After an Avengers: Endgame premiere screening that packs as much intricate storytelling and surprises as any Hollywood blockbuster you’ve ever seen, there was another surprise right after at the Los Angeles Coliseum. Every current Marvel Comic Universe star was onstage, making speeches and taking bows. The actors who…

EXCLUSIVE: If one wanted to encapsulate the surreal interruption of the way Hollywood dealmaking has functioned for decades, here is a good example. Universal last Friday won in competitive bidding Rubble, a Patrick Pittis-scripted spec whose premise we will keep under wraps other than to call it a contained thriller…

David Sheehan, a fixture on the movie and TV star interview circuit for decades at CBS and NBC, has poured the best of his work into The Winners Are!, a docuvideo that features interviews with 33 Oscar winners, many of whom aren't here anymore. The video is now available on Amazon for just a $3 rental or $10 purchase…

EXCLUSIVE: Clint Eastwood is circling to next direct The Ballad Of Richard Jewell, and has been in discussions with Disney/Fox drama based on the life of a security guard whose life was turned upside down in a moment after it was leaked by law enforcement to a reporter that Jewell was a possible suspect in the Olympic…

EXCLUSIVE: Flying in the face of WGA leadership’s expectations that agencies might lay off dealmakers who’ll form rival boutiques to rep writers exiting percenteries that refuse to sign the WGA’s Code Of Conduct, CAA president Richard Lovett addressed the entire agency this morning and made assurances.

He said no one’s…

EXCLUSIVE: MGM will mount Yasuke, an action film that is based on the true story of history’s only recorded African samurai in feudal Japan. Stuart C. Paul has written the script and Whalerock Industries’ Lloyd Braun and Andrew Mittman are producing. The latter has joined the exec ranks at MGM and will steer the…

EXCLUSIVE: Two weeks out from its production start, the Fox motion capture picture Mouse Guard has been mouse trapped by Disney. The project was developed by Fox with the adaptation of David Petersen’s Eisner-winning comic book series to be directed by Wes Ball. The film had set to star Idris Elba, Andy Serkis, Thomas…

There has been some confusion over the roles that attorneys and managers will play in brokering deals for writers who have fired their agents at the behest of the WGA. WGAW president David Goodman just sent a memo to members, trying to shake loose some of the cobwebs of uncertainty. Deadline and other outlets have…

EXCLUSIVE: AMC has made a pilot script commitment on the Owen King & Stephen King’s bestselling novel Sleeping Beauties. The goal is to create an open ended TV series and Owen King has been set to write the pilot script. Sugar23’s Michael Sugar and Ashley Zalta will be exec producers.

The book has the obligatory scares…

In her first screen-starring role since announcing a year-long sabbatical, Jennifer Lawrence will star in an untitled film that will mark the feature directorial debut of acclaimed theater helmer Lila Neugebauer. Plot is under wraps, and the film is backed by IAC Films and A24. Script was written by first-time…

EXCLUSIVE: Solstice Studios has acquired and is fast-tracking late summer or early fall start Manhunt, the working title of an action film based on the Kazuhiro Kiuchi Japanese novel and the Takashi Miike-directed cult classic film Shield of Straw. The American remake is produced in association with Depth of Field…

BREAKING: Spyglass Media Group has entered into a first look deal with Warner Bros. The studio will also become a strategic investor.

Spyglass is run by chairman/CEO Gary Barber, the former MGM chairman who relaunched the company he formed with Roger Birnbaum in 1998 when he made a deal with Lantern Entertainment…