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New Line’s new animated movie, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, is moving from its April 12, 2024 release date to Dec. 13 next year.

Lukas Gage (You), Megan Suri (It Lives Inside) and Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows) have closed deals to join Jack Quaid in Companion, New Line’s sci-fi thriller from the team behind last fall’s horror smash Barbarian, which Drew Hancock will direct from his own original script, in his feature debut.

EXCLUSIVE: Hot on the heels of their historic Oscars sweep with Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Whale, A24 has set the cast for Y2K, a dial-up disaster comedy to be directed for the studio by SNL alum Kyle Mooney.

Seven months after landing the highly coveted top jobs at Warner Bros. Motion Picture studios, Co-Chairpersons Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy were bestowed with the PGA Milestone award tonight and paid respect for their mega industry mentors, remembered emotionally their cinematic NYC and New Jersey youths, and gave a huge shoutout to their new boss, Warner Discovery CEO David Zaslav.

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that New Line has landed The Watchers, a project from Ishana Night Shyamalan which will mark her feature directorial debut and which she adapted from the A.M. Shine novel of the same name. There’s a lot of excitement around the thriller which is being fast-tracked for a June 7, 2024 global theatrical release; cameras rolling later this year. New Line beat out other studios with a competitive bid.

Barbarian producer BoulderLight Pictures has secured a multi-year first-look feature agreement with New Line Cinema, Deadline has confirmed.

New Line Cinema won a heated auction to win Weapons, a film it will fast track with the filmmaking team behind the horror thriller Barbarian. Zach Cregger wrote the script and will direct, and he’ll produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.

A Philadelphia native and a graduate of Long Island University, Goldman got his start as a booker for the William Goldman Theatre Company. In 1978, he began his career in film distribution at Embassy Pictures, starting with east coast distribution in New York City before becoming vice president of the studio’s division four years later.

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. and New Line have joined Horizon, the epic period Western that Kevin Costner is directing, starring in and producing through his Territory Pictures. Costner co-wrote the script with Jon Baird,. Costner and Baird recently teamed on the script for another future project, The Explorers Guild. Horizon will put the Yellowstone star back behind the camera for the first time since 2003’s critically acclaimed Open Range. Horizon has been a longtime passion project for Costner, and one that has the sweep of his 1990 epic Dances With Wolves, the film that won Best Picture and Best Director Oscars for Costner among seven wins out of a dozen Oscar nominations.

EXCLUSIVE: Gersh has signed Ted Lasso‘s Keeley Hazell for representation in all areas.

EXCLUSIVE: Recent The Inheritance Tony nominee John Benjamin Hickey is set to play Father Callahan in New Line’s big feature adaptation of Stephen King’s bestselling novel Salem’s Lot which is hitting theaters in the Warner Bros. post Labor Day holiday corridor of Sept. 9, 2022.

Brat TV, maker of young-skewing online series like Chicken Girls and Attaway General, has received an investment from New Line founder Bob Shaye, who is joining the company’s board.

Andrew Wallenstein President and Chief Media AnalystNew Line Cinema founder Bob Shaye has signed on as a strategic investor to Brat TV, a digital studio that specializes in producing scripted series for Gen Z audiences.Shaye, who will also join Brat’s board of directors, is best known as the creative force behind some of the most memorable cinematic franchises, including “Lord of the Rings” and “Nightmare on Elm Street.” He exited New Line in 2008 and launched his own shingle, Unique

Refresh for latest…: With no major new releases, this was a strong holdover weekend at the international box office, led by last week’s champ, New Line/Warner Bros’ The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, Disney’s Cruella and Paramount’s A Quiet Place Part II.

Few things attract the attention of Hollywood more than the smell of a remake/reboot. The latest in a never-ending stream of remake announcements is the news that “Watchmen” and “The Woodsman” director, Nicole Kassell has been tapped to helm a remake of “The Wizard of Oz.” READ MORE: ‘The Three Musketeers’: Eva Green, Vincent Cassel And Vicky Krieps To Star In Two-Part Feature Film Adaptation Or rather, a new adaptation of L.

NEW YORK -- Are we off to see the wizard, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz — again?New Line Cinema is making a new adaptation of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” L. Frank Baum children’s novel, with Nicole Kassell, the visual architect of “Watchmen,” set to direct.

BREAKING: Paramount Pictures has named former New Line Cinema executive Daria Cercek and former 20th Century Studios executive Michael Ireland as co-presidents of the Paramount Pictures, reporting to Paramount Pictures Motion Picture Group President Emma Watts. Ireland joined the studio in late November, and Cercek will begin her position effective January 11.

Also Read: Warner Bros and DC to Develop 'Plastic Man' Movie“Plastic Man” has been published in several solo series and has interacted with other DC superheroes such as Batman. He was even a member of the Justice League at one point.Former New Line co-founder Bob Shaye will executive produce.

Also Read: Jason Bateman in Talks to Direct 'Shut In' for New Line CinemaBateman will also produce through his Aggregate Film banner. Anonymous Content’s David Kanter and Joff Okin will also produce.The “Ozark” star has been a hot commodity of late — he’s also attached to direct an untitled film at Netflix with John Cena that Perez is also slated to write.

With a fairly limited filmography behind the camera, Chad Stahelski has still become one of the most in-demand filmmakers working today. That’s thanks in no small part to his work on the three “John Wick” films.

As we pointed out recently, following their acquisition of Paul Thomas Anderson’s upcoming 1970s San Fernando Valley movie, MGM is making movies. Now run by Michael De Luca—a former New Line Cinema executive who champion filmmakers like David Fincher, F.

By Mike Fleming Jr