EXCLUSIVE: Brussels-based company Best Friend Forever has acquired international rights for zany Kung-Fu-themed action romantic comedy Zenithal.
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EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Studios has acquired Naughty, an original feature pitch from Siena East (Clone High) conceived as a starring vehicle for Amber Midthunder (Prey), multiple sources tell Deadline.
Pic’s storyline is under wraps, though the project is described as a holiday action rom-com. East will pen the script, with Hutch Parker and Dan Wilson to produce through their Hutch Parker Entertainment banner, which has a first-look deal with 20th. Hutch Parker Entertainment’s John Scott Gibney will co-produce after bringing the material in, with Midthunder to serve as exec producer. A director has not yet been attached.
Midthunder was last in business with 20th Century Studios as the star of Prey, a sci-fi actioner taking the Predator franchise back to the early 18th century. The film directed by Dan Trachtenberg shattered records upon its August 2022 domestic debut on Hulu, securing the biggest premiere in the history of the platform. The actress previously starred opposite Liam Neeson and Laurence Fishburne in the Netflix action thriller The Ice Road, that same year being recognized as one of TIFF’s Rising Stars for her performance in the indie drama The Wheel. Other notable credits for Midthunder include the Taylor Sheridan-scripted Hell or High Water, The CW’s Roswell, New Mexico and FX’s Legion. Among her other upcoming projects are Netflix’s Native American basketball underdog pic Rez Ball, as well as its new Avatar: The Last Airbender animated series.
A co-producer on Fox’s Jon Hamm-led animated series Grimsburg, which has been picked up for a second season prior to the unveiling of its first, East has also written on HBO Max’s reboot of the cult classic animated series Clone High, from Phil Lord, Christopher
EXCLUSIVE: Brussels-based company Best Friend Forever has acquired international rights for zany Kung-Fu-themed action romantic comedy Zenithal.
EXCLUSIVE: Password, the game show from Jimmy Fallon and hosted by Keke Palmer, is returning to NBC for a second season.
Neon is returning “Oldboy ” to theaters just in time for its 20th anniversary. Park Chan-wook’s acclaimed and influential psychological thriller will return to U.S.
Nick Mohammed, the two-time Emmy nominee for his co-starring role on Apple TV’s Ted Lasso, will make his U.S. live performance debut for one night only at New York’s Town Hall on Friday, June 2. The show will bring his “Mr. Swallow” alter-ego character to American audiences for the first time.
Joseph Fiennes made an impression on TV viewers as Gilead’s nefarious Commander Fred Waterford on “The Handmaid’s Tale”, and he’s now playing an even more villainous role in “The Mother”, an upcoming Netflix movie starring Jennifer Lopez as a former assassin who is forced out of retirement when the life of her daughter is threatened.
EXCLUSIVE: Adrian Martinez (Renfield) has booked a supporting role opposite Rami Malek in Amateur, the new thriller that James Hawes (Slow Horses) is directing for 20th Century Studios.
Eastenders fans were left divided after the latest episode of the BBC soap saw villain Ravi Gulati arrested for attempted murder at the end of a nail biting episode. Wednesday night's edition of the soap picked up where Tuesdays left off, with Keanu Taylor left fighting for his life after being beaten and left for dead by Ravi Gulati.The dodgy restaurant owner has been involved in supplying and dealing drugs in recent weeks, with Keanu hired by Ravi to transport the product from A to B.
The Only Way is Essex's Amber Turner and Dan Edgar have ended their relationship after a six year romance and it's certainly been a rocky few years for the pair. Despite the enduring length of their romance, the TOWIE stars were unable to make it work and in a statement on Tuesday, Amber confirmed the split following speculations. In a post on her Instagram story she wrote: "I wasn't going to post anything but due to speculations & questions, I feel like I need to.
After days of intense speculation, TOWIE star Amber Turner has officially confirmed her split from Dan Edgar, as she took to Instagram to report that their six year relationship had come to an end. Posting on her Instagram stories on Tuesday, Amber wrote: "I wasn't going to post anything but due to speculations & questions, I feel like I need to.” "Yes, me and Dan have split.
20th Century Studios is cooking up a sequel to 2004’s “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story” with original star Vince Vaughn now attached to reprise his role of Pete LaFleur, the very laid-back and casual owner of Average Joe’s Gym. Deadline reports that the studio has assigned writer Jordan VanDina (“The Binge“) to pen a script for the sports comedy sequel.
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic What’s 420 divided by 90? While you ponder that, take in the news that, on the eve of Willie Nelson’s 90th birthday, he and Billy Strings have released their own birthday present to the world — a surprise collaboration called “California Sober,” which, as you might be able to guess from the title, celebrates weed as its own form of moderation. It’s the first song to come out under Strings’ new deal with Reprise Records, after a long run with Rounder. The music video portrays the two collaborators and band members recording their parts individually, although a framing device has Strings getting on a bus — presumably Nelson’s — that is emitting a prolific amount of smoke by the time he exits at the end. Strings, a young neo-bluegrass picker who now sells out shows across the country, is seen with a joint hanging out of his mouth as he pulls off one of the acoustic solos he’s famous for, while wearing a shirt that rhymes “doobie” with “Scooby.” Nelson is not so demonstrative in his choice of cannabis, having reportedly given up smoking for edibles and other lung-protecting variations some years back.
which first reported the news, “All that’s known about the sequel, in terms of plot, is that it will continue the story of Vaughn’s prize-winning gym owner. Serving as the basis for VanDina’a script is an idea from Vaughn.”Lionsgate has recently acquired VanDina’s original spec “Dennis Rodman’s 48 Hours in Vegas,” with Lord Miller and 3 Arts on board to produce.
Angelique Jackson Time to brush up on the 5 D’s of “Dodgeball” — “dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge” — because a sequel to the 2004 hit comedy is officially in the works. Vince Vaughn is returning to star in the sequel, which is in early development at 20th Century Studios.
Maribel Guardia has shared her son’s new song with her followers. Featured in the film “Centurion: The Dancing Stallion,” the song is titled “Ay Amor” and is available in English and Spanish. It’s one of the last songs performed by Julián Figueroa, the son of Latin American icons Guardia and Joan Sebastian.
While most of Disney’s CinemaCon presentation was dominated by expected Disney fare like “The Little Mermaid,” “The Haunted Mansion,” “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” and “Elemental,” there was still time spent on films from formally-Fox and formally-Fox Searchlight. Taiki Waititi and Iain Morris’ long-gestating “Next Goal Wins” stars Michael Fassbender as Dutch-American coach Thomas Rongen’s efforts to lead the American Samoa national football team to qualify for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. It also stars Oscar Kightley, David Fane, Beulah Koale, Uli Latukefu, Rachel House, Kaimana, Rhys Darby, Will Arnett, and Elisabeth Moss.
As we are kicking off Day 3 of Disney’s second round of layoffs, here is information on a couple of cuts that happened yesterday but got lost in the flurry of staff reductions. We will update with more as layoff news comes in throughout the day.
EastEnders star Heather Peace said the cast is “absolutely stoked” to have raised £50,000 in memory of their late co-star Dame Barbara Windsor by running the London Marathon.The star said fundraising for Alzheimer’s UK had gone “beyond our wildest expectations” and the team, known as Bab's Army, were especially grateful for people’s donations during the cost-of-living crisis. She was joined in the challenge by co-stars including Natalie Cassidy, Lacey Turner and Adam Woodyatt.
The filmmaking couple Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin have earned a reputation for making documentaries about people who accomplish the unthinkable – the no-ropes climber Alex Honnold in the Oscar-winning Free Solo, or the divers of The Rescue who, against all odds, saved a group of Thai kids stranded in a flooded cave.
As the Writers Guild of America’s negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers is about to enter the final week before their contract expires, both sides are hopeful it won’t take a strike to get a deal done. But the WGA’s long battle with the talent agencies showed it can reach agreements with even the most intractable of mega-companies.
Following their grand Marvel success, filmmaking pair the Russo Brothers have irked many moviegoing audiences, filmmakers, journalists, and very-online social media audiences. Like James Cameron before them and his brand of smug irritation, their success has seemingly inflated an arrogance in them, and or, their epic box office accomplishments have made the media hang on to their every word and prop it up as something worth quoting (and we’re guilty of this too).