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101 Studios will release the Robert De Niro family comedy The War With Grandpa on Sept. 18 wide in conjunction with financier Brookdale Studios. Marro Media Company financed and produced the Tim Hill (The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run) directed movie based on the children’s fiction novel of the same name by…

101 Studios will produce, finance, and distribute the film adaptation of Daniel J. Boyne's biography The Red Rose Crew: A True Story Of Women, Winning, and The Water. The pic will rep the first feature film from Sports Illustrated Studios, the new banner formed under 101 Studios and Authentic Brands Group. Alexis Ostra…

With demand surging for sports-themed films and TV series, Authentic Brands Group and David Glasser’s 101 Studios have launched Sports Illustrated Studios, an exclusive home for film and TV adaptations of the magazine’s work. Plans call for several scripted or unscripted feature films and TV series per year, as well…

Jason Hall, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter behind Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper, has been tapped write and direct Unstoppable, a feature based on the true-life story of inspirational wrestling star Anthony Robles. The pic will be produced by Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia and Hiram Garcia of Seven Bucks Productions…

Persistence is everything. It only took writer-director Andrew Heckler two decades and producer Robbie Brenner 15 years to get the strange but true story of reformed KKK member Mike Burden to the screen. But here, even another two years after taking the audience prize for dramatic feature at the 2018 Sundance Film…

EXCLUSIVE: ViacomCBS' Entertainment & Youth Brands has signed a rich overall production and development deal with Yellowstone co-creator Taylor Sheridan. The pact, said to be well into the eight figures, covers multiple projects across the division run by Chris McCarthy, including projects for the newly created…

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of its February 28 specialty release comes a sneak peek at a scene from Burden, the 101 Studios drama starring Forest Whitaker, Garrett Hedlund, Tom Wilkinson, Andrea Riseborough, Tess Harper, Crystal Fox and Usher. Based on a true story, the pic written and directed by Andrew Heckler revolves around…

Marilyn Monroe’s turbulent final months before her death in 1962 are to be the subject of a drama series from 101 Studios and UK producer Seven Seas Films, titled The Last Days Of Marilyn Monroe. In what is being pitched as the first “tell-all” authorized by the Marilyn Monroe estate owner Authentic Brands Group, The M…

101 Studios has released a new trailer for Burden, one of the buzz titles at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival where the drama won the Audience Award. Garrett Hedlund, Forest Whitaker, Tom Wilkinson, Andrea Riseborough, Tess Harper, Crystal Fox and Usher star in writer-director Andrew Heckler’s pic, which arrives in…

101 Studios has acquired U.S. rights to director Nicolas Bedos's Cannes title La Belle Epoque, starring Daniel Auteuil, Guillaume Canet, Dora Tillier, Fanny Ardant, and Pierre Arditi. The film premiered in Cannes and Toronto and is now slated for a spring 2020 U.S. theatrical release. It was released by Pathé Films in…

101 Studios has acquired film and TV rights to Paradise Found, the nonfiction book written by Los Angeles Times columnist Bill Plaschke about the small town of Paradise, CA, which was ravaged by the Camp Fire of 2018 but which found hope in its high school football team and longtime coach, Rick Prinz. The…

101 Studios is developing drama Under the Influence, based on Peter Hernon and Terry Ganey’s bestseller Under The Influence: The Unauthorized Story of the Anheuser-Busch Dynasty, as a series. A writer is not yet attached. Under the Influence was published by Simon & Schuster in 1991. The potential series, based on the…