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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…

2oth Century Fox dropped a trailer for Red Sparrow, the movie that reteams Jennifer Lawrence with her Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence. Deadline broke the story about this pic, based on Jason Matthews’ novel about a Russian ballerina-turned-spy seductress, or Red Sparrow. Her target? A CIA guy played by Joel…

EXCLUSIVE: Ciaran Hinds, who was recently seen in Martin Scorsese's Silence and boxing biopic Bleed For This, has boarded Fox’s Red Sparrow, a film adaptation based on Jason Matthews’ espionage novel. He joins Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeremy Irons, and Joely Richardson in the thriller…

FX has put in development Basilisk, a drama from former The Bastard Executioner and The Walking Dead writer Curtis Gwinn and The Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence. Written by Gwinn, Basilisk is described as a gritty horror series that follows an atheistic college therapist and her computer-genius patient as they…

EXCLUSIVE: The long-awaited big-screen transfer of the Glen Larson 1978 TV series is moving forward at Universal. Lisa Joy, who scripted and is exec producer on HBO’s series Westworld, is writing the script. Francis Lawrence is circling the movie to direct. Bluegrass Films partners Scott Stuber and Dylan Clark are…

EXCLUSIVE: Collateral Beauty‘s screenwriter Allan Loeb has come aboard to adapt the Evan Mandery time travel novel Q which is set up at Lionsgate. Matt Tolmach, Erwin Stoff and Francis Lawrence are producing the story about a 30-year-old guy who meets the woman of his dreams and life could not be better, but right…