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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Director Jimmy Wan on the Decade Journey of Making ‘Zero to Hero’ (Video)
TheWrap Screening Series: Film was selected as the Hong Kong entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards
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Jackie Avant, Wife of Former Motown Boss Clarence, Shot and Killed in Beverly Hills Home Invasion
Daughter Nicole Avant is married to Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos
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David Dastmalchian Joins ‘Boston Strangler’ Cast at 20th Century Studios
Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, Alessandro Nivola and Chris Cooper are also attached to star
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Home Brew Promotes Sam Gibney to President
“Sam has proven to be a natural leader who drives growth from creative abundance,” Grant Nemirow, Terry Hines & Associates CEO said
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Nicolas Cage to Star in ‘Dracula’ Spinoff ‘Renfield’ for Universal
Cage will star opposite Nicholas Hoult who is set to play Renfield
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2021 Gotham Awards: ‘The Lost Daughter’ Wins Night’s Top Prize
The winner of the New York-based independent film award top prize has gone on to win the Best Picture Oscar five times in 17 years
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Tom Burke Joins Mad Max Prequel ‘Furiosa’ After Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Exits
Abdul-Mateen II departed the project due to scheduling conflicts
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‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ Filmmakers Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan Sign Overall Deal With Sony Pictures
“Ghostbusters: Afterlife” is directed and co-written by Jason Reitman, and executive produced and co-written by Gil Kenan
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Channing Tatum and Steven Soderbergh Reunite for ‘Magic Mike 3’ for HBO Max
Reid Carolin, who also wrote the first two films, is returning to write ‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’
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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
