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Mike Fleming Jr: How Billy Bob Thornton & Taylor Sheridan Struck Oil With ‘Landman’; Why Harvey Weinstein Snuffed BBT’s Directing Career
EXCLUSIVE: Yellowstone seemed a high bar to top for Taylor Sheridan when it became the top-rated show on cable. It didn’t take long. A drama about a fixer in the volatile world of oil wildcatters, Landman immediately found an audience of 14.9 million…
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Jonathan Daviss To Star As Snoop Dogg In Universal’s Craig Brewer-Directed Biopic
EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Daviss is set to star as venerable hip hop artist Snoop Dogg in the definitive biopic from Universal Pictures. Best known for Outer Banks, Daviss takes the lead role days after the studio set Craig Brewer to direct the film.
The film will be produced by Snoop Dogg, Brian…
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Snoop Dogg Film To Be Directed By ‘Hustle & Flow’s Craig Brewer At Universal
EXCLUSIVE: Craig Brewer has been set by Universal Pictures to direct what the studio believes will be the definitive biopic of Snoop Dogg in his growth from hip hop star to iconic entertainment mogul.
Brewer will contribute revisions to a script previously written by Joe Robert Cole. The film…
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Cuban Coke Kingpin Willy Falcon To Tell His Crime Story On Multiple Platforms With Ex-Tyler Perry Studios President Ozzie Areu
EXCLUSIVE: Cuban-American drug kingpin Willy Falcon is finally poised to tell the story of how he built the billion-dollar cocaine empire Los Muchachos. Entertainment A.R.E.U., the company started by Ozzie Areu after he left as longtime president of Tyler Perry Studios, has acquired the exclusive…
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Nick Jonas Set As KISS Singer Paul Stanley In STX Movie ‘Shout It Out Loud’
EXCLUSIVE: Nick Jonas is near closed on a deal to star as KISS lead singer Paul Stanley in Shout It Out Loud, the McG-directed film about the formation of the venerable hard rock band in the 1970s. The film will go into production at the end of the year or in early 2026, with STX fully financing. The…
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Blumhouse Acquiring ‘Saw’ Rights From Twisted Pictures – The Dish
EXCLUSIVE: In a deal that will bring James Wan back in touch with the mega horror IP he created, we hear from several sources that Blumhouse is acquiring the perspective rights to Twisted Pictures’ portion of the Saw franchise.
In short, Blumhouse essentially is taking over the IP’s ownership…
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Clint Eastwood Calls Bullshit On Austrian Interview Where He Assailed Lack Of Originality In Film: “That Interview Is Entirely Phony”
Clint Eastwood wanted Deadline to get out the word that a recent interview purportedly done with him is absolutely bogus.
Published in the German-language Austrian newspaper Kurier, Eastwood is quoted assailing film remakes, franchises and a general lack of original ideas. While the newspaper…
Miramax Nabs Hot Spec ‘Supermax’ By David Weil & David J. Rosen; The Picture Company Producing
EXCLUSIVE: In a six-against seven figure deal, Miramax won an auction for Supermax, a high-concept spec script written by David Weil & David J. Rosen, best known for their work on the TV series Hunters and Invasion.
The Picture Company partners Alex Heineman & Andrew Rona will produce the…
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Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio Head Producers Behind Ted Griffin-Helmed ‘Carthage Must Be Destroyed’
EXCLUSIVE: Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Chad A. Verdi, LBI Entertainment's Christopher Donelly and Gareth West have teamed to produce Carthage Must Be Destroyed, an action to be directed by Ocean's Eleven scribe Ted Griffin.
In the action thriller, a stranger happens upon a rust-belt city…
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‘America’s Favorite Barfly:’ George Wendt Toasted By ‘Cheers’ Creators Glen Charles, Les Charles & James Burrows
Editors Note: The death of affable Cheers stalwart George Wendt on Tuesday at age 76 sounded a somber note heading into the holiday weekend. The creators of the iconic sitcom Cheers — Glen Charles, Les Charles and James Burrows — reached out to Deadline to raise a final glass to their longtime cast…
How Range Media Partners Is Weathering The Storm And Disrupting The Industry
Five years ago this August, a handful of the best and brightest agents from CAA and WME stunned the town by abruptly leaving high-profile jobs to start a new company that sought to be a hybrid between the agencies where they grew up, repping clients as managers. Even before the major agencies were…
Steven Spielberg’s Shark Hits 50: Steven Soderbergh On Why ‘Jaws’ Is The Most Disruptive Film Of Our Lives & Why Spielberg Is The GOAT
On its 50th anniversary, Steven Spielberg's Jaws can claim to be the most disruptive film of the last half-century, maybe even ever. While predecessors like The Godfather and The Exorcist drew theater lines around the block through word-of-mouth, Jaws was the one for which the term summer blockbuster…
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