Coen brothers
American filmmakers
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| 2025 | Ethan Coen plans to release 'Honey Don't!', co-written with Tricia Cooke |
| 2025 | Scheduled release of 'Honey Don't!' through Focus Features, representing the Coen brothers' ongoing film production. |
| February 2024 | Ethan revealed plans to first shoot 'Honey Don't!' before collaborating with Joel on their original horror film screenplay, which they had conceptualized long ago. |
| February 2024 | Drive-Away Dolls was released by Focus Features and Working Title, marking Ethan Coen's solo narrative film debut. |
| January 2024 | Ethan confirmed that he and Joel completed writing a 'pure horror film' script during the previous summer, comparing its style to their earlier film Blood Simple. |
| 2023 | Rumors circulated about the Coen brothers potentially reuniting to co-direct The Zebra-Striped Hearse, which Ethan Coen subsequently denied. |
| July 2023 | Ethan Coen disclosed his intention to reunite with brother Joel to direct a new film together after their temporary split, marking their collaborative return to filmmaking. |
| 2022 | Ethan Coen announced Drive-Away Dolls, his first narrative film without Joel, co-written with Tricia Cooke. |
| 2022 | Ethan Coen directs Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind independently. |
| 2021 | The Tragedy of Macbeth premieres at the New York Film Festival, Joel Coen's first solo directorial project. |
| 2021 | Joel Coen directs The Tragedy of Macbeth independently. |
| 2020 | Began directing films separately, ending their long-standing collaborative directing partnership. |
| 2019 | Coen brothers created 'A Play Is a Poem', a one-act play anthology, marking a notable departure from their film work into theatrical writing. |
| March 2019 | Joel Coen announced his adaptation of Macbeth, starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, marking his first solo directorial project without his brother Ethan. |
| 2018 | Released 'The Ballad of Buster Scruggs', earning 3 academy award nominations and 1 BAFTA award nomination |
| November 16 2018 | Directed The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, a Western anthology film starring Tim Blake Nelson, Liam Neeson, and James Franco, which began streaming on Netflix after a brief theatrical run. |
| 2017 | Their script for Suburbicon, originally written in 1986, was directed by George Clooney and released by Paramount Pictures. |
| February 10 2017 | The Coen brothers were announced as scriptwriters for the Scarface remake, with Luca Guadagnino set to direct the film project. |
| 2016 | Released 'Hail, Caesar!', receiving 1 academy award and 1 BAFTA award nomination |
| October 2016 | Fox was reported to be developing the Dark Web screenplay with the Coen brothers, based on Joshuah Bearman's two-part Wired article, with Chernin Entertainment set to produce. |
| August 2016 | Gave John Turturro the rights to create a spin-off film, The Jesus Rolls, featuring the character Jesus Quintana from The Big Lebowski. Principal photography began in August. |
| May 2016 | Producer Joel Silver first publicly discussed the Coens' screenplay adaptation of Ross Macdonald's novel The Zebra-Striped Hearse. |
| February 5 2016 | Directed Hail, Caesar!, a film about a Hollywood 'fixer' set in the 1950s, featuring an ensemble cast including George Clooney, Josh Brolin, Frances McDormand, and others. |
| 2015 | Michael Chabon confirmed that the Coen brothers wrote a draft of the script but did not proceed further, and the film rights returned to him. |
| October 4 2015 | Co-wrote the screenplay for Bridge of Spies with Matt Charman, a historical thriller directed by Steven Spielberg about the 1960 U-2 Incident. The film was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 88th Academy Awards. |
| August 2015 | Warner Bros. optioned the film rights to Ross Macdonald's novel 'Black Money' for the Coen brothers to potentially write and direct. |
| August 2015 | Warner Bros. acquired the film rights to 'To the White Sea', and the Coen brothers' original screenplay was scrapped, with plans to potentially replace them with another writer and/or director. |
| December 25 2014 | Contributed to the screenplay for Unbroken, a film directed by Angelina Jolie and based on Laura Hillenbrand's book about Louis Zamperini. |
| April 2014 | Executive produced the Fargo television series, which premiered on the FX network, created by Noah Hawley. |
| 2013 | The Coen brothers initiated the Dark Web project, planning a screenplay about Ross Ulbricht and the Silk Road online marketplace, with novelist Dennis Lehane attached to write the screenplay. |
| 2013 | Released Inside Llewyn Davis, a film about the 1960s folk music scene in New York's Greenwich Village. The film won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival and received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song. |
| December 2013 | Coen brothers revealed their interest in developing an unrealized sword-and-sandal epic set in ancient Rome during an interview, discussing their potential project in the historical genre. |
| September 2013 | Coen brothers announced they were developing a musical comedy about an opera singer, which they described as 'not a musical per se'. |
| 2011 | The Coen brothers began developing a television series titled 'Harve Karbo', which was to be a project about an eccentric Los Angeles private investigator, commissioned by Imagine Television. |
| 2011 | Won the $1 million Dan David Prize for their contribution to cinema and society. |
| 2011 | Ethan Coen wrote the one-act comedy Talking Cure, which was produced on Broadway as part of the anthology Relatively Speaking, alongside plays by Elaine May and Woody Allen. |
| 2010 | Released True Grit, a film based on Charles Portis' 1968 novel, which was nominated for ten Academy Awards including Best Picture. The film was shot in Texas and New Mexico, starring Hailee Steinfeld, Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, and Josh Brolin. |
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