through harsh conditions over nearly 700 miles to save the city from an epidemic. The story will...

Viewers of Monday night’s episode of Jeopardy! had no idea what fun they were in for when contestant Tom Flynn sashayed his way on to their screens, striking some serious blue-steel poses for the camera. It seemed the ridiculously good-looking, New York City bartender felt compelled to wow his audience with a perfect pout every […]

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Jeopardy, which is still trucking along like it's a part of Dick Wolf Productions, occasionally drops some real viral fodder out there, and this week, it happened to be Tom Flynn.

Tom, the handsome, vaguely baffled contestant with the great hair, a fondness for checking himself out in the monitor and the casually rumpled blue Oxford.

Tom, the bartender who "freelances in film production" and "wants to eventually direct."

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Tom, whose Final Jeopardy answer was a single, capitalized "What."

Tom, #what planet are you from? #Jeopardy pic.twitter.com/dZTakE4Ye7

— j.

Half the Internet was thirsty for this Jeopardy! contestant. The other half wondered why he acted like he was auditioning for the lead role in Zoolander 2 for the entire episode. Whichever side of the line you stand on, it's safe to say that everyone was super into Tom. Tom Flynn was on Monday night's Jeopardy! episode, and he was really, really ridiculously good-looking. So good-looking that he apparently kept spotting his own reflection in the lens of the camera because he could not stop modeling the different contours of his face for the audience at home. Jawline here, side profile there, some pursed lips…he was Top Model-ing all over that studio. Not only was he constantly mugging for...

Principal photography has commenced in Savannah and Tybee Island, Georgia, on the drama starring Chris Evans, Lindsay Duncan, Mckenna Grace, Jenny Slate and Octavia Spencer.

Marc Webb directs from an original screenplay by Tom Flynn about a single man trying to raise his child prodigy niece and fend off the ambitions of his formidable mother.

Karen Lunder and Andy Cohen are producing. Fox Searchlight president of production Claudia Lewis made the announcement on Wednesday.

We already know that Chris Evans will swap his shield and superpowers for something a little more ordinary in Mark Webb’s Gifted. Now Jenny Slate, Octavia Spencer, Lindsay Duncan and newcomer McKenna Grace will join him in the film.Gifted, written by Tom Flynn, is a drama about Frank Adler, a deliberate underachiever, who is raising his niece Mary (Grace), in rural Florida. When he enrols her in school for the first time, she is labelled as gifted. All Frank wants is for Mary to have a normal life, but standing in his way is her mother Evelyn (Slate), who wants to exploit her abilities. So being proactive for once, he sues to win custody of the girl. Webb is looking to have that one shooting in the coming months.Slate, who scored praise for her performance in Obvious Child, has been working steadily recently. She’s currently filming...

Chris Evans is rather accustomed to surrounding himself with an array of stunning actors. Not only did he do just that with The Avengers and Avengers: Age Of Ultron, he also just finished performing alongside an even stronger superhero line-up while filming Captain America: Civil War. But the cast for his next project, Gifted, might just top the lot. According to Deadline, Gifted will be directed by Marc Webb, who most recently tried his hand at rebooting the Spider-Man franchise with The Amazing Spider-Man 1 and 2, but excelled with 500 Days Of Summer. Written by Tom Flynn, and produced by Fox Searchlight, Gifted sounds as if it will be an emotional and uplifting drama, which will have Chris Evans at its fore trying to prove that he.s more than just a shield. In Gifted, Chris Evans will play Frank Adler, who is a deliberate underachiever who also has been tasked with...

Exclusive: Director Marc Webb is building a great cast for his Fox Searchlight drama Gifted. Oscar winner Octavia Spencer and 9-year-old McKenna Grace have joined Chris Evans in the film. The addition of Grace came after an extensive search. Scripted by Tom Flynn, the drama tells the story of Frank Adler (Evans), a deliberate underachiever who is raising his niece Mary (Grace) in rural Florida. When he enrolls her in school for the first time, she is labeled as “gifted.&#8221…...

Superhero franchise veterans Chris Evans and Marc Webb are to team up in upcoming drama Gifted.

Empire writes that Evans will lead the drama, about an underachiever named Frank Adler.

Frank is raising his young niece Mary in rural Florida, who is quickly labelled as gifted after she starts school. Frank soon finds himself locked in a custody battle, fighting the girl's mother Evelyn for the right to raise Mary - and he's prepared to sue.

Webb, who directed The Amazing Spider-Man and its sequel, will helm the film, which is being made by Fox Searchlight.

Tom Flynn, who wrote 1999's Highboys and Lowboys, will pen the screenplay for the movie, which is set to shoot this autumn.

Evans is best known for his heroic roles as Captain America in the Marvel franchise and Johnny Storm in 2005's Fantastic Four and its sequel.

Taking one step back from the bombastic superhero mayhem and hanging up the star-spangled suit that helped take to his career to the stratosphere, The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Chris Evans has signed on to lead Marc Webb’s (The Amazing Spider-Man) family drama, Gifted.

In the works at Fox Searchlight, the report states that Evans will assume the role of a surrogate father, who is forced to raise the daughter of his late sister, a daughter who is said to be remarkably talented. Directing from a script by Tom Flynn (Highboys and Lowboy), Gifted will mark the return of Marc Webb to Fox Searchlight, after directing the beloved rom-com 500 Days of Summer in 2009. No word yet on who will be cast in the role of the daughter, though it’s understood that FilmNation is handling the international rights for Webb’s latest project.

Due to begin filming in the fall,...

"The Amazing Spider-Man" helmer Marc Webb is teaming up with the current Captain America and Mr. Fantastic on the big screen.

Chris Evans has been set to star in Webb's "Gifted" at Fox Searchlight. The story follows a man who sues for custody of his gifted niece and is aiming to begin production this Fall.

Tom Flynn penned the script. Evans is wrapping up work shortly on "Captain America: Civil War" and will segue into this.

Meanwhile Jeff Bridges and Rosamund Pike are in discussions to join the already attached Miles Teller on the Allan Loeb-scripted "The Only Living Boy In New York" which Webb is also attached to.

That project, also setup at Fox Searchlight, is moving to Fox 2000. Teller is attached to play a recent college grad who learns that his overbearing father is having an affair. When he tries to stop it, he becomes involved with the woman as well.

As we noted in our feature 12 Indie Directors Who Jumped To Blockbuster Budgets, not every filmmaker who makes the leap has the kind of "Jurassic World" success that Colin Trevorrow experienced this summer. Marc Webb had a rough time with critics and audiences with two "The Amazing Spider-Man" films, ultimately failing to launch a new franchise for Sony. The filmmaker, who broke out with "(500) Days Of Summer," is going back to the studio that first put him on the map for a new project, while reviving a new one at another division. Webb will helm "Gifted" for Fox Searchlight with Captain America himself Chris Evans putting down the shield to star in the movie. Tom Flynn ("Watch It") has penned the script for that will find Evans playing a man battling for custody of his dead sister's brilliant daughter. Read More: Marc Webb Reacts To The New 'Spider-Man' For The First Time Meanwhile,...

While he saw his time as the director handling the Spider-Man franchise come to an unexpectedly sudden end following the Sony/Marvel deal that is changing the character’s focus, Marc Webb is throwing himself into other work. He now has two films inching closer to production, with the first, Gifted, scoring Chris Evans to star.Evans, of course, is no stranger to superheroic tales and has recently been back working as Steve Rogers for Captain America: Civil War. But Gifted, written by Tom Flynn, isn’t actually about people with extraordinary strength or the ability to fly. It’s a much more down to earth drama about Frank Adler, a deliberate underachiever, who is raising his niece Mary, in rural Florida. When he enrols her in school for the first time, she is labelled as gifted. All Frank wants is for Mary to have a normal life, but standing...

Exclusive: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 helmer Marc Webb has locked as his next film Gifted at Fox Searchlight. Chris Evans has been set to star in the Tom Flynn-scripted drama, which focuses on a man who sues for custody of his gifted niece. While that film will come first, with production to begin in the fall, there is also movement on The Only Living Boy In New York, the Allan Loeb-scripted film. Loeb’s script made the Black List. Evans is currently shooting Captain America…...

Armie Hammer and McKenna Grace will be starring in a live staged reading of Tom Flynn’s screenplay Gifted as part of Black List Live! on Saturday March 14, 7Pm at the Montalban Theater, 1615 Vine Street in Hollywood. Hammer will portray Frank Adler, a deliberate underachiever, who is raising his niece Mary, played by Grace, in rural Florida. When he enrolls her in school for the first time, she is labeled as gifted. All Frank wants is for Mary to have a normal life, but…...

Second City Hollywood is blowing up (in a good way) in February and wants its students, alumni, teachers and actors interested in the improv training school to get involved. For starters, there’s a Q&A with Tim Kazurinsky, Chandra lee Schwartz, Kim Zimmer and Tom Flynn from the touring company of “Wicked” Feb. 9 starting at 5 p.m. Then on Feb. 11, Jen Candy, daughter of legendary Second City alum John Candy, will interview Jim Belushi at 8 p.m. and on Feb. 25, she’ll sit down with her late father’s co-star from “Armed and Dangerous” Eugene Levy. All events take place at the school’s theater located at 6560 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles. Other upcoming events include: The Greatest Showman: Cecil B. DeMille Screening of “The Cheat” & “The Golden Chance”Feb. 7 at 7:30 p.m.Billy Wilder Theater10899 Wilshire Blvd.Tickets here. Learn How to Use the Arri Alexa & Amira CamerasFeb.

Updated With Full List Of Scripts, Writers, And Reps: Catherine The Great, about the rise and life of the famous (sometimes notorious) 18th-Century Russian monarch, was the top vote-getter among 70 scripts chosen for the 2014 Black List of the year’s best un-produced scripts. The screenplay, by Los Angeles writer and producer Kristina Lauren Anderson, was announced as part of an hour-plus process on Twitter and YouTube this morning.

Each of the 70 screenplays on this 10th annual list was chosen by a group of 250 development executives, agents and other Hollywood insiders as among the year’s best un-produced scripts in a process overseen by Franklin Leonard of http://www.blcklst.com. Anderson’s screenplay received 51 votes.

Other notables in the list include writer/actor/director Kenneth Lonergan with Manchester-By-The-Sea, which is being produced by Matt Damon and Chris Moore. Randall Green had two scripts make the list, The Swimsuit Issue and Cartoon Girl.

Beginning performances on Tuesday, July 31, Kyle Dean Massey will return to the role of Fiyero in the Broadway company of Wicked. He joins a cast which currently includes Jackie Burns as Elphaba, Chandra Lee Schwartz as Glinda, Randy Danson as Madame Morrible, Adam Grupper as The Wizard, Etai BenShlomo as Boq, Jenny Fellner as Nessarose, and Tom Flynn as Dr. Dillamond. Richard Blake, who is currently playing the role of Fiyero, will play his final performance on Sunday, July 29.