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Financier Library Pictures International and Korean studio CJ Entertainment, producer of the multi-Oscar winner Parasite, have entered into a multi-year, multi-picture slate co-financing deal covering local-language film productions in Indonesia, Vietnam and Turkey. Under terms of the deal, Library will fund up to 50%…

Parasite producer CJ Entertainment has tapped Black And Blue and Traffik filmmaker Deon Taylor to direct gothic horror-thriller Grave Hill, the company's English-language remake of the hit Vietnamese horror film The Housemaid. As we previously revealed, Oscar-winner Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious) wrote the adapted…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Parasite studio CJ Entertainment and Anonymous Content are teaming for a feature adaptation of Choe Sang-Hun’s inspiring April 2019 New York Times inspiring story “Running Out of Children, a South Korea School Enrolls Illiterate Grandmothers,” about grandmothers who returned to…

David Ellison’s Skydance Media has received a $275 million strategic investment from RedBird Capital Partners and CJ Entertainment and Merchandising (CJ ENM), the studio behind the 4x Oscar-winning Parasite. All in, this takes Skydance Media’s value to $2.3 billion. Skydance's current investor base, including the…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that the North American rights for Drake Doremus’ CJ Entertainment movie Endings, Beginnings was acquired by Samuel Goldwyn Films. The pic, starring two-time Golden Globe nominee and Divergent franchisestar Shailene Woodley, 50 Shades of Grey‘s Jamie Dornan, Avengers star Sebastian…

Kevin Hart, Girls Trip scribe Tracy Oliver and Korean powerhouse CJ Entertainment are teaming up on an English-language remake of CJ’s Korean box office smash Extreme Job for Universal Pictures. Hart is eyeing a starring role in the comedy, which has been picked up by Universal for world rights. Oliver will script. Ext…

EXCLUSIVE: Former Cosby Show star Geoffrey Owens is joining the cast of CJ Entertainment horror remake Hide And Seek. Owens will play a head of security who helps protect a family from attacks. As we revealed earlier this week, Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors), Jacinda Barrett (Bloodline), Joe Pantoliano (The Sopranos…

EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors), Jacinda Barrett (Bloodline), Joe Pantoliano (The Sopranos) and Mustafa Shakir (Luke Cage) will lead cast in CJ Entertainment’s horror-thriller remake Hide And Seek. Principal photography begins this week in New York City. Actor-director Joel David Moore (Youth In Oregon)…

Shamier Anderson, who starred in Syfy’s TV adaptation of the comic book series, Wynonna Earp, is set to co-star opposite Shailene Woodley, Jamie Dornan and Sebastian Stan in the Drake Doremus-directed drama, which is currently shooting in Los Angeles. Doremus has directed films such as Like Crazy, starring Anton…

EXCLUSIVE: Playing House and The Odd Couple‘s Lindsay Sloane has boarded Drake Doremus’ untitled Shailene Woodley movie which CJ Entertainment is developing, financing and producing. The pic set in current day Los Angeles follows Daphne (Woodley), a thirtysomething woman navigating love and heartbreak over the course…

EXCLUSIVE: Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park International has come aboard CJ Entertainment's horror/thriller remake Hide and Seek, which Joel David Moore adapted and is directing. Cameras roll on Nov. 26 in New York City. Hyde Park is handling all foreign rights. Huh Jung directed and wrote the original 2013 movie (released…

EXCLUSIVE: Big Little Lies star Shailene Woodley, 50 Shades of Grey and A Private War star Jamie Dornan, Captain America‘s Sebastian Stan and Criminal Minds veteran Matthew Gray Gubler have been set to lead Drake Doremus' next movie, which gets underway in Los Angeles this week. CJ Entertainment is developing…