Rom Com Pictures Launches; Production Company To Focus On Inclusive Romance Movies

Naman Ramachandran Indian actors Ali Fazal (“Death on the Nile”) and Richa Chadha (“Gangs of Wasseypur”) have launched production outfit Pushing Buttons Studios.The company, set up with a view to tell stories rooted in the Indian ethos for a global audience, will kick off with “Girls Will Be Girls,” the only Indian selection of the 10 projects chisen for the Berlinale Talents Script Station program this year.Written and to be directed by Shuchi Talati, the film is set in an elite boarding

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.

Managers Jairo Alvarado, Tony Gil, and Max Goldfarb have partnered to form Redefine Entertainment, a new literary management and production company. They most recently were managers at Circle of Confusion and The Gotham Group. Imani Beal-Ampah joins them as a coordinator.

After enthraling us all with his Oscar-winning act in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Brad Pitt has shifted gears to Bullet Train, David Leitch's upcoming directorial based on Kotaro Isaka's Japanese novel Maria Beetle.

EXCLUSIVE:  WME has signed Golden Globe winner Gina Rodriguez and her production company I Can and I Will Productions, run by Molly Breeskin, in all areas.

he was accused of sexual harassment, misconduct and assault by six women in 2017.

Andrew Wallenstein President and Chief Media AnalystThe cutting edge of production technology is getting cornered by the video game business instead of the usual Hollywood companies.North Carolina-based Epic Games, creator of the global phenomenon “Fortnite,” is making a name for itself out West by providing its Unreal Engine software to TV and film productions looking to shoot with a new set of tools loosely known as virtual production.

EXCLUSIVE: Voltage Pictures is handling global sales at the European Film Market on the Bella Thorne teen romance Time Is Up which also stars Italian popstar Benjamin Mascolo. Deadline first told you about the project back in October.

EXCLUSIVE: Fred Siebert, a cable TV marketing pioneer who went on to become a producer of a number of successful animated series, has launched a new production entity called FredFilms.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterA live-action series adaptation of the “Twisted Metal” PlayStation game franchise is officially moving forward, Variety has learned.Sony Pictures Television and PlayStation Productions are developing a series based on the “Twisted Metal” vehicular combat games, the first of which was released in 1995.

MCU is not cinema, but the Oscar-winning filmmaker is now turning his ire to a much larger trend in Hollywood: the labeling of films as “content.”In a new essay for Harper’s Magazine reflecting on the career of Federico Fellini, Scorsese lamented how the new era of streaming has made that dreaded c-word far too common in discussion of movies, particularly within the film industry.“As recently as fifteen years ago, the term ‘content’ was heard only when people were discussing the cinema on a

UTA has inked Academy and Emmy Award-winning director, producer, and writer Roger Ross Williams and his production banner, One Story Up, in all areas.

Melissa Benoist will have her schedule filled after Supergirl wraps up for the final season.

Supergirl star Melissa Benoist is moving into production and sticking with Warner Bros.

Elaine Low Senior TV Writer“Supergirl” star Melissa Benoist has formed a new production company, Three Things Productions, and inked an exclusive, multiyear overall deal with Warner Bros. Television Group.Through Three Things — inspired by the Mary Oliver poem “Three Things to Remember” — Benoist and her team will develop and produce original TV programming for all platforms.

On David Fincher’s Mank, sound designer Ren Klyce was tasked with crafting a monaural soundtrack, similar to those heard in films of the ’30s and ’40s, engaging in a laborious, experimental process, in order to round out the world of one of the year’s most distinctive films.

Dana Walden has seen a lot of major changes during her time in the entertainment industry and she doesn’t see things slowing down any time soon.