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EXCLUSIVE: Captain America and The Purge star Frank Grillo is set to star in action movie Hounds Of War for Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment (Independence Day: Resurgence), which will sell the movie internationally. The movie will follow a group of mercenaries who take on jobs that are considered impossible. After…

EXCLUSIVE: Dean Devlin's (Independence Day) Electric Entertainment has sold new series Leverage: Redemption to Bell Media in Canada and Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland in Germany. The buyers have picked up all 16 episodes of the Leverage spinoff in deals closed by Sonia Mehandjiyska, Head of International Distribution…

EXCLUSIVE: Dean Devlin’s (Independence Day) Electric Entertainment has acquired world sales rights to completed drama California Love, based the true story of Joanne Lee-Beck's life with gang member Jay Hunter, as they both fought racial injustice in the 1990's against the backdrop of the Rodney King verdict and the…

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…

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: WGN America has acquired 10 episodes of drama series Almost Paradise, from Electric Entertainment. A premiere date and time will be announced later. Starring Christian Kane (The Librarians, Leverage, Angel), Almost Paradise centers on Alex Walker (Kane), a former US DEA agent who was forced into early…

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…

UPDATED with release date info: Electric Entertainment has acquired North American rights to LBJ, director Rob Reiner's pic toplined by Woody Harrelson as the 36th President. The company has now set a November 10, 2017 bow for the pic, which premiered at Toronto and co-stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Richard Jenkins, Bill…

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…

The Orchard has acquired all North American rights to Junction 48, director Udi Aloni's film inspired by Palestinian rapper Tamer Nafar, who stars as Kareem, a rapper who leads an aimless life between odd jobs and hanging out with his buddies in a crime-ridden Arab ghetto of the mixed city of Lyd. Junction 48 won the…