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Billy Ray

  • ‘Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping’ Movie Lands Oscar-Nominated Screenwriter

    Francis Lawrence returns to direct the latest prequel novel

    By

    Adam Chitwood
    April 1, 2025 @ 11:01 AM
    Movies
    11:01 AM
    ‘Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping’ Movie Lands Oscar-Nominated Screenwriter
  • ‘Hunger Games’ Screenwriter Rejects Gig Writing Candidate Speech, ‘Cannot in Good Conscience’ Help a Republican

    Billy Ray, who was Oscar-nominated for “Captain Phillips,” told TheWrap he would write for the former Congressman, if it’s “an honest kind of civil discourse”

    By

    Sharon Knolle
    March 16, 2023 @ 6:08 PM
    Politics
    6:08 PM
    ‘Hunger Games’ Screenwriter Rejects Gig Writing Candidate Speech, ‘Cannot in Good Conscience’ Help a Republican
  • ‘Comey Rule’ Team Developing Limited Series Based on US Capitol Attack at Showtime

    Show would cover final days of the Trump administration, the attack itself and the FBI and congressional investigations

    By

    Jennifer Maas
    March 18, 2021 @ 12:10 PM
    TV
    12:10 PM
    ‘Comey Rule’ Team Developing Limited Series Based on US Capitol Attack at Showtime
  • Watch Jeff Daniels’ Speech About Trump’s Lies in Cut ‘The Comey Rule’ Scene (Video)

    “I thought it was too nakedly political,” series creator Billy Ray tweets. “Now I wish I had left it in”

    By

    Jennifer Maas
    January 9, 2021 @ 6:47 PM
    TV
    6:47 PM
    Watch Jeff Daniels’ Speech About Trump’s Lies in Cut ‘The Comey Rule’ Scene (Video)
  • Why Donald Trump Does Not Appear in Part 1 of ‘The Comey Rule’

    Billy Ray compares Trump’s presence to ‘Jaws’: “Let’s just make him the shark in the water”

    By

    Tim Baysinger
    September 27, 2020 @ 7:45 PM
    TV
    7:45 PM
    Why Donald Trump Does Not Appear in Part 1 of ‘The Comey Rule’
  • ‘Rashomon’ Series Adaptation Lands at HBO Max

    Billy Ray and Virgil Williams to adapt the Akira Kurosawa film for Amblin Television

    By

    Reid Nakamura
    September 24, 2020 @ 2:00 PM
    TV
    2:00 PM
    ‘Rashomon’ Series Adaptation Lands at HBO Max
  • Inside ‘The Comey Rule,’ the TV Miniseries About Trump and the Chaos of the 2016 Election

    “This is going to piss off a lot of people on the left and the right,” actor Michael Kelly tells TheWrap

    By

    Tim Baysinger
    September 22, 2020 @ 6:00 AM

    Pro Available to WrapPRO members

    TV
    6:00 AM
    Inside ‘The Comey Rule,’ the TV Miniseries About Trump and the Chaos of the 2016 Election

    Pro Available to WrapPRO members

  • ‘Comey Rule’ Director Billy Ray Braces for Trump’s Reaction, From ‘Mean’ Tweet to IRS Audit

    “It’s likely the IRS will start auditing my taxes,” Ray says

    By

    Tim Baysinger
    September 10, 2020 @ 12:29 PM
    TV
    12:29 PM
    ‘Comey Rule’ Director Billy Ray Braces for Trump’s Reaction, From ‘Mean’ Tweet to IRS Audit
  • ‘Richard Jewell’: Reporter Kathy Scruggs’ Editor Pushes Back on Writer Billy Ray’s Criticisms

    Former Atlanta Journal-Constitution editor Bert Roughton tells TheWrap film damages reputation “of woman who cannot speak for herself”

    By

    Brian Welk
    December 13, 2019 @ 6:10 PM
    Movies
    6:10 PM
    ‘Richard Jewell’: Reporter Kathy Scruggs’ Editor Pushes Back on Writer Billy Ray’s Criticisms
  • ‘Richard Jewell’ Film Review: Clint Eastwood’s Wrong-Man Docudrama Muddles Harrowing True Story

    Despite a committedly eccentric turn by Paul Walter Hauser as the Atlanta Olympics bombing hero-turned-suspect, this true story is mostly underwhelming

    By

    Robert Abele
    December 12, 2019 @ 5:05 PM
    Reviews
    5:05 PM
    ‘Richard Jewell’ Film Review: Clint Eastwood’s Wrong-Man Docudrama Muddles Harrowing True Story
  • Warner Bros. Calls Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s ‘Richard Jewell’ Legal Claims ‘Baseless’

    Studio defends film, saying that it’s “based on a wide range of highly credible source material”

    By

    Brian Welk
    December 9, 2019 @ 4:00 PM
    Movies
    4:00 PM
    Warner Bros. Calls Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s ‘Richard Jewell’ Legal Claims ‘Baseless’
  • ‘Gemini Man’ Film Review: Will Smith Gets to Play Two Dullards in Ridiculous Cloning Thriller

    Ang Lee blends an erratic script, listless performances and high frame-rate cinematography, and the results are terrible

    By

    Nicholas Barber
    October 9, 2019 @ 2:30 PM
    Reviews
    2:30 PM
    ‘Gemini Man’ Film Review: Will Smith Gets to Play Two Dullards in Ridiculous Cloning Thriller
  • Clint Eastwood Takes Aim at the FBI and the Media in ‘Richard Jewell’ Trailer (Video)

    Fact-based drama explores the case of the security guard who found a bomb at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics — and then was falsely accused of planting it

    By

    Thom Geier
    October 3, 2019 @ 6:18 AM
    Movies
    6:18 AM
    Clint Eastwood Takes Aim at the FBI and the Media in ‘Richard Jewell’ Trailer (Video)
  • Jon Hamm, Olivia Wilde to Star in Clint Eastwood’s ‘Richard Jewell’

    Paul Walter Hauser will play the lead role in the film based on a Vanity Fair article

    By

    Beatrice Verhoeven
    June 17, 2019 @ 5:15 PM
    Movies
    5:15 PM
    Jon Hamm, Olivia Wilde to Star in Clint Eastwood’s ‘Richard Jewell’
  • Clint Eastwood’s ‘The Ballad of Richard Jewell’ Moves to Warner Bros From Fox-Disney

    Billy Ray wrote the screenplay based on Marie Brenner’s 1997 Vanity Fair article

    By

    Brian Welk
    May 24, 2019 @ 2:44 PM
    Movies
    2:44 PM
    Clint Eastwood’s ‘The Ballad of Richard Jewell’ Moves to Warner Bros From Fox-Disney
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