HBO Lands David Simon’s Fascism Drama ‘The Plot Against America’
Simon and Ed Burns will write and executive produce adaption of Philip Roth’s novel
Philip Roth
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All 7 Philip Roth Movies Ranked, From ‘American Pastoral’ to ‘Goodbye, Columbus’ (Photos)
The Pulitzer winning author died Tuesday at age 85
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Philip Roth, Novelist and Pulitzer Prize Winner, Dies at 85
Author rose to prominence in 1969 with “Portnoy’s Complaint,” but was best known for his 1998 novel “American Pastoral”
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Philip Roth Emerges From Retirement to Rip ‘Megalomaniac’ Trump: ‘Massive Fraud’
The 84-year-old novelist also discusses culture of toxic masculinity in wide-ranging New York Times interview
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‘American Pastoral’ Review: Ewan McGregor Mis-Adapts Philip Roth’s Novel
You can usually rely on an actor-turned-director to elicit fine performances, but even Jennifer Connelly and Dakota Fanning are ill-used here
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Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize Win Seriously Annoys Authors
“I totally get the Nobel committee,” novelist Gary Shteyngart jokes, “reading books is hard”
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Goodbye, Vin Scully: In a Format Designed for Play by Play, He Found Poetry
A fan looks back in sorrow and appreciation at the greatest baseball announcer ever
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‘American Pastoral’ Toronto Review: Ewan McGregor Travels to Philip Roth Country, and Fits Right In
Toronto 2016: Roth’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a tough nut to crack for the screen, but first-time director McGregor gets a lot of things right
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‘Indignation’ Review: Logan Lerman Carries Philip Roth’s Study in Stubbornness
Writer-producer James Schamus’ directorial debut is a chilly exploration of academia and anti-Semitism in the 1950s
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Toronto Film Festival to Showcase Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Adams, Ryan Gosling Movies
“The Magnificent Seven” will open the festival, which also includes films about Edward Snowden, LBJ and Barack Obama
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Logan Lerman on Channeling Philip Roth in James Schamus’ ‘Indignation’ (Video)
Sundance 2016: First-time director Schamus joins stars Lerman, Sarah Gadon and Tracy Letts to talk about the making of the Roth adaptation with TheWrap’s Matt Donnelly
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Sundance 2016: Here’s Every Movie That Has Sold So Far (Update)
From “Swiss Army Man” to “Weiner-Dog,” here the movies that most impressed buyers at Sundance
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James Schamus’ Directorial Debut ‘Indignation’ Bought by Summit for $2.5 Million
Sundance 2016: Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon and Tracy Letts star in the adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel
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James Schamus Directing Debut ‘Indignation’ Wins Over Sundance Audience
Sundance 2016: The premiere audience cheered for the quiet film about a precocious college student in Ohio in the 1950s
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Sundance 2016: 13 Hot Directors to Watch
TheWrap spotlights Andrew Neel (“Goat”), Rob Burnett (“Fundamentals of Caring”) and other auteurs on the rise
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‘Gemma Bovery’ Review: Literary Comedy Puts a Feminist Spin on an Old Classic
Starring in a second adaptation of a graphic novel by Posy Simmonds, Gemma Arterton cuts Flaubert’s heroine a little slack
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New Yorker Defends Lena Dunham’s Controversial ‘Dog or Jewish Boyfriend?’ Article
“The people getting exercised about the so-called anti-Semitism of this comic piece … are, with respect, howling in the wrong direction,” editor David Remnick tells TheWrap
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Ewan McGregor to Make Feature Directorial Debut With ‘American Pastoral’
Jennifer Connelly and Dakota Fanning will star in the Philip Roth adaptation
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TheWrap Screening Series: Al Pacino Identifies With ‘an Actor on the Way Out’ in ‘The Humbling’ (Video)
Pacino reveals the character losing his mind on screen has a lot in common with the actor playing him, and other aging movie stars struggling with memory loss
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Former Focus Features CEO James Schamus Making Directorial Debut
He’ll direct an adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel “Indignation”
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‘Listen Up Philip’ Review: Jason Schwartzman’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Jerk
The blisteringly funny new feature from writer-director Alex Ross Perry pulls no punches in its portrayal of obnoxious authors and the suffering women they leave in their wake
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Venice Reviews: Al Pacino Achieves Late-Career Greatness in ‘Manglehorn'; Bogdanovich and Levinson, Not So Much
With the performances he’s gotten this year from Pacino, as well as from Nicolas Cage in “Joe,” director David Gordon Green becomes the go-to sponsor in Overactors Anonymous
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Dakota Fanning Joins Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly in ‘American Pastoral’ (Exclusive)
Philip Noyce is directing Lakeshore’s adaptation of Philip Roth’s acclaimed novel
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Jason Bateman to Direct, Star in FBI Wedding Comedy for Universal
David Bar Katz will write a new take on the project
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Jason Schwartzman’s ‘Listen Up Philip’ Gets North American Distribution
Tribeca Film has set the Alex Ross Perry Sundance comedy for a fall 2014 release
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Lena Dunham ‘Nauseated’ by Woody Allen, But ‘I’m Not Gonna Indict the Work’
“I’m not comfortable living in a world where art is part of how we convict people of crimes”
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TCA: ‘Sharknado’ vs. ‘Under the Dome’ and the Limits of Twitter
A national joke vs. the biggest network's biggest show of the summer. Guess which won on Twitter?
