Screen Media Acquires Comedy ‘Family Squares’ Starring Ann Dowd, Margo Martindale, Henry Winkler, June Squibb & More

EXCLUSIVE: RLJE Films has acquired North American rights to Last Looks, an action comedy toplined by Charlie Hunnam and Mel Gibson. Morena Baccarin, Rupert Friend, Dominic Monaghan, Lucy Fry and Cliff “Method Man” Smith also star in the pic, directed by Tim Kirkby (Brockmire) and originally titled Waldo after the lead character in Howard Michael Gould’s L.A. detective novel series on which the film is based.

Emmerdale's Mark Charnock and Coronation Street's Jack P Shepherd go head-to-head on Monday's The Big Soap Quiz special as the ITV soap stars are quizzed about the biggest storylines of the year. Joining Mark, 53, who plays Marlon Dingle, is Faith Dingle star Sally Dexter and Ethan Anderson star Emile John as they make up team Emmerdale.

Police have launched an appeal to find the family of a homeless man who was found dead outside Manchester Children's Hospital.

.“Other “Harry Potter” cast members featured in the special include Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes, Jason Isaacs, Gary Oldman, Tom Felton, James Phelps, Oliver Phelps, Mark Williams, Bonnie Wright, Alfred Enoch, Ian Hart, Toby Jones, Matthew Lewis, Evanna Lynch, producer David Heyman and filmmakers Chris Columbus, Alfonso Cuarón, Mike Newell and David Yates.“Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts” is executive produced by Casey Patterson of Casey Patterson

EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Friday Media (JFM) has landed writer/director Khaled Ridgeway’s second film project Lucid Summer. JFM, which has a motion picture development deal with Sony Pictures, has signed on to produce the film that follows Ridgeway’s award-winning comedy-drama Death of a Telemarketer recently acquired by Sony Pictures. 

EXCLUSIVE:  Deadline has learned that Emmy-winning The Handmaid’s Tale actress Ann Dowd has joined the Amy Rice-directed political thriller The Independent, which Relativity Media and Rogue Pictures have also acquired North American rights on.

In another move to feed the beast of frosh streamers, Universal has announced that their Jennifer Lopez-Owen Wilson romantic comedy Marry Me will stream on Peacock the same weekend the movie hits theaters, Feb. 11-13.

EXCLUSIVE: Good Morning, Monster, the memoir from Canadian psychologist Catherine Gildiner is being turned in to a podcast series with film and TV adaptations also planned.

108 Media Acquires DCD Rights

Back in October, it was announced that horror maestro, Mike Flanagan, was set to return to Netflix for yet another limited series, this time tackling “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Not many details were known about the look and feel of the series, but considering his previous works, many assumed Flanagan would bring in yet another great ensemble cast. And that’s exactly what is happening.

Sarah Jessica Parker’s sweeties! The Sex and the City star shares three children with her husband, Matthew Broderick.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeIf the idea of Kevin Hart as Arnold Jackson — the 8-year-old played by Gary Coleman on “Diff’rent Strokes’ — sounds perfect on paper, wait until you see tonight’s “Live in Front of a Studio Audience.” When the 5’4” Hart stands next to the 6’4” John Lithgow — who fills Conrad Bain’s role as Arnold’s adoptive father, Mr.

Tom Holland and Henry Cavill are making plans.

Happy Days star Henry Winkler is auctioning off costumes, props and other memorabilia from his acting career as a fundraising tool for a nonprofit started by his daughter and two friends.