Angela Robinson Inks Multi-Year Overall Deal With Warner Bros. Television Group

Warner Bros. is not continuing its HBO Max release strategy next year.

The last major theater chain holdout has scheduled its reopening date, as Cineworld’s Regal Cinemas has announced (via THR) that select theaters will open its doors on April 2, just in time for Warner Bros.’ “Godzilla vs. Kong.” And with that, not only do we see the next major hurdle for the theatrical release business finished, but also, WB has officially unveiled its plans for theatrical exclusivity in 2022.

Naman Ramachandran The Cineworld Group will reopen its U.S. Regal Cinemas Apr.

Cineworld and Warner Bros have hatched a multi-year agreement that will see the No. 2 global exhibitor show the studio’s 2021 theatrical and HBO Max day-and-date titles in the U.S.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefChina’s dominant online music platform Tencent Music Entertainment has renewed and expanded its licensing deal with Warner Music.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla Peter Browngardt, Emmy-winning creator of “Uncle Grandpa” and “Secret Mountain Fort Awesome,” has signed an exclusive, multiyear, cross-studio overall deal with Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Studios.

Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Studios have teamed up to sign their first joint overall deal – with Pete Browngardt, exec producer of HBO Max’s Looney Tunes Cartoons

Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, a respected expert on racism, sexism, and public safety, has entered into a multi-year creative partnership and exclusive overall deal with Warner Bros. Television Group.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla Warner Bros. Television Group has established an exclusive creative partnership and overall deal with Dr.

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max’s garden of unscripted talent continues to blossom after the streamer struck an overall deal with director Joseph Guidry.

EXCLUSIVE: Writer Syreeta Singleton is expanding her relationship with HBO and HBO Max, signing a one-year overall deal with the premium cabler and streaming platform. Under the pact, Singleton will develop new material for the networks and showrun the upcoming HBO Max series, Rap Sh*t.

Paris Hilton is getting into business with Warner Bros. Unscripted Television, signing an exclusive two-year overall deal with the studio.

Ellen DeGeneres is taking on a new role.

EXCLUSIVE: Golden Globe-nominated writer Liz Hannah (The Post, The Girl From Plainville) has signed an overall deal with MRC Television and Civic Center Media, a joint venture between UTA and MRC. Under the pact, Hannah will develop and produce television projects with the indie studio partnership through her newly launched company, Happy Friday Productions.

EXCLUSIVE: In just two short years, Davita Scarlett has emerged as one of Robert and Michelle King’s MVP writer-producers, simultaneously serving as a co-executive producer on two of the duo’s series, The Good Fight for Paramount+ and Evil for CBS. Scarlett is now joining the talent roster of CBS Studios, which is behind The Good Fight and Evil, signing a multi-year overall deal to develop new projects for the studio targeting all platforms.

EXCLUSIVE: Leslie Morgenstein, founder of Alloy Entertainment and producer of series including Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars, is staying at Warner Bros.

Over the past four years, Jenny Lumet established herself as one of CBS Studios’ most prolific creators/showrunners. Now the studio has secured Lumet’s exclusive services for four more years with a rich overall production deal, said to be in the eight-figure range.

EXCLUSIVE: Charly Evon Simpson is getting into business with HBO. The prolific playwright is expanding her reach in television, signing an overall deal with the premium cabler. Under the pact, Simpson will serve as a consulting producer on the second season of Industry. She is also currently a member of the writing staff for the second season of Perry Mason, which recently earned three Critics Choice nominations.

MGM has signed Channing Tatum, Reid Carolin, and Peter Kiernan’s label, Free Association, to a first-look film production deal. The news comes after MGM has acquired North American rights to distribute Dog, the directorial debut from Tatum and Carolin that will hit theaters sometime this year.