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UPDATE: Michael Shannon To Reteam With ‘Mud’ Helmer Jeff Nichols On Warner Bros Project

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday May 8, 2013 @ 5:21pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Jeff Nichols, Michael Shannon, Mud, Warner Bros
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UPDATE: Took awhile, but I’ve gotten clarity on this Jeff Nichols Warner Bros project, and it was worth the wait. Michael Shannon, the Boardwalk Empire star who turned in a powerhouse performance in Nichols’ Take Shelter and appeared more recently in Mud, will star in Midnight Special, which Nichols wrote and will direct at Warners. Described to me as a contemporary science fiction chase film, the pic will be produced by Sarah Green and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, with Glen Basner and Christos V. Konstantakopoulos the exec producers. Shannon just played a hitman in The Iceman, and he plays General Zod in the Superman reboot Man Of Steel, so he is absolutely on the Warner Bros radar. READ MORE »

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Hot Trailer: Matthew McConaughey In ‘Mud’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday January 18, 2013 @ 4:15pm PSTTags: Jeff Nichols, Matthew McConaughey, Mud, Sundance Film Festival

Writer-director Jeff Nichols’ third feature is screening at Sundance starting tomorrow. The tale which debuted last May at Cannes involves a pair of teenage boys who discover a boat wedged in a tree on an island in the Mississippi River. A drifter played by Matthew McConaughey intrudes and complications … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: Jeff Nichols’ ‘Mud’

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Thursday January 17, 2013 @ 12:59am PSTTags: Jeff Nichols, Matthew McConaughey, Mud

Jeff Nichols‘ Mud premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival last year. Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions later jointly acquired it for the U.S. with a release coming this spring. Before that, it will premiere Stateside as part of the Spotlight section of … Read More »

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Top Emerging Directors On Fox’s Short List To Helm ‘Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday September 25, 2012 @ 5:51pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes, J Blakeson, Jeff Nichols, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Matt Reeves, Rupert Wyatt
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EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Fox has come up with a short list to replace Rupert Wyatt as the director of Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes. I’m hearing that Cloverfield’s Matt Reeves is atop the list, along with The Disappearance Of Alice Creed helmer J Blakeson, 28 Weeks Later helmer Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Take Shelter and Mud director Jeff Nichols, Pacific Rim helmer Guillermo del Toro, The Impossible helmer Juan Antonio Bayona and Looper helmer Rian Johnson (Johnson’s reps deny he is in the hunt). Read More »

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Chernin Company Acquires Popular Science Article About 14-Year-Old Who Achieved Nuclear Fusion

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday July 30, 2012 @ 3:25pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Jeff Nichols, Peter Chernin
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Chernin Entertainment has acquired The Boy Who Played With Fusion, the true story of Taylor Wilson, a 14-year-old Arkansan who became the youngest ever to achieve nuclear fusion. They are negotiating with Take Shelter and Mud writer-director Jeff Nichols to develop the film as a helming vehicle. The film will be developed through Chernin’s deal with Fox. Published in the March 2012 issue of Popular Science magazine by Tom Clynes, the article details an exceptionally smart and curious kid and what happens when his ordinary parents who didn’t quite understand how he’d become so gifted, gave him the room and encouragement to nurture his great gifts and passion for nuclear science and experimentation. When his grandmother became ill, the youth became involved in an attempt to harness the short-lived isotopes that kill cancer cells and then deteriorate before they harm healthy cells — in hopes that the cancer-curing isotopes could be generated on site at hospitals and save lives. He later harnessed his discoveries as an alarm system to root out dirty bombs in shipping containers. Read More »

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Zurich Film Festival: Jeff Nichols’ ‘Take Shelter’ Wins Best Feature Award

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday October 1, 2011 @ 6:43pm PDTTags: Awards, Jeff Nichols, Take Shelter, Zurich Film Festival

The 7th Zurich Film Festival announced its award winners tonight, with Jeff Nichols’ Take Shelter taking best feature film. This year’s edition also was marked by an appearance from Roman Polanski, who received the fest’s lifetime achievement award Tuesday. A list of competition winners follows:

International Feature Film Competition
Take Shelter by Jeff Nichols (U.S.)

Outstanding Performance By An Actor
Deon Lotz for Beauty

Outstanding Performance By An Actress
Corinne Masiero for Louise Wimmer

International Documentary Film Competition
Buck by Cindy Meehl (U.S.)

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Jeff Nichols Adds Michael Shannon, Sam Shepard, Sarah Paulson to ‘Mud’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday September 26, 2011 @ 5:09pm PDTTags: Jeff Nichols, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Shannon, Reese Witherspoon, Sam Shepard, Sarah Paulson
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Director Jeff Nichols has added his Take Shelter star Michael Shannon, Sam Shepard, Sarah Paulson, Ray McKinnon, Joe Don Baker and Paul Sparks to Mud, the drama that stars Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon and Tye Sheridan. Production began today … Read More »

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Candescent Films Launches With Jeff Nichols, Javier Bardem, R.J. Cutler Pics

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 21, 2011 @ 12:55pm PDTTags: Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Javier Bardem, Jeff Nichols, R.J. Cutler
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Candescent Films, a new venture formed to make films that advance a social agenda, is financing and co-producing a small slate of films that are passion projects of A-list talent. Spearheaded by Lilly Hartley, Candescent kicks off with Native, a drama being written by Take Shelter director Jeff Nichols, with Hartley producing with Sarah Green (The Tree of Life) and Automatik Entertainment’s Brian Kavanaugh-Jones. Candescent is also the catalyst for two documentaries. Javier Bardem is the star and producer of Sons of the Clouds, an in-producton documentary that explores the political and human rights issues facing the people of the Sahara, with an emphasis on a former Spanish colony in Africa that is now occupied by Morocco and where there are more than 200,000 refugees living in camps in the desert. Bardem is producing with Hartley and Alvaro Longoria of Morena Films. Longoria directed it and is close to finished, with Candescent financing.

Candescent is also financing development of The Fifth Estate, a feature documentary to be written and directed by The September Issue‘s R.J. Cutler that examines the future of journalism in the digital age, and the role of the Internet in 21st century democracy. WME Global’s Liesl Copland packaged both of the documentaries. Read More »

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FilmNation Grabs Mike Jones Spec ‘In The Event Of A Moon Disaster’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 22, 2011 @ 11:38am PDTTags: Aaron Ryder, Edgar Allan Poe, FilmNation Entertainment, Glen Basner, Hugh Laurie, James McTeigue, Jeff Nichols, Jennifer Lawrence, John Cusack, Matthew McConaughey, Pedro Almodovar, Reese Witherspoon, Salman Rushdie
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: In competitive bidding, FilmNation Entertainment has acquired In the Event of a Moon Disaster, a Mike Jones spec script that re-imagines the first moon mission. In this version, disaster strikes and the astronauts find themselves up against … Read More »

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Jeff Nichols Lands Matthew & Reese In ‘Mud’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday August 5, 2011 @ 11:14am PDTTags: FilmNation Entertainment, Jeff Nichols, Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Take Shelter helmer Jeff Nichols has set Mud as his next film, and is in talks with Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon and Tree of Life‘s Tye Sheridan to star. … Read More »

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CANNES: ‘Take Shelter’ Wins Critics Week Prize, ‘The Giants’ And ‘Breathing’ Win Directors’ Fortnight

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday May 20, 2011 @ 12:20pm PDTTags: Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Directors' Fortnight, Jeff Nichols, Jessica Chastain, Michael Shannon, Take Shelter
Mike Fleming

While the big Cannes Film Festival awards get handed out this weekend, Take Shelter, the Jeff Nichols-directed Michael Shannon-Jessica Chastain drama, took the Grand Prix Nespresso, the top prize at Cannes Critics Week. Sony Pictures Classics bought the film before … Read More »

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