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Warner Bros will be releasing Wonka on March 17, 2023, a prequel to Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that focuses on the candy architect Willy Wonka’s younger days before having his confection empire. The movie has been in development for about four years. David Heyman always was attached as producer…

EXCLUSIVE: Josh Berger, President and Managing Director of Warner Bros UK, Ireland and Spain and President of Harry Potter Global Franchise Development, has decided to step down from his posts after working for the company for more than 30 years. The well-liked and respected veteran will depart Warners in December…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has landed the rights to Tanya Smith's upcoming memoir, The Ghost in the Machine, and will adapt into a feature film with Issa Rae and David Heyman producing. Rae will produce through her Issa Rae Productions while Heyman will produce his Heyday Films. Smith will exec produce. The memoir tells Smith…

EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth Gabler's 3000 Pictures just closed a preemptive deal for Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro's upcoming novel, Klara and the Sun. Gabler was able to make the deal was made as bids were mobilizing from multiple parties. David Heyman is producing through his Heyday Films banner. The novel will…

As part of the Netflix presentation at our ninth annual Deadline’s The Contenders Los Angeles all day event at the DGA Theatre in Hollywood earlier this month, Marriage Story was a big part of it. Speaking to a packed house of Academy and key guild voters, writer/director Noah Baumbach talked about his desire to find…

Ray Liotta, who co-stars as a bulldog divorce lawyer in Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story, praised the director for creating a calm set, joking that he's previously worked with some "maniac" directors. "Noah is great to work with and he's very calm because I've worked with some maniacs," Liotta said recently at…

Even for super-producer David Heyman, known for the Harry Potter franchise, Gravity and Paddington, getting a call about a Quentin Tarantino movie was special. "When I got the call to come out to meet Quentin, I leapt at the chance," Heyman said at Deadline’s The Contenders London event earlier this month. "The dream…

Netflix signaled that they had no intention of slowing their investment in top-tier talent in the final panel of The Contenders – London, which featured four of the festival season's most popular attractions. In the first panel, Andreas Wiseman spoke to director David Michôd and composer Nicholas Britell about The Kin…

Netflix is teaming with The Slap and Glitch's Tony Ayres and super-producer David Heyman on thriller Clickbait. The eight-episode series is created by Ayres and is an NBCUniversal International Studios production. Shooting will take place in Melbourne. Ayres will also showrun and executive produce the character-based…

Nickelodeon, Studiocanal and producer David Heyman are teaming up on Paddington, a pre-schooler TV series based on the iconic bear. Ben Whishaw (Paddington 1 & 2) will lend his voice to the CG-animated series, which will follow the adventures of a younger Paddington. The show will see the bear writing to Aunt Lucy…

EXCLUSIVE: All aboard! Paddington duo Paul King and David Heyman are teaming up on “magical love story” Time’s Fool for Fox Searchlight. King is developing and will direct the feature, which is an adaptation of Glyn Maxwell’s novel-length poem Time’s Fool: A Tale In Verse, about a young man who is cursed to ride a…

Chris Pratt, with Disney’s Guardians of the Galaxy and Universal’s Cowboy Ninja Viking both in limbo, is in negotiations to star in a the next move from Wind River and Yellowstone writer-director Taylor Sheridan, Deadline has confirmed. The movie is being produced by David Heyman and is set up at Warner Bros. The plot…