Warner Bros. Discovery Proposed as New Name for Merged Companies

Marvin Gaye biopic What’s Going On, directed by Allen Hughes.Hughes, who is best known for directing films such as Menace II Society and Dead Presidents with his brother Albert, will also produce the film alongside Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine – both of whom were the subject of his 2018 docu-series The Defiant Ones – and Andrew Lazar.“This is so personal for me,” Hughes told Deadline.

Haley Bosselman editorWarner Bros. has acquired Marvin Gaye biopic “What’s Going On,” Variety has confirmed.“What’s Going On” has been in the works for a number of years.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 for his contribution to soul music and the Motown sound. Rolling Stone ranked the “What’s Going On” album No.

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has landed What’s Going On, a biopic of iconic soul singer Marvin Gaye that Allen Hughes will direct, and produce with Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine and Andrew Lazar.

Discovery CEO David Zaslav said WarnerMedia’s content machine plus his company’s global reach will more than secure the merged ops a place at the Netflix and Disney+ winners table. At a media conference Tuesday, he gave multiple shout-outs to Casey Bloys, HBO’s hit The Mare of Easttown, CNN/Jeff Zucker, theatrical releases and an advertising-light streaming strategy.

Ann-Marie Corvin A key creative from the team advising Warner Bros. Television on how it can bolster diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in its content creation has reached out to urge animators to “draw a better universe into existence”.Kicking off the keynote speech at Women in Animation’s (WIA) World Summit, which takes place annually at the Annecy Animation Festival, Dr.

Twenty years after the first Lord of the Rings feature encapsulated fans around the world in the gripping tales of J.R.R Tolkien, New Line is returning to the exciting world of the film with a new prequel anime film titled ‘The War of the Rohirrim’. Warner Bros.

“Lord of the Rings” series. That project is set thousands of years before the events of Tolkien’s books, at a time when Middle-earth was in a period of relative peace and some of the long-standing powers that be were finally formed.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterNew Line Cinema is returning to Middle Earth.The studio behind the feature film trilogies “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” is partnering with Warner Bros.

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Pathé and Warner Bros. Entertainment have struck a deal that will see WB release all Pathe titles in the UK and Ireland.

Actor Yahya Abdul-Mateen II has been making a huge splash over at Warner Bros.

As theme park attractions reopen across Southern California, Warner Bros. announced on Tuesday that its massively revamped Studio Tour will welcome back guests on June 26.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWarner Chappell Production Music has opened the doors to two new recording facilities: SkyLight Studios in Los Angeles and Sandtrack Sound in Nashville.The WCPM team partnered with David Kotch of Criterion Acoustics to redesign SkyLight Studios, a former mastering lab located in Hollywood.

One by one titans of media are delicately weighing on deals last month that will reshape the landscape with Comcast CEO Brian Roberts saying AT&T’s move to unload WarnerMedia “speaks for itself.”

Exhibition ruled the stock market today after a long holiday weekend saw Paramount’s A Quiet Place Part II crush it, earning $57 million over four days. That’s not far from the $60 million that the John Krasinski-directed sequel was anticipated to do in its 3-day opening pre-pandemic, according to my colleague Anthony D’Alessandro.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThe new name of the proposed WarnerMedia-Discovery combined company was unveiled Tuesday as “Warner Bros. Discovery” — along with an “initial wordmark” that immediately drew derisive remarks from wags on social media.Some observers criticized the new logo as either amateurish, dated-looking or both, with a design aesthetic more than a few noted was reminiscent of the 3D text effects available in Microsoft Word’s WordArt utility.

announced on May 17 it was spinning off WarnerMedia into an independent company that will merge with Discovery, Inc. The full valuation of the newly combined company is estimated to be $130 billion, TheWrap has learned.Zaslav will lead the new company as its CEO after the deal closes, which is expected to occur in mid-2022.

NBC today canceled one of its two high-concept bubble drama series, freshman Debris. And while the demise of the sci-fi series was largely expected, it improves the odds for sophomore Manifest, produced by Warner Bros. TV and Universal TV.

EXCLUSIVE: Without a Trace alum Enrique Murciano has been added to the cast of Warner Bros. and Plan B’s Father Of The Bride reboot which is being directed by Gaz Alazraki. The pic will revolve around a Cuban-American family led by Andy Garcia and also starring Gloria Estefan and Adria Arjona.