EXCLUSIVE: Willem Dafoe, Gaby Hoffmann, F. Murray Abraham, Steve Zahn And Adam Horovitz are set to join Adam Sandler in his next Netflix pic Time Out from director Scott Cooper. Cooper will write, direct and produce, with Tracey Landon serving as exec producer. Based on the film L’Emploi Du Temps…

EXCLUSIVE: After bringing Bruce Springsteen’s formative life to the screen on Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, 20th Century Studios is back onstage with writer-director Scott Cooper and Gotham Group producers Eric Robinson and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein on a new film. The deal was just…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the awards season's most talked-about movies continues with 20th Century Studios’ Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. Directed and written by Scott Cooper based on a book by Warren Zanes, the micro-biopic chronicles the making of…

EXCLUSIVE: Bruce Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere marks the second film in consecutive years that put a formative story about an iconic rock star into the awards race. The difference between the film and last year's Bob Dylan movie A Complete Unknown has just taken a seat right next to me on a…

Not only was Nebraska one of the most important albums for Bruce Springsteen, it turns out it also held great meaning for writer-director Scott Cooper. "Nebraska is one of my favorite albums," Cooper said on a panel for his 20th Century Studios movie Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere at Deadline's…

EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Allen White and Scott Cooper will receive the Cultural Icon��Tribute for Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere at the Gotham Film Awards, honoring the collaboration that brought The Boss’ artistic legacy to life on screen. Nominations were unveiled last week and winners will be…

Scott Cooper started out as an actor, but, after directing his first film, 2009’s Crazy Heart, and seeing how Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall and Maggie Gyllenhaal did it, he tells me he knew then he would never go back to that side of the camera. Since…

EXCLUSIVE: In between the albums Born To Run and Born In The USA that made him the world’s biggest rock star, Bruce Springsteen took a radical detour, channeling the crippling alienation and crushing depression he was feeling into the seminal album Nebraska. Accomplished in a bedroom with orange shag…

It’s always interesting seeing movies explore the creative process, such as what Steven Spielberg did recently in The Fabelmans, or larger-scale enterprises like the Oscar-winning Amadeus. But Mozart wasn’t around to give his OK to that particular film…

As the living subject of the next highly-anticipated musical biopic, Bruce Springsteen is applauding his onscreen counterpart’s performance. Although he admitted it was “a little [weird] at first” seeing Jeremy Allen White play him in writer/director Scott Cooper‘s Deliver Me from Nowhere, ‘The…

EXCLUSIVE: In a move that points to a change in direction he will take at the helm of Disney live action and 20th Century Studios, former Searchlight co-head David Greenbaum has made his first big statement buy, and it’s set to the music of Bruce Springsteen’s seminal album Nebraska. 20th…

EXCLUSIVE: In his first major film project since leaving as Netflix Film boss, Scott Stuber has teamed with Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein & Eric Robinson to make a film about The Boss. Scott Cooper is writing to direct Deliver Me from Nowhere, a narrative feature about Bruce Springsteen and the…