EXCLUSIVE: Harrison Land is leaving In Pursuit with John Walsh producer Jupiter Entertainment to set up his own production company.
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EXCLUSIVE: XYZ Films’ fledgling domestic distribution division has closed a multiyear, exclusive home entertainment partnership with Decal, beginning with their 2022 film slate.
Decal is the home ent distribution venture launched earlier this year by Neon and Bleecker Street.
Under the XYZ deal, Decal will handle the home entertainment window for all titles released through the XYZ Distribution Label, led by former Drafthouse Films and Neon COO James Emanuel Shapiro.
Upcoming XYZ Film releases
EXCLUSIVE: Harrison Land is leaving In Pursuit with John Walsh producer Jupiter Entertainment to set up his own production company.
Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterPatrick Hughes, director of the successful action-comedy franchise “The Hitman’s Bodyguard,” is setting up his next project at Lionsgate.Variety can exclusively report that Hughes will write and direct “War Machine,” an action/sci-fi film about the final recruits of a grueling special ops boot camp who encounter a deadly force from beyond this world.Announced by Lionsgate president of production Erin Westerman, the project will be produced by Range Media
When does Fast & Furious get too furious? The high-octane franchise leaves pulses racing, hearts thudding and knuckles clenched tight – and that’s just what happens behind the camera. Since 2001, audiences have loved watching the “family” — Dom, Letty, Roman, and more — pull off some unbelievable stunts.
Haley Hope Bartels (Pumping Black), Karin delaPeña Collison (Coming of Age), Byron Hamel (Shade of the Grapefruit Tree), R.J. Daniel Hanna (Shelter Animal) and Laura Kosann (The Ideal Woman) are the screenwriters and scripts chosen as the winners of the 2021 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition, AMPAS announced today.
longstanding feud with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson — by practically begging the superstar to appear with him in the car chase franchise’s penultimate flick. The actor extended his online olive branch to the fellow muscle man who many fans believe suggested Diesel was a “candy ass” and “chicken s–t” in a scathing — but blind — Facebook attack back in 2016.“My little brother Dwayne … the time has come.
There are few things more entertaining in the world of behind-the-scenes drama than the very public spat between Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson. Dating back to their time together in the ‘Fast & Furious’ films, it’s clear these men just don’t like each other.
Vin Diesel, 54, and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, 49, have come so far. The A-list actors once had an infamous feud while working together on the Fast & Furious movies, to the point where Dwayne called out Vin for “chicken s**t” behavior in 2016.
Vin Diesel has extended an olive branch to Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, campaigning for the former wrestler, current actor and recent one-time rapper to appear in the final instalment of the Fast & Furious series.In a new post shared to his Instagram, Diesel asked Johnson to “rise to the occasion and fulfil [his] destiny”.
Vin Diesel is asking Dwayne Johnson to return to the films.As the action movie franchise comes to an end, Diesel took to social media on Sunday to share a message to The Rock. Posting a photo of their characters, Dominic Toretto and Luke Hobbs, Diesel tells Johnson that he hopes he fulfills his «destiny.»The last time Diesel and Johnson appeared together in a movie was in 2017's «My little brother Dwayne… the time has come.
EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films will co-produce and provide domestic distribution for Stars Fell Again—the sequel to V.W. Scheich’s rom-com Stars Fell on Alabama, starring James Maslow and Ciara Hanna, which it also released.
Jamie Lang Filmax has announced the first of what is sure to be many key sales for its award-winning Spanish drama “Mediterráneo: The Law of the Sea” to Adler Entertainment in Italy, hot off the heels of an Audience Award at the country’s Rome Film Festival.News of the deal comes as Filmax presents “Mediterráneo: The Law of the Sea” at this week’s American Film Market.Marcel Barrena, a filmmaker with a knack for retelling true stories on the big screen in both documentary and biographical films
Joe Otterson TV ReporterLila Byock has signed a two-year overall deal with ABC Signature, Variety has learned exclusively.Byock spent five years on the editorial staff of The New Yorker magazine.
Jon Hamm is getting animated at Fox.Michael Thorn, president of entertainment at Fox Entertainment, announced on Thursday that Fox has ordered “Grimsburg,” an all-new animated comedy starring and executive produced by Hamm. Fully owned by Fox Entertainment and produced by its Emmy winning animation studio Bento Box Entertainment, “Grimsburg” will premiere in 2023. The show will follow Marvin Flute (Hamm), who “may be the greatest detective ever to catch a cannibal clown or correctly identify a
Media Mogul Elisabeth Murdoch is backing a startup VFX company, BeloFX, which has been founded in Canada and the UK by a group of experienced executives.
EXCLUSIVE: Universal’s latest Wolfman movie starring Ryan Gosling looks to be gaining momentum as the studio has zeroed in on a director that knows the Oscar-nominated actor’s work very well. Sources tell Deadline, Derek Cianfrance, who teamed with Gosling on the dramas Place Beyond the Pines and Blue Valentine, is in talks to direct a new take on Universal’s classic monster character.
Paul Walker's daughter Meadow has married Louis Thornton-Allan and was given away by her late dad's best friend Vin Diesel. Fast and Furious star Paul tragically died in a car crash aged 40 in 2013.