EXCLUSIVE: Byron Allen’s Freestyle Digital Media has announced that George Gallo’s fitness pioneer pic Bigger about the Weider Brothers will hit all digital platforms and DVD on Jan. 15. Joe & Ben Weider were the architects of muscle. Against all odds, they launched a fitness empire that included the Mr. Olympia…

EXCLUSIVE: George Gallo is set to direct the feature adaptation of A.J. Benza’s 2015 childhood memoir ’74 and Sunny from Simon & Schuster. Benza, the former Daily News show business columnist and E!’s Mysteries & Scandals host and producer, is currently writing the script. ’74 and Sunny recounts when Benza’s shy…

EXCLUSIVE: Winston Duke, who recently broke out as T’Challa’s ally M'Baku in Marvel’s multi-billion dollar grossing Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War, is taking on the role of MMA legend Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson in Backyard Legend.  Deadline exclusively announced the news about the feature last October…

EXCLUSIVE: Producers Steve Lee Jones and Andy and Michael Weiss are producing, Kimbo, the story about legendary backyard brawler Kimbo Slice who rose to mixed martial arts fame after his brutal backyard fights drew a huge YouTube audience. Born Kevin Ferguson, the Bahamian-born American pugilist emerged from…

EXCLUSIVE: Victoria Justice and Colton Haynes have boarded George Gallo’s Bigger about fitness forefathers the Weider Brothers. Actress-singer Justice who has made her mark in in Fox’s Rocky Horror Picture Show, Nickelodeon’s Victorious and Blumhouse/MTV’s Eye Candy, will portray Kathy,  Joe Weider's (Tyler Hoechlin)…

EXCLUSIVE: Julianne Hough is set to portray female fitness pioneer Betty Weider in George Gallo’s upcoming feature Bigger.  A pin-up model who became a leading role model for women in diet and fitness, Betty Weider was the wife of Joe Weider, and together they co founded Shape magazine, which remains the most…

EXCLUSIVE: Bad Boys and Midnight Run scribe George Gallo is set to direct his ninth feature Bigger about bodybuilding pioneer brothers Joe and Ben Weider, who against all odds, battled poverty and anti-Semitism to create the fitness industry as we know it. Tyler Hoechlin from Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants…

EXCLUSIVE: Matthew McConaughey is in negotiations to star in White Boy Rick for director Yann Demange, who is readying the drama to go before cameras in the first quarter of next year. White Boy Rick is about Richard Wershe Jr., who in the mid-1980s at the age of only 14 became an undercover informant for local and…

EXCLUSIVE: Bad Boys and Midnight Run scribe George Gallo has teamed with his Middle Men collaborator Andy Weiss to pen The Bummy Davis Story, an independent feature which New York City real estate developer Peter Fine will produce and finance. Fine came to the project after reading Ron Ross' novel about the legendary…