Jason Reitman is carrying on the legacy. The son of the original Ghostbusters helmer, Ivan Reitman, has co-written the screenplay and will direct the next Ghostbusters feature for Sony Pictures. Due out summer 2020, the new film will serve as the next chapter in the original story, which was released in 1984 and starred Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis. This pic is not associated with the 2016 all-female Ghostbusters reboot.
Gil Kenan penned the screenplay with… Read
Viacom laid off about 20 employees across its entertainment group, with the majority coming at Paramount Network, Deadline has confirmed.
The company declined to comment, however a person with knowledge of the situation said the job cuts represent less than 2% of the group’s workforce.
The layoffs come after a restructuring last October that brought together Comedy Central, Paramount Network and TV Land under Kent Alterman. These divisions share an original content… Read
Twelve years after the launch of digital upstart Deadline Hollywood disrupted the print-focused Hollywood trade space, Deadline is part of new initiative looking to change the way ad buying for the entertainment trades is done. Deadline and sister PMC brands TVLine and Gold Derby on Tuesday held the first Awards Upfront presentation.
“Why do an Awards Upfront?,” said Chief Revenue Officer & GM Stacey Farish in her remarks at the event, held at NeueHouse. “We were the… Read
EXCLUSIVE: Just over a week before the 2019 Sundance Film Festival starts andAfter the Wedding writer-director Bart Freundlich has already notched one big deal.
Set to have the Opening Night film slot at the Robert Redford founded shindig, the Mozart in the Jungle helmer has signed with WME for representation in all areas. The remake of The Night Manager director Susanne Bier’s 2006 Oscar nominated Best Foreign Film will have its world debut on January 24 in Park… Read
NY Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand stopped by Stephen Colbert’s Late Show Tuesday night to announced she was forming an exploratory committee to run for POTUS.
The announcement had been expected for days.
“There has been a lot of speculation why you are here tonight,” Colbert said, sticking to script. “I’m just curious, do you have anything you would like to announce?”
“Yes,” she said, grasping his hands on cue.
“I’m filing an exploratory committee for President of the United… Read
UPDATED throughout: Snap chief financial officer Tim Stone is leaving the company after just eight months “to pursue other opportunities,” the company disclosed in a regulatory filing today. The company’s stock tumbled nearly 8% in after-hours trading to $5.96, as investors reacted to the news.
Stone said his decision to leave “is not related to any disagreement with us on any matter relating to our accounting, strategy, management, operations, policies, regulatory… Read
As today's devastating Brexit defeat for Theresa May in the British Parliament proves, fact can be as much of a drama as fiction.
In fact, it is reality of sorts that makes up most of the cream of the small screen crop for the latest the show to watch this week. For instance, there is the January 19 debuting Benedict Cumberbatch starring Brexitmovie on HBO about the man behind the campaign that has brought political chaos to the UK.
The same day, BBC America hosts the… Read
After a two-and-a-half-year break, HBO’s True Detective returned for a third installment on Sunday with back-to-back episodes, drawing 1.44 million viewers at 9 PM and 1.19 million at 10 PM (Live+Same Day).
That was down sharply from the Season 2 debut in June 2015, which averaged 3.2 million viewers at 9 PM and 4.3 million for the night (L+SD), and also off from the January 2014 series opener in 2014 (2.3 million for the premiere).
Last night’s deliveries mark a L+SD… Read
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Players has acquiredSlime, a pitch for a family action-adventure film that will be scripted by writing partners Steve Pink and Jeff Morris. Pink will direct it. Pic is about a slime experiment gone wrong. Slime of course has long been a staple of sister network Nickelodeon.
This was a last-minute bidding situation, and Paramount Players pre-emptively took it off the table before the holidays. Jeremy Stein brought the project in, met with Morris to… Read
Lethal Weapon alum Danny Glover has been added to the cast of the Jake Kasdan-directedJumanji: Welcome to the Jungle sequel joining original stars Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, and Karen Gillan. Awkwafina and Danny DeVito were previously announced as part of the cast for Sony’s next installment, which is slated to bow in theaters December 13.
The studio is remaining mum on the plotline for the sequel as well as Glover’s character. Kasdan co-wrote the screenplay… Read
Nothing like a good Twitter beef to liven up a rainy day.
Kathy Griffin drew a “Huh?” reply from Don Cheadle when she called him out for not supporting her stunt that depicted her holding the fake severed head of President Donald Trump, ISIS-style. You know — the thing that happened 18 months ago. Here is what Griffin tweeted at Cheadle that apparently kicked off today’s social media shenanigans, which included calling him — horrors! — a lousy liberal:
Oh GREAT Don. I… Read
EXCLUSIVE: Rose Byrne (Spy, Instant Family), Justin Hartley (This Is Us, A Bad Moms Christmas), Wanda Sykes (Black-ish, A Bad Moms Christmas), Ron Funches (Trolls, Undateable), and Charlyne Yi (The Disaster Artist, Twin Peaks) have joined star Adam Devine as well as previously announced cast Michael Peña and Alexandra Shipp in Lexi, a comedy from Bad Moms helmers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore.
The film, which is currently in production, explores what can happen when you love… Read
