Umberto is a senior film reporter at TheWrap, covering film & television development, agencies and talent. He joined TheWrap in 2016. He has been covering the fanboy beat & breaking scoops for 20 years with numerous Hollywood trade, newspaper and magazine mentions to his credit.
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Ed Helms Says Having a Baby Via Surrogate in ‘Together Together’ ‘Feels So Natural’ (Video)
Sundance 2021: “Why isn’t this told more?” asks the comedian who plays a single father having a baby, at TheWrap’s Studio at Sundance
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Netflix Nears $16 Million Deal to Acquire ‘Passing’ With Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga
Sundance 2021: Rebecca Hall directed the racial period drama about African Americans who can “pass” as white
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Legendary Remains Confident in ‘Buck Rogers’ Rights After Latest Legal Threat
Company was hit with a cease and desist letter Tuesday over planned reboot with George Clooney
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Erik Telford Exits CAA to Join UTA as an Agent
Telford has worked with artists and activists like Barry Jenkins, Jesse Williams and Yara Shahidi
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‘All In: The Fight for Democracy’ Co-Director on Telling Stacey Abrams’ Story – Before Georgia’s Senate Wins (Video)
“Stacey had the idea to find filmmakers to… thread the past to the present in telling” the story of voter suppression in America, co-director Lisa Cortés tells TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman
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Jon M Chu to Direct ‘Wicked’ Adaptation at Universal
Musical based on “The Wizard of Oz” does not have a release date
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How Robin Wright Starred in Her Directing Debut ‘Land’ Because of ‘A Scheduling Issue’ (Video)
Sundance 2021: “I said ‘Well, I’m gonna be there anyway so OK,’” Wright tells TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman
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Zachary Levi to Star in Live-Action ‘Harold and the Purple Crayon’ at Sony
David Guion and Michael Handelman are writing the screenplay
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GameStop Movie in the Works at Netflix, Mark Boal in Talks to Write
Noah Centineo (“Black Adam”) is attached to star
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How ‘In the Same Breath’ Director Got Multiple Camera Crews in Wuhan to Shoot COVID Doc (Video)
Sundance 2021: “It requires a lot of producing,” Nanfu Wang tells TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman
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‘WandaVision’ Mid-Season Trailer: Scarlet Witch and Vision Realize They’re Trapped in an Anomaly (Video)
“I don’t know how any of this started,” says Wanda
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Why Edgar Wright Made His First Documentary About ‘The Sparks Brothers’ (Video)
Sundance 2021: The filmmaker tells TheWrap’s Steve Pond that making the movie was easier than explaining to friends who the band was over dinner
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Universal’s ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Set for September Release in Theaters
Ben Platt reprises his Tony-winning role in the Broadway musical adaptation
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How ‘This Is Paris’ Helped Paris Hilton Stop Her Nightmares Inflicted by Past Trauma (Video)
“I think because I spoke about all of that and let go of all the experiences I went through,” Hilton tells TheWrap’s Beatrice Verhoeven
