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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…

EXCLUSIVE: Electric Entertainment’s Dean Devlin will produce and direct Steve Altiere’s sci-fi fantasy Countdown, a spec he and his company picked up about a boy fascinated by space travel who recruits his friends and an eccentric NASA engineer to hatch an unbelievable plan to try and save his dying father. Devlin…

EXCLUSIVE: Cutting Edge has acquired a significant stake in Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment's music library in what is said to be a seven-figure deal which closed while execs were attending the Los Cabos International Film Festival in Mexico. With the co-ownership agreement, comes a strategic alliance between…

EXCLUSIVE: David Tennant has been tapped to star in Bad Samaritan, the next film from Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment that Devlin is set to direct himself. Brandon Boyce (Apt Pupil, Wicker Park) penned the screenplay for the thriller, which is lining up a shoot later this year in and around Portland, OR. The film…

Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment has acquired all media rights for the U.S. and Canada for The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, starring Jason Sudeikis, Jessica Biel and Maisie Williams. The film, which world preemed at Tribeca, is set for a theatrical release later this year. After tragedy strikes Henry (Jason…