Skydance Media, Apple Sign Multi-Year Live Action Film Deal

Naman Ramachandran Sony Pictures Television and WarnerMedia have extended their content deal across Central and Eastern Europe, which will see titles from the Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) slate of current and upcoming films shown exclusively on HBO channels and streamer HBO Max across the region.The slate includes “Spider-man: No Way Home,” “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” “Unchartered,” “Morbius,” “Happiest Season,” “The Broken Hearts Gallery,” “Monster Hunter” and “The Father.”The deal also includes titles from popular SPE franchises such as Hotel Transylvania, Spider-Man, Peter Rabbit and Jumanji and the Sony Pictures Television library of TV series titles.Countries covered under the deal are Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina and North Macedonia. HBO Max replaces HBO Go in the region on March 8.

the union announced Wednesday night.While actual vote numbers have not been made public, according to the union, voter turnout was 67%, with 89% voting yes. The so-called ‘Black Book’ agreement will cover “Drivers, Dispatchers, Animal Trainers/Handlers, Wranglers, Mechanics, Auto Service and now DOT Administrators, with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP),” the union said.

Zooey Deschanel (New Girl, (500) Days of Summer) will star alongside Zachary Levi and Lil Rel Howery in Sony Pictures’ live-action adaptation of Harold and the Purple Crayon, from Oscar-nominated director Carlos Saldanha (Ferdinand, Rio films), Deadline has confirmed.

EXCLUSIVE:  Lionsgate has renewed its first-look film deal with 3Pas Studios, the production company run by producer Ben Odell and bilingual star Eugenio Derbez, Deadline has learned.

Selome Hailu Maggie Mull, co-creator of the upcoming Hulu comedy series “Maggie,” has signed a multi-year overall deal at 20th Television. At the studio, she will continue working on “Maggie” while also creating new series and supervising other live-action and animated comedies for all platforms.“Maggie,” which Mull co-created with Justin Adler, was originally developed for ABC before moving to Hulu in January.

Larry Birkhead is remembering his former partner, Anna Nicole Smith, 15 years after her death. The photographer took to Instagram on Tuesday and wrote an emotional tribute to the Playboy cover girl and GUESS model, who passed away on Feb. 8, 2007, at age 39.

People in Salford woke this morning to reports of yet another stabbing.

Disney+ has picked up Goosebumps, a live-action series based on R.L. Stine’s bestselling books. The new version, which has been in development since April 2020, hails from Scholastic Entertainment, the media division of Scholastic, Neal H. Moritz, producer of the Goosebumps and Goosebumps 2 films, and Sony Pictures TV. The news, which had been previously announced, was part of Disney Branded Television’s TCA presentation Monday.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterTwice thwarted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the SXSW Film Festival is making a major return to form this year — featuring premium studio projects from Sandra Bullock and Pete Davidson, notable indies and docs, and a closing night premiere from the new season of Donald Glover’s “Atlanta.”In 2020, the Austin-based conference was the first major event to fall to the rapidly-escalating first wave of coronavirus, and was similarly forced to go virtual in 2021 thanks to the Delta variant. Now preparing for an in-person program beginning on March 11, Hiollywood and indie hopefuls are coming out in force.Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum’s “The Lost City,” Pete Davidson and Amandla Stenberg’s secret A24 slasher film “Bodies, Bodies, Bodies,” Richard Linklater and Jack Black’s coming-of-age story “Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood,” and Nicolas Cage’s “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” will all populate the headliners section.

KDMG secured an exclusive agreement to represent comic book series The Unearthians. Omar Mora, owner of Moras Productions, is the creator and writer of the 2019 original comic. The Unearthians was launched in 2019 at San Diego Comic-Con as a comic book maxi-series under the umbrella of Moras Productions. In 2019 it was named one of the 10 Best Indie Titles You Can Find by CBR.

Leonine And Lionsgate Strike Germany/Austria Film Deal

K.J. Yossman “Doctor Who” star Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark are set to star in supernatural horror film “Starve Acre.”From BAFTA-nominated “Apostasy” writer and director Daniel Kokotajlo, “Starve Acre” explores “inherited trauma and loss within a world ruled by supernatural folklore.”The film is based on Andrew Michael Hurley’s novel of the same name.BAFTA and Emmy Award nominee Smith (“House of the Dragon”) and BAFTA Cymru winner Morfydd Clark (“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”) will play a disconnected couple worried about their son in the “brooding and stylistic modern horror.”Set in their family estate, Starve Acre, in rural 1970s England, Richard (played by Smith) and Juliette (Clark) find their idyllic family life disrupted when their son Ewan starts acting strangely.

Disney is responding to Peter Dinklage after he publicly called out the upcoming live action Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs from Disney.

Clayton Davis The horror genre is often overlooked and underappreciated in awards spaces. That’s what makes “You’re Dead Hélène” from Michiel Blanchart, which is one of the shortlisted contenders for live action short, an exciting addition to the Oscar conversation.After dreaming of working in the movies and making shorts with his friends while growing up in France’s countryside, Blanchart decided to go back to his native country to study in one of the best-known cinema schools in Belgium: the Institute of Media Arts.

Peter Dinklage is not a fan of Disney’s live action remake of “Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs”.

Peter Dinklage is not a fan of the upcoming live action Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs from Disney.

Chris Evans might have left the Marvel Cinematic Universe behind, but that doesn’t mean the actor is leaving all blockbusters in the past. Not only is the former Captain America working on the upcoming Russo Brothers film, “The Gray Man,” which is Netflix’s biggest, most expensive action film to date.