‘News of the World’ Heads to Universal as First Casualty from Disney-Fox Merger
April 09, 2019
As of February of this year, Tom Hanks and director Paul Greengrass were set to reunite in the Fox 2000 picture, News of the World. Things change quickly in this world of ours. Thanks to Disney's mega-buyout of all things Fox, this picture didn't make the transition over to the Mouse House. Instead, the actor/director team that netted six Oscar nominations when they worked together on Captain Phillips will now take their talents to Universal Pictures. As Deadline reports, the first Fox-focused casualty of the merger is News of the World, an adaptation of novelist …
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