In what is no surprise, Warner Bros Motion Picture Group is getting into business with its Dune and Wonka star Timothée Chalamet, and has hammered a multi-year first look feature film deal with the Oscar nominee as actor and producer.
06.03.2024 - 19:17 / deadline.com
Expanding their canvas with their John Wick filmmaker even further, Lionsgate has signed a second production deal with Chad Stahelski that will see the filmmaker and his 87Eleven Entertainment label producing original action fare for the studio. It’s a multi-year first look.
The announcement comes just weeks after Stahelski signed on to direct a reimagination of the Highlander franchise as his next feature film, while also taking on creative oversight of the Highlander and John Wick franchises across film, television, and all multimedia platforms. Recently, to jazz up John Wick spinoff Ballerina even more, the Ana de Aramas action movie was delayed a year to summer 2025, first weekend of June, so that additional action scenes could be shot and added.
“Chad and his team at 8711 Entertainment are profoundly talented filmmakers and creative collaborators,” said Lionsgate Motion Picture Chair Adam Fogelson. “They raise the bar of excellence on every project they take on, and we are looking to Chad to bring us the best new original action projects that we can work on together and turn into the next hits and franchises.”
“Lionsgate has been my home studio throughout my career as a feature director, so it only makes sense that I would base our film production business with the team that has been such extraordinary partners for so many years,” said Stahelski.
The John Wick franchise has reaped $1.03 billion at the worldwide box office with last spring’s John Wick: Chapter 4 becoming the highest grossing pic at $440M-plus and 94% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Working with the franchise producers, Thunder Road’s Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee, Stahelski serves as an executive producer of Ballerina.
Stahelski is aided by his
In what is no surprise, Warner Bros Motion Picture Group is getting into business with its Dune and Wonka star Timothée Chalamet, and has hammered a multi-year first look feature film deal with the Oscar nominee as actor and producer.
Jaden Thompson Sony Pictures has just released the trailer for “Bad Boys 4,” starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. The film’s official title is “Bad Boys: Ride or Die.” This is the fourth film in the popular action-comedy franchise that debuted in 1995, when Smith and Lawrence first teamed up as Miami PD detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett, who investigate illegal drug trading in Miami.
Already the new Captain America, following the events of “The Falcon & The Winter Soldier,” and also the new face of the live-action video game adaptation “Twisted Metal,” actor Anthony Mackie is still looking for more.
A first look at Netflix’s Eric is here!
In case you missed the buzz out of SXSW, director/star Devl Patel (“The Green Knight”) and producer Jordan Peele (“Nope”) have joined forces for an original Mumbai-set action film, “Monkey Man” that will be released by Universal Pictures early next month. Following excellent reviews out of Austin (read ours here), Universal has unleashed a new trailer.
Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan has been revealed.The Dune actor was seen on the New York City set of James Mangold’s upcoming biopic about the influential artist, in full costume.Sporting a typical ’60s look, complete with a paperboy hat and a guitar case in hand, the 28-year-old debuted his look as the ‘Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright’ singer. See the image (courtesy of Variety) below.A post shared by Variety (@variety)The biopic, which is currently titled, A Complete Unknown, after lyrics in Dylan’s song, ‘Like A Rolling Stone’ will also star Elle Fanning, Nick Offerman and Edward Norton.
Happy Valley's James Norton is starring in new Netflix IVF drama 'JOY', which tells the true story of Louise Joy Brown, the first person born through In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) in Oldham.
EXCLUSIVE: Celebrating his 50th year as an indie filmmaker and distributor, Jeff Lipsky is prepping the release of his eighth feature as director. Goldilocks and the Two Bears is due to open domestically via Glass Half Full Media in July for a limited theatrical run, followed by a general release in late summer/early fall. Check out an exclusive clip above.
EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ is staying in business with one of the men behind its latest sports docuseries The Dynasty: New England Patriots.
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Wondery and Campside Media, the company behind the successful Chameleon franchise, are expanding their relationship with an exclusive audio first-look deal for a multi-project slate. Under the pact, Wondery and Campside will produce Limited Series podcasts, including non-English language titles, to be distributed by Wondery globally, with the first being a German-language series currently in production.
Rachel Weisz and Polly Stokes are taking their slate to Fremantle.
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate‘s female-driven John Wick spinoff Ballerina has added David Castañeda (The Umbrella Academy) and Sharon Duncan-Brewster (Sex Education) to its cast amid reshoots abroad, Deadline can reveal.
Lionsgate is expanding two of its biggest movie franchises, John Wick and Twilight, with new TV series offshoots. The company’s Vice Chairman Michael Burns shared information about the two projects during a Q&A at the Morgan Stanley media conference.
Brent Lang Executive Editor Paramount Animation has entered an exclusive, multi-year first-look development deal with writer, director and producer Jeff Rowe. The pact extends the relationship between the studio and the filmmaker following the success of last summer’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem,” which Rowe directed and co-wrote. The agreement covers Rowe’s development and directing services, as well as his producing and executive producing work, on both animated and live-action projects.
Production is underway on the fourth season of Only Murders in the Building. We’re getting a first look in some on-set photos posted on the show’s Instagram account. You can see above and in the post below.
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate Television is reducing the number of its development deals by more than half, sources tell Deadline. The move comes on the heels of Lionsgate’s acquisition of indie TV studio eOne from Harbro, which was completed at the end of December. It follows a two-month review of the combined talent roster of Lionsgate Television and eOne, which I hear included nearly 60 overall and first-look deals. More than 50% of them — across both eOne and Lionsgate TV — have now been cut. A rep for Lionsgate declined comment.
Unmasked, an upcoming original K-drama production slated to release on the platform later this year. Read on for everything you need to know about the forthcoming series.Billed as an “edge-of-your-seat thriller”, Unmasked follows a team of investigative journalists after they publish a particularly controversial story, which now poses a threat to their careers.
Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Comic book author Brian Michael Bendis has set a first-look deal with Amazon is already developing three TV series under the new pact based on his previous works: “Jinx,” “Murder Inc.” and “Pearl.” “Jinx” is a crime-ridden love story unfolding on a high stakes treasure hunt, per Amazon’s series description. Our players are: Jinx Alameda, a bounty hunter at the top of her game who’s tired of her grimy life; Goldfish, a charming con man and wanted felon who falls head over heels for Jinx; and Columbia, Goldfish’s loose-cannon partner, who has big criminal dreams.
Jackie Loughery, the first Miss USA who segued from the pageant world to a career in film and television in the 1950s and ’60s, died Friday in Los Angeles. She was 93.