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EXCLUSIVE: One of the biggest music acts of the 1990s is getting the biopic treatment from Hollywood: A new film on rock band Sublime is in development Sony Pictures with The Hunger Games helmer Francis Lawrence attached to direct. Sony's 3000 Pictures, Chernin Entertainment, about:blank, Dave Kaplan and Peter Paterno…

EXCLUSIVE: The long-awaited feature film adaptation of the renowned video game franchise BioShock looks to be gaining momentum in a big way. Sources tell Deadline that Netflix has tapped Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence to helm the pic, with Michael Green adapting the script. The directing and writing assignment…

EXCLUSIVE:  Francis Lawrence is set to direct the feature take of Kevin J. Anderson and Steven L. Sears’ Stalag-X following New Republic Pictures winning the graphic novel’s rights. New Republic Founder Brian Oliver and President Bradley Fischer are producing alongside about:blank's Lawrence and Cameron MacConomy. Joy…

New Republic Pictures, Francis Lawrence's about:blank and Electric Shepherd Productions are teaming to adapt Philip K. Dick's novel Vulcan’s Hammer for the big screen, with Hunger Games sequels helmer Lawrence set to direct. Brian Oliver and Bradley Fischer of New Republic will produce alongside Lawrence and Cameron…

EXCLUSIVE: All pieces have fallen into place for Steel, a thriller drama set in 1970s London, starring and executive produced by Cynthia Erivo (Genius: Aretha Franklin, The Outsider). The project, teased by MRC Television President Elise Henderson in her Deadline interview in June, will be directed by Francis Lawrence…

EXCLUSIVE: Hunger Games franchise director Francis Lawrence and his about: blank production company have signed a first-look feature pic deal with New Republic Pictures. about:blank is run by Lawrence and producer Cameron MacConomy. "We are thrilled to be aligning with Brian, Brad and New Republic Pictures. They have…

Starz continues to double down on European royalty with its latest series order – an eight-part drama about Catherine de Medici. The cable network has ordered The Serpent Queen, based on Leonie Frieda's book Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France. It comes from writer and executive producer Justin Haythe…

“Yes, oh my God, endlessly came up,” Constantine producer Akiva Goldsman said Saturday about the “Want to do a sequel” clamor following Warner Bros’ 2005 DC Keanu Reeves movie about a cynical demonologist who can exorcise demons back to hell. “Boy, we wanted to make a sequel, We wanted to make a hard ‘R’ sequel; we’d…

Hunger Games series filmmaker Francis Lawrence is returning to helm the Lionsgate prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes based on Suzanne Collins’ new Scholastic novel which will be available for sale on May 19 in the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. Lawrence directed the last three Hun…

Aquaman and Frontier star Jason Momoa has been tapped as the lead of Apple's original drama series See, from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, director Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Mockingjay Parts 1 & 2) and the scripted drama venture of Peter Chernin's Chernin Entertainment and Endeavor…

EXCLUSIVE: Makeready has set Francis Lawrence to direct Five Faces of Maria, a fact-based drama that will go under the worldwide theatrical distribution deal with eOne and Universal Pictures that former New Regency CEO and Paramount president Brad Weston put in place when he launched the company. The film will be…

“When I was in Moscow,” a male voice intones during 20th Century Fox’s first trailer for its spy thriller Red Sparrow, “I heard about a program of young officers trained to seduce and manipulate. To use their bodies. To use everything. They call them sparrows. That's what she is." “She” is Jennifer Lawrence’s title…