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16.08.2021 - 23:33 / thewrap.com
Amazon Studios and Sony Pictures Animation are nearing a $100 million deal for “Hotel Transylvania: Transformania” to skip theaters and head straight to Amazon Prime Video, according to Variety. The franchise has grossed $1.3 billion in theaters worldwide since the first film’s debut in 2012.
“Transformania” is the last in the series and will be directed by Derek Drymon and Jennifer Kluska.Representatives for Sony and Amazon declined to comment.More to come…
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With such a backlog of films that have been seemingly relegated to the shelf, just waiting for their release because of COVID interrupting the entire film industry, it’s easy to forget about some projects. One of those is the upcoming sequel to “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” produced by Fede Alvarez and directed by David Blue Garcia.
Pierce Brosnan put his Malibu home on the market in September 2020 for $100 million and now it has been removed after not selling.
In the lawsuit, which was filed in federal district court in California and obtained by TheWrap, Paramount says that it had to pause production of the Tom Cruise blockbuster in February 2020 after an unidentified production member tested positive for COVID-19. That pause was then prolonged when the Italian government ordered a full lockdown during the early stages of the pandemic.
Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterSony Pictures and Joel Silver are teaming up for the feature film “The Dryland,” from screenwriter David Rothley.The spec, an action thriller, follows a kidnapping and ransom negotiator tasked with finding a nine-year-old boy who went missing on an Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
Ethan Shanfeld Steve McQueen will premiere three new documentaries — “Uprising,” “Black Power: A British Story of Resistance” and “Subnormal: A British Scandal” — on Amazon Prime Video on Sept. 17.Directed by McQueen and James Rogan, “Uprising” is a three-part docuseries that examines three events from 1981 in the U.K.
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Directed by Nia DaCosta and produced by Jordan Peele, “Candyman” has been well-received by critics and audiences with a B on CinemaScore going alongside an 85% critics score and 74% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. The film was produced on a reported $25 million budget.
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The Girardi controversy continues… and the latest is a doozy!
The hits keep coming. Tom Girardi‘s former law firm, Girardi Keese, is $101 million in debt, according to court documents obtained by Us Weekly.
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As we’ve seen with the recent lawsuit between Scarlett Johansson and Disney, there’s a lot of complicated math that goes into an actor’s contract with a studio for a project. In previous years, the biggest names in Hollywood would earn an upfront fee, but they would then have the chance to earn a lot more with “back-end” deals that include profit-sharing with the studio.
planned to go public via a SPAC.Digital publisher BuzzFeed’s plan was to merge with a special-purpose acquisition company, but NBCUniversal leaders were disappointed that at BuzzFeed’s value of $1.5 billion, which is below where it was in previous years, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The salaries of 17 of the biggest stars in the world, ranked from lowest to highest, have been revealed for their upcoming films and the numbers on this list are really high.
EXCLUSIVE: Eros STX and Amazon Prime Video have closed a multi-year first window output deal in South Africa, effective immediately.