James Schamus, the former head of Focus Features, will direct College Republicans, a Black List-winning story about Karl Rove's early campaign days.
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Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan are heading back to campus, but this time they're trading poetry for politics. The pair are reuniting with their Kill Your Darlings director John Krokidas for College Republicans, Wes Jones's Black List script about Karl Rove and Lee Atwater's younger days. Radcliffe is attached to play Atwater, while DeHaan will tackle…
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Wes Jones' script College Republicans, a dramedy which centers on the early days of Republican strategist Karl Rove, made the Black List in 2010 and was soon rumored as a Richard Linklater film with Shia LaBeouf possibly starring. Some things have changed, but it looks like the film is definitely going to happen. Rather than…
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The Black List has been released. The annual list is compiled with a poll of 300 (up from last year's 250) development executives and high-level assistants, and contains a ranking of the hot screenplays making the rounds in Hollywoodland, which were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2010 and will not be released…
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Either Shia LaBeouf has great business sense, or his agent deserves a raise. Since Disturbia, he's kept a near flawless track record at the box office, continually signing up for movies that, at best, have gone on to be some of the highest grossers of the year, and at worst, still land comfortably at #1…
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