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EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has purchased screen rights to The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, the new book by Michael Lewis about several U.S. heroes who, in the early days of Covid-19, tried to sound the alarm about the dangers of underestimating the deadly seriousness of the killer virus. Phil Lord & Christopher Mi…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has put together a monstrous package around the satirical Simon Rich New Yorker…

Sony Pictures Animation on Tuesday released the first trailer for Connected, the team-up produced by the studio’s Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse duo of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and Mike Rianda, known for his work on Gravity Falls. The pic hits theaters on September 18, 2020. With a definite…

Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse executive producer Chris Miller can't talk yet about the upcoming suite of TV series based on the Marvel characters that Sony controls, but he's got a plan of how it is all going to work. "We are developing a handful of live-action shows using Sony's Marvel characters, of which there…

EXCLUSIVE: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have hired well regarded production executive Aditya Sood to become head of film for their Lord Miller banner. The move to secure the former Genre Films president comes at a key moment for filmmakers coming off the Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Later this…

EXCLUSIVE: Last seen on horseback in a period film in the 1993 film Posse, Mario Van Peebles is set to direct and star in Outlaw Posse. He wrote the script. Peebles has teamed with Emmy-winning filmmaker Kip Konwiser and Christopher Miller’s The Money Pool on the cowboy drama. The film is in preproduction and Van…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures is putting the finishing touches on a huge deal that brings the studio Last Human, a package for a tentpole project to be directed and produced by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, one that all weekend had Universal, Warner Bros, Netflix, MGM/Annapurna, Paramount, New Regency and MRC all…

With Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, their latest animated outing, producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller took a big swing, experimenting with bold formal choices to meet great power with great responsibility. The big screen debut of Miles Morales—an Afro-Latino teenager who dons the spidey suit, within a Marvel…

Spider-Man has been portrayed by three actors (Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland) in eight live-action films since 2002. The iconic hero returns to the big screen next month in Sony’s animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, but once again there’s been a change-up. This time, Nicolas Cage will portray…

Sony Pictures brought two awards-worthy gems to Deadline’s The Contenders LA on Saturday: political biopic The Front Runner and the animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. A retelling of the 1988 scandal that saw Democratic Sen. Gary Hart and presidential hopeful caught in an extramarital affair, The Front…

Launching a new animated series on Fox has been a top priority for the network’s entertainment president Michael Thorn ever since he joined the network last fall. After commissioning development and presentations for multiple projects in the past 12 months, the network has made its first series order in the arena in a…

Comic-Con fans were caught in a Hall H web when Sony swung into the confab with Venom and Spider-man: Into The Spider-Verse with mind-blowing footage. The Spidey extravaganza was moderated by the Nerdist’s Jessica Chobot with the first half of the panel included Phil Lord & Christopher Miller’s Into the…