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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…

Alcon Entertainment has acquired film and TV rights to young adult zombie fiction series Rot & Ruin from New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Maberry. Alcon purchased all five installments of Simon & Schuster’s Rot & Ruin and plans to develop the first book for the big screen. Rot & Ruin follows Benny Imura as…

The Emperor's New Groove and Chicken Little helmer Mark Dindal is set to direct a Garfield animated feature set up Alcon Entertainment, which acquired the rights from the creator Jim Davis, who will serve as an exec producer. Paul Kaplan and Mark Torgove co-wrote the screenplay. Debuting in 1978, the Garfield comic…

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off the huge Mexican box office opening of his comedy Ya Veremos, Mauricio Ochmann is joining Mexican comedian Omar Chaparro (No Manches Frida) in Spanish-language comedy Backseat Driver. Pantelion Films, 3Pas Studios, and Alcon Entertainment are producing the pic, which starts production in Mexico…

Those traveling pants sure do get around. Alcon Entertainment and Alloy Entertainment announced plans today to develop The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants film franchise as a stage musical. Blue Spruce Productions, led by theatrical producer Scott Delman, has acquired the live theatrical rights from Alcon and Alloy…

Queen Latifah has been set to topline Hope’s Wish, an inspirational drama based on a true story from the Blade Runner 2049 team of Alcon Entertainment and Torridon/16:14, along with Walden Media. Laurie Collyer will direct the film, which begins production April 9 in Charlotte, NC. Adapted by Brokeback Mountain…

Alcon Entertainment said today there will be layoffs as part of a restructuring of the production and finance company. The news comes after its big tentpole effort Blade Runner 2049 underperformed at the box office, as did the Owen Wilson-Ed Helms comedy Father Figures. Alcon co-founders and co-CEOs Broderick Johnson…

For Part 1 of our weekend analysis on what went wrong with Blade Runner 2049, please click here. UPDATE, Monday 3:46 PM: Alcon Entertainment and Sony’s flying car noir sequel Blade Runner 2049 via Warner Bros looks to come in around $36.7 million over the four-day Columbus Day holiday per industry estimates, still not…

For Part 2 of our weekend analysis of what went wrong with Blade Runner 2049 please click here. Writethru Sunday AM: What a fascinating business. This weekend a $35 million-budgeted horror movie in its fifth frame will gross close to nine times its production cost with a running domestic B.O. total of $304.5M. At the…