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 eye.

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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.

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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 DVD.

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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 mega-franchise.

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EXCLUSIVE: On the heels of Ted Sarandos’ startling revelation to the financial community that Netflix aims to generate 80 feature films in 2018, the streaming service just took off the table a hot script by giving it basically a production commitment and a $25 million budget, sources said. Scripted by Umair Aleem, Kate…

Move over Angelina Jolie and Scarlett Johansson, there’s a new kickass woman ready to deliver a knockout punch to any man in her way. In the spirit of female action-driven movies like Lucy, Wanted, Salt and La Femme Nikita comes Atomic Blonde. Of course Charlize Theron, recently in Mad Max and to a much lesser extent…

EXCLUSIVE: 2oth Century Fox has set Jack Kesy to play a major villain in Deadpool 2. While insiders said it isn’t entirely clear which baddie he will play, sources have pinpointed a character called Black Tom. In the comics, he is a nemesis in the X-Men universe, a Dublin-born mutant who can manipulate, bond with, and…

Focus Features premiered its spy thriller Atomic Blonde to a sold-out crowd at SXSW on Sunday, which was well-received by the audience gathered at the Paramount Theater in Austin. As the trailer previewed, the pic is packed with heavy action sequences, similar to director David Leitch’s previous actioner John Wick.

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Just weeks after news of Fox’s interest in the John Wick director first surfaced, today it became official: Deadline has confirmed that David Leitch has signed on to direct Deadpool 2.

Leitch beat out a host of competitors that included the likes of Drew Goddard and Magnus Martens after Deadpool director Tim Miller dep…