Stephen Daldry News

December 16, 2010
Junior Jeopardy! Winner Gets Extremely Loud
Twelve-year-old Jeopardy! winner Thomas Horn has landed a leading role in Stephen Daldry's adaptation of "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," where he'll star alongside Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock. More...

August 23, 2010
Hanks and Bullock Will Get Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer's 2005 novel "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" is coming to the screen, with Stephen Daldry attached to direct Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock. More...

February 17, 2009
RT Interview: Reading The Reader with Stephen Daldry
In bringing the best-selling German novel The Reader to the big screen, director Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours) had more than a few hurdles to overcome -- breaks in production, the recasting of his lead character, headline-grabbing in-fighting between executive producers Scott Rudin and Harvey Weinstein, and the tragic loss of producers and mentors Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella. But somehow, the veteran stage director and self-professed Superman (who more closely resembles a distinguished, British Clark Kent) pulled it all together to earn a Best Director nomination for this weekend's Academy Awards, where his film is up for honors in five major categories. More...

January 27, 2009
Academy Makes Exceptions for Pollack, Minghella
When the Academy Award nominations were unveiled last week, producer credits for Best Picture nominee The Reader were yet to be announced. A press release issued today revealed the reason for that delay; would the Academy contradict its own contentious policy of awarding only three producer credits per film? More...

October 10, 2008
Scott Rudin No Longer a Reader
The ongoing battle between Scott Rudin and the Weinsteins over "The Reader" took another turn yesterday, when Rudin walked away from the project completely. More...

June 21, 2006
Natalie Portman Aboard "Boleyn" and "Kavalier"
The universally-adored and very cute Natalie Portman seems to have a pretty high profile pair of freshly-inked contracts. On one hand, she'll be starring in a historical drama with Eric Bana, and on the other, she'll be appearing in the big-screen adaptation of a Pultizer Prize-winning novel ... that's about superheroes! More...