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Jo Koy’s movie Easter Sunday, which was scheduled to open roughly two weeks before Easter weekend on April 1, is heading to August 5. We’re told that it’s a stronger weekend for the DreamWorks Pictures and Universal release. Jo Koy is currently on tour. Easter Sunday now leaves behind a weekend where Sony moved its…

Best Picture Oscar winner Green Book has cruised past another milestone, topping $300M worldwide through Sunday. The split on the Participant Media/DreamWorks Pictures film from director Peter Farrelly is $84.48M domestic and $219.6M at the international box office, for a running global tally of $304M. In North…

Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners has optioned rights to Daughters of the Resistance: Valor, Fury and the Untold Story of Women Resistence Fighters In Hitler’s Ghettos, a book proposal from author Judy Batalion. DreamWorks Pictures will take on the film based on the book, a narrative history that details the…

EXCLUSIVE: Peter Sollett has been set to direct Match for DreamWorks Pictures. Scripted by Brenda Hsueh, the film is a romantic comedy set in a world where a federal agency finds your perfect match. Dylan Clark and Beau Bauman are producing for Dylan Clark Productions. Sollett's credits include Nick And Norah's Infinit…

Emmy-winning TV director Gail Mancuso has been tapped to direct Besties, a big, female-driven ensemble comedy in the works at DreamWorks Pictures that was written by Cassie Daniels and Mark Bartosic. DreamWorks/Amblin Partners along with Montecito Pictures beat out two other studios and slapped down low- to mid-six…

Universal has dropped the trailer to DreamWorks Pictures’s forthcoming war drama Thank You For Your Service, the directorial film from American Sniper scribe Jason Hall. Based on the David Finkel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book and adapted by Hall, the pic is due out in theaters October 27. Starring Miles Teller, Haley…

EXCLUSIVE: DreamWorks Pictures is looking for a few bad men. The production company just picked up the spec screenplay Bad Cop, Bad Cop written by Fortune Feimster, Brian Jarvis and Jim Freeman, with Feimster attached to star. Scott Stuber’s Bluegrass Films is also in talks to produce as what is being billed as an…

Showtime and Amblin Partners have inked an exclusive five-year deal for qualifying theatrical releases from Amblin Entertainment, DreamWorks and Participant Media films to air on Showtime networks. The pact,  which extends the existing relationship between DreamWorks Pictures and Showtime Networks, includes pics…