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Coming off windfall global licensing sales of Mad Men last month, Lionsgate is now digging a little deeper into its library to bring Weeds to market later this year. "We're readying our next big property Weeds for syndication in the fall," Jon Feltheimer said Thursday after the company's latest earnings report was…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Emma Stone and Emmy-nominated writer-director Dave McCary have launched Fruit Tree, a new film/TV production banner that launches with a two-year first-look TV deal at A24. The partners intend to produce projects across scripted, documentary and unscripted formats. The first new project under…

New Republic Pictures has signed Jake Gyllenhaal and Riva Marker’s Nine Stories to a first-look feature film production deal. It’s the second first look New Republic has made in recent weeks, following two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett and her Dirty Films company. Gyllenhaal and New Republic founder Brian Oliver…

Apple has signed a first-look deal with Appian Way Prods., the film and television production company founded by Leonardo DiCaprio and co-run by Jennifer Davisson. The multi-year deal covers television projects and documentary features. The pact builds on Apple and DiCaprio’s existing relationship collaborating on the…

SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have struck a tentative deal for new three-year animation contracts. The pact covers animated programs produced for television, including network, basic cable and streaming platforms. Their current toon deal originally was set to expire on June 30…

EXCLUSIVE: Grey’s Anatomy‘s main cast will remain intact heading into Season 17. Kim Raver, Camilla Luddington and Kevin McKidd, whose contracts were all up at the end of last season, have signed new multi-year contracts to continue on the long-running medical drama, I have learned. I hear the pacts are for three…

EXCLUSIVE: Less than a week after Empire co-creator Danny Strong and longtime director and executive producer Sanaa Hamri reunited on a Taraji P. Henson-led spinoff of the hip hop drama, the duo is back together again for a dramedy on being young, Arab and female in today's America. Penned by Dina Shihabi and Rolla Se…

EXCLUSIVE: Former Happy Endings star Damon Wayans Jr. is reuniting with the cult series’ creator David Caspe and former writers Matthew and Daniel Libman for a half-hour bounty hunter action comedy, which has received a script-to-series commitment at NBCU’s streaming platform Peacock. The project, starring and…

The good news for Kerry Washington keeps on coming! After receiving multiple Emmy nominations Tuesday morning, including one for her role in Little Fires Everywhere, Washington and her Simpson Street Productions has extended and expanded her overall deal with ABC Studios. The exclusive three-year TV deal includes…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate and BuzzFeed are partnering on a new venture to develop, produce and distribute a multi-picture slate of socially relevant and high-concept feature films for global millennial and Gen Z audiences. As part of the partnership, Lionsgate will greenlight full-length feature films to be produced with…

EXCLUSIVE: Heading into a fall that is full of Genius: Aretha, Power Book II: Ghost and more, Anthony Hemingway has inked an overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television. The two-year pact with the filmmaker's Anthony Hemingway Productions will encompass projects for Hemingway to both develop and direct for the…

EXCLUSIVE: Tony Revolori has signed with WME for representation. He first came to the attention of audiences and critics with his breakout performance as Zero, the scene-stealing lobby boy in Wes Anderson's Oscar-winning The Grand Budapest Hotel. The film also starred Ralph Fiennes, Adrien Brody, Bill Murray and…