George Tillman Jr. & Robert Teitel’s State Street Pictures Inks First-Look Deal With Sony Pictures TV

Lady Gaga is in Italy filming the true-crime thriller “House of Gucci”, and now fans have a first look at Mother Monster in her latest movie role.

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

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.

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.

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.

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has bought all international rights to writer-director Nikole Beckwith’s second feature, Together Together, which debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

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

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

EXCLUSIVE: Fred Siebert, a cable TV marketing pioneer who went on to become a producer of a number of successful animated series, has launched a new production entity called FredFilms.

ViacomCBS International Studios’ children’s division VIS Kids has signed a first-look deal with John Boyega’s UpperRoom Productions as part of a raft of content partnerships announced at the Kidscreen Summit Virtual 2021.

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

Joseph Sikora, best known as Tommy Egan on Starz'sPower franchise, has signed a first-look deal for his Black Fox Productions banner with Lionsgate TV. The deal follows Sikora's character being pegged as the focus of the upcoming new installment of the franchise, Power Book IV: Force.

Impact, the talent accelerator founded by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard in 2018 for up-and-coming writers, has partnered with Skydance Television in a first-look deal to source content using its proprietary application and review system.

Elaine Low Senior TV Writer“Impractical Jokers” stars Joe Gatto, James “Murr” Murray, Brian “Q” Quinn and Sal Vulcano, otherwise known as comedy troupe The Tenderloins, have inked a first-look deal with WarnerMedia to develop and produce scripted and unscripted originals for TNT, TBS, truTV and HBO Max.“From the very first dinner I had with Joe, James, Brian and Sal, I knew I loved spending time with them, and that our audiences would as well,” said TBS, TNT and truTV general manager Brett

The stars of long-running TruTV series Impractical Jokers have struck a first-look deal with WarnerMedia and had their flagship show renewed for a tenth season.

Skydance Television, the company behind Netflix’s Grace and Frankie, is searching for emerging writers after striking a first-look deal with Brian Grazer & Ron Howard’s Impact.