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Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterAfter helping successfully relaunch Universal’s The Fast & Furious franchise for the studio, Justin Lin and his Perfect Storm Entertainment banner are making the studio their official home. Lin has signed a very lucrative multi-year overall production deals for film and TV with Universal Pictures and Universal Studio Group.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterParamount has reupped its first-look deal with producer Neal Moritz, giving the acclaimed producer a two-year extension on his current pact. It extends the studio’s relationship with Moritz through December 2023.“I am thrilled to extend this relationship with Neal and Original Film, which already has been so fruitful with the success of Sonic the Hedgehog,” Paramount Pictures chairman and CEO Jim Gianopulos said Wednesday.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Armory Films has come on board to produce Unikorn, a feature adaptation of Don Handfield & Joshua Malkin’s original graphic novel which Armory developed and financed with Handfield and that Scout Comics/Simon & Schuster is publishing in 2021. The film will mark in-demand editor Debbie Berman’s directorial debut.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: After breathing new life into the Scream franchise, Project X Entertainment’s James Vanderbilt, William Sherak and Paul Neinstein are looking to do the same with a classic comedy IP. Sources tell Deadline, Project X has landed the rights to The Nutty Professor, the classic Jerry Lewis comedy that Eddie Murphy rebooted in the 90s.No studio is attached as Project X will package themselves before taking it out on the market.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Renowned award-winning film and television director Peter Segal has signed with A3 Artists Agency.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Although Ridley Scott still has to finish shooting his period drama The Last Duel, his follow-up is looking to land a monster cast. We are hearing Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Jack Huston and Reeve Carney are all in talks to join MGM’s Gucci. Lady Gaga is attached to star as Patrizia Reggiani, the ex-wife of Maurizio Gucci, who was tried and convicted of orchestrating her ex-husband’s assassination on the steps of his office in

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Rufus Sewell, Embeth Davidtz and Emun Elliot are set to join the ensemble cast for M. Night Shyamalan’s new secret movie.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Even with Venom: Let There Be Carnage and Morbius postponed until 2021, Sony Pictures is continuing to build up its slate of Marvel films. Sources tell Deadline that J.C.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Alta Global Media’s Steven Adams and Theo Dumont have teamed with Cake Studios, the Los Angeles based production company run by Blake Reading and Carla Westlund to produce the Black Wall Street feature film Black, written by one half of the writing, acting, and producing duo, The Beza Bros: Zondwayo Beza, and his brother Dingani Beza who are also producing.“We’re ecstatic to be working with Alta’s executive leadership and roster of talent, as they are

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterWME Partner and Literary Agent Melissa Myers has been named President and Partner of a new venture between Kinetic Content founder and CEO Chris Coelen, and Red Arrow Studios.Set to focus on premium high-end English-language scripted TV series with both domestic and global appeal, the venture will harness creativity and strategic alliances from across the world.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Cultural Icon, actor and producer, Nia Long has signed with Verve for representation in all areas.Most recently, Long starred in and executive produced the hit Netflix psychological thriller Fatal Affair, which debuted number one on the platform. She is also currently starring alongside Samuel L.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures is not only growing its slate of its Universe of Marvel Characters but is building on the female characters at the center of it, and looks to have landed one of the sought female directors in Hollywood. Sources tell Deadline that Olivia Wilde has closed a deal to direct and develop a secret Marvel film project revolving around a female character in the universe.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Nik Dodani and Colton Ryan have joined the cast Universal’s Dear Evan Hansen based on the original stage musical play with music and lyrics by Academy Award-winning duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.Dodani will play Jared, Evan’s enterprising family friend, and Ryan will play Connor, a troubled high school senior who is a catalyst for the plot of the musical.Steven Levenson, who wrote the book for the stage musical, wrote the script.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Following the success of Hustlers, STXfilms looks to have found a project  in the vein of that box-office smash and has teamed with two of Hollywood’s biggest rising stars on it. Saturday Night Live‘s Pete Davidson and Straight Outta Compton‘s O’Shea Jackson Jr.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: After signing their first-look deal in 2019 with Universal, Phil Lord and Chris Miller are ramping up their development slate at the studio as We are hearing Universal and Lord Miller are developing a feature comedy, starring and written by The Lucas Brothers.The logline is being kept under wraps, but is described as a unique high concept comedy that would star the two brothers.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterVerve is expanding their footprint in the New York market, opening its first office in New York and hiring veteran literary agent Chris Till to oversee it.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Netflix has landed the rights to Tanya Smith’s upcoming memoir, The Ghost in the Machine, and will adapt into a feature film with Issa Rae and David Heyman producing. Rae will produce through her Issa Rae Productions while Heyman will produce his Heyday Films.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Picturestart and Lionsgate TV are developing a scripted TV series set in the world of fencing. The series is based on a concept by Greta Gerwig, who at one point was attached to direct with Erik Feig on board to develop.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Already owning several titles, hip-hop star and actor Common can now add health guru to that list as the multi-hyphenate has set a new health and wellness series, Com&Well, on his YouTube channel.The six-episode series will be hosted by Common and premiere Tuesday.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterAmandla Stenberg has joined the cast of Universal Pictures’ Dear Evan Hansen, based on the original stage musical play with music and lyrics by Academy Award-winning duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.Stenberg will play Alana, a high school senior whose cheery façade and social-media savvy mask a deeper loneliness and isolation, and whose response to the death of a classmate ignites a movement.  The role has been reconceived and expanded for the film, with Stenberg

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Nina Dobrev, Jimmy O. Yang and Charles Melton are set to star in the Netflix rom-com Love Hard, which Netflix preemptively acquired last August.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Jessica Swale has been tapped to rewrite the script for Universal Pictures’ Swan Lake, based on the ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. An earlier version of the script was written by Kristina Lauren Anderson.Felicity Jones is attached to star. Todd Lieberman and David Hoberman of Mandeville Films will produce.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: UCP is developing the procedural drama series So Others May Live with writer-producer Stephen Meinen and Sam Esmail’s Esmail Corp on board to produce.Written by Meinen, So Others May Live is set in the world of the United States Coast Guard.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Television writer-producer, Wayne Conley, has signed with APA.Conley’s recent television credits range from Showtime’s White Famous to OWN’s Delilah and Greenleaf, and he’s currently developing a fast-tracked half-hour dramedy for FX.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Adria Arjona is set to star opposite Diego Luna in Disney Plus’ Star Wars series based on the Cassian Andor character Luna played in Rogue One. Denise Gough, Genevieve O’Reilly, Stellan Skarsgard and Kyle Soller are also on board.A Disney spokesperson declined to comment.Tony Gilroy, who co-wrote Rogue One, is set to write the pilot for the series in addition to directing multiple episodes.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: After taking its time figuring out where it wants the next Tron installment to go, Disney’s sci-fi franchise looks to have new life as we are hearing Garth Davis has been tapped to direct the pic starring Jared Leto.Davis has been better known for his smaller art house films over the years like 2018’s Mary Magdalene and his critically acclaimed 2016 drama Lion, which received six Oscar nominations including for Best Picture.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: After earning some of the best reviews of his acting career for The Way Back, Ben Affleck is ready to make his return behind the camera, and he looks to have zeroed in on his next directing job. We are hearing that Affleck has signed on to direct The Big Goodbye for Paramount, an adaptation of the Sam Wasson book The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood..Affleck also would write the script.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Jonas Cuaron has been tapped to direct an untitled feature film for Netflix with Chris Columbus’ 26th Street Pictures producing. He is also penning the most recent draft of the script based on the original script by Marcus Rinehart, Sean Kennedy Moore and Joe Barnathan.The film follows a teenager, who while visiting his family in Mexico, gains an unlikely companion when he discovers a young chupacabra hiding in his grandpa’s shed.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Konwiser Brothers Media has landed the rights to the documentary The World’s Most Dangerous Radio Station, which tells the story of the first Hip-Hop radio station, 1580 KDAY, and its founder and legendary Music Director/Assistant Program Director, Greg Mack.The doc recounts the dawn of Hip Hop when an obscure Los Angeles AM radio station and its maverick programmer was instrumental in the early careers of Jay Z, Dr.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Seoul Searching director, Benson Lee, is set to direct 20th Century Studios’ Untitled K-Pop feature film from Scooter Braun’s SB Projects and Epic Magazine.Story follows a young Asian- American college student from the U.S. who becomes a top competitor on South Korea’s toughest k-pop competition show and chases her dreams of becoming a K-Pop star, despite the disapproval of her family.Elyse Hollander is attached to write.