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EXCLUSIVE: Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to For the Love of Money, a crime drama directed by Leslie Small that stars Keri Hilson and Katt Williams. The distributor plans to release the pic via its Freestyle Releasing, in association with Global View Entertainment, in 750…

EXCLUSIVE: Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures has acquired global rights to Ghost Boys, Jewell Parker Rhodes’ 2018 novel for young readers that weaves genres to explore what happens after a Black child is killed by a white police officer. Amy Baer (Last Vegas, Brian Banks, Mary Shelly) and Michael…

EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Signer, who has held executive posts at Dimension Films, AwesomenessTV and most recently Quibi, has been hired as EVP Production & Content at Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group. He will report directly to Allen and is based in Los Angeles. In the new position, Signer will focus on the development and…

Reid Sullivan has been hired as the Chief Financial Officer at Byron Allen-founded Entertainment Studios in the motion picture division. Sullivan spent 11 years as the CFO at CBS Films, where helped launch the division of CBS Corporation. As CFO of Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures, Sullivan will oversee all…

Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures has obtained the U.S.  theatrical distribution rights to The Wedding Year, a romantic comedy led by Modern Family star Sarah Hyland, who also serves as an executive producer, and Tyler James Williams. Lakeshore Entertainment acquired the spec script written by television…

Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to All Rise, the drama written and directed by Anthony Mandler that premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival as Monster. The pic based on Walter Dean Myers’ New York Times-bestselling novel of that name is now headed for a fall 2019 domestic…

Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable, the documentary that catches the world up on Hamilton, the pro surfer who returned to competition a year after she lost an arm in a shark attack when she was just 13. The film from Aaron Lieber shows Hamilton more…

Byron Allen’s distribution label Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures has picked up U.S. rights to Arctic Dogs, the animated film featuring the voices of Jeremy Renner, Alec Baldwin and Angelica Huston. The movie, formerly known as Arctic Justice, was previously on the slate of Open Road, which filed for bankruptcy…

It is not easy to get a Western made these days, particularly one that has serious ideas. Fortunately, writer-director Scott Cooper found financing for Hostiles, a film with much more on its mind than the pitfalls of the well-worn, currently not-often-attempted genre that in this case tries to make a case for racial…

Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures became the latest new distributor to join Deadline’s annual The Contenders event when it brought Hostiles to our seventh edition of the awards-season kickoff last month. Joining director-writer Scott Cooper and me in conversation about the Western were co-stars Wes…

EXCLUSIVE: Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures has finished its first trailer for the Scott Cooper-directed Hostiles, and you can watch it right here. The Western, which Allen acquired after its premiere at Telluride and Toronto, stars Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike and Wes Studi. It will be platformed…

"I recall Robert Duvall telling me, 'The English have Shakespeare; the French have Molière; we, as Americans, have Westerns,” Hostiles writer-director Scott Cooper told Deadline’s Pete Hammond at The Contenders today, appearing with stars Wes Studi and Q’orianka Kilcher. “I’m really pleased to have been able to work…