EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is negotiating with Rebecca Thomas to direct Looking For Alaska, an adaptation of the John Green novel that has been adapted by The Fault in Our Stars scribes Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber for Temple Hill’s Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen, who are producing with Mark Waters and Jessica…

Robert Redford may have declared this year that he's stepping back from the Sundance Film Festival, but it turns out the semi-retired Oscar winner will be back on screen at the Utah jamboree kicking off next month. In a jam-packed lineup of 118 films, Redford’s Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia star joins Riley Keough…

The 8th annual Streamy Awards are upon us and dick clark productions and Tubefilter have revealed the nominees. In addition, YouTube has been named the official presenting and distribution partner of this year's event which takes place at 9 PM ET/ 6 PM PT on Monday Oct. 22 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. As…

Facebook is increasing its presence this year at VidCon as the annual convention in Anaheim has emerged as the epicenter of the digital video scene. For the first time, two of the social media giant’s executives, Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger and Facebook Vice President Fidji Simo, will participate in a fireside…

Vidcon, the fan-centric online video convention held each summer in Anaheim, is close to a deal to be acquired by Viacom, a person familiar with the matter has confirmed to Deadline. Buying into the show would offer the media company, home to young-skewing networks like Nickelodeon and MTV, access to a haven for…

The modestly-budgeted The Fault In Our Stars (Fox has said it was $12M; others said it was $16 but more like $14M after the tax incentive) will gross over $300M worldwide by week’s end for Fox. If ever there was a perfect storm in releasing a film, this was it. This picture slogged through the monsters, the…

The crossover between traditional media and the budding online creator world continues, as satellite radio broadcaster Sirius XM and YouTube have joined to launch a weekly radio show, The YouTube 15, featuring emerging music artists on the online video service, to be hosted by Jenna Marbles, a burgeoning online star…

Fox 2000‘s The Fault In Our Stars just crossed $100M domestically to become one of the most profitable films released in 2014. On a $12M negative (not counting marketing and distribution costs), the film based on the best-selling John Green book is also besting Twilight’s opening in the UK and in Brazil. In fact, in Br…

3rd UPDATE, FRIDAY, 8:54 PM: As it stands now, Friday is shaping up to be huge at the box office for The Fault in Our Stars as the little picture that could from Fox 2000 looks like it may take home $25M tonight (includes that $8.2M late night and $25 tickets on the simulcast). Early estimates show that the picture’s…

Amid all the fevered attention for massive summer movies featuring mutant humans, giant lizards and an edgy tomorrow with Tom Cruise, a tragic little love story between two cancer survivors appears poised to have its own big run when it debuts later this week. That is, if the other love story that Fox’s The Fault in Ou…

Comic-Con‘s just-announced Day 3 schedule will see many of the San Diego convention’s biggest panels for film and TV, including presentations of Marvel Studios‘ Thor: The Dark World and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. WB and Legendary are also rolling deep with their slate of upcoming genre titles, including Godzi…