Charlie Kaufman

EW has confirmed that Catherine Keener and her Synecdoche, New York director Charlie Kaufman will pair up for the first  

Oscar-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and actress Catherine Keener previously collaborated on the former’s breakout hit, Being John Malkovich, before re-teaming for Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman’s directorial debut). They will rejoin forces again ...  

BEING JOHN MALKOVICH scribe Charlie Kaufman is to direct long-time collaborator Catherine Keener in a half-hour comedy series for HBO. The actress has worked with Kaufman on aforementioned BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, directorial debut SYNECDOCHE, NEW ...  

You might have thought that Charlie Kaufman depressed himself into a professional coma after the outstanding but dangerous-to-watch-if-you're-going-through-some-stuff Synecdoche, New York. Since the film, which came out in 2008, Kaufman hasn't released any ...  

Technically, HBO is television, no matter what their highfalutin slogan claims, but when they make room for wonderful ideas like this one I can kind of see their point. Charlie Kaufman and Catherine Keener, who last worked together on Kaufman’s directorial debut Synecdoche, New York, are set to team up at the premium cable channel for [...]  

Cinema BlendCatherine Keener And Charlie Kaufman Team Up For HBO ComedyCinema BlendKeener has hooked up with famed Adaptation. screenwriter Charlie Kaufman to put together a brand new comedy series set for HBO. The currently untitled production is being described by Deadline as a comedy following a day in the life of a woman, ...Charlie Kaufman and Catherine Keener Reunite for HBO Comedy SeriesScreen RantCatherine Keener to Star in HBO Comedy...  

Promising to be the most meta show on the network since Luck explored the cutthroat world of horse racing by killing several horses, HBO is fast-tracking a show from the mind of Charlie Kaufman, which certainly has a lot of things going on in there lately. The half-hour comedy stars Kaufman's frequent muse Catherine Keener in a premise that sounds decidedly like Charlie Kaufman: It's described as "an exploration of one day in a woman’s life...  

Catherine Keener is teaming with Charlie Kaufman for a new HBO series. According to Deadline.com, the new half-hour show will follow one day in a woman's life. The untitled project, which Kenner will produce, will explore how events leading up to that day ...  

Yes, go ahead and blink at that headline, but it's true: Charlie Kaufman ("Being John Malkovich," "Adaptation," "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," and the upcoming and thoroughly weird-sounding "Frank or Francis") will write and direct a new HBO series, to star the ever-wonderful Catherine Keener. The half-hour comedy, which does not appear to have a title yet, is described as "an exploration of one day in a woman's life and how the...  

Deadline reports that frequent teammates Catherine Keener and Charlie Kaufman are developing a half-hour comedy series for HBO. The premise of the as-yet-untitled project sounds appropriately Kaufmanesque: "An exploration of one day in a woman’s life and how the events leading up to it can affect, or not, the reality in which she lives." Keener is set to star and produce, with Kaufman acting as executive producer, writer, and director.The show...  

EXCLUSIVE: Frequent feature collaborators Charlie Kaufman and Catherine Keener are teaming for a TV series project. In a competitive situation, a half-hour comedy starring Oscar nominee Keener and to be written and directed by Oscar winner Kaufman has ...  

Charlie Kaufman will write the screenplay for The Knife of Never Letting Go. The Synecdoche, New York scribe has signed on to work on Lionsgate's adaptation of Patrick Ness's 'Chaos Walking' trilogy, reports Deadline. The young adult series is set on a ...  

Lionsgate wants a new book-based picNow that The Hunger Games has lived up to its potential, Lionsgate is kicking off the search to find another book-based franchise that offers a similarly rich vein of source material. The company thinks it might have a possibility in Patrick Ness’ young-adult focused Chaos Walking series, and has picked an interesting person to adapt it: Charlie Kaufman.Ness’ series – which, like all good YA series these...  

Lionsgate has announced, through Deadline , plans to adapt the Patrick Ness Chaos Walking trilogy of novels for the screen. What's more, they've attached screenwriting auteur Charlie Kaufman ( Being John Malkovich , Adaptation ) to provide the screenplay for the first book, The Knife of Never Letting Go . Released in 2008, that book is officially described as follows: Todd Hewitt is the last boy in Prentisstown. But Prentisstown isn...  

Charlie Kaufman to adapt The Knife of Never Letting GoLionsgate has selected Charlie Kaufman to adapt the first book in Patrick Ness' Chaos Walking trilogy for film. Whenever I hear that a favorite book is being made into a film, I am simultaneously excited for the film, and worried that it won't do the book justice, or worse, will ruin my vision of it.I'm more worried than usual for this one, because according to the article, Kaufman is known...  

Time to give Lionsgate a round of applause. The studio is already preparing for the days when The Hunger Games is over, and one YA property being groomed as the Next Big Thing is the Patrick Ness series Chaos Walking, about a dystopian future in which all human thought is made audible, leading to great [...]  

Not content to have The Hunger Games and Ender's Game already, apparently, Lionsgate continues to hoard enough dystopian young-adult fiction to survive any post-apocalyptic contingency (scenarios that involve surviving by somehow using stories where tough kids best autocrats and/or aliens, anyway). Its latest acquisition is the Patrick Ness series Chaos Walking, and—perhaps as a response to the collective...  

In the wake of Hunger Games success, Lionsgate Entertainment acquired the film rights to the young-adult fantasy series, Patrick Ness‘ Chaos Walking trilogy. Academy Award-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman will adapt the first book, The Knife of Never ...  

Lionsgate acquires the rights to Patrick Ness' young adult novel series 'Chaos Walking', and hires 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' scribe Charlie Kaufman to write the movie script.  

When we think of actors most likely to be in a musical, Jack Black, Steve Carell, Nicholas Cage, Kevin Kline and Elizabeth Banks don't initially come to mind, but a musical is exactly the project they've all signed on for. Charlie Kaufman's new ...  

When Lionsgate had to pick the director of the Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire, the studio had a highbrow shortlist that included Bennett Miller, David Cronenberg, and Stephen Daldry, even if the gig eventually went to I Am Legend helmer Francis Lawrence. For the studio's next bid at a young adult franchise to succeed Twilight and Hunger Games, Lionsgate will keep things rarefied: Deadline reports that Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich...  

When you're kicking off a new franchise, calling Charlie Kaufman seems to be as outside-the-box as Hollywood thinking could possibly be. However, if you're a studio looking for underlying material to support a new franchise, buying a young-adult series set ...  

The main characters are a boy named Todd Hewitt and a mysterious foreign girl named Viola. The series has received many awards, with "Monsters of Men" winning the Carnegie Medal. Deadline seems to think that Lionsgate hopes the "Chaos Walking ...  

The "Eternal Sunshine" maestro could shepherd the studio's next tween franchise.  

With the end of the HARRY POTTER series, upcoming final film in the TWILIGHT series, and recent success of THE HUNGER GAMES, it’s no surprise to see movie studios searching for a new teen-sensation to turn into a hit film franchise. Sony are ...  

I'm a big fan of Patrick Ness' YA trilogy Chaos Walking, which imagines a world in which men's thoughts are audible, while women's thoughts remain secret, and then gets fascinating mileage out of exploring how different communities might address such a gender imbalance—some men learn tricks to disguise their thoughts, some towns segregate by gender, and some find it easier to get rid of the womenfolk altogether. (Plus: clever...  

If you need your fix of the existential stylings of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and “Synecdoche, New York” filmmaker Charlie Kaufman, you may still be waiting a little while for his movie-musical “Frank or Francis.” Luckily, there’s another project on the horizon that should more than grab your attention. According to Deadline, Kaufman has just closed the deal for his first novel under Grand Central Publishing, with the...  

Last October heard Lionsgate had snagged the rights to adapt Patrick Ness' Carnegie Medal winning Chaos Walking ... Kaufman's writing style and sensibilities might make him perfect for this world: Todd Hewitt lives in a world in which all women are dead ...  

Lionsgate is now in control of two mega teen franchises, and they're looking to extend their streak even further.  The Hunger Games’ massive box office take (it’s not done yet) guarantees success for its two upcoming follow-ups, Catching Fire and Mockingjay, and given that Lionsgate recently bought Summit they’ll also reap the benefits of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 this fall.  As such, it’s no surprise that the studio has its...  

US screenwriter hired by Lionsgate to work on first book in the Patrick Ness trilogy tipped as the next Hunger GamesCharlie Kaufman may not be the obvious choice to adapt a young adult trilogy being tipped as the basis for the next Hunger Games, but he is certainly a startling one. The maverick screenwriter and director, whose previous work includes transforming the non-fiction book The Orchid Thief into the mind-bending, Oscar-nominated...  

Raising the question of whether his usual layers of inventive, mind-bending meta can be folded into a traditional novel without making it some sort of pop-up book, Charlie Kaufman has just signed a deal with Grand Central Publishing to put out an as-yet-untitled story… eventually. After all, Kaufman has a fairly full slate already, what with Frank Or Francis in the works and a possible reunion with Spike Jonze also in the offing. Also unclear...  

Lionsgate are making sure they aren't caught with their pants down when "The Hunger Games" series inevitably comes to an end. Even though the first film is still in theaters, they aren't wasting any time in making sure they have another big hit franchise to keep the blockbuster money train going once "Mockingjay" brings the adventures of Katniss to a close. And the answer to Suzanne Collins seems to be Patrick Ness, with Lionsgate are hoping...  

The neurotic Hunger Games?  

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has high hopes that the Patrick Ness young adult novel series Chaos Walking has the potential to become another futuristic Hunger Games-esque franchise. While the mission on most of those book to movie sensations is to stick close to ...  

In the drama Darling Companion, from director/co-writer/producer Lawrence Kasdan (Body Heat, The Big Chill, Silverado), Beth (Diane Keaton) and her daughter (Elisabeth Moss) take home a dog that they find on the side of the freeway, much to the ire of her husband, Joseph (Kevin Kline).  Before long, the dog, aptly named Freeway, becomes a beloved member of the family.  But, when the dog bounds away into the woods after a deer, everything is...  

Not content to warp brains solely through the medium of film, Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich) has signed a book deal with Grand Central Publishing. The novel's plot is completely unknown so far, but that may remain the case once you've read the whole thing twice anyway. It's not clear how the writing will shake out alongside Kaufman's sophomore directorial effort, Frank or Francis...  

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Lionsgate is looking to create a new franchise along the lines of the Hunger Games. The studio has purchased the screen rights to Patrick Ness' young adult series Chaos Walking and has tapped Charlie Kaufman to adapt the series for the silver screen.  

Hunger Games studio Lionsgate readies another dystopian future franchise: Charlie Kaufman is set to adapt the first Chaos Walking novel.