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Joel and Ethan Coen prep ‘Hail Caesar’ as their ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ follow-up

Joel and Ethan Coen will follow-up Inside Llewyn Davis with Hollywood satire Hail Caesar, Deadline reports. The directorial duo will return to their Barton Fink/Hudsucker Proxy roots, it seems, with Hail Caesar, a “comical yarn” that centers on a famed 1950s muckraker who spies on Hollywood celebs for a gossip magazine. Now, just because Deadline […]

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Coen brothers working on Fargo TV show

Joel and Ethan Coen’s Fargo is headed to the small screen as FX signs a deal to develop a series based on the Academy Award winning crime drama, Deadline reports. Frances McDormand won a Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of pregnant Police Chief Marge Gunderson, who unravels a crime thanks to the inept handiwork […]

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Oscar Isaac cast in Coen brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis

Up-and-coming actor Oscar Isaac has landed the lead role in the upcoming Coen brothers’ film, Inside Llewyn Davis, Deadline reports. Currently without US domestic distribution, the new Joel and Ethan Coen film centres on the folk music scene in 1960s’ Greenwich Village. Written by the brothers, and co-produced by Scott Rudin (No Country For Old […]

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Coen Bros. developing new TV show; Bored to Death meets Big Lebowski?

Joel and Ethan Coen – having conquered almost every genre on the big screen – are turning their eye to the world of television. According to Deadline, the Oscar-winning hermanos have created and will executive produce a new hourlong single-camera comedy alongside Cedar Rapids’ writer Phil Johnston. Titled HarveKarbo, the show concerns an “an ill-tempered LA […]

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Joel and Ethan Coen to dabble in horror?

Ah, those cheeky Coen brothers. If they’re not dooming their characters to lives of existential tragedy or holding a magnifying glass over them as if they were soon-to-be-ignited ants, they’re cracking wise with film journalists. In an interview with Empire, Ethan Coen discussed potential future projects. Although he dismissed the long-touted Barton Fink sequel Old […]

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