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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Stephen Miller Insists Trump Would Already Have Omicron Variant Vaccine If He Were Still President
Fact Check: It took the Trump Administration 11 months to develop its first COVID vaccine
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Questlove Digests New Beatles Doc: ‘To Create Under These Circumstances is CRAZY’
“I’m really sick that no one had the idea to let cameras in while Voodoo was being made,” Questlove wrote on Twitter
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Stephen Sondheim Rewrote His Own Dialogue in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Tick, Tick… Boom!’
“I’m not turning down a Sondheim rewrite!” Miranda says
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Tom Ford Jeers ‘House of Gucci’: ‘I Often Laughed Out Loud, but Was I Supposed To?’
“I was not completely sure that I wasn’t watching a ‘Saturday Night Live’ version of the tale,” the filmmaker says
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Michael Bay Says ‘Armageddon’ Predicted NASA Mission to Crash Into an Asteroid: ‘Our Plan Was Not Far Off’ (Exclusive)
“It just makes the world aware that there is a big effin’ problem that we might have one day,” director adds
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How ‘The Intruder’ Intruded on the Dreams of the Cast (Video)
The Wrap Screening Series: “I had dreams two weeks ago when I saw the film for the second time and it was hard for me,” actor Daniel Hendler says
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Landmark Theatres Appoints Former MLB, NFL Exec Scott Kleckner as Chief Operating Officer
Kleckner will report to chairman and owner Charles S. Cohen
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A24 Acquires North American Rights to ‘Marcel the Shell With Shoes On’
The film premiered at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival
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Jonah Hill to Star as Jerry Garcia in Grateful Dead Biopic for Martin Scorsese and Apple TV
Scorsese and Hill are producing as well
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‘Under Siege’ Reboot in Works for Warner Bros and HBO Max
Timo Tjahjanto to direct, while Umair Aleem is writing the script
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Searchlight Acquires ‘The Defender’ With Sterling K. Brown Attached to Star
George Tillman Jr. is set to direct
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Brian Helgeland to Write ‘Buck Rogers’ TV Adaptation for Legendary (Exclusive)
Helgeland previously worked with Legendary on Jackie Robinson biopic, “42,” starring the late Chadwick Boseman
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‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ New Trailer Laughs at Doc Ock’s Real Name (Video)
And it looks like we’re getting the Sinister Six-uh, Five?
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‘Escape From Mogadishu’ Filmmakers on the Challenges of Making a Large Scale Action Film (Video)
TheWrap Screening Series: “We had to remake all of this in another country and it had to be based on past facts because we still cannot enter into Somalia,” producer Hyejung Kang says
