The untitled next chapter of The Purge franchise will hit cinemas on July 10, 2020, Universal announced today. The last three Purge pics have played the July month with the franchise’s four films grossing more than $456M worldwide. Series creator James DeMonaco is back writing a new tale centering on the 12-hour…

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysteri…

EXCLUSIVE:  In a pre-emptive strike, Amblin Partners took the Spenser Cohen spec Distant off the table which has been described as When Harry Met Sally meets The Martian. Amblin is expected to produce with Automatik (Brian Kavanaugh-Jones) and Cohen’s producing partner Anna Halberg. The deal is said to be worth…

EXCLUSIVE: John Gallagher Jr. is boarding Amblin Partners and the Picture Company’s Larry, which is based on the horror short by Jacob Chase. As Deadline broke exclusively in February, Chase will also write and direct the feature film. Gallagher Jr. joins Gillian Jacobs and Azhy Robertson, who’ve already been set for…

EXCLUSIVE: Amblin Partners has preemptively bought the original short story Carecrow: Her Better Self from screenwriter/novelist/blogger Oritte Bendory with Circle Of Confusion producing. Sarah Jane "SJ" Inwards will write the screenplay, and though the story line is being kept under wraps, the female-driven, sci-fi…

Amblin Partners has closed an exclusive two-year first-look deal with Alice in Wonderland and Austin Powers franchise producer Jennifer Todd and her company, Jennifer Todd Pictures. The production deal will cover feature projects under the company's Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Pictures banners. "We are…

Paramount Pictures and Amblin Partners made it official today what Deadline exclusively reported five days ago: That the Leonard Bernstein estate has granted music and life rights for the biopic about the legendary composer, a project which Bradley Cooper is prepping to direct, produce and star in. Producers Fred…

Universal has given release dates for three Amblin Partners pics: Dreamworks Pictures' The Turning on Feb. 22 next year, Amblin’s A Dog’s Journey on Friday, May 17, 2019 and the Tom Hanks movie Bios on Friday, Oct. 2, 2020. The Turning is a haunted house thriller inspired by the Henry James novella and follows a nanny…

Steven Spielberg made it official today that Colin Trevorrow is coming back to the Jurassic World franchise, directing the third installment. Trevorrow was responsible for rebooting the Amblin 1990s’ movie Jurassic Park with 2015’s Jurassic World making it the fourth-highest grossing title of all-time with $1.67…

EXCLUSIVE: Amblin Partners has acquired the rights to turn writer-director Jacob Chase's horror short Larry into a feature-length film. Chase will write and direct the movie version, and The Picture Company partners Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman will produce. The short follows the story of Larry, a terrifying monster…

Steven Spielberg seems to be on permanent rewind. At least that's the way he seemed at dinner Tuesday night. To explain, it was 20 years ago that I wrote my last column about Spielberg, which opened with this observation: While Spielberg is intently expanding his activities, both as a filmmaker and as a mogul, most of…

Universal will release Amblin’s The House With a Clock in its Walls on Sept. 21 next year. Pic, based on the John Bellairs children’s book, stars Jack Black and two-time Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett in a magical adventure that follows 10-year-old Lewis (Owen Vaccaro) who goes to live with his uncle in a creaky…