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Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has acquired Shelly, an action-comedy package that has Jumanji: The Next Level‘s Awkwafina and Karen Gillan attached to reteam, and Jude Weng to direct. The action comedy script is by Michael Doneger and Liz Storm and the film will be produced by Ian Bryce Productions.Deadline wrote about the package in late June, when it was first shopped.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmOne of the best reviewed hot-button documentaries of last Sundance has finally been claimed and given an opportunity to be seen. Briarcliff Entertainment acquired U.S.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Longtime CAA agent Carin Sage is joining 3 Arts Entertainment. She becomes the latest of a number of prominent agents there to move to the management side of the representation business.Sage is a 32-year agency veteran who represents such filmmakers as Ang Lee, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Peter Hedges, George Tillman, Thea Sharrock, Zoya Akhtar, Nikole Beckwith, and Neasa Hardiman, among others.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmNarrative has brought aboard Maria Herrera and Rachael Reiss, publicists who most recently were Vice-Presidents at Rogers & Cowan PMK.Herrera most recently served as VP of Entertainment Strategies and has a decade working with talent, filmmakers and showrunners in releases and awards season campaigns.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmVerve has signed David Blue Garcia, the Emmy-winning director and DP who just took over directing Legendary’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre film. As Deadline revealed, Garcia was set for the film after the original helmers exited over creative differences about the first week of shooting.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Producer Mark Gordon has launched Mark Gordon Pictures, a new production venture that is backed by EOne. Gordon has put together a staff of producers to create new film and TV productions and continue to shepherd the ones he already had in the works.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmABC’s 20/20 tonight followed a commercial free network premiere of Black Panther with the special Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute For A King.The hastily prepared special – the family of the 43-year old Boseman only announced his death from colon cancer Friday evening – brought together some of the actors in the Marvel Comics Universe who worked closely with Boseman through a career that seems all too brief, even as he turned in iconic performances as Jackie

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmBlack Panther director and cowriter Ryan Coogler has made a lengthy statement on the passing of Chadwick Boseman, on what the young actor meant to him and so many others. Here it is in its entirety.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmWe can’t remember an actor taken from us at such a young age who has touched so many as did Chadwick Boseman, who died at age 43. Tonight, Marvel Studios, ABC Entertainment and ABC News will present a special Sunday evening to remember him.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmWhile articles are already showing up speculating on what will happen to the Black Panther sequel, the Marvel Comics Universe filmmakers who worked most closely with Chadwick Boseman are simply trying to process the enormous grief of an unimaginable tragedy in a year full of them.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmWhen Oliver Stone interviewed for a Deadline The Film That Lit My Fuse timed with the release of his memoir Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador and the Movie Game, the three-time Oscar-winning filmmaker gave Deadline permission to provide our readers with a few passages from the book that was recently published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.A dishy coming of age of a filmmaker tale, Chasing the

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmOn the eve of the 65th anniversary of the 1955 torture and lynching death of 14-year-old Emmett Louis Till, writer/director Chinonye Chukwu is set to direct a feature film about his tragic death and the relentless pursuit of justice by his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, whose insistence on an open casket funeral for her battered teenage son at the hands of a white mob became a galvanizing moment that helped lead to the creation of the civil rights movement.The

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: The Virtual Cannes Market was a bustling affair with several major films set up. Will we see a similar result at the Toronto Film Festival? Here’s a hot package to get things going.Endeavor Content will be handling worldwide sales on The Making Of, a romantic comedy written and produced by Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: After QC Entertainment won an auction for TV the Chuck Wendig dystopian sci-fi novel Wanderers back in early 2019, the effort to turn it into an event series has grown stronger. Lionsgate has expanded its partnership with QC Entertainment and come aboard to develop the series.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Netflix has made a deal with Ryan Reynolds and John August to co-write Upstate, an original feature comedy that is eyed as a star vehicle for Reynolds. The project reunites Reynolds and August, who last worked together on 2007’s The Nines.They are keeping plot under wraps.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Sony Pictures has acquired the film rights to AfterShock Comics’ upcoming comic book series The Kaiju Score, from writer James Patrick (Grimm Fairy Tales, Death Comes to Dillinger, The Monsters of Jimmy Crumb) and artist Rem Broo (The End Times of Bram and Ben, Terminal Protocol).Escape Artists’ Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, and Steve Tisch will produce, along with Tony Shaw who brought the property into Sony.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: A week into production and there has been major behind-the-scenes bloodletting on Legendary’s sequel to Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Directors Andy & Ryan Tohill have exited a film that was a week into production in Bulgaria over some creative differences.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Amy Poehler will make her documentary feature debut for Imagine Documentaries and White Horse Pictures on Lucy & Desi, the working title for a definitive film about the remarkable personal and professional partnership between comedian Lucille Ball and husband Desi Arnaz.This will be the biggest documentary to be fully financed by Imagine Documentaries and the film will have the benefit of full cooperation from the estate of Ball & Arnaz and

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmSPOILER ALERTS: Don’t read further if you don’t want to know the contents of Season 3 finale.If the Dutton Family running the gauntlet of the Beck Brothers and their hired militia of extremist rapists and kidnappers from Season Two wasn’t lethal enough, the close of Yellowstone’s third season brought some of the most shocking developments that co-creator Taylor Sheridan has scripted thus far.A mystery also was created for what will be an eagerly awaited

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: It was just announced internally at CAA and it is a bombshell.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: The adage you never forget your first time might be especially true for Mark Gill and his Solstice Studios cohorts, who decided to offer up the first film they financed as the litmus test of whether theater goers are ready to return to U.S. cinemas for the first time since they abruptly went dark in March.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmBrian Oliver and Bradley Fischer’s New Republic Pictures closed a multi-picture co-financing deal with Paramount Pictures. NRP will partner with Paramount on 10 pictures, including: Mission: Impossible 7, Top Gun: Maverick, The Tomorrow War, Infinite, Without Remorse, Coming 2 America, Transformers 7, The Tiger’s Apprentice, Clifford the Big Red Dog, and Under the Boardwalk.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has purchased Arcana, a spec script by Predators scribes Michael Finch & Alex Litvak that will be developed for John Wick helmer Chad Stahelski to direct. The film is a gritty urban fantasy set in the hidden world of magical clans.Stahelski will produce through 87Eleven Entertainment.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmLeigh Kittay has joined Black Bear as Head of Film. She most recently served that role for Noah Hawley’s 26 Keys, and was exec producer of Lucy in the Sky.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has set a remake of the classic John Hughes 1987 road trip comedy Planes, Trains & Automobiles as a star vehicle for Will Smith and Kevin Hart. Hart’s Hartbeat Productions and Smith’s Westbrook Studios will produce.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmIn Ready Player Two fanboy news, Penguin Random House Audio has set Wil Wheaton to narrate the sequel novel by Ernest Cline. The first of which Steven Spielberg turned into a Warner Bros film.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmWhile the big actor paydays right now are coming from film and series auction deals won by streaming services, hitting the bottle has become a pretty good way for stars to supplement their incomes. Ryan Reynolds is at the center of a deal today where Diageo acquired Aviation American Gin.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmApple has asserted itself once again on the film side, winning an auction for an untitled Africa-set thriller that Idris Elba will star in. He will produce the film with Genre Films’ Simon Kinberg and Audrey Chon producing.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmAppian Way Productions’ Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson have set the production company into a multi-picture, multi-year first look deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment to produce scripted feature films.

Justin Kroll, Mike Fleming Jr EXCLUSIVE: Scott Greenberg is leaving CAA to become a manager and partner at LBI Entertainment. He is making the move amicably from agent to manager and will join LBI principal Rick Yorn, a close friend and mentor since they were fraternity brothers at the University of Maryland, where Yorn gave Greenberg his pledge pin late one night as the pledge worked his way into Tau Kappa Epsilon.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: James Schamus has committed to direct College Republicans, a fact-inspired Dirty Rotten Scoundrels-style coming of age story about top Republican operatives.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: And here we thought this was the summer of fear. Turns out, it’s a year away.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: HBO has closed a deal to develop a drama series from The Hater, the acclaimed Polish film directed by Jan Komasa and written by Mateusz Pacewicz, the team behind last year’s Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee Corpus Christi.The film won Best Feature in the International Narrative Competition at Tribeca’s 2020 Online Festival Program. Netflix bought world-wide streaming rights, and premiered it July 29th.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Participant has boarded Abacus, the drama that Justin Lin will direct based on a script by Kenneth Lin (Star Trek: Discovery, House of Cards) and James Schamus (Indignation, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). Participant joins as financier, and producer alongside Lin’s Perfect Storm Entertainment.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmCondolences to Escape Artists partner/producer Steve Tisch on the death of his 36-year old daughter, Hilary Anne Tisch, who died Monday. The Tisch family wasn’t specific on cause of death, but in a statement sent to Deadline, noted she had battled depression.

Justin Kroll, Mike Fleming Jr EXCLUSIVE: Two and one-half months after it stepped up to become the principal financier of Killers of the Flower Moon, Apple has inked a first-look deal with its director, Martin Scorsese.