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EXCLUSIVE: Power Rangers filmmaker Dean Israelite has been hired to develop and direct the action thriller Rogue for STXfilms and Tencent, Deadline has learned. The logline is being kept under wraps, but we’ve heard the project revolves around a CIA agent. The film is based on a pitch from writer T.J. Fixman (Past Midn…

Power Rangers helmer Dean Israelite is set to direct the sci-fi thriller Unexplained Phenomenon for Amblin Partners. From an original script by Andrew Deutschman and Jason Pagan, the film is about a family that discovers a mysterious object that holds a strange power, which sends their life and home into upheaval. The…

Best Actor Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne tops the list of prospects to play Newt Scamander in the Harry Potter spinoff trilogy Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them from author J.K. Rowling, who is making her screenwriting debut on the project. David Yates is directing the Warner Bros. pic slated to open November 18…

I didn’t expect much from Project Almanac, but boy, was I pleasantly surprised by this teen-oriented time-travel story, as I say in my video review above. The film stars Johnny Weston, Sofia Black-D’Elia, Sam Lerner, Allen Evangelista and Amy Landecker. It was directed by Dean Israelite, from a script by Andrew…

MGM is negotiating with Dean Israelite to direct and Arash Amel to script WarGames, the remake of the smart 1983 John Badham-directed film that starred Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy as teenage hackers who unwittingly find a back door into a Defense Department computer. They start a game with the machine that puts…