Superman To Soar Above Smurfs; Gosling & Ferrell Team Up; Senate Approves PBS & NPR Cuts

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View on web New reader? Subscribe SUBSCRIBE. IT'S FREE. SUPERMAN SET TO SOAR ABOVE SMURFS james gunn's man of steel and universal's dinosaurs will make it hard for new titles to break through With James Gunn’s Superman and Universal’s dinosaurs roaming Earth, counter-programming — Paramount Animation’s reboot of Smurfs with Rihanna as Smurfette, and Sony’s reboot of late-’90s franchise I Know What You Did Last Summer — will have a hard time overperforming.  James Gunn’s Superman looks to dip around 52% for roughly $60M in its second domestic weekend. Monday and Tuesday were strong with $12.9M and $17.1M, respectively, and a running five-day total of $155M. Superman keeps all the PLFs and Imax screens this weekend. This brings us to Paramount Animation’s Smurfs. The studio through Nickelodeon scooped up rights to the Smurfs in June 2020 from the blue guys’ licensors IMPS and LAFIG Belgium. Women under 25 are the it crowd in unaided and first choice, but the movie unfortunately is trailing 2023’s Trolls Band Together ($30M opening) and last summer’s The Garfield Movie ($24M opening). >>>Full Analysis Deadline Exclusives & Originals Ferrell Meets Fall Guy - Ryan Gosling and Will Ferrell are attached to star in Tough Guys, a new action comedy for Amazon MGM Studios. Originating as a spec from writer Daniel Gold, the story follows two henchmen who are tired of being disposable and break free from the criminal underworld. >>>May Also Produce Lucky No. 7 For 'The Chi' - Season 7 of The Chi is going strong on Showtime. Sunday night’s mid-season episode managed 1.78M cross-platform viewers in just three days, making it one of the top episodes of the season, per Showtime. The episode was up 23% versus the season-to-date average of 1.45M viewers after three days. >>>Most-Streamed Episodes Ever Lili Reinhart Falls In 'Love' - After winning Series Mania’s Best Actress Award for her turn opposite Cooper Raiff in Mubi’s Hal & Harper, Lili Reinhart has come aboard to star in and exec produce The Love Hypothesis, an adaptation of the New York Times bestseller by Ali Hazelwood, for Amazon MGM Studios and MRC. >>>RomCom In Brief - Alan Ritchson signs with Range Media Partners... Kate Siegel launches production company... Lionsgate to adapt romance novel The Things We Leave Unfinished ... New Regency Lands thriller short story They’re Still Here              Quotable   "One of the worst nights of my life" - Joaquin Phoenix on his infamous 2009 appearance on 'Letterman' Casting About Exclusive On the heels of her critically acclaimed turn in HBO’s The White Lotus, Michelle Monaghan has come aboard to star alongside John Cena and Eric André in Little Brother, the new Netflix comedy from Ingrid Goes West helmer Matt Spicer. Exclusive Diego Luna is set to star in the indie thriller Eleven Days opposite Taylor Kitsch from Concussion director Peter Landesman. Millie Bobby Brown has set her next project at Netflix with Gabriel LaBelle (Saturday Night) — romantic comedy film Just Picture It. Exclusive Eight-year-old Arabella Olivia Clark (Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere) has landed the lead role in Other Mommy, Universal and Atomic Monster's new supernatural horror film from director Rob Savage. Exclusive Guy Burnet (Oppenheimer) and Miriam Silverman (Your Friends and Neighbors) have joined the cast of the Paramount+ series Landman for Season 2. In Brief - Scott Haze joins The Edge of Normal... Minnie Driver, Jeffrey Donovan & Natacha Karam to star in Part 1 of The Faithful ... Geek Girl Season 2 casts Layton Williams Renewals, Cancellations & Pickups FX Orders ‘Cry Wolf’ Limited Series Starring Olivia Colman & Brie Larson Exclusive The CW Renews ‘Sullivan’s Crossing’ For Season 4 FX Greenlights Ryan Murphy’s ‘The Shards’ Christina Haack, Tarek El Moussa Shows Canceled At HGTV In Brief - Netflix’s Physical: 100 gets U.S. & Euro editions... Walking Dead: Dead City renewed for third season by the numbers   $100M -  Economic impact the production of 'Superman' had in Georgia & Ohio More News ✂️ The Senate passed Donald Trump's spending cuts, which rescind $1.1 billion from public media, despite warnings that the funding rollbacks will devastate the PBS, NPR and public station ecosystem. The bill now goes to the House for final passage. 🦚 Peacock has agreed to pay $3.6 million to settle a lawsuit by the County of Los Angeles over the streamer’s auto-renewal policy. 📡 Scandinavia's Viaplay is spending SEK1.1B ($110M) to acquire the 50% of satellite firm Allente Group it hadn't previously owned. Allente, which provides satellite TVs and services in Denmark, Finand, Norway and Sweden, was established in 2020 as a JV between Viaplay (then Nordic Entertainment Group) and Canal Digital-owner Telenor. 🤝 Lionsgate has locked in a host of independent international distribution partners for The Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping, which begins filming this summer. The deals include most of Europe and Latin America. ⚖️ A federal judge dismissed Blake Lively's claims against social media PR expert Jed Wallace, who she alleged was part of a negative campaign against her after she accused Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment on the set of It Ends With Us. 👋 Jax Taylor will leave The Valley after Season 2. The Vanderpump Rules alum says that he will focus on his sobriety following his exit from the Bravo series. Hirings, Promotions & Exits Exclusive Veteran Talent Rep Meg Mortimer Retires Three Six Zero Promotes Aimee Jessiman To Run UK Management Obituaries 🕯️ Connie Francis, the immensely popular mid-century pop singer known for teary ballads exemplified by “Who’s Sorry Now?” and jaunty, infectious near-novelty records “Stupid Cupid” and “Vacation,” died Wednesday. She was 87. 🕯️ Joanna “Jo” Bacon, the British actor who portrayed the mother of Martine McCutcheon’s Natalie in the 2003 film Love, Actually , died June 14 of cancer. She was 72. 🕯️ Annet McCroskey, a veteran talent manager, producer and mentor who was CEO of Artistic Endeavors, died July 11 a few weeks after being hospitalized for an unspecified sudden medical emergency. She was 51. 🕯️ 2025 Deaths Photo Gallery: Hollywood & Media Obituaries On the Radar Thu -  Netflix earnings; Adam Schiff on Colbert Sun - Shark Week begins Mon - Adam Sandler on Fallon Wed - Alphabet Q2 earnings Photo of the Day Iconic Moment - U.S. soccer legend Alex Morgan accepted the Icon award at the 2025 ESPYs. This email was sent to punjabsvera@gmail.com by Deadline. Please add email@email.deadline.com to your address book to ensure delivery to your inbox. Visit the Preferences Center to update your profile and customize what email alerts and newsletters you receive. Deadline is a part of Penske Media Corporation. © 2025 Deadline Hollywood, LLC. 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