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MTV Entertainment Studios and Paramount want to stay in business with the Emmy-winning Antoine Fuqua and his Hill District Media banner. The executive producer of the Paramount+ drama Mayor of Kingstown has signed an overall deal with the studios that will focus on original scripted and unscripted content for TV. 101…

Before premiering the first two episodes of his Yellowstone origin story 1883 last Saturday at Wynn Las Vegas, Taylor Sheridan described the pace of Westward expansion and Manifest Destiny, at least when ViacomCBS' just-launched streaming service Paramount+ dictates the timing. "I was going off to do Mayor of Kingstown…

EXCLUSIVE: 1883, the origin story of how Yellowstone‘s Dutton Family came to own the largest ranch in Montana, began production yesterday in Fort Worth, TX. Taylor Sheridan, who wrote all 10 of Season 1’s episodes, is directing the pilot. He has added to the principal cast Isabel May (Alexa & Katie) who’ll play Elsa…

EXCLUSIVE: 101 Studios has acquired Janet Reitman’s 2017 New York Times Magazine article about the death of Marine Corps recruit Raheel Siddiqui that revealed a culture of brutality against Muslims at a South Carolina military training base. The article will be used as source material for a scripted limited series…

EXCLUSIVE: 101 Studios has closed a deal for U.S. rights to the Predrag Peter Antonijević-directed Dara Iz Jasenovca (Dara of Jasenovac). the film that has been chosen by Serbia as its official submission for the 2020-2021 Academy Awards. Pic stars Biljana Čekić, Zlatan Vidovic, Nikolina Friganović, Igor Đorđević…

EXCLUSIVE: ViacomCBS' Entertainment & Youth Brands has signed a rich overall production and development deal with Yellowstone co-creator Taylor Sheridan. The pact, said to be well into the eight figures, covers multiple projects across the division run by Chris McCarthy, including projects for the newly created…

EXCLUSIVE: 101 Studios has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Mosul, the Matthew Michael Carnahan-directed drama that is the among the first films generated by AGBO, the monied production company launched by Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo. AGBO financed the film, and produced with Condé Nast…

EXCLUSIVE: Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia's Seven Bucks Productions has partnered with 101 Studios on Unstoppable, a film that tells the inspiring story of Anthony Robles. Despite being born with only one leg to a single-parent family on the wrong side of the tracks, Robles overcame every obstacle to become an…

EXCLUSIVE: 101 Studios has optioned rights to the Christopher Byron book Skin Tight: The Bizarre Story of Guess vs. Jordache. The company will package a series around the epic, no-holds-barred Designer Jeans War that erupted between two immigrant Sephardic Jewish families. It pitted the Jordache Jeans empire launched…

EXCLUSIVE: Longtime Fox publicity executive Heather Phillips has been hired to be Chief Communications Officer and Head of Global Publicity for 101 Studios. She will oversee the new studio's corporate communications division and lead the publicity strategy for its upcoming state of film and TV releases and overall…

UPDATE: Former Weinstein Company co-chairman Bob Weinstein has weighed in on the lawsuit filed yesterday by ex-HR exec Frank Gil, who claimed he was fired by Weinstein and David Glasser in retaliation for doing an internal investigation at the behest of Harvey Weinstein to discover who internally had leaked…

After decades of being joined at the big-screen hip, Harvey Weinstein and his brother and longtime business partner Bob Weinstein split in late 2017 as accusations of sexual assault and harassment piled up against Harvey Weinstein. However, the brothers were still linked in the courts. But that state of affairs for…