Chris Hemsworth is in talks to star in Paramount Pictures’ untitled Transformers/G.I. Joe crossover movie based on the Hasbro toy lines.
Upon finalizing the deal, the Melrose Avenue lot will be back in business with Hemsworth, who is already starring in Paramount Animation and Hasbro's Transformers One, which hits theaters on September 20. That movie was one of the highest-testing Paramount Animation titles ever. >>>Comic Book Antecedent |
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Five More From A24 - A24 has dated five films for Q3-Q4, including The Eggers Brothers’ psychological horror movie The Front Room, the Aaron Schimberg directed A Different Man (pictured), director John Crowley’s We Live in Time, the horror thriller movie Heretic and the erotic thriller Babygirl. >>>Crowded Fall Schedule
ElectionLine Podcast: Trump Guilty Verdict - Donald Trump made history once again yesterday as the first former president to be a convicted felon. He was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business documents. In this edition of the ElectionLine podcast, we hear from Sean Piccoli, who has been covering the trail from the Manhattan courthouse for Deadline, on Thursday's historic events and what might happen next. >>> Listen
'D&D' Is DOA At Paramount - Paramount+ has opted not to proceed with its live-action series based on Hasbro’s wildly popular Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game franchise. The project will now undergo a creative update at Hasbro before being taken out to other potential buyers. >>>New Creative Team
A Kinder, Gentler Bill Maher? - Buoyed by a two-year deal at HBO, a weekly CNN presence and a new book, Bill Maher has decided to describe himself as a “centrist.” Is it a claim in vain? Having watched his show for years and done several shows with him, you suspect he’s instinctively too “incorrect” to qualify for “moderation.” Strategically, some feel he shouldn’t even try. >>> Peter Bart's Column
Fare-y Tale Sale - Media Res, the company behind Apple’s The Morning Show, has paid 7-figures to secure rights to Adrian McKinty’s global bestselling novel The Chain. The plan is to turn the thriller into a TV series. McKinty is a former Uber driver turned full-time author. >>>His Second Big Deal
'Kardashians' Hulu Hoopla - The Kardashians is back and, it appears, better than ever. Season 5 debuted on May 23 and, according to Disney, secured 3.9M views globally in its first four days across Hulu, Disney+ and Star+. >>>Year's Second-Biggest Entertainment Premiere
‘Lessons In Chemistry’ Finale Script - Deadline’s It Starts on the Page features standout limited or anthology series scripts in 2024 Emmy contention. Here, Lessons In Chemistry executive producer/showrunner Lee Eisenberg sets up the finale script by describing taking on the challenge of adapting the book, having Oscar-winner Brie Larson as the lead and filming post-pandemic. >>>Read It
Sister Act - Global TV and film studio Sister is gearing up for a string of launches and yesterday saw perhaps its most daring. Netflix's Eric, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as a desperate father searching for his missing son in 1980s New York has been described as Sesame Street meets Taxi Driver, though in an exlcusive interview Sister creative chief Jane Featherstone compared the Abi Morgan series in scope and theme to Steven Spielberg's ET. >>>"Element Of Magical Realism"
Shark Attack - Netflix's Seine-set shark thriller Under Paris could be taken off the platform witin days of its release on June 5 due to legal proceedings brought by a writer-director who claims it as developed without his knowledge from an original idea he registered with a rights management body in 2011. >>>Hearing On June 14 |
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Towards the end of Paula Vogel’s hit Broadway drama Mother Play, all dialogue comes to a halt for 12 long, mesmerizing minutes, and Jessica Lange is on stage, alone, for every second of them.
Lange’s performance – not least those 12 minutes – has earned her a Tony Award nomination for Best Leading Actress in a Play. In this candid conversation, Lange, whose starring role in the Broadway-themed HBO film The Great Lillian Hall is drawing rave reviews, discusses the new play, the character and some other very bad mothers she’s portrayed so memorably. >>>Read The Interview |
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Rian Johnson isn’t done adding to his already stacked cast for next installment in the Knives Out franchise. Jeremy Renner and Mila Kunis are the latest join Daniel Craig in Netflix’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.
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Bill Skarsgård is set to star in and executive produce the It prequel series Welcome To Derry (working title) for Max. He will be reprising the title role.
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Producer Daniel Bekerman, whose Donald Trump movie The Apprentice just premiered in competition at Cannes to strong notices, has set his next feature Knight’s Camp, a dark comedy starring Judy Greer and Sophia Lillis (Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves).
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Susan Sarandon, William H. Macy and Marcia Cross have signed on to star in Exit Right, a new indie that veteran documentary filmmaker Thomas A. Morgan will direct from his own script. |
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More News 🗯️ Social media turned into celebratory water cooler for the likes of Lynda Carter, Rob Reiner, Mark Hamill, Michael Rapaport, Kathy Griffin and more Thursday after a New York City found former President Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
🏈 The Chicago Bears will make their first appearance on HBO's Hard Knocks throughout training camp, the team announced. Of course, having No. 1 draft choice and Heisman Trophy-winner Caleb Williams at quarterback makes for a compelling storyline.
💰 David Ellison's Skydance sweetened its offer to acquire Paramount Global in an attempt to make it more palatable to the company’s Class B stockholders after they trashed the outlines of a previous deal and threatened to sue.
🤝 Republic Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to Millers in Marriage, a new film written, directed by and starring Edward Burns. |
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Obituaries
🕯️ Stephen J. Rivele, the screenwriter whose 1995 collaboration on Nixon with Oliver Stone and longtime writing partner Christopher Wilkinson earned the trio an Oscar nomination, died peacefully in his sleep at his home in Pasadena, California, on May 17. He was 75. 🕯️ 2024 Entertainment & Media Deaths Photo Gallery | |
On the Radar
Sun - Mayor Of Kingstown S3 premiere
Tue - Eric Weinberg arraigned
Wed - Tribeca Festival begins
Thu - Jon Stewart's podcast launches |
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The Bad Boys Are Back - Martin Lawrence and Will Smith hit the blue carpet last night for the L.A. premiere of Bad Boys: Ride or Die. |
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