Paramount Pictures Acquires Rights To John Swab’s Action-Thriller ‘Little Dixie’ Starring Frank Grillo

Production company MUBI has acquired Julie Ha and Eugene Yi’s documentary “Free Chol Soo Lee” that premiered last week at Sundance, the company said in a release.The film has been acquired for North America, UK, Ireland, Latin America, German, Austria, Italy and Turkey and will release theatrically in 2022 in the U.S., with plans for other regions coming later.The documentary is about a movement in the 1970s in San Francisco, where a 20-year-old Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee gets racially profiled and convicted of a Chinatown gang murder. Lee is sentenced to life and fights to survive until a journalist takes up his case and ignites a social justice movement in the Asian American community.

Wyatte Grantham-Philips editor“Free Chol Soo Lee” has been acquired by global distributor, streamer and production company MUBI.The documentary, which premiered last week at the Sundance Film Festival, will come to U.S. theaters in 2022, with release plans in other territories (Latin America, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Turkey, the U.K.

Carol Speed, who lit up the screen in the cult blaxploitation film The Mack died on Jan. 14 in Muskogee, Okla. She was 76 her family announced her death in a statement published online, but did not specify the cause.

Tiger King star Joe Exotic has been jailed for 21 years after being resentenced for his part in a murder-for-hire plot.

star — whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage — has been resentenced to 21 years in prison by a federal judge in Oklahoma for his 2017 murder-for-hire case involving Carole Baskin, according to court documents obtained by ET.The judge made the decision on Friday, after a federal appeals court ruled last year that improper sentencing guidelines were used. The new resentencing takes one year off from his original 22-year sentence.Upon expiration of Exotic's sentence, he will serve three years of supervised release and must pay a special assessment fee of $1,225.00, consisting of $100.00 per felony count and $25.00 per misdemeanor count. Due immediately, the document states.Prosecutors said Exotic attempted to hire two people, including an undercover FBI agent, to kill Baskin after she criticized his treatment of animals, per Associated Press.

The perfect playdate! Olivia Munn’s son, Malcolm, met Henry Golding’s daughter, Lyla, on Thursday, January 27.

EXCLUSIVE: LA-based production company Firebrand has set Frank Grillo (Captain America), Mekhi Phifer (Truth Be Told), Scott Adkins (John Wick: Chapter 4 ) and Dermot Mulroney (Hanna) to star in action movie Lights Out, which is in pre-production.

EXCLUSIVE: Golden Globe winner Christian Slater (Mr. Robot) is joining John Cena, Alison Brie and Juan Pablo Raba in director Pierre Morel’s (Taken) action-comedy Freelance, which is filming in Colombia.

New Republic Pictures has won the rights to John Glenn’s spec Cut and Run in a bidding war, with Jake Gyllenhaal (The Guilty) coming aboard to produce and star, Deadline has confirmed.

Bob Dylan has announced details of a spring run of dates for his ‘Never Ending Tour’.The tour resumes in Phoenix on March 3 and will run for 27 dates over five weeks.Dylan’s website hints that more dates will be announced after this, saying that the tour will run until 2024.A ticket pre-sale for this run of dates begins on January 27, with a general on-sale beginning on January 28.

Directed by Sara Dosa, the film explores the relationship and achievements of the Kraffts, who captured never-before seen footage of volcanic eruptions and lava flows closer than anyone had ever filmed before. The pair followed their passions to the end, dying in a pyroclastic flow at Mount Unzen in Japan in 1991.

her obituary, she died on Jan. 14 in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

Sophia Bush will reunite with co-stars Hilarie Burton and Bethany Joy Lenz on her current CBS medical drama, , the network announced Thursday. Along with the news, the network released the first photo of Bush, Burton and Lenz on the Toronto set.Burton and Lenz, who starred on the WB/CW series with Bush for the majority of its nine-season run, will gust star on an upcoming episode, which began filming Thursday.They will play sisters Gretchen and Amy Taylor, respectively, who cross paths with Dr.

Getting real. Less than two months after giving birth to son Malcolm, first-time mom Olivia Munn is getting candid about her breast-feeding struggles.

Disney+ has dropped the first trailer for the upcoming Marvel series Moon Knight, starring Oscar Isaac in the title role.

John Earl Jelks, currently appearing in the HBO Max series Love Life, has joined the previously announced Debra Messing and Enrico Colantoni in the cast of the upcoming Broadway production of Noah Haidle’s Birthday Candles.

EXCLUSIVE: Following a highly competitive bidding war that saw several major players in the mix, Paramount Pictures has landed the rights for the Children of Blood and Bone trilogy, the action fantasy film based on the bestselling YA novel by Tomi Adeyemi. Adeyemi will adapt and pen the script. She will also executive produce. Paramount Pictures is fast-tracking this big-screen adaptation of the YA novel with Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen of Temple Hill Entertainment and Karen Rosenfelt of Sunswept Entertainment producing. Children of Blood and Bone and its sequel Children of Virtue and Vengeance are published by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan and sources say the third and final book in the trilogy will be published in 2023.

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to the WWII-era romantic drama I’ll Find You from director Martha Coolidge (Valley Girl, Real Genius). The Anthem Sports & Entertainment company plans to release the title starring Adelaide Clemens (To the Stars), Leo Suter (Sanditon, Beecham House), Stephen Dorff (Old Henry, Deputy), Connie Nielsen (Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Wonder Woman 1984) and Stellan Skarsgård (Dune, Chernobyl) in theaters and on demand on February 25.

EXCLUSIVE: Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to Jump, Darling, an LGBTQ+ family drama featuring the final performance of the late screen icon Cloris Leachman (The Last Picture Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show), with plans to release it in theaters and on digital and VOD in March.