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View on web New reader? Subscribe SUBSCRIBE. IT'S FREE. KIM KARDASHIAN SET TO PRODUCE 'BRATZ' MOVIE AT AMAZON MGM STUDIOS MULTIHYPHENATE MAY ALSO PLAY THE LIVE-ACTION FILM'S VILLAIN Following a competitive bidding war, Amazon MGM Studios has landed the package to a live-action movie revolving around the Bratz doll line with Kim Kardashian and Picturestart on board to produce. Charlie Polinger and Lucy McKendrick are writing the script. While a deal is not closed yet, sources say Kardashian is also being eyed to play the villain in the project. Erik Feig and Julia Hammer will produce for Picturestart with Kardashian, and Jason and Jasmin Larian producing for MGA. Given all the parties involved along with the global popularity of the toy line, the package saw plenty of interest but given the strong ties Kardashian and the studio already have, it makes sense the project ended up at Amazon MGM. Last year, the studio won an auction for an untitled thriller with Kardashian attached to star. >>>On A Roll Deadline Exclusives & Originals NBC's Red-Hot Lineup - NBC's buzzy new show Destination X has joined the primetime window this season with stalwart series America’s Got Talent, and they’ve been putting up an impressive combined performance. >>>No. 1 Entertainment Night Prime Video's Prime Movers - The Reese Witherspoon–Will Ferrell comedy You’re Cordially Invited has attracted more than 50 million worldwide Prime Video viewers to-date, officially ranking among Amazon MGM Studios’ top-three most-watched comedy films of all time. >>>145-Day Window Netflix Conjures Newton-John Doc - Major news for fans of Olivia Newton-John: a documentary in production about the late singer and actress will be coming to Netflix. The streaming platform announced the untitled project is being directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nicole Newnham and will explore “the music, life, and magic of beloved pop star and cultural phenom Olivia Newton-John." >>> R.J. Cutler Producing Magic: The Gathering The Movie - Noah Gardner & Aidan Fitzgerald have closed a deal to write the live-action Magic: The Gathering movie for Legendary Entertainment and Hasbro Entertainment. Marking Hasbro’s first $1 billion brand, Magic: The Gathering has connected with more than 50 million fans worldwide since 1993. >>>Set In A Multiverse In Brief - Hannah Friedman to pen Yesteryear adaptation... Tom Segura to star in & produce El Tigre              The Deadline Interview ‘Ironheart’ Star Dominique Thorne Explains How Riri Williams Will Have To Confront “The Weight Of Her Emotions” In Marvel Miniseries Dominique Thorne returns as Riri Williams in Marvel’s Ironheart, giving audiences a much closer look at the 19-year-old tech whiz than her introduction in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was able to offer. “Now she’s taking that experience and this opening of her worldview back with her to her hometown,” Thorne said. “[She’s] being forced to confront the truth of her internal life and to answer some of the questions that really only come up when we take the time to go back home. Riri is realizing that it’s only by answering those questions that she’s going to ever be able to get what she actually wants, which is to be who she knows she can be.” >>>Read The Interview Renewals, Cancellations & Pickups Exclusive Netflix Searching For ‘Hitmakers’ In Latest Unscripted Music Series Exclusive ‘Married To Real Estate’ Canceled By HGTV ‘Ransom Canyon’ Renewed For S2 By Netflix   Exclusive CBS Launching Soap Podcast Hosted By Rebecca Budig & Greg Rikaart ‘Bet’ Renewed For Second Season By Netflix Casting About Exclusive Tom Brittney (Grantchester) has been set as co-lead of the MGM+ series The Westies, opposite J.K. Simmons in the upcoming period crime drama series from Chris Brancato, co-creator, executive producer, and showrunner, and Michael Panes. Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Lift) and Richard Madden (Bodyguard) have been set as the leads of the new Netflix drama series Trinity. Sepideh Moafi has joined the series regular cast of the HBO Max hit medical drama The Pitt, playing an attending physician in emergency medicine.  Exclusive Relative newcomer Xavier Molyneux has landed the title role in Bloodaxe, Prime Video’s new historical drama series from Vikings creator Michael Hirst and his son, Horatio Hirst, sources tell Deadline. In Brief - Britt Robertson, Rachel Nichols, Missi Pyle, Nelson Lee & Bruce Davison set for Don’t Look Inside... Harlow Jane joins Peacock’s The Five-Star Weekend... Girls Like Girls sets Maya da Costa & Myra Molloy Quotable   "I was being playful in the moment but went too far" - 'Cobra-Kai' actor Martin Kove on an incident where he allegedly bit co-star Alicia Hannah-Kim and tried to kiss her arm More News 🗳️ In a stunning upset, 33-year-old Queens Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani upset former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in New York's Democratic mayoral primary, running on a Democratic Socialist platform involving rent freezes and other efforts to reduce income inequality. The primary usually determines the ultimate winner in the general election given the city's leftward tilt. 🪓 BET CEO Scott Mills informed employees this morning that their ranks are being thinned as part of Paramount Global’s most recent round of layoffs. While no exact numbers were provided for BET’s cuts, they are part of Paramount’s move to let go of 3.5% of its domestic workforce earlier this month, an action that affected several hundred positions. ⚖️ The defense rested in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex-trafficking trial after delivering a very short presentation with no witnesses. Before his lawyers began their blink-and-you-miss-it delivery, Combs himself told the judge that he would not be taking the stand. 🌴 Love Island USA ranked as the No. 2 streaming original title during the week of June 9, per preliminary Nielsen data shared by NBCUniversal. The Peacock series' Day 1 average audience has quadrupled since the season premiered. 🎥 Doug Liman is set to direct The Stand, a theatrical adaptation of Stephen King’s New York Times bestseller for Paramount Pictures. ✂️ Talent agency Verve has implemented salary cuts for employees above a certain compensation threshold — said to be in the six figures — with the percentage reduction believed to grow progressively larger for higher earners, sources tell Deadline.  💷 UK Culture Minister Chris Bryant has downplayed the likelihood of the Labour government improving the UK’s high-end TV tax credit following calls from across the industry. Bryant told Deadline the situation is being “kept under review” but is a matter for the country’s next budget, which won’t be announced for several months. by the numbers   $750M -  The new, increased yearly allocation for CA's Film & TV Tax Credit Program just approved by state legislators Hirings, Promotions & Exits   Exclusive Lindsay Whitaker Joins Alexander White Agency As SVP Talent   Exclusive Clear Talent Group Ups Jamie Harris To Senior Vice President, Chase Renouf & Meisha Goetz To VP After 28 Years At MTV, Van Toffler Returns To Produce The Video Music Awards Obituaries 🕯️ Bobby Sherman, a hitmaking teen-idol singer and actor who starred in the ABC comedy Here Come the Brides and appeared on such hit series as The Partridge Family, Emergency! and Mod Squad, died Tuesday morning of cancer. He was 81. 🕯️ Joe Marinelli, a journeyman TV actor whose long career included stints on Santa Barbara and General Hospital, died Sunday. He was 68. 🕯️  2025 Deaths Photo Gallery: Hollywood & Media Obituaries On the Radar Wed - The Bear S4 premiere; Clarissa Ward on Colbert Thu - Jeremy Allen White on Fallon Fri - F1: The Movie opens; Squid Game S3 premieres Photo of the Day Pretty In Pink - Violet McGraw and Allison Williams at the M3GAN 2.0 New York City premiere. 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. All Rights Reserved. 11355 W Olympic Blvd Los Angeles, CA, 90064 View in Browser | Privacy Policy | Your Privacy Rights | Ad Choices | Terms of Use | Unsubscribe