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Danny Strong Close To Deal To Pen ‘Hunger Games’ Finale ‘Mockingjay’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday October 1, 2012 @ 3:10pm PDTTags: Danny Strong, Game Change, Lionsgate, Mockingjay, The Hunger Games

Danny Strong Mockingjay Movie ScreenwriterThere is no deal in place for him to write Lionsgate‘s two-part finale to The Hunger Games, but we’re hearing it’s likely to happen. The Game Change scribe is coming off a big Emmys, where the HBO movie swept the longform categories including winning for his script about Sarah Palin and the 2008 presidential race.  Mockingjay is the third in the Suzanne Collins book trilogy and is being split into two movies a la Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows. The second movie in the franchise, Catching Fire, is due out November 23, 2013, while Mockingjay has been dated for November 21, 2014 (Part I) and November 20, 2015 (Part II). The first film in the series bowed in March and has grossed $685 million worldwide.

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CBS Buys Legal Drama Written By Danny Strong, Directed By David O. Russell And Produced By Robert De Niro

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday August 16, 2012 @ 10:31am PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Danny Strong, David O. Russell, Robert De Niro
Nellie Andreeva

David O. RussellDanny StrongEXCLUSIVE: Game Change writer Danny Strong, The Fighter director David O. Russell and Oscar winner Robert De Niro have teamed for a legal drama series inspired by … Read More »

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‘Game Change’ Scribe Danny Strong To Adapt ‘The Lost Symbol’ For Sony Pictures

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 1, 2012 @ 3:00pm PSTTags: Danny Strong, Game Change, The Lost Symbol
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Danny Strong, who wrote the Jay Roach-directed HBO films Recount and the upcoming Sarah Palin pic Game Change, is stepping up to features. Sony Pictures has set him to write The Lost Symbol, Sony’s third installment of the Dan … Read More »

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Julianne Moore To Play Sarah Palin In HBO Movie About 2008 Presidential Election

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday March 9, 2011 @ 12:48pm PSTTags: Danny Strong, Game Change, HBO, Julianne Moore, TV
Nellie Andreeva

Sarah Palin is getting the movie treatment with HBO Films’ Game Change. Oscar-nominated actress Julianne Moore will portray the former Alaska governor in the project, which will chronicle Palin’s burst … Read More »

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Sugar Ray Robinson Steps Into Biopic Ring

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday October 6, 2010 @ 10:21am PDTTags: Danny Strong, Movie Deals, Movies, Rachael Horovitz
Mike Fleming

Rachael Horovitz, the producer who originally set up the Michael Lewis book Moneyball at Columbia about overachieving Oakland A’s GM Billy Beane, has found a new sports figure to hang a picture on. Horovitz has teamed with Recount screenwriter Danny Strong to option the Wil Haygood biography Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson. Haygood will write the screenplay. He met Strong on The Butler, the Sony Pictures Entertainment film that has Lee Daniels attached to direct and Laura Ziskin to produce a film about Eugene Allen, who observed the civil rights struggle as an eight-term White House butler and was brought back after retirement to see Barack Obama inaugurated as the first African American president. Strong wrote that script, based on a series of articles that Haygood’ wrote for the Washington Post. Read More »

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