UPDATE with release date change: The release date for Sony’s animated Spider-Man movie being directed by The Lego Movie‘s Phil Lord and Christopher Miller has been shifted from July 20, 2018 to December 21, 2018. The push comes after the studio earlier this year unveiled its Spider-Man reboot plan with Kevin Feige and…

Film Movement has snatched all North American rights to the Tribeca success Men Go To Battle, the debut feature from director Zachary Treitz. Set during the American Civil War, the dark comedy follows two brothers, Henry and Francis Mellon, living on a struggling farm in rural Kentucky, who pass the time with an…

Aaron Eckhart has been tapped to star in Live!, the action film from Solution Entertainment that will mark the first project in the company’s new tie-up with equity financier Fubar Films. This is the pic that second unit action directors/stunt coordinators Darrin Prescott and Wade Allen landed to make their…

EXCLUSIVE, UPDATED 11:30 AM: Relativity has gotten a 10-day extension to try to get financing in place, sources tell Deadline. In addition, the company has been looking for help on a number of films, The Crow, the action-thriller Hunter Killer, the comedy Masterminds and the Halle Berry-starring Kidnap, aggressively…

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The ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington means that the FCC’s tough new net neutrality rules will take effect on Friday — with the Internet to be reclassified as a regulated communications utility.

The U.S. Telecom Association asked the court to block the changes while justices weigh legal challenges to…

The clock is ticking for Ryan Kavanaugh and his Relativity Media. Multiple sources tell Deadline that time is running out for the Relativity founder/CEO to come up with yet another financial save — either in a restructuring or a reverse merger (which has been explored as recently as one month ago with Cinedigm), to…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney is in discussions with Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films and David Oyelowo's Yoruba Saxon to come on board and produce feature project The Water Man, written by newbie writer Emma Needell. This is a fairytale moment for Needell, fittingly given she has now closed her deal with the studio. The Water Man is…

EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment One is dropping the puck on Goon: Last Of The Enforcers, a sequel to the 2011 indie. Wyatt Russell has just been set to star in the film, with Liev Schreiber returning as the iconic brawler Ross "The Boss" Rhea and Seann William Scott as lovable enforcer Doug "The Thug" Glatt. Jay Baruchel…

UPDATE, 11:35 AM: Universal has just made the announcement of Mark Sourian joining from DreamWorks Studios as EVP Production, news we scooped earlier this morning. The studio’s release is below the original story.

PREVIOUS EXCLUSIVE, 9:16 AM: Mark Sourian, the former DreamWorks co-president of production, is in talks…