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Former ESPN host Michael Smith, whose 15-year tenure at the sports network culminated in a stint-co-anchoring SportsCenter with Jemele Hill, has joined (Co)Laboratory, a startup backed by film producer Basil Iwanyk. Smith will be EVP and chief content officer and will also have an on-air role. (Co)Laboratory launched…

Players’ Tribune co-founder Jaymee Messler, John Wick and Sicario producer Basil Iwanyk and longtime sports and entertainment executive Greg Economou are launching (Co)Laboratory, a Santa Monica-based venture designed to give athletes and sports teams and leagues an infrastructure to create scripted and reality…

Screen Gems, the genre label under Sony Pictures, has set Jim Strouse (The Incredible Jessica James) to direct feature Text For You, a remake of the successful 2016 German-language rom-com SMS Fur Dich, we understand. Basil Iwanyk (John Wick) will produce and Erica Lee (A Private War) will executive produce…

EXCLUSIVE: Marginalized by a version rushed for the 2017 Toronto Film Festival weeks before Harvey Weinstein’s banishment and The Weinstein Company’s implosion, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s The Current War has a new cut and the kind of second chance that most prematurely premiered festival films never get. Upstart 101…

EXCLUSIVE: Christian Gudegast and JP Davis have closed a deal to co-write Mafia X for Thunder Road Pictures and Pioneer Pictures. Gudegast will direct a film which is based on his original pitch. Basil Iwanyk, Robert Kravis, and Karl Herrmann will produce. Mafia X is a high concept action thriller inspired by the true…

Dev Patel has been set to make his feature directing debut with action revenge pic Monkey Man. The Oscar nominee will also star in the film, with Endeavor Content launching sales at this week’s American Film Market. Thunder Road’s Basil Iwanyk is producing with Xeitgeist's Joe Thomas (The Man Who Knew Infinity, Hotel M…

EXCLUSIVE: In their first public statements since the makers of the drama Wind River regained control of the drama amid the Harvey Weinstein sex scandal, writer-director Taylor Sheridan, stars Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen, and producers Basil Iwanyk and Matthew George sat for a highly emotional, even tearful…

EXCLUSIVE: The Taylor Sheridan-directed Wind River has severed the connection between the film and the scandal-scarred Harvey Weinstein and his former The Weinstein Company label. A deal has been completed that will excise all mention of Weinstein both on its home video release through Lionsgate and streaming release…

EXCLUSIVE: Kingsman: The Golden Circle star Taron Egerton has joined A Private War, the Matthew Heineman-directed drama that stars Rosamund Pike as the famed war journalist Marie Colvin. Produced by Thunder Road's Basil Iwanyk, Kamala Films' Marissa McMahon and Charlize Theron and her Denver & Delilah banner, the…

EXCLUSIVE: As he prepares to rev up the Edgar Wright-directed Baby Driver for tomorrow’s opening, Ansel Elgort has been set to play young president John F. Kennedy Jr in Mayday 109, the true story of the future American president’s feats of heroism as a Navy captain during WWII. The film is a co-production between Basi…

EXCLUSIVE: Rosamund Pike has been set to portray Marie Colvin in the untitled film about the American reporter who worked in conflict zones including Chechnya, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka, where she lost her left eye in 2001. Colvin, who wore a distinctive eye patch after that, died in early 2012…

EXCLUSIVE: As their first collaboration Wind River premieres at the Sundance Film Festival tomorrow, Riverstone Pictures and Basil Iwanyk's Thunder Road Pictures have made a multi-year financing, production and development deal to generate an annual output of three to five films. In the two-year pact, Riverstone will…