David Kushner: Last News

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominated producer David Permut and Jamie Cohen of Australian-based Clockwork Films have acquired the narrative motion picture and television rights to award winning journalist and author David Kushner’s book, The Players Ball: A Genius, A Con Man, And The Internet’s Secret Rise.  

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeInstructional streamer Wondrium has ordered three seasons of “Wondrium Insights,” a new speaker series featuring guests including world champion boxer and Olympic gold medalist Sugar Ray Leonard, swimming legend and host Diana Nyad and singer/songwriter Mary Lambert.The series will be distributed globally on Wondrium later this year. According to the service, “Each speaker will present their personal stories and challenges giving viewers an intimate opportunity to learn and discover tools that can help with perseverance, resilience, and success.”Besides Leonard, Nyad and Lambert, the speakers also include former NBA player Jay Williams, social entrepreneur Shiza Shahid, astronaut/athlete/author Leland Melvin, former NFL linebacker Ryan Shazier, Las Vegas Raiders defensive tackle Solomon Thomas, STEM education innovator Knatokie Ford, mentor/entrepreneur Ivy McGregor, rock climber Kevin Jorgeson, science and technology journalist David Kushner, Flickr co-founder/venture capitalist Caterina Fake, AI artist/musician/storyteller Taryn Southern and clinical psychologist Dr.

Starlight by Dave becomes the British rapper’s first Number 1 on the Official Irish Singles Chart.

Today, Dave's surprise new single Starlight tops the UK's Official Trending Chart, the Official Charts Company can reveal.

Sasha Urban editorA’Ziah “Zola” King, who wrote the infamous 2015 Twitter thread that inspired A24’s 2020 film “Zola,” is now speaking out against the production company over being excluded from the film’s awards nominations.On Sunday, King retweeted a post by Film Independent, the organization behind the Independent Spirit film awards, writing, “I think it’s hilarious ‘Zola’ is up for 7 awards and no one thought to invite me nor include me IN the writers award category. As if there would’ve been a film or a script to write if I didn’t um… write it?”She continued: “I think its HILARIOUS everyone else is on my Television promoting & speaking on my experience as if it’s their moment and not a moment I created for us all.

Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.

Fingers Crossed by Lauren Spencer-Smith rockets to Number 1 on the Official Irish Singles Chart.

Morgan Parker Guest ColumnistFor Variety‘s Writers on Writers, Morgan Parker pays tribute to “Zola” (screenplay by Janicza Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris; based on the tweets by A’Ziah King; based on the article by David Kushner; story by Andrew Neel and Mike Roberts).“Who you gonna be tonight?” is a question I’ve asked in the mirror a hundred times.Maybe because I’m a Black woman who wants to have control over how other people see my body, instead of the other way around, and because I know I look like something to everybody.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterDavid Kushner, a bestselling author and journalist whose stories are often developed for film and television, will publish his next book at Substack.Kushner’s magazine articles have inspired films like A24’s “Zola” and upcoming projects involving Christian Bale and Spike Lee. Substack, a subscription newsletter service, will now be home to his new work “Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future,” which will see a serialized release and feature multimedia components over 9 installments.Normally found in the pages of Rolling Stone, Wired and Vanity Fair, Kushner follows an increasing number of journalists going the newsletter route.

EXCLUSIVE: New Regency has acquired film rights to David Kushner’s Vanity Fair article “The Church of the Living Dangerously,” with Christian Bale attached star and produce. Script will be written by Charles Randolph, who shared an Oscar with Adam McKay for scripting the Bale-starrer The Big Short, as well as the Jay Roach-directed Fox News Roger Ailes sexual harassment drama Bombshell.

The biblical story of Jesus is considered by many “the greatest story ever told”. In fact, it is so much so that there was a whole movie about the big J titled The Greatest Story Ever Told. Well, if there were a Twitter equivalent of the greatest story ever told, it would definitely be the Janicza Bravo-directed Zola (opening in theaters June 30).

EXCLUSIVE: David Kushner’s bestselling book Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America’s Legendary Suburb is in the works for the small screen. Independent studio wiip has optioned the rights to the book and partnered with The Gotham Group to develop as a limited series. BAFTA-winning screenwriter and director Amma Asante is attached to pen the series adaptation and direct the pilot. Emmy winner Thomas Schlamme is on board to produce.

Nick Robinson’s latest role is going dark.

Nick Robinson looks a little worse for wear as he’s tracked by the FBI in the first trailer for Silk Road.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterSpike Lee’s next project will be a movie musical about the origin story of Viagra, Pfizer’s erectile dysfunction drug.The Studio Entertainment One film is based on David Kushner’s Esquire article titled “All Rise: The Untold Story of The Guys Who Launched Viagra.”Lee is directing the untitled musical from a screenplay he wrote with Kwame Kwei-Armah. The movie will  feature original songs and music written by Stew Stewart and Heidi Rodewald, the duo behind the Tony-winning musical “Passing Strange.”In a statement, Lee said, “First And Foremost,I Thank Ms.