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Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso) and Bowen Yang (Saturday Night Live) are the newest additions to the cast of the animated Garfield film in the works from Alcon Entertainment. The actors join an ensemble led by Chris Pratt which also includes Samuel L. Jackson, Nicholas Hoult, Hannah Waddingham, Cecily Strong…

Alcon Publishing, the book unit of the production entity behind films and series like Blade Runner: 2049 and The Expanse, is expanding its relationship with Titan Books. Starting in 2023, the two companies plan to commission original fiction across several genres. Titan Books will publish the titles and Penguin Random…

EXCLUSIVE: Alcon Entertainment has joined RTG Features and May 3rd Films for their upcoming docuseries on legendary basketball coach John Thompson. Alcon is co-financing and co-producing alongside RTG, the sister studio to global basketball media leader Slam, with Kirk Fraser (ESPN 30 for 30‘s Without Bias) directing…

Ving Rhames (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One), Nicholas Hoult (The Menu), Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso) and Cecily Strong (Saturday Night Live) have signed on to star alongside Chris Pratt and Samuel L. Jackson in Alcon Entertainment’s animated feature adaptation of Garfield. The film from director Mark…

Samuel L. Jackson (The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey) has signed on to star alongside Chris Pratt in Alcon Entertainment’s animated Garfield film. The film from director Mark Dindal (Chicken Little, Emperor’s New Groove) is based on Jim Davis’ iconic cartoon strip of the same name, which follows a cynical and lazy orange…

EXCLUSIVE: Alcon Entertainment has acquired screenwriter Steven Karczynski’s psychological thriller Vent, bringing BAFTA Award winner Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (The Lives of Others) aboard to direct. The film brought to the company by Head of Creative Carl Rogers the story of a paranoid young man who believes a…

EXCLUSIVE: Alcon Television Group has stepped up with a preemptive bid to snap up the rights to the Battle Chasers fantasy comic book series from prolific comic book artist Joe Madureira, which will be developed as a live-action TV series with John Wick creator Derek Kolstad attached to write and executive produce…

Chris Pratt has signed on to voice the title character in a new animated Garfield film from Alcon Entertainment, Alcon co-founders and co-CEOs Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson announced today. Mark Dindal (Chicken Little, Emperor’s New Groove) is directing the film, based on the iconic comic strip of the same name…

Alcon Entertainment has hired Striker Entertainment to handle the licensing of consumer products for the Blade Runner franchise (with a focus on upcoming animated series Blade Runner: Black Lotus) and The Expanse, which debuts season six on Amazon Prime Video this fall. For Blade Runner, Striker will oversee multiple…

Ramon Rodriguez is set join Oona Chaplin in the forthcoming horror feature Lullaby from Annabelle director John R. Leonetti and Alcon Entertainment. Written by Alex Greenfield and Ben Powell, Lullaby is rooted in folklore and follows a new mother who discovers a lullaby in an ancient book and soon regards the song as…

Actress Oona Chaplin, who is set to appear in the forthcoming Avatar sequels, has been tapped to star in Lullaby, a horror feature from Alcon Entertainment. John R. Leonetti, who has directed films in the same genre such as Annabelle, Wish Upon, and most recently the Netflix original, The Silence, has signed on to…

Alcon Entertainment has secured all filmed entertainment rights to Postscript, the recently released follow-up to Cecelia Ahern’s 2004 debut novel P.S. I Love You. The Blind Side production company will co-finance and co-produce the feature adaptation along with Black Label Media. Alcon produced and financed the 2007…