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Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmIFC Films announced today that it is acquiring North American rights to MLK/FBI, directed by Emmy® Award-winner and Oscar® nominee Sam Pollard. MLK/FBI was part of the Official Selection for the 2020 edition of the Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and New York Film Festival.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmUniversal Pictures has signed on to be the home for a biopic of iconic singer Madonna, who will direct her own story from a script she is writing with Oscar-winning Juno scribe Diablo Cody. Madonna will produce the film with Pascal Pictures’ Amy Pascal.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Jake Gyllenhaal will star and Antoine Fuqua will direct The Guilty, a thriller that is based on the Gustav Moller-directed Danish drama Den Skyldige that premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.It takes place over the course of a single morning in a 911 dispatch call center.

Mike Fleming Jr, Nellie Andreeva Deadline is hearing that CAA has reached agreement with the WGA that will end its stalemate and allow writers to return to the fold.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: In a dazzling double deal, Simon & Schuster Children’s UK and Simon & Schuster US have made a seven-figure worldwide rights deal — a precedent for a debut fantasy novel — and Sony Pictures in turn has made a preemptive seven-figure screen rights deal for Skandar and the Unicorn Thief, the first of a much anticipated fantasy adventure novel series by A. F.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmParamount Pictures president of production Elizabeth Raposo has exited the studio. This has been a rumor around town ever since Wyck Godfrey exited after Emma Watts became president of the Paramount Motion Picture Group in late June.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Producer/financier QC Entertainment has sealed a multi-year first look deal with Paramount. The company — QC stand for Quality Control — has credits highlighted by  the Jordan Peele-directed Get Out and the Spike Lee-directed BlackKklansman, both of which were Best Picture nominees.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmRange Media Partners has set as a co-founding partner Matt Graham. The founder/president of LA-based music management company BRND MGMT, becomes Head of Music and will launch Range’s music touring business.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: While Doug Liman plots directing a blockbuster-size movie in outer space with Tom Cruise, his next mission will be on a lot more modest budget in London. Liman is set next to direct Lockdown, and Anne Hathaway is in final talks to star.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has set Will Gluck and Chris Bremner to script End of the World, a buddy action comedy that Gluck will direct.Gluck and Jodi Hildebrand are producing through their company Olive Bridge Entertainment, which has a first look deal with the studio. Plot is under wraps.Gluck directed Peter Rabbit from the script he wrote with Rob Lieber, and he recently wrapped the sequel to that hit, Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: John Wick producer Basil Iwanyk’s Thunder Road Films has teamed with Redbox Entertainment to form Asbury Park Pictures, a production label created to leverage the global appetite for moderately-budgeted high-concept action and thriller films. The venture will produce a dozen films over three years with budgets in the $10 million to $12 million range.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: James Ponsoldt is in negotiations to direct 3000 Pictures’ Nothing To See Here, based on Kevin Wilson’s New York Times best-selling novel. Ponsoldt will reteam with Scott Neustadter and Michael H.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmGood news and bad news today at UTA. Agency chief Jeremy Zimmer sent an internal email to employees notifying them that UTA is the first major agency to reinstate full pay for employees.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmThe upstart management company that Deadline revealed on August 23 would be launched by Pete Micelli with principal backing from hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen, now has a name — Range Media Partners — additional new backing through Microsoft CMO Mich Matthews-Spradlin and Grubhub founder/CEO Matt Maloney.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has acquired Shelly, an action-comedy package that has Jumanji: The Next Level‘s Awkwafina and Karen Gillan attached to reteam, and Jude Weng to direct. The action comedy script is by Michael Doneger and Liz Storm and the film will be produced by Ian Bryce Productions.Deadline wrote about the package in late June, when it was first shopped.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmOne of the best reviewed hot-button documentaries of last Sundance has finally been claimed and given an opportunity to be seen. Briarcliff Entertainment acquired U.S.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Longtime CAA agent Carin Sage is joining 3 Arts Entertainment. She becomes the latest of a number of prominent agents there to move to the management side of the representation business.Sage is a 32-year agency veteran who represents such filmmakers as Ang Lee, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Peter Hedges, George Tillman, Thea Sharrock, Zoya Akhtar, Nikole Beckwith, and Neasa Hardiman, among others.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmNarrative has brought aboard Maria Herrera and Rachael Reiss, publicists who most recently were Vice-Presidents at Rogers & Cowan PMK.Herrera most recently served as VP of Entertainment Strategies and has a decade working with talent, filmmakers and showrunners in releases and awards season campaigns.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmVerve has signed David Blue Garcia, the Emmy-winning director and DP who just took over directing Legendary’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre film. As Deadline revealed, Garcia was set for the film after the original helmers exited over creative differences about the first week of shooting.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Producer Mark Gordon has launched Mark Gordon Pictures, a new production venture that is backed by EOne. Gordon has put together a staff of producers to create new film and TV productions and continue to shepherd the ones he already had in the works.