EXCLUSIVE: Gore Verbinski, who had come aboard to direct the long-in-the-works X-Men spinoff Gambit, is pulling off of the 20th Century Fox movie. This was an amicable split, we hear, owing to scheduling issues with several other projects on the director’s plate. Channing Tatum remains aboard as the lead role.

Fox has …

EXCLUSIVE: I’m hearing that Gore Verbinski is making a deal to direct Gambit at Fox. The X-Men spinoff has been a high priority at the studio, since Channing Tatum stepped up to star in the film as Remy LeBeau, the suave mutant from New Orleans who can turn objects into projectiles. That includes a deck of cards. Free…

Two months after former New Regency president and CEO Brad Weston launched Makeready, his Entertainment One-backed independent studio and financier for film, television and branded content, he has tapped HBO-Cinemax executive Scott Nemes to head the company's television division, which continues to build its…

Gore Verbinski is a talented director who landed in movie jail with his bloated The Lone Ranger for Disney. But he hasn’t fared much better by shifting from Westerns to the horror genre with the intriguingly titled A Cure For Wellness, which at 146 minutes takes itself way too seriously while also taking its time. As…

Fox has dropped a new trailer for Gore Verbinski’s A Cure For Wellness starring Dane DeHaan. The psychological horror pic sees an ambitious young executive (DeHaan) sent to an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center." He soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem. His sanity is tested…

EXCLUSIVE: ICM Partners has just sent out the internal announcement that makes it official: Spencer Baumgarten has joined the agency as a partner, bringing the agent and his clients to the lit department. This follows his exit today from CAA, where he spent 12 years. It isn’t clear yet which clients Baumgarten will be…

20th Century Fox has just pushed out its marketing materials for Gore Verbinski’s psychological horror film A Cure For Wellness which will be released to theaters next year on February 17. The film, which is a U.S.-Germany co-production, was written by Justin Haythe (Revolutionary Road, The Clearing) and produced by…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has acquired an untitled pitch that Steve Conrad will write and Gore Verbinski will direct. It’s untitled but is being called the Driverless Car Race pic. It’s a large scale action adventure comedy that’s best described as a transcontinental car race with autonomous vehicles. The race…

EXCLUSIVE: Shortly after Deadline revealed that New Regency had scrapped a project he planned to direct with Steve Carell with a North Korea setting, director Gore Verbinski has expressed his frustration that his movie was a casualty of the unprecedented hack attack and terrorist threat that caused Sony to cancel the…

EXCLUSIVE: The chilling effect of the Sony Pictures hack and terrorist threats against The Interview are reverberating. New Regency has scrapped another project that was to be set in North Korea. The untitled thriller, set up in October, was being developed by director Gore Verbinski as a star vehicle for Foxcatcher…

EXCLUSIVE: Gore Verbinski will direct Steve Carell in an untitled paranoid thriller that New Regency will put in production in March. It’s the first project in the multiyear deal between Blind Wink and New Regency, and several others will follow in quick succession. The script was written by Steve Conrad, whose…

Brad Pitt, opening this weekend in World War Z, has issued a statement on the passing of James Gandolini at age 51. They starred together, along with Julia Roberts in the Gore Verbinski-directed The Mexican, a movie that came along just as Gandolfini was watching his star rise because of The Sopranos. More recently…