Lionsgate Wins Film Rights to Steven Rowley Novel ‘The Guncle’

On Tuesday, Paramount put on a virtual showcase teasing the seventh Transformers film, which recently entered production, and revealed its title: Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.

K.J. Yossman “Boardwalk Empire’s” Jack Huston will star in a new action/thriller series inspired by “The Count of Monte Cristo,” Alexandre Dumas’ timeless novel.

“Amblin and Steven Spielberg are synonymous with incredible entertainment. Their passion and artistry combine to make films that both captivate and challenge audiences,” Scott Stuber, Netflix head of global film, said.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaAmblin Partners and Netflix have forged a partnership, one that will see the company headed by Steven Spielberg produce multiple new feature films for the streaming service every year.

Stacey Abrams hinted at future political office (no surprise) defended a compromise on the voting rights bill “because we need to make progress” and said of Juneteeth: “It’s important that we remember that this isn’t a celebration about the end of slavery alone, it is about justice delayed and nearly denied.”

“The Desperate Hours” soon gives way to a cavalcade of betrayals and double-crosses.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaSam Rechner will play a high school classmate of a young, aspiring filmmaker in Steven Spielberg’s new, semi-autobiographical film.The young, up-and-coming Australian actor joins an impressive ensemble cast that includes Oscar-nominee Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen and Paul Dano. “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” breakout Julia Butters and Gabriel LaBelle are also signed for the film.

EXCLUSIVE: Once Upon A Time…in Hollywood breakout Julia Butters is set to join Steven Spielberg’s next film at Amblin which is loosely based on the director’s childhood growing up in Arizona. She would play the sister to the young filmmaker at the center of the story, played by Gabriel LaBelle.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentKino Lorber has acquired all North American rights to the Amos Gitai Film Collection, comprising 22 films by the award-winning bold Israeli director of Cannes’ Palme d’Or contenders “Kippur,” BAFTA-winning “Kadosh,” and “Free Zone” with Natalie Portman. Gitai’s latest film, “Laila in Haifa” (pictured), which featured Israeli and Palestinian actors, world premiered at Venice in 2020.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterHeatseeking indie distributor Decal has landed U.S. distribution rights to “Recovery,” a well-received comedy which played this year’s SXSW Film Festival.From directors Mallory Everton and Stephen Meek, the road trip adventure follows two lost-soul sisters traveling across country to rescue their grandmother, whose nursing home suffers a COVID-19 outbreak.

Netflix Co-CEO and Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos announced today as part of his keynote speech at Banff World Media Festival that the streamer is taking global rights to Canadian Sci-fi movie Code 8: Part II.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Swiss sales outfit Lightdox has snapped up worldwide rights to Stefan Pavlovic’s experimental documentary “Looking for Horses,” winner of the Burning Lights competition at April’s Visions du Reel in Switzerland, where it world premiered.Said Lightdox co-founder and CEO Anna Berthollet: “In his reflective and disarmingly honest feature debut, Stefan Pavlović reveals that friendship and understanding can be found in the world’s most peculiar and lonely places.”“It’s a

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was the most-watched late-night show in total viewers for the 2020-21 television season – its fifth consecutive year at the top.

Broadway received the musical equivalent of an engraved invitation last night when Lin-Manuel Miranda joined Jimmy Fallon in a star-packed stage-themed production number on The Tonight Show, with the two, alongside Jimmy Smits, Olga Merediz, Laura Benanti, Kristin Chenoweth and Christopher Jackson, heralding the industry’s imminent return.

Bryan Fuller is probably best known for his TV work, but it appears the writer-producer is set to jump into the feature film world with the adaptation of Stephen King’s famous novel, “Christine.” READ MORE: ‘Lisey’s Story’: Pablo Larrain, Julianne Moore & Clive Owen Try To Sift Through The Fog Of Stephen King’s Surreal Nightmare [Review] According to Deadline, Bryan Fuller is set to write and direct “Christine,” the upcoming horror-thriller based on the classic Stephen King novel of the same

Lionsgate has acquired rights The Guncle, the latest book from bestselling author Steven Rowley. Rowley will adapt and executive produce the film, which Kristin Burr (Cruella, Dora the Explorer) will produce via her Burr! Productions. Rob Weisbach will also produce.

Working from home required some creative solutions–something Julianne Moore knows all about.

LaBelle was last seen on the big screen in the 2018 horror reboot “The Predator” and is also attached to appear in Starz’s series adaptation of “American Gigolo.” Here, LaBelle will play Spielberg as a teenager in a film that will visit different periods of the director’s childhood in Arizona, where he made his first feature film, “Firelight,” at the age of 17 and screened it at his local cinema in Phoenix with the help of his family.

EXCLUSIVE: Following a lengthy search, Steven Spielberg has found the actor tasked with playing the young filmmaker inspired by the legendary director. Sources tell Deadline that Gabriel LaBelle is in negotiations to play the young, aspiring filmmaker at the center of Spielberg’s upcoming film, which is loosely based on his childhood.