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Anthony D'Alessandro, Amanda N'Duka EXCLUSIVE: The former Empire star is directing B-Boy Blues, an adaptation of James Earl Hardy’s best-selling 1994 book and will produce through his newly launched SuperMassive Movies.B-Boy Blues follows the tumultuous relationship between Mitchell Crawford, a 27-year old journalist, and Raheim Rivers, a 21-year old bicycle messenger and B-boy (banjee boy). They meet in a gay bar in Greenwich Village in the summer of 1993.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Lily Sheen has boarded Lionsgate Nicolas Cage action self parody The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Sheen will play Cage’s daughter Addy in the feature and joins Pedro Pascal, Tiffany Haddish and Sharon Horgan who round out the cast.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. Animation has put into development a feature musical adaptation of the Harper Collins Michael Morpurgo book Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of the Wizard of Oz. John August penned the script which is loosely based on the book, which tells the story of The Wizard of Oz from the point of view Dorothy’s loyal companion, and as we all know, they’re not in Kansas anymore.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorGomez will produce through her July Moon Productions along with 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen. A search is underway for a director for the script penned by Michael Paisley set in the upper echelon of New York City’s fashion scene.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorGeorge Miller told Deadline about Furiosa having a deep backstory in the Mad Max universe, and now we’ll finally get to see it: Warner Bros.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: The Spawn and Dark Knight actor has landed the lead role of James Baker, the DEA agent who faces off with Mickey Rourke’s villain in Asif Akbar’s The Commando. Baker has PTSD and returns home after a botched mission.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorDigital movie ticketing platform Atom Tickets and the Independent Cinema Alliance have teamed to offer contactless, digital ticketing to moviegoers.ICA reps more than 175 companies and 3,000 screens.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorHer Oscar winner Spike Jonze has boarded Sony Pictures Classics upcoming early 2021 release as an Executive Producer. Additionally, SPC has also acquired the rights in Asia, Israel, Turkey and the rest of Europe, making it a worldwide release for the label.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorGerard Butler’s action film Greenland, which we first told you was jumping from a theatrical release during the pandemic to PVOD and eventually HBO and HBO Max, will become available in homes on Dec. 18 at the price of $19.99 for a 48-hour rental period.The STXfilms movie has already opened No.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorThe History Channel has greenlit the new nonfiction series Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman (working title) which will look back at some of the biggest jailbreaks from some of the most notorious prisons in the world.The six one-hour series will be hosted and executive produced by the Oscar-winning actor, and he’ll produce with Revelations Entertainment partner Lori McCreary.Each episode will feature dramatic recreations and cutting-edge

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorThere has been some concern by industry insiders that the family film may have gone the way of the dinosaurs during the pandemic, particularly as Disney has taken its marquee theatrical releases Mulan and Soul to Disney+.

Anthony D'Alessandro, Nellie Andreeva EXCLUSIVE: A3 Artists Agency has cut a total of eight staffers, we hear, a mix of agents and assistants.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorBleecker Street has acquired North American rights to Harry Macqueen’s second feature, Supernova, starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci.The pic follows Sam (Colin Firth) and Tusker (Stanley Tucci), partners of 20 years, who are travelling across England in their old campervan visiting friends, family and places from their past.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Kate Winslet has boarded Fake! a project that MGM has acquired for producer Jennifer Todd under her first look deal at the studio.Scott Z. Burns, who won rave reviews for his 2019 political drama The Report about idealistic Senate staffer Daniel J.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorFocus Features’ femme thriller Promising Young Woman, which made its world premiere at Sundance back in January, has returned to the theatrical release calendar for a Christmas Day release.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorThe plot details to Ernest Cline’s Ready Player Two have been carefully under wraps, until now.The author, co-producer and co-screenwriter of Ready Player One revealed the details this morning at New York Comic Con in a panel moderated by Wil Wheaton; the details of which you can read below. The long-awaited sequel comes out in hardcover, ebook and audio editions from Penguin Random House on Nov.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorUniversal President of International Marketing, Simon Hewlett, will be leaving the studio in 2021.Earlier this year Universal began to assess its marketing and distribution structures in a multi-step process to integrate its domestic and international teams into a global organization based out of the Studio’s head office in Los Angeles.

Anthony D'Alessandro, Patrick Hipes Thanksgiving Week just got a lot more grim at the box office as Disney on Thursday moved its bit Pixar movie Soul to Disney+, where it will now be released on December 25. It had been set for a November 20 release in domestic theaters.The move is similar to what Disney did with Mulan, which had been set for a global release in March before the coronavirus pandemic lockdown forced it to delay its theatrical release several times.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorSeason 5 of The Expanse will hit Amazon Prime Video on Wednesday, Dec. 16.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: No, it’s not all bad news for exhibition out there in the pandemic.Deadline has learned that seven Regal theaters–the only ones in the Cineworld owned U.S. chain– will remain open in California.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorThe National Association of Theatre Owners urged Congress again Thursday to #SaveYourCinema and pass relief for cinemas that are struggling to survive during the pandemic. The exhibition lobbyist group is asking moviegoers nationwide to urge D.C.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorKate Mulgrew, who played Captain Kathryn Janeway for 170 episodes on Star Trek: Voyager, will be reprising that character on Nickelodeon and CBS Studios’ new animated series Star Trek: Prodigy. The surprise announcement was made today at the end of the Star Trek Universe New York Comic-Con virtual panel.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorSaturday Night Live alum and three-time Emmy winner Bill Hader and Samaritan actor Javon “Wanna” Walton are boarding MGM’s animated sequel The Addams Family 2 from returning director Greg Tiernan.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorMank, David Fincher’s movie about Oscar winning Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and his tumultuous development of the Orson Welles’ classic, will hit Netflix on Dec.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: APA has signed writer-producer and creator David McKenna.McKenna’s feature writing credits include such notable pics as New Line’s Oscar-nominated American History X and Blow, the Warner Bros. Sylvester Stallone movie Get Carter, Sony’s 2003 reboot of SWAT starring Samuel L.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorThanks, but no thanks, San Francisco Mayor London Breed.While San Francisco County gave the go-ahead for movie theaters to reopen today, members of the National Association of Theatre Owners of California/Nevada have agreed unanimously to remain closed in the City by the Bay.Why? San Francisco’s current ban on movie concessions “makes it economically impossible for our members to reopen and significantly limits the moviegoing experience

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE, Updated: IFC Midnight has acquired U.S. rights to filmmaker Keith Thomas’ supernatural horror feature debut The Vigil after a bidding war for the pic.