John Lee Hancock News

According to Variety, Denzel Washington is in talks to join the new cop-thriller from WB titled LITTLE THINGS. John Lee Hancock is set to write and potentially direct as well.

Netflix has released the trailer for THE HIGHWAYMEN, launching globally on Netflix on March 29 with exclusive theatrical engagements beginning March 15th.

Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson will star in John Lee Hancock's THE HIGHWAYMEN, which will launch globally on March 29, 2019.

BRON announced today that Linda Cardellini, Academy Award nominee Matt Dillon, Golden Globe winner Kyle MacLachlan and Kathrine Narducci will join Academy Award nominee Tom Hardy in the Al Capone bio-pic Fonzo, written and to be directed by Josh Trank (Chronicle).

Netflix announced today that The Highwaymen from director John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side, Saving Mr. Banks, The Founder) commenced principal photography in Louisiana.

Amanda began her career as an actress in New York City working for the late Sidney Lumet.  Amanda has appeared in numerous films and TV shows and earned a SAG Award for Ensemble Cast for the Academy Award-winning film Crash. Pursuing her real passion, writing, Amanda has learned from the best by working behind the camera for Woody Allen, Bobby Moresco, and David Chase, and in writer's rooms as assistant for Paul Haggis, Todd Field, John Lee Hancock, Mark Johnson, and Gil Adler. Amanda wrote two episodes for the first season of NBC's The Black Donnellys. She has had two feature films produced.  Amanda has written and produced numerous one-act plays.  Most recently, she directed the L. A. production of William Hoffman's 'Cal in Camo' which went on to a critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run. Amanda is raising two sons and splits her time between New York and Los Angeles.

Honorees for the 4th Annual Location Managers Guild International Awards (LMGI) were announced today by LMGI President Eric Klosterman.

Check out an all-new trailer for THE FOUNDER, starring Oscar nominee Michael Keaton as Mcdonald's founder Ray Kroc. The Weinstein Company film is set to hit theaters on January 20th. 

Deadline has shared an exclusive first look at THE FOUNDER, starring Oscar nominee Michael Keaton as Mcdonald's founder Ray Kroc.

Austin Film Festival & Screenwriters Conference (AFF), the premier film festival recognizing the writers' contributions to film, television, and new media, announced today the full schedule of films and panels for the 23rd annual Festival

On September 17th, Ethan Hawke will be honored with a Donostia Award at the 64th edition of the San Sebastian Festival. T

TONITE, the newly minted Los Angeles-based full service multi-media, event production and promotion company, has tapped award-winning actor Angus T. Jones (“Two and a Half Men”) as President, Entertainment.

'Apollo 8: A Christmas Moon,' a new nostalgic look-back doc film from filmmaker Kevin Stirling, about the pivotal, historic and decisively successful 1968 mission of Apollo 8, has won the 2016 Special Jury NASA Remi Award at the 49th WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival.

USA Today has shared an exclusive first look at Michael Keaton starring as McDonald's founder Ray Kroc in the upcoming film THE FOUNDER. Check it out below:

APOLLO 8: A CHRISTMAS MOON , a nostalgic look-back film and celebration of the pivotal, historic and decisively successful mission of Apollo 8, has been named an Official Selection (NASA Remi Awards category) in the 49th Worldfest-Houston International Festival.

The Weinstein Company has released the first still from THE FOUNDER, starring Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, Linda Cardellini, Laura Dern, BJ Novak, John Carroll Lynch. Check it out at left. 

Jason Patric (“Rush,” “Narc”) has been cast in a leading role in WAYWARD PINES, the hit psychological thriller event series returning for a second season this summer on FOX.

The Hollywood Reporter writes that Oscar nominee Laura Dern is in talks to join BIRDMAN's Michael Keaton in THE FOUNDER, which tells the story of McDonald's and how the company grew into a fast food giant.

The Long Wait, a critically acclaimed short film by award-winning filmmakers Wolfgang Bodison (A Few Good Men, ER, CSI: NY/Miami, NCIS) and Elizabeth Yoder (starring as Grace), received the coveted Platinum Remi Award at the 48th annual WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival!

The Huffington Post reports that Tom Hanks is in talks to play famed animator Walt Disney in the upcoming true-life story SAVING MR. BANKS. The film follows Disney's quest to make a full length feature film based on P.L. Travers' children's book, 'Mary Poppins'. John Lee Hancock (The Bling Side) is set to direct.