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EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has optioned the rights to the 1972 TV series Kung Fu for a contemporary-set action packed feature film that will be directed by David Leitch, the co-director of John Wick and director of Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, Deadpool 2 and Atomic Blonde. They will set a writer quickly…

Universal had already reserved Aug. 14, 2020 on the calendar, and today they announced that the title opening on that date will be the Bob Odenkirk feature Nobody, which is described as John Wick meets Falling Down.  Odenkirk plays Hutch Mansell,  the guy you don't notice.  A suburban dad, overlooked husband, nothing…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has preemptively acquired the action spec script Versus. The script by Alex Litvak & Michael Finch is described as a high-concept international thriller that has a badass Running Man meets Bloodsport vibe. The scribes previously sold Medieval to Sony and they wrote Predators and the…

Netflix has snatched up The Division, Ubisoft Motion Pictures’ film adaption based on the popular Tom Clancy online-only, role-playing video game, which was released in 2016 and currently has more than 20 million players. The follow-up game, The Division 2, was just released in March. The announcement of Netflix’s…

Universal has signed a first look production deal with Hobbs And Shaw helmer David Leitch and producer Kelly McCormick under their 87th North Production banner. The Fast & Furious spinoff starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham opens on Aug. 2 and is, natch, expected to be one the linchpin titles at the summer box…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has optioned rights to the title story in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s New York Times bestseller Friday Black. A collection of short stories from Mariner Books, Friday Black explores the inhumanity, injustice and a hope that persists in black American life, often with a surrealist…

EXCLUSIVE: David Leitch is angling to next direct Undying Love, an adaptation of the graphic novel that Jeff Robinov’s Studio 8 will put into production later this year. The script is by Tommy Wirkola (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Dead Snow). Pic is being produced by Kelly McCormick, Stephen L’Heureux. Robinov will…

EXCLUSIVE: Roseanne Liang is set to direct Do No Harm, a feature film based on her short of the same title. Justine Gillmer is attached to write. The film is set in Chinatown, 1995, when a surgeon is forced to break her physician's oath to save the person she loves in the middle of a violent gang war. Kelly McCormick…

EXCLUSIVE: Hot off Deadpool 2, David Leitch is in early talks to direct Enter the Dragon, the remake of the 1973 martial arts classic that cemented Bruce Lee’s iconic status. The original was a global hit out of Hong Kong, but its release was marked with tragedy as it came right after Lee’s death. The 45th anniversary…

If you were expecting the Deadpool 2 panel at San Diego Comic-Con to reveal some news about a third installment or an X-Force movie, consider your expectations not met. Instead, the panel shared deleted scenes from the upcoming “Super Duper $@%!#& Cut” of the movie which will be released August 21 on Blu-ray and…

Deadpool 2 may have been released in May, but 20th Century Fox wants you to know that the Merc with a Mouth had a lot more to say. The irreverent superhero is heading down to Comic-Con July 21 in a couple of weeks for a special panel and a “super-duper” special screening of the David Leitch-directed sequel starring Rya…

Deadpool 2 director David Leitch has emerged as the frontrunner to direct Universal Pictures’ Untitled Fast and Furious Spin-Off which will star Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham, a source confirmed to Deadline. The spinoff is being written by Chris Morgan who has written pretty much every film in the…