EXCLUSIVE: Dana Brunetti and Keegan Rosenberger’s Cavalry Media has tapped Marco Polo creator John Fusco to write, executive produce and showrun another drama about a famous explorer, Hispaniola, a historical epic series based on the Hans Koning book Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth.

Hispaniola, on which…

EXCLUSIVE: Talk about a shocker, and also a great get for Dana Brunetti, Keegan Rosenberger and their Cavalry Media. Matt DelPiano, who has been a top agent at CAA and a 26-year veteran of the talent agency, is becoming a partner at Cavalry Media and launching a full-service management company, Cavalry Management.

DelP…

EXCLUSIVE: Cavalry Media has hired former Cross Creek Pictures exec Jason Seagraves as VP Development, the latest to join Dana Brunetti and Keegan Rosenberger’s growing media company. The news comes after Universal on Monday acquired life rights to the divers and survivors of this past summer's Thailand soccer team…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has acquired the life rights of the divers and survivors of summer’s Tham Luang cave rescue in Thailand when 12 boys aged 11-16 and their coach of the Wild Boar soccer team were trapped 1,000 meters below the surface.

Michael De Luca will produce for his eponymous production company, along…

EXCLUSIVE: Cavalry Media, the production company launched earlier this summer by Dana Brunetti and Keegan Rosenberger, has hired Legendary Entertainment creative executive Jennifer Preston Bosari and former WME lit agent Erin Conroy as VPs Development.

The moves are among the first at Cavalry, which is ramping up after…

Alec Baldwin and Fifty Shades producer Dana Brunetti engaged in a heated Twitter war on Wednesday, after Brunetti stated that the actor's new memoir, Nevertheless, contains lies about a co-star's age while they were filming the 2006 film Mini's First Time.

Complete with name-calling, threats and insults, the two duked…

(Updated with statement from Dana Brunetti) EXCLUSIVE: As Relativity teeters on the brink of returning to bankruptcy again, the studio’s former president Adam Fields today slapped company founder Ryan Kavanaugh with a potential multi-million dollar fraud lawsuit.

The jury seeking complaint states that Fields “is but th…

Relativity said today that it has appointed Brett Dahl as president of production, less than 24 hours after news broke that Dana Brunetti would be exiting his post as Relativity president. The studio confirmed today via a spokesman what Deadline broke late last night: that Brunetti was segueing to a production deal at…

EXCLUSIVE: Sources inform us tonight that Dana Brunetti has officially left as president of Relativity Media, a position which he has held for less than a year.

Over the last month, the Oscar-and-Emmy nominated producer has worked on extricating himself from his contract at the company which resurfaced from Chapter 11…

In a reversal of its original decision, the Producers Guild of America has granted approval to Dana Brunetti to receive a PGA mark on the upcoming Fifty Shades Darker. The PGA also approved a mark for Marcus Viscidi, the sequel’s line producer.

“The Panel has determined, based upon the additional evidence obtained, tha…

UPDATE, 10:55 AM: Deadline spoke with Dana Brunetti this morning about the PGA's failure to grant him a 'p.g.a.' mark on Fifty Shades Darker, and he told us, "I don't care about the mark on this movie, it's about the principle, particularly in regards to my past experience with the PGA and what I've seen happen to…

If you thought that Relativity Media was done responding to complaints at U.S. Bankruptcy Court, think again.

In filings today, Edward R. Pressman Film Corp asked Judge Michael Wiles to take away Relativity’s rights to make sequels to the 1994 film The Crow. Among other things, the producer says that Relativity…