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Meet the Leverage team’s new full-time hacker. Aleyse Shannon (Charmed) is set as a new series regular in IMDb TV’s Leverage reboot, a new incarnation of the 2008 crime drama from Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment. The Leverage sequel is a fresh update of the original concept, about reformed crooks using their…

Electric Entertainment and Arrowstorm Entertainment said Monday they’ll resume production in Serbia for the third season of the CW’s fantasy-adventure series The Outpost. Production was halted at the onset of the coronavirus outbreak in mid-March. Restarting production is a hot topic Stateside as the industry, unions…

Editors' Note: Deadline's latest series, Reopening Hollywood, focuses on the incredibly complicated effort to get the industry back on its feet while ensuring the safety of everyone involved. Our goal is to examine numerous sides of the business and provide a forum for leaders in Hollywood to discuss pressing issues ar…

Dean Devlin's Electric Entertainment said Wednesday that it has closed a $60 million syndicated corporate credit facility, which will help finance the upcoming Season 3 of the CW’s summer fantasy adventure series The Outpost as well as Almost Paradise, WGN America’s 10-episode drama series staring Electric’s The Librar…

LA-based production, distribution and post-production outfit Electric Entertainment has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Just Noise, starring Harvey Keitel and Malcolm McDowell. The feature, which begins production this month in Malta, is produced and written by Jean-Pierre Magro, produced by Pedja Miletic…

EXCLUSIVE: For the first time since their 1978 TV airing, the Saturn Awards will be broadcasted via streaming under a new multi-year partnership with veteran TV producer Justin W. Hochberg. The nominations for the 45th edition which honors the best in science fiction, fantasy and horror will be announced on Monday…

Electric Entertainment will team again with P&A financier and media provider Global Pictures Media for Bad Samaritan, Electric's upcoming release directed by Electric Entertainment CEO Dean Devlin. Starring David Tennant (Doctor Who) and Robert Sheehan (Geostorm) is set for a nationwide release on May 4. Global…

UK distributor Signature Entertainment has finalized deals for three movies, including Jon Hamm and Rosamund Pike thriller Beirut and Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd comedy Ideal Home, I can reveal. In Beirut, which Signature picked up from Trumbo and Captain Fantastic production outfit ShivHans Pictures, a U.S…

TNT has opted not to renew The Librarians for a fifth season, the network confirmed. Series’ executive producer Dean Devlin unveiled the cancelation on Twitter, announcing that he will be launching an effort to find a new home for the adventure drama, whose fourth season finale — and now a TNT series finale — aired…

Updates were made to this story on Oct. 24 The tagline for one of Geostorm‘s billboards: "Some Things Were Never Meant to Be Controlled." You might think that saying refers to the disaster movie’s exorbitant estimated $120M-$140M budget, or its three-year production cycle, or even its horrendous domestic box office…

Dean Devlin's Electric Entertainment and Arrowstorm Entertainment are teaming on The Outpost, a 10-episode hourlong fantasy adventure series set to begin shooting this year in Utah. Casting is underway. Electric is handling worldwide sales. Created by Arrowstorm’s Jason Faller and Kynan Griffin, The Outpost is the…

What could be worse than an asteroid hurtling toward Earth or aliens blowing up popular monuments? How about an intricate network of weather satellites that suddenly turn against the world, causing tidal waves, tornadoes, and manhole-cover explosions? No worry, Gerard Butler — who has saved the White House, London and…