'Precious' director Lee Daniels, 'Temple Grandin' writer Merritt Johnson take on NYC LGBT community

Family Portrait The Atlantic (The story is told, perhaps apocryphally, of a man on the Cheers team whose sole function was to take an already finished script and cram in three more jokes.) Life is short, but sitcom is shorter. And Modern Family—currently enjoying its third ... See all stories on this topic » The Atlantic

Nora Ephron to pen Lost In Austen film BBC News Industry magazine Variety said the When Harry Met Sally writer will pen the script as well as direct the project. The story follows a modern New York woman transported into the middle of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Gemma Arterton will play the ... See all stories on this topic »

"Dredd" Director Maybe/Maybe Not Booted From Editing Room NBC Philadelphia (blog) So you've got a fan in the lead role, a seasoned genre vet writing the script, and a...well, a director. The way to San Diego Comic Con should have been paved in golden laminated badges, right? Word started to perk up yesterday that Travis had been ... See all stories on this topic »

Showtime Developing Drama With Oscar-Nominated Director, Emmy-Nominated Writer THR Television Week (blog) The new project from "Precious" director Lee Daniels and "Temple Grandin" writer Merritt Johnson focuses on New York's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, the story reports. Johnson will write the script, with Daniels directing, ... See all stories on this topic »

The Morning After: Enlightened: What Is This Show, Anyway? TIME (blog) Her outlook is beatific, at great effort, but Dern and the script show the bitterness that it's constructed to mask, as when she makes her job pitch to her former coworkers: "Wouldn't you rather be working for a place that's giving back to the world, ... See all stories on this topic »