Animation Vet Fred Siebert Launches New Production Company, FredFilms, And First-Look Deal With VIS Kids At ViacomCBS

Apple has struck a first-look dealBrian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment. The multi-year pact will see the banner produce aslate of scripted features, exclusively for the streamer.

Jordan Moreau Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment has signed a multi-year, first-look deal to create scripted features exclusively for Apple.Imagine Entertainment’s previous films include 2001’s “A Beautiful Mind,” which won best picture at the Oscars; “Hillbilly Elegy,” which earned Glenn Close a Golden Globe nomination for best supporting actress; “Rush”; “J.

Also Read: Natalie Portman, Lupita Nyong'o to Star in Apple's 'Lady in the Lake' Limited Series From Alma Har'elApple and Imagine have previously partnered on the documentary “Dads” from director Bryce Dallas Howard and “Peanuts in Space: Secrets of Apollo 10,” directed by Morgan Neville.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterLady Gaga, an Italian girl from New York, has revealed the first look at her transformation into Patrizia Reggiani, Maurizio Gucci’s ex-wife, in the upcoming movie about his assassination.“House of Gucci,” directed by Ridley Scott, depicts the true story of the downfall of the Gucci family dynasty.

Viacom International Studios has inked a first-look deal with South Korean production studio Something Special.

EXCLUSIVE: LA-based sales firm Film Bridge International has sold shark survival pic The Requin to Reset Collective (Australia/New Zealand), YouPlanet (Spain), Mediawan (France), Monolith (Poland), Purple Plan (SE Asia), Blitz Film Group (Ex-Yugo), and Blue Lantern (Vietnam).

Elle Fanning, star and executive producer of Civic Center Media/MRC Television’s Hulu series The Great, is expanding her relationship with the indie studio partnership. She and her sister Dakota Fanning have teamed to launch Lewellen Pictures production company and have entered a first-look television deal with the studio, a joint venture between UTA and MRC. The Fanning sisters plan to develop feature film and television projects, as well as other forms of media, including podcasts.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterDakota and Elle Fanning have formed their own production company, Lewellen Pictures.

A star was born here! Well, not literally! But Lady Gaga's New York City apartment where she began her journey to stardom has now been listed on the rental market. The news made headlines as pictures of Gaga's modest one-bedroom apartment surfaced on the Internet.

Free Association — the production shingle run byChanning Tatum, Reid Carolin and Peter Kiernan — has signed a first-look deal with MGM. The studio and production are working together on Tatum's directorial debut Dog, which is due out in theaters in 2021.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterSister, the upstart studio from Elisabeth Murdoch, Jane Featherstone and Stacey Snider, has signed esteemed production company Market Road Films to a first-look film and TV deal.Comprised of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage and Emmy-winning director Tony Gerber, Market Road will develop and produce series and feature content in both scripted and unscripted categories.“Lynn and Tony have enjoyed unparalleled and acclaimed success in every form of

MTV’s “The Real World” is coming back.

EXCLUSIVE:  Grey Gardens and The Vow filmmaker Michael Sucsy is teaming with The Get Down composer Elliott Wheeler on the New York City holiday musical A Lot Like Christmas which New Republic Pictures will make.

Netflix says its spending in Korea will top $500M in 2021 as the streamer doubles down on local content production after hits including #Alive.

Naman Ramachandran In today’s Global Bulletin, John Boyega’s UpperRoom sets animation deal with ViacomCBS’s VIS Kids; Germany’s Bavaria Film acquires Story House companies; and International Literary Properties appoints Hilary Strong as U.K./Europe CEO.“Star Wars” and “Small Axe” actor John Boyega‘s UpperRoom Productions has set a deal to present three to five animation projects to ViacomCBS International Studios‘ VIS Kids for development into a long form series.

Angelique Jackson Entertainment studio Topic Studios and New York-based production company Loveless have entered into an all-media first-look deal, partnering to develop scripted and unscripted projects across TV, film and podcasts.Topic Studios, the entertainment studio from First Look Media, which recently produced the Golden Globe-nominated legal thriller “The Mauritanian,” and Loveless, the production company founded by Emmy-nominees Carly Hugo and Matt Parker, have come together for the

Apple TV+ has been presenting its latest offerings during Friday’s presentations at the Television Critics Association virtual press tour. Among the series being promoted was the streaming service’s upcoming series “The Mosquito Coast”.

EXCLUSIVE: George Tillman, Jr. and Robert Teitel’s State Street Pictures has signed a first-look deal with Sony Pictures Television.

EXCLUSIVE: Chernin Entertainment has set a first-look deal with producer Julie Oh and her newly launched production label, OhCo.