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Published May 28, 2021
One of the last relics of the pre-COVID movie era, Todd Phillips s
Joker raked in some serious cash. Though it was initially conceived as a one-and-done movie, rumours of a sequel have been swirling ever since. Now, we have the most compelling evidence that another film is coming via Phillips lawyer.
The tidbit was buried in a new feature in
The Hollywood Reporter that spoke with various lawyers. In it, Warren Dern of Sloane Offer Weber & Dern revealed that Phillips signed a deal to co-write the next film in the franchise.
Previously, rumours circulated that Warner Bros. had offered star Joaquin Phoenix $50 million to reprise the role, for which he had won an Academy Award.
Joker 2: Todd Phillips Reportedly Back To Co-Write Script
Joker 2. Word of Phillips moving ahead with the
Joker sequel actually came from a rather unexpected source: a new feature on Hollywood s Top 100 Attorneys in 2021. One of those power-player lawyers is one Warren Dern, of the law firm Sloane Offer Weber & Dern, whose clients include Zack Snyder, Amy Poehler, and (obviously) Todd Phillips. While touting the kind of deals that Dern has done recently, THR notes that Todd Phillips struck a deal to co-write the next
Joker installment, a small mention that s going to ring a lot of bells in the DC movie fandom. Take it with a grain of salt though: the trade has already been called out once for jumping the gun on announcing
Adams’ Bond Group Entertainment will produce with Jake Gyllenhaal’s Nine Stories
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Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal have together acquired the rights to the memoir “Finding the Mother Tree” by scientist Suzanne Simard, and Adams will also star in the film adaptation.
Adams’ production company Bond Group Entertainment and Gyllenhaal’s Nine Stories will together produce “Finding the Mother Tree,” which was published today. The book is described as a scientific detective story about how Simard explores her own journey as both an ecologist, a former logger and a mother.
Simard is a scientist who discovered how trees communicate through a web of underground fungi. Simard’s work was once ridiculed, but her work has been considered influential not just to science, forever changing the way we look at trees, but also to the creative world, with James Cameron even being inspired by her work in imagining “Avatar” and the fi
Naomi Watts to Lead Amazon s Remake of Cult Hit Goodnight Mommy (EXCLUSIVE)
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Naomi Watts is set to star in and executive produce the English-language remake of the hit Austrian psychological thriller “Goodnight Mommy,” set up at Amazon Studios.
The streamer will mount the remake with indie prestige label Animal Kingdom and production company Playtime. Released in 2014, the original film became a cult classic and was selected as the Austrian entry for best foreign language film at the Academy Awards.
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Matt Sobel (“Take Me To The River”) is directing from a script by Kyle Warren. David Kaplan, Joshua Astrachan, Valery Guibal and Nicolas Brigaud-Robert are producing. In addition to Watts, the original film’s directors Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz will serve as executive producers.