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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Writers Guild West Warns Fox-Disney Merger Will Be at ‘Expense of Creators’
“The antitrust concerns raised by this deal are obvious and significant”
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Disney’s ‘Nutcracker’ Movie Plans Major Reshoots, Joe Johnston to Direct Instead of Lasse Hallstrom
Ballerina Misty Copeland stars with Keira Knightley, Mackenzie Foy and Morgan Freeman
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CAA Promotes 10 to Agent, Executive Positions
Austin Denesuk has been promoted to Agent in CAA’s Television department
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CAA Pledges Gender Parity on Board, Management Committee by 2020
Longtime agency stops short of ICM Partners’ recent commitment to have equal number of female partners and department heads
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‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: First Look at Miles Morales in Teaser Trailer (Video)
Title and trailer were released at Comic Con Experience CCXP17 in São Paulo, Brazil
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‘Narcos’ Director Jose Padilha to Develop ‘Master Thieves’ at Sony
Matt Tolmach and David Manpearl are producing the movie based on the best-selling book about the 1990 heist
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Warner Bros. Restructures DC Films, Co-President Jon Berg to Leave Current Post
“This is something that Jon approached me about six months ago, and he expressed his goal was to ultimately be a producer at the studio,” Warner Bros. Pictures Group president Toby Emmerich says
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Jason Momoa Glistens in New ‘Aquaman’ Still (Photo)
“It’s going to look very different, it will feel very different,” says director James Wan
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Mitú Hires David Ortiz to Lead New Long-Form Production Team
Former Universal and Warner Bros. executive has worked on “Fast & Furious” and “Role Models”
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Disney CEO Bob Iger Will Likely Extend Contract Past 2019 If Fox Buyout Closes
Iger’s current contract runs through June 2019
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‘Shazam:’ DC Superhero Movie Adds ‘It’ Star Jack Dylan Grazer
Grazer will play Freddy, Billy Batson’s best friend
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Quentin Tarantino Has a ‘Star Trek’ Idea, JJ Abrams to Put Together Writer’s Room
Tarantino might direct the film, with Abrams producing
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The ‘Justice League’ That Might Have Been: We’ve Seen the Script (Exclusive)
No Aquaman, Batman and Wonder Woman’s child, and Superman enslaved by Darkseid — here’s the early “Justice League” script that never made it to the screen
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First Look at Brenton Thwaites as Robin in DC Universe Streaming Series ‘Titans’ (Photo)
The Robin super suit was designed by renowned costume designer Laura Jean Shannon
