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Oscar-nominated Minari producer Christina Oh has been hired by Megan Ellison’s Annapurna as EVP, Co-Head of Film. She’ll work alongside Adam Paulsen who was recently also named EVP and Co-Head of Film, and Oh will report to Ellison, CCO Sue Naegle and COO Chris Corabi. Oh joins Annapurna from Brad Pitt’s Plan B which…

Apple TV+ has confirmed a series order for The Changeling, a drama based on Victor LaValle’s best-selling book of the same name, with LaKeith Stanfield (Atlanta, Judas and The Black Messiah) set to star. Kelly Marcel (Cruella, Venom) wrote the adaptation and serves as showrunner. Queen & Slim helmer and Insecure alum M…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Patricia Clarkson has been signed to Universal Pictures/Annapurna/Plan B’s She Said, based on New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor's best-selling book, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement, which chronicled their…

EXCLUSIVE:  Annapurna has hired Valparaiso Pictures' Adam Paulsen as EVP, Head of Film and Jack Parker as Creative Executive, reporting to CCO Sue Naegle and COO Chris Corabi. The film team also includes Director of Development Jess Biddle. Annapurna will absorb most of Valparaiso Pictures' slate, with Valparaiso's…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios is developing a TV series adaptation of Reeves Wiedeman's New York Magazine article “Who Killed Tulum?“. Written and executive produced by Mehar Sethi (BoJack Horseman, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia), the project hails from Annapurna, New York Magazine, and Vox Media Studios. Who Killed Tu…

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Heather McMahan, who is set to feature in upcoming Netflix film Love Hard, is prepping a half-hour comedy for Peacock based on her own life. McMahan, who has been a regular co-host and guest on the Today Show with Hoda & Jenna, lost her father to cancer in December 2015 and gave up her acting…

EXCLUSIVE: Annapurna has landed the rights to New York Times bestselling author, Grady Hendrix's forthcoming horror novel, The Final Girl Support Group and are adapting the book as a series. Co-creators of ABC's The Fix, Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain, are set to pen the adaptation. Hendrix will serve as an EP on the…

EXCLUSIVE: Annapurna has teamed with Janicza Bravo, the writer and director behind the forthcoming Zola, to write and direct a series adaptation of Ian Parker's New Yorker article A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions, which has Jake Gyllenhaal attached to star. Published in February 2019, Parker's story explores…

Deadline has confirmed that MGM has cut 7% of its 750 member staff — roughly 50 jobs– across all departments including scripted, unscripted TV and feature film. Meanwhile distribution joint venture with Annapurna, United Artists Releasing has furloughed a third of their marketing and distribution staff. Staffers there…

Deadline has confirmed that Annapurna has made staff cuts, including CFO James Pong, amid the uncertainty of the COVID-19 crisis. For the most part, per a spokesperson for the company, the small set of cuts aren’t impacting senior brass, rather junior executives in film and TV and a handful of assistants. The studio…

If you are on the Westside of Los Angeles today, you might want to use lunch to start that commute home early, because Donald Trump's whirlwind visit to town today is going to make a. parking lot out of the area very soon. With the former Celebrity Apprentice host expected to touch down at LAX around 3:25 p.m., the LAP…

When Olivia Wilde went in to pitch herself to Annapurna to direct Booksmart, she didn’t refer to other teenage movies of yore, i..e the John Hughes or Amy Heckerling canon, rather the Denzel Washington LA noir Training Day.  The reference spoke to the intensity she aimed to incorporate in what could be seen on its…