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Hours after the Skydance-Paramount merger closed last week, the new studio leadership sent a loud message to the town that they meant business, closing a deal for the hot Timothée Chalamet-James Mangold package High Side, which Deadline first reported on August 7.
“One of our biggest priorities is restoring Paramount as the No. 1 studio for filmmakers and talent in the world,” new CEO David Ellison said Wednesday at a media gathering. “Great filmmakers make great movies. For us, we’re going to strategically scale the amount of content for our streaming service as well as studios.”
While High Side is still a ways off, the new top feature brass — which includes Co-Chairs Josh Greenstein and Dana Goldberg as well as President Don Granger — has plenty of projects to dive into as they settle into their new office space on the Melrose lot. From high-profile franchises that have been at the center of their release schedules for decades to new original stories featuring A-list talent, Deadline has compiled a list of where things stand on key properties that could help build a future slate. >>>15 Movies A Year
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Deadline Exclusives & Originals |
Re-Bourne - Following an extensive auction, NBCUniversal has acquired all rights, excluding publishing, to Robert Ludlum’s revered Jason Bourne and Treadstone book series, in perpetuity. >>>7 Different Offers
One 4 The Future - In her first set-piece interview almost three years into her job, Channel 4 comedy chief Charlie Perkins explained how she's tapping into the "new wave" of British talent, and unveiled a trio of new shows from up-and-coming comedy creators. >>>"Limitations Breed Creativity"
BoulderLight's Next Act - Following a stellar opening weekend for Weapons, its mystery-horror film from Zach Cregger, which has grossed over $81M worldwide to date, BoulderLight Pictures is out to the town with Last Night Was a Movie, its first TV series, on which it has partnered with the hot sketch group Almost Friday. >>>High-Concept Comedy
Apple TV+ Books Potential Franchise - Barry Eisler’s John Rain books are being adapted for Apple TV+ after the streamer and Tom Winchester’s Pure Fiction label scored the rights to the New York Times bestsellers. Pure Fiction is now working on bringing the assassin franchise to life as a TV series. >>>Keanu Reeves Effort Faltered
Deadline Contenders @ HBO Max Panel Lineup Set - Among the participating stars and creatives behind the highest-nominated HBO series featuring on our Contenders platform are Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Kaitlyn Dever, Craig Mazin, Neil Druckmann, Mike White, Carrie Coon, Jason Isaacs, Parker Posey, Sam Rockwell, Natasha Rothwell, Judd Apatow, Matt Wolf, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Noah Wyle, Jean Smart, Colin Farrell, Cristin Milioti, Hannah Einbinder, Katherine LaNasa, Deirdre O’Connell, Jeff Hiller, Shawn Hatosy and Bridget Everett. >>> Curated Installations |
Adam Scott joins us for Deadline's video series The Actor’s Side to talk about the success of Severance, the complexity of playing Mark, and just what that complicated Season 2 finale means going forward.
He also does a fascinating run though his entire career and gives his thoughts on the significance of such jobs as 1994's Hellraiser: Bloodline, doing a Star Trek movie, a favorite early role working for Scorsese in The Aviator, an indie hit in The Overnight, which just celebrated an anniversary, and much more, including an upcoming film in which he stars with Robert De Niro.
Scott also shares his thoughts about a Parks & Rec reunion and why that series meant so much to him. >>>Watch
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Quotable "My biggest regret is not doing 'Boogie Nights'" - Leonardo DiCaprio in a conversation with his 'One Battle After Another' director Paul Thomas Anderson |
Shailene Woodley has joined Lindsay Lohan in Count My Lies, a limited series from former This Is Us executive producers/co-showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger. Hulu has ordered the project, which marks the first TV series starring role for Lohan.
ExclusiveRyan Cartwright, Josh Brener and Tommy Walker are set for major recurring roles on HBO Max’s upcoming The Big Bang Theory spinoff series Stuart Fails To Save The Universe , which stars the mothership series’ Kevin Sussman, Lauren Lapkus, Brian Posehn and John Ross Bowie.
exclusiveCharlie Hall has joined the recurring cast of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s upcoming new season of Netflix's Monster anthology series, which centers on murderer and suspected serial killer Ed Gein, played by Charlie Hunnam.
ExclusiveFollowing the tragic death of her beloved husband Bobby (Peter Krause) on 9-1-1, Athena Grant (Angela Bassett) will likely be leaning more on her family, including her two children. Corinne Massiah, who plays Athena’s eldest child, May Grant, and Elijah M. Cooper, who portrays the youngest child, Harry Grant, have been promoted to series regulars for the upcoming ninth season of ABC’s first-responder drama set in Los Angeles.
Netflix has rounded out the cast of Emmy winner Dan Levy's upcoming family crime comedy series Big Mistakes (fka untitled). Jack Innanen, Boran Kuzum and Abby Quinn are set as series regulars. |
by the numbers 6.2M - Viewership for the second episode of 'South Park' Season 27 four days after release, an increase over the season premiere |
MORE NEWS
🍁 After Deadline's report about the Toronto Film Festival uninviting the October 7th documentary The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue, TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey has responded. “I want to be clear: claims that the film was rejected due to censorship are unequivocally false,” he wrote in a letter. "I have asked our legal team to work with the filmmaker on considering all options available.”
📱 Cineverse, home of the Terrifier franchise and a large streaming portfolio, has teamed with Lloyd Braun‘s venture firm Banyan to launch MicroCo, a micro-drama studio and streaming outlet, with TV industry vets Jana Winograde and Susan Rovner set for top exec roles.
🎤 Donald Trump announced the list of this year’s Kennedy Center Honorees, the first since he took control of the institution, and also revealed that he plans to host the December event.
✍️ Bill Burr and his North Hill Productions have signed a first-look deal with Fox Entertainment Studios. Under this partnership, Burr and Mike Bertolina will serve as executive producers and content originators of scripted and unscripted TV projects.
🖋️ British agency YMU has signed TV personality and podcaster Spencer Matthews for representation. Having made his name on reality series Made in Chelsea, Matthews has gone on to become a TV presenter, a contestant on Celebrity MasterChef and The Bachelor among other shows, and host of two chart-topping podcasts. He also featured in Finding Michael, an emotional Disney+ documentary in which he climbed Mount Everest in the hope of finding the body of his brother. |
ON THE RADAR
Thu - And Just Like That series finale; Starz earnings; ATAS' Televerse event; Edinburgh International Film Festival begins
Fri - The Rainmaker series premiere
Sun - Deadline Contenders @ HBO Max event
Mon - Edinburgh International Television Festival begins |
Premiere Pairing - Aubrey Plaza and Margaret Qualley at a New York City screening for Honey Don't!, the second film in Tricia Cooke's lesbian B-movie trilogy. |
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