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UPDATE, with video: Jimmy Fallon says he’s in. On last night’s Tonight Show, the talk host accepted the invitation of Cameron Crowe’s to reprise his role from the Almost Famous film for the new Broadway stage musical adaptation. “I’m in!” Fallon exclaimed. Watch the video below. Crowe’s invitation…

Almost Famous, the stage musical based on Cameron Crowe’s 2000 film, will begin previews at Broadway’s Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on October 3, ahead of a November 3 opening night. The new dates fall a few weeks after those originally announced last month before Almost Famous had landed the venue. The Jacobs currently…

Oscar-winning writer, director and producer Cameron Crowe has inked with UTA. The firm will work alongside Crowe's longtime manager Irving Azoff to rep the filmmaker in all areas including film, TV and other mediums. As a documentary filmmaker, Crowe recently produced David Crosby: Remember My Name and other projects…

It is a banner time for movies about musicians, both narrative such as Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman and documentaries like the latest about two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Famer David Crosby. But David Crosby: Remember My Name isn’t content just to be your standard music docu. This is a searing, raw, no-holds-barred…

A panel of top principals from classic 1989 coming-of-age romantic comedy Say Anything… celebrated the film's 30th anniversary and its refreshingly timeless sensibility during a Tribeca Talks event Tuesday night in New York. Beyond the nostalgic embrace of the familiar from the sellout crowd (a loud ovation during the…

EXCLUSIVE: Another one on the Sundance deal hit parade. Sony Pictures Classics has won an auction for David Crosby: Remember My Name, the A.J. Eaton-directed documentary about the folk singing legend. Deal is low seven-figures for North American rights plus some other territories. Pic premiered Saturday at the…

When music legend David Crosby was asked to participate in a documentary on his life, he had a concrete vision of what it should be, should it happen—a raw, unfiltered look at the highs and lows of his life and work, putting him in a place where he had "nowhere to hide." The first feature from A.J. Eaton, produced by…

The golden gods are coming to Broadway: Almost Famous, Cameron Crowe’s 2000 semi-autographical film about a young journalist interviewing and befriending a notorious rock band and its groupies, is being adapted as a stage musical. The project was confirmed today by producers Lia Vollack on behalf of Columbia Live…

Cameron Crowe has signed on to produce BMG’s documentary about David Crosby, the mustachioed one-third of the great Crosby Stills & Nash classic rock trio. The film will be directed by A.J. Eaton. “It's just such a compelling story,” said Crowe. “David Crosby has been near the forefront of music and social change for…

EXCLUSIVE: Before we get back to the cynical world we live in, how about a sentimental reminiscence with Cameron Crowe on the making of his touchstone romantic comedy Jerry Maguire? The film was released December 13, 1996, but Sony/TriStar marks the film’s 20th anniversary tomorrow by issuing a remastered version that…

When Stephen King first approached J.J. Abrams to adapt his novel 11/22/63 for the screen, King had a film in mind. Abrams had other ideas. "When he asked, my first reaction was, 'Yes.'" Abrams says. "My second reaction was, 'Would you be open to doing this not as a film, but for television, in whatever form?’" The…