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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Imagine Entertainment Acquires Film Rights to ‘Hillybilly Elegy’
Film will be produced by Brian Grazer with Ron Howard directing
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Sean Penn on ‘Hollywood Wannabe’ Steve Bannon: ‘Conniving Hateful Bloated Punk’
“…And then there are also the bad things about him,” adds actor
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Vin Diesel Sets Record Straight on Beef With The Rock: ‘In My House, He’s Uncle Dwayne’
“I think some things may be blown out of proportion. I don’t think that was his intention,” says Diesel
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Won’t Make ‘Predator’ Reboot Unless ‘They Rewrite It’
TheWrap can confirm that actor’s character appears in draft of Shane Black and Fred Dekker’s script
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‘Avengers’ Director Joss Whedon Fears US Will Start Killing Gays
“This is harrowing, and it’s where we’re headed if we don’t unite and act,” Whedon tweets about Chechnya executions
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‘Justice League:’ Ciaran Hinds on Wearing a ‘Very Tight, Embarrassing’ Suit to Play Steppenwolf
“Basically, they’re going to construct something, digitally, and then they will use my eyes and mouth,” the “Game of Thrones” star says
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‘Forrest Gump’ Screenwriter Eric Roth to Write Legendary’s ‘Dune’ Reboot
Film to be directed by “Arrival’s” Denis Villeneuve
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Designer Who Dressed Melania Trump for White House Portrait Tells Critics to ‘Go to Hell’
“I dont care!!” designer responds amid onslaught of detractors
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Shia LaBeouf’s ‘Man Down’ Sold Only 1 Ticket in UK Release
“Poor Shia,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at ComScore.
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Catherine Hardwicke to Direct ‘Miss Bala’ Remake for Sony
Film is an adaptation of Mexico’s 2011 Oscar entry for Best Foreign Language Film
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Marvel Exec Reverses Himself After Saying Readers Rejected Diversity
“They didn’t want female characters out there,” said the exec
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Who Is the Saban Behind ‘Saban’s Power Rangers?’ A Short Explainer
A familiar name to Hollywood may be mysterious to casual fans
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Robert Rodriguez to Direct ‘Escape From New York’ Remake
20th Century Fox won a bidding war for rights to the reboot in early 2015, with Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman’s The Picture Company set to produce
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Riz Ahmed’s ‘Rogue One’ Character Was Originally Nutjob Engineer
“He was actually an Imperial engineer who had been kidnapped and kind of had Stockholm Syndrome,” says “Star Wars Story” star
