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10.01.2025 • Deadline
Emily Blunt Calls Martin Scorsese Film In Works “The Last Great American Mob Story,” Teases Dwayne Johnson’s “Terribly Exciting” Role
By Glenn Garner
Emily Blunt shares an update on her Martin Scorsese film in the works, reuniting her with 'The Smashing Machine' co-star Dwayne Johnson.
06.18.2025 • Deadline
Screenwriter Scott Z. Burns’ New Podcast Poses The Question: Is AI Itself A ‘Contagion’ Sequel?
By Dade Hayes
Ever since Covid returned the 2011 film Contagion to the public consciousness (and the streaming charts), the question has circulated in Hollywood: Shouldn’t there be a sequel to Steven Soderbergh‘s prescient thriller?
04.02.2025 • The Hollywood Reporter
Dwayne Johnson, Author: Crown Publishing Nabs True-Life, Hawaii-Set Crime Book Co-Written With Nick Bilton
By Boris Kyt
Johnson and Bilton have scoured tens of thousands of pages of court transcripts and federal investigation files never before seen by the public to tell the story of Wilford “Nappy” Pulawa, Hawaii's first and only mob boss.
03.27.2025 • The Hollywood Reporter
20th Century Lands Martin Scorsese Hawaii-Set Crime Thriller Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt
By Boris Kyt
Nick Bilton is penning the script, set in the '60s and '70s.
01.28.2025 • Time Magazine
The Bizarre True Story Of ‘Bitcoin’s Bonnie & Clyde’ in Netflix’s Biggest Heist Ever
By Rachel Brodsky
Warning: This post contains spoilers from Biggest Heist Ever.
02.11.2022 • Netflix News
Netflix Orders Doc Series About Alleged Cryptocurrency Laundering Scheme
Netflix has ordered a documentary series about a married couple’s alleged scheme to launder billions of dollars worth of stolen cryptocurrency in the biggest criminal financial crime case in history.
02.03.2021 • CBS News
Nick Bilton On HBO Documentary 'Fake Famous': '87% Of Kids Say They Want To Be A Famous Influencer'
Social media influencers are a mainstay in our culture today and it seems that everyone these days is focused on how many likes a post gets and how many followers they have on each platform.
02.02.2021 • Variety
Nick Bilton on Creating Instagram Influencers for Social Experiment Documentary ‘Fake Famous’
By Danielle Turchiano
For journalist Nick Bilton’s first film, he didn’t want to just document the world of social media influencers, he wanted to influence it himself.
11.30.2017 • The Philadelphia Inquirer
Nick Bilton's 'American Kingpin': The first great Internet manhunt
By Christopher Michel
In a June 1, 2011, blog post on Gawker, Adrian Chen revealed that drugs could be bought and sold online "like books or light bulbs. Welcome to Silk Road." A few days later, standing next to two oversized printouts of the Silk Road website, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer warned that the one-stop shop was "the most brazen attempt to peddle drugs online that we have ever seen."
11.15.2017 • Deadline
‘The Bunker’ Acquired By Amazon Studios From Columnist-Turned-Screenwriter Nick Bilton
By Anita Busch
Some of the best screenwriters have come from journalism. Amazon Studios has acquired the screenplay pitch The Bunker from former New York Times columnist and current Vanity Fair correspondent Nick Bilton.
07.11.2017 • Undark Magazine
Five Questions for Nick Bilton
By Hope Reese
The author of ‘American Kingpin’ talks about Ross Ulbricht, the Silk Road tycoon who wound up in prison for life.
05.08.2017 • New York Magazine
Nick Bilton on Silk Road, Buying Drugs Online, and First-Mover Advantage in Darknet Marketplaces
Nick Bilton’s new book, American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road, traces the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, a.k.a. Dread Pirate Roberts.
12.18.2013 • Variety
Lionsgate Adapting Nick Bilton’s ‘Hatching Twitter’ for TV
The dramatic story of how Twitter came to be may be arriving on your small screen soon.
11.15.2013 • NPR
'Hatching Twitter': A Tale of Booze and Backstabbing
In Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal, New York Times columnist and reporter Nick Bilton tells of the backstabbing, booze, and tears behind the 140-character social network's rise from struggling start-up to $25 billion company.
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