EXCLUSIVE:  Concussion filmmaker Peter Landesman will adapt and direct Scout Comics’ comic series The Recount into a feature film for Don Handfield’s Motor Content and Jonathan Kadin’s KadinCreative. Nick Jones Jr. will co-write with Landesman. The fictional political thriller written by U.S. army veteran…

A drama series based on the life and work of Italy’s top female mafia prosecutor is in the works by Concussion writer-director Peter Landesman and ITV Studios America. Landesman will create, write and direct Mephisto, described as an epic tale of justice and retribution inspired by the life and work of one of…

2ND UPDATE, June 21: Oscar-nominated Carol screenwriter Phyllis Nagy has responded to WGA West executive director David Young in what has become a meaningful discussion of the main issues stemming from the current standoff between the guild and the Association of Talent Agents. Nagy wrote the original June 17…

EXCLUSIVE: Concussion and Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House writer-director Peter Landesman has gone public with his frustration following an email sent to WGA members by WGA West executive director David Young. Young excoriated "a histrionic, biased trade press" after Deadline and Variety…

WGA leaders David Goodman and Chris Keyser have this week explained for Deadline readers the guild’s position driving its quest to eradicate Big 4 agency packaging and affiliated production companies. That doesn’t mean there aren’t working writers who believe that the strong point that has been made should be…

EXCLUSIVE: Peter Landesman has been set to direct The Last Battle for Studiocanal and The Picture Company. Landesman, the writer-director of Concussion, has wrapped Felt, the drama that has Liam Neeson playing Hoover’s #2 FBI man Mark Felt, whose “Deep Throat” intel toppled the Nixon Administration over…

EXCLUSIVE: A stellar cast has been locked for Felt, a political thriller that tells the story made famous in All the President's Men, from the vantage point of the top FBI official the Washington Post called Deep Throat. Writer-director Peter Landesman, who previously landed Liam Neeson to play No. 2 FBI man Mark…

EXCLUSIVE: The makers of Concussion, the film that stars Will Smith as the forensic neuro-pathologist who discovered the CTE disease that debilitated the brains of football greats like Pittsburgh Steelers center Mike Webster, are again bracing for a potentially concussive hit by the New York Times. In a move that…

The new film Concussion is not only a timely drama about the discovery and effect of brain trauma that has led to the death of numerous football players, but it’s also a touching and important movie that puts a human face on immigration — in this case one very special man named Dr. Bennet Omalu. He is the…

Without question one of the more controversial films being released this holiday season will be Sony’s Christmas Day release Concussion, which stars Will Smith in the true story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the Nigerian immigrant who uncovered CTE, the brain trauma that can be caused by direct contact in football games…

Now that Liam Neeson is aboard to play Watergate’s famed Deep Throat W. Mark Felt, the Peter Landesman spy thriller Felt is starting to pick up steam. Diane Lane has just been cast to play Felt’s wife, Audrey. It was she who took on much of the burden when Felt, then a deputy FBI director, secretly helped Washingt…

Liam Neeson is in talks to star in Felt, a drama about Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s famed Watergate source known at the time as Deep Throat but revealed decades later to have been FBI agent W. Mark Felt. Concussion helmer Peter Landesman is directing the pic from his script and also will produce. Marc…