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EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Classics has acquired worldwide rights to Blue Moon, the new film from Academy Award nominee Richard Linklater (Hit Man), on which we were first to report, and which will be his next effort after all, with production commencing in Dublin, Ireland this summer. Ethan Hawke is…

EXCLUSIVE: As his acclaimed comedic thriller Hit Man approaches its June 7 release on Netflix, filmmaker Richard Linklater may have identified his next project, as sources tell Deadline that he’s in development on a film called Blue Moon. Taking its name from the 1934 ballad written by Richard…

A searing historical drama set in mid-19th century Bologna, and a TIFF award winning coming-of-age story open in limited release. The fascination with female conductors continues in doc Maestra. Netflix starts a small run with Richard Linklater comedy Hit Man. A24’s I Saw TV Glow is steady on under 400…

Director Richard Linklater rues that Hollywood has taken to creating sexless characters and superheroes without genitalia. The writer/director of films including the Before trilogy and Boyhood is behind Netflix's Hit Man, one of the standout successes at last year's Venice Film Festival. Linklater…

EXCLUSIVE: ScreenCraft has finalized the lineup for its annual Virtual Writers Summit. The summit, which is expected to span the entire month of June this year, will feature creatives including Richard Linklater, Issa Lopez, Lulu Wang, Quinta Brunson, Nkechi Okoro Carroll, and Sean…

Netflix has dropped a trailer for Richard Linklater's latest film Hit Man, starring Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Retta, Austin Amelio, Molly Bernard, and Mike Markoff. Written by Linklater, Powell, and Skip Hollandsworth, Hit Man follows a professor moonlighting as a hitman of sorts for his city police…

EXCLUSIVE: Three of Texas's most talented filmmakers are about to unveil their trilogy of documentaries on the Lone Star State. God Save Texas debuts on HBO on Tuesday, Feb. 27 with part 1 of the trilogy, God Save Texas: Hometown Prison, directed by Oscar nominee Richard Linklater. Parts 2 and 3…

TITLE: God Save Texas Section: Episodic Directors:  Richard Linklater, Alex Stapleton, Iliana Sosa Logline: A three-part non-sequential anthology series. Three directors offer their unique and personal perspectives on their home state of Texas, creating vivid portraits of a state that…

Title: HIT MAN Netflix Director: Richard Linklater Screenwriter: Richard Linklater, Glenn Powell LOGLINE: Inspired by an unbelievable true story, a strait-laced professor discovers his hidden talent as a fake hit man. He meets his match in a client who steals his heart and ignites a…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix closed a $20 million deal on Hit Man, making the biggest deal at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival and of the year for that matter. After the Richard Linklater-directed noir comic thriller debuted to raves at Venice, the film was expected to fetch the biggest deal of the fall…

HIT MAN Section: Special Presentations Director: Richard Linklater Writers: Richard Linklater and Glen Powell Logline: Prolific indie auteur Richard Linklater reunites with Everybody Wants Some!!‘s Glen Powell for a sorta-true crime comedy thriller about role-play, romance and the…

Richard Linklater brought his Hit Man to the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday, world premiering the comedy thriller out of competition to a six-minute ovation inside the Sala Grande. The crowd’s response to the pic was notably enthusiastic, with one scene in particular between star Glen Powell and…