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EXCLUSIVE: David Ayer and Chris Long's Cedar Park Studios has hired former Netflix Original Series executive Kate Regan as SVP Development for TV and Film. Regan spent the past three years at Netflix developing a slate of drama programming from greenlight to launch, including titles such as Pieces of Her and The Lincol…

EXCLUSIVE: Following its debut as a pre-sales title in Cannes earlier this year, MGM has swooped on the Miramax film project The Beekeeper from director David Ayer (Suicide Squad) and starring Jason Statham (Hobbs & Shaw). MGM has picked up theatrical distribution rights in the U.S., as well as a handful of…

EXCLUSIVE: Suicide Squad filmmaker David Ayer is aboard to direct Jason Statham in action movie The Beekeeper, a hot package which Miramax will be shopping at the upcoming Cannes market. As we revealed last year, Miramax acquired the spec script by Kurt Wimmer (Salt) in a seven figure deal and now that Ayer is aboard…

David Ayer is bringing his 2012 movie End of Watch to television. Fox has handed a script-to-series commitment to the police drama project based on original film, which starred Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña. Co-written and executive produced by Ayer and former Them showrunner David Matthews, the End of Watch series…

Suicide Squad director David Ayer has taken to Twitter to give his perspective on the 2016 Warner Bros. feature, responding at the same time to those who continue to criticize it. In a three-page letter posted to his account Thursday, titled “My Turn,” Ayer disavowed the studio’s cut of the film as well as a “10 week…

EXCLUSIVE: David Ayer and Chris Long's production studio Cedar Park Entertainment will take the leap to indie studio status after sealing a partnership with Raven Capital Management. For Ayer — the writer/director of films that include Suicide Squad, The Tax Collector, Bright, Fury, End of Watch and Street Kings – and…

David Ayer and Chris Long's Cedar Park Entertainment has hired former AT&T Audience Network executive Shane Elrod as Senior Vice President of Development and Production for TV and Film. For the past ten years Elrod has worked for Audience Network out of both their New York and Los Angeles offices. The move reunites…

EXCLUSIVE: The Tax Collector, the gritty David Ayer-directed drama that stars Shia LaBeouf, has found a home. The film has been acquired for U.S. theatrical distribution by the AMC Networks division RLJE Films. The film is expected to be released in August 2020. Scripted and directed by Ayer, whose work includes Suicid…

EXCLUSIVE: David Ayer has found his next film for Netflix. He is set to write, direct and produce with Chris Long through their Cedar Park banner an adaptation of the Harlan Coben bestseller Six Years. Netflix has just acquired the book for Ayer, who directed the Will Smith-Joel Edgerton-starrer Bright for the…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is negotiating with Louis Leterrier to direct Bright 2, the sequel to the 2017 film that kicked off the streamer's feature film franchise launch aspirations. David Ayer directed the first film and was attached to the sequel, but he has been focused on rewriting to direct Dirty Dozen for Warner Bros…

EXCLUSIVE: David Ayer and Chris Long's production company Cedar Park Entertainment has acquired Evergreen Valley Productions from Founder/Producer Darryll C. Scott. The company will continue to create compelling content for and by people of color under the Cedar Park banner. Together, the companies will continue to…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has set David Ayer to write and direct a contemporized remake of the action classic The Dirty Dozen. The film will be produced by Simon Kinberg’s Genre with Ayer’s Cedar Park Entertainment. Ayer last directed for Warner Bros Suicide Squad for Warner Bros, another film about an unruly group that…