Liongate, Starz Ink Multiyear First Window Output Deal

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNatalie Portman and Sophie Mas’ MountainA production company has set a first-look TV deal at Apple.News of the deal comes a week after it was reported that Portman had signed on to star in the Apple series “Lady in the Lake” with Lupita Nyong’o. Portman is also an executive producer on the series, as is Mas via MountainA.

Captain America is getting even more representative.

EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award-winner Natalie Portman and producing partner Sophie Mas have inked a first look deal with Apple. Under the multi-year agreement, Apple TV+ will have a first look on television projects to be developed and produced by Portman and Mas through their newly formed production company MountainA. This marks the first producing deal for the pair.

Get ready to meet “The Upshaws”.

Apple Studios has made a multi-year first look film deal with Imagine Entertainment founders Brian Grazer and Ron Howard to produce a slate of scripted movies exclusively for Apple Original Films.

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.

Michael Wright, who is President of cable network Epix, is to take over MGM’s scripted television duties following the departure of Steve Stark.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterLongtime MGM Television executive Steve Stark, who championed the studio’s Emmy-winning drama “The Handmaid’s Tale,” is leaving his executive post and transitioning to a producing deal with the studio.Just over a year ago, Stark was named president of the newly formed MGM/UA Television label and extended his deal with the studio.

Also Read: Channing Tatum to Join Sandra Bullock in Romantic Adventure 'The Lost City of D'“Mike and Pam have supported us since the very beginning of all our careers. It felt like divine intervention that we directed our first movie for them,” Tatum, Carolin and Kiernan said in a joint statement.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterChanning Tatum and his Free Association production company partners Reid Carolin and Peter Kiernan have signed a first-look film deal with MGM.In kicking off the partnership, MGM will release “Dog,” the directorial debut of Tatum and Carolin.

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.

Lionsgate is looking to give Starz a bigger movie streaming bundle by signing a multiyear theatrical output agreement with its premium subscription platform for Lionsgate and Summit label films. As part of the deal, Starz will get an exclusive first window for Lionsgate label films when the current distribution agreement with Hulu expires at the end of 2021.

Lionsgate and its premium subscription platform Starz have closed a multiyear, exclusive first window output deal for all theatrically released Lionsgate and Summit label films when current agreements expire at the end of 2021 and the end of 2022.

Naman Ramachandran Eros STX and Amazon Prime Video have signed a multi-year first window output deal for the Nordics, effective immediately.The deal will see Prime subscribers in the Nordics get exclusive access to STX International’s slate, including “The Mauritanian,” for which Jodie Foster won a Golden Globe, and which also stars Tahar Rahim and Benedict Cumberbatch.

Naman Ramachandran ErosSTX International has closed a strategic output deal with Italy’s Leone Film Group, the distributor behind hits “Knives Out” and “1917.”The STX international pipeline includes Guy Ritchie’s untitled spy thriller starring Jason Statham, Hugh Grant, Aubrey Plaza and Josh Hartnett; a pair of films from Black Bear Pictures, including Neil Burger’s “The Marsh King’s Daughter,” starring Daisy Ridley and thriller “Memory,” starring Liam Neeson; aerial war epic “Devotion” from

EXCLUSIVE: In a lucrative play, ErosSTX International has closed a new output pact with Italian major Leone Film Group, the distributor behind box office hits including Knives Out and 1917, marking their first output in the territory in a few years.

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.