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MGM has signed Channing Tatum, Reid Carolin, and Peter Kiernan's label, Free Association, to a first-look film production deal. The news comes after MGM has acquired North American rights to distribute Dog, the directorial debut from Tatum and Carolin that will hit theaters sometime this year. "We jumped at the chance…

HBO is developing a limited series about the rise of SpaceX, Elon Musk’s private rocket company that is in the midst of reviving the United States’ space aspirations. Produced by Channing Tatum’s Free Association, the six-episode series would tells the story of Musk as he handpicks a team of engineers to work on a…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one. Channing Tatum is set to make his directing debut on Dog, a road-trip comedy tracking a former Army Ranger and his dog that he will star in and co-helm with regular collaborator Reid Carolin. We hear the project is coming together quickly on the eve of the American Film Market and that Film…

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off of winning two Emmy awards for his work on the HBO limited series, Chernobyl, Johan Renck has signed on to direct Spaceman of Bohemia, a film adaptation to the 2017 novel by Jaroslav Kalfař. The pic is set up under Channing Tatum’s Free Association and Tango Entertainment. Colby Day is adapting…

EXCLUSIVE: Sources have informed Deadline that Channing Tatum, his production company Free Association and its principals Reid Carolin and Peter Kiernan are signing with CAA for representation in all areas. Writer-producer-director Carolin has also signed with CAA individually. The move comes after Tatum in January par…

STX Entertainment has come aboard to distribute and oversee production on Tencent Pictures and Channing Tatum, Reid Carolin and Peter Kiernan's Free Association’s film adaptation of the mega-hit Zombie Brother, which is the top title on Tencent’s digital comics and animation platform. According to STX, “Since 2011…

Channing Tatum’s Free Association has teamed with Marc Turtletaub and Peter Saraf’s Big Beach to option Zack McDermott’s book Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love, for TV series development. Demolition scribe Bryan Sipe is attached to pen the adaptation and executive produce. The memoir…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix continues to broaden its feature film slate, negotiating toward a pre-emptive acquisition of Yuba, a spec script by newcomer writer Eamon O’Sullivan. The film will be produced by Free Association’s Channing Tatum, Reid Carolin and Peter Kiernan, along with Vertigo’s Roy Lee and Energy…

Channing Tatum, Reid Carolin and Peter Kiernan continue to bolster the ranks at their new production company Free Association. They’ve tapped Nellie Stevens-Reed to head their television department as a VP. Stevens-Reed comes to Free Association from David Goyer’s Phantom Four Films, where she was Head of Development…

Management 360 partner and board member Peter Kiernan has exited to join his clients Channing Tatum and Reid Carolin as a partner in their newly renamed production company Free Association. Kiernan co-managed Tatum and Carolin with 360’s William Choi for more than a decade, joining the firm at its inception in 2002…