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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…

Rebecca Lenkiewicz, the screenwriter behind critically acclaimed indie films like Colette, Ida, and Disobedience, has been tapped to script for a film about how New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey investigated and eventually broke the lengthy piece that detailed years of sexual misconduct by movie…

EXCLUSIVE: Looks like Hollywood’s biggest lenders are about to call off the dogs on Annapurna, Megan Ellison’s taste-maker production/distribution company. Sources said that Ellison’s father, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, has submitted a “last and final offer” to pay Annapura’s key lenders, offering between 80…

UPDATED EXCLUSIVE with Megan Ellison memo to staff: A showdown that has lenders on one side of the table, with Annapurna's Megan Ellison and her father and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison on the other, is about to take place, and it will decide whether Annapurna continues as a taste-making studio or a Chapter 11…

EXCLUSIVE: Annapurna has beat out the competition for an original film pitch titled The Hunter & The Fox with Dreamland helmer Miles Joris-Peyrafitte attached to write and direct. Not much is known about the plot details other than it is said to be an elevated Kubrickian-type horror thriller. Joris-Peyrafitte made his…

Olivia Wilde’s femme teen comedy Booksmart had a blitzkreig social media push today to a potential 221M followers prior to the pic’s early access paid sneaks tonight at 800 locations. That combined reach is comprised from social media pushes on EW, Ellen DeGeneres’ channels as well as Annapurna’s and Booksmart’s…