• ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ Launches London Film Fest

    World premiere of Wes Anderson’s “Mr. Fox,” featuring the voice of George Clooney.

  • Good Morning, Oscar: September 25

    Charles Darwin survives, Mr. Fox gets a fantastic slot and the foreign-film race gets crowded.

  • Producer Barry Mendel’s Hollywood Breakthrough

    “I decided to become the most well-versed person in the room,” he tells TheWrap.

    Producer Barry Mendel’s Hollywood Breakthrough
  • ‘Funny People’s’ Mendel Boned Up for the Biz

    Historically, few Hollywood agents have become successful film producers, and probably none in the past 50 years has done better than Barry Mendel, whose Judd Apatow film “Funny People” opens this week. Twice nominated for Oscars, (“The Sixth Sense,” “Munich”), Mendel began agenting as a way to learn the business while figuring out his true…