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TV Teaser: HBO’s ‘Enlightened’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday December 4, 2012 @ 5:04pm PSTTags: Enlightened, HBO, Laura Dern

Season 2 of HBO‘s drama Enlightened starring Laura Dern — for which she won the Golden Globe this year — premieres January 13, as does Girls. Here’s the season trailer:

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Harvey Weinstein Buys World Rights To Paul Thomas Anderson’s Untitled Next Film

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday May 9, 2011 @ 11:26am PDTTags: Amy Adams, CAA, Cannes, Harvey Weinstein, Joaquin Phoenix, Laura Dern, Megan Ellison, Paul Thomas Anderson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Weinstein Company
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: The Weinstein Company has won a quiet but fevered bidding battle for worldwide distribution rights to the untitled next film by Paul Thomas Anderson. The film begins production June 13, with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix so far set to star. Megan Ellison is financing. It is Anderson’s first trip behind the camera since There Will Be Blood.

Hoffman and Phoenix are locked. As for the actresses, I’m told that Anderson is eyeing such women as Madisen Beaty (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) for a role, with Amy Adams, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo‘s Lena Endre and Laura Dern also mentioned as actresses Anderson is interested in. The auction was held at CAA headquarters late last week, with Fox Searchlight also squarely in the mix.

This is the project that Anderson has worked on for a long time, once under the title The Master. He has greatly overhauled the script and now, Hoffman stars as a man who returns after witnessing the horrors of WWII and tries to rediscover who he is in post-war America. He creates a belief system, something that catches on with other lost souls. The film is fully financed by Ellison’s Annapurna banner. At a time when the implosion of the indie film marketplace made pricey auteur films so hard to finance, Ellison has emerged as something of a godsend to the small group of auteurs she is working with. She’s enabled Anderson to make the movie at or near the $35 million budget the film was going to cost back when Universal stepped away. Read More »

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Jonathan Demme To Direct Episodes Of HBO’s New Mike White Series ‘Enlightened’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday August 9, 2010 @ 1:00pm PDTTags: HBO, Honeymoon With Harry, Jonathan Demme, Laura Dern, Mike White, TV Directors
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: There is a saying that you’ve got to be an Oscar winner to get to direct an HBO pilot these days: look at Martin Scorsese (Boardwalk Empire), Alexander Payne (Hung), Bill Condon (Tilda) and Kathryn Bigelow (The Miraculous Year). Now you may need an Oscar statuette to be an episodic director on the pay cable channel too. The Silence of the Lambs director Jonathan Demme has been tapped to direct two episodes of HBO’s upcoming Mike White/Laura Dern comedy series Enlightened. Read More »

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Timm Sharp In For Mos Def On ‘Enlightened’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday July 12, 2010 @ 5:44pm PDTTags: Enlightened, HBO, Laura Dern, Mike White, Mike White Comedy, Mos Def, TV, TV Casting
Nellie Andreeva

timm-sharpEXCLUSIVE: In a last-minute recasting, Timm Sharp has joined HBO’s upcoming Mike White/Laura Dern comedy series Enlightened as a regular. The single-camera comedy stars Dern as a self-destructive woman who has a spiritual awakening and decides to live an enlightened life, which … Read More »

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Mos Def To Co-Star On HBO’s ‘Enlightened’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday June 23, 2010 @ 8:47am PDTTags: Actors, Cable TV, Comedy, Enlightened, HBO, Laura Dern, Mike White, Mike White Comedy, Mos Def
Nellie Andreeva

mos-defEXCLUSIVE: Mos Def has joined HBO’s upcoming Mike White/Laura Dern comedy series Enlightened as a regular. The single-camera comedy stars Dern as a self-destructive woman who has a spiritual awakening and decides to live an enlightened life, which creates havoc at home … Read More »

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