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Former Warner Bros exec and Vertigo Entertainment partner Jonathan Berg has been hired as President of Production at Stampede Ventures, tasked with overseeing day-to-day development and film production at the company run by Greg Silverman and Gideon Yu. The move reunites Silverman and Berg, who worked together at…

Emmy-writing writer Mo Willems is bringing his work to the small screen. In a competitive situation, HBO Max has signed an exclusive, multi-year deal with Willems, establishing the beloved children’s author as HBO Max’s first artist in residence. As part of the two-year deal, HBO Max has acquired streaming rights to…

EXCLUSIVE: Greg Silverman's Stampede Ventures' International Division has partnered with Australian production company KOJO Entertainment to develop a slate of features and TV series geared for the international market. The projects will be fully produced in Australia with a focus on Australian Intellectual Properties…

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Pine is attached to play iconic CBS newsman Walter Cronkite in Newsflash. This is the Ben Jacoby-scripted drama that takes place on November 22, 1963, the day President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Texas. Similar to the cultural atom-splitting moments captured in films like The Social Network, Ne…

Greg Silverman's Stampede and Vertigo Entertainment are teaming on Sunburnt Country, a feature adaptation of the gritty novel by Australian author Gabriel Bergmoser. The book tells the tale of millennial backpackers Maggie and Simon as they go off-roading in the Australian wilderness and stumble upon a reclusive…

EXCLUSIVE: Greg Silverman's Stampede is developing Chris Van Dusen’s children book series If I Built for the big screen, Deadline has learned. The books include such titles as If I Built a Car and If I Built a House. The former won the 2006 E. B. White Read Aloud Award while the latter took the 2013 NEIBA Children's…

EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment media company Stampede, founded by former Warner Bros. Pictures president Greg Silverman, announced today that they are producing the live one-hour special of Mo Willems & the Storytime All-Stars present Don't Let the Pigeon Do Storytime at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts…

EXCLUSIVE: Stampede, the indie media company founded by former Warner Bros Pictures President Greg Silverman, has partnered with veteran reality producer producer Phil Gurin (Singing Bee, Shark Tank) in a non-exclusive agreement to develop new unscripted and alternative programming for a global audience. The…

Ex-Warner Bros president Greg Silverman has set Pink Skies Ahead as the first film to be made through his Stampede label. Kelly Oxford wrote the script and will make her feature directing debut, and Jessica Barden will star. Pink Skies Ahead tells the story of a wild young woman whose life unravels after dropping out…

EXCLUSIVE: Stampede, the indie media company founded by former Warner Bros Pictures President Greg Silverman, has acquired bestselling author Ragnar Jonasson’s Icelandic thriller The Darkness and will adapt it as a local-language series. The competitive acquisition heading into the London Book Fair marks Stampede’s…

Greg Silverman and Gideon Yu’s entertainment company Stampede has hired Chris Bosco as its new president. Bosco arrives after serving as COO at indie production and finance company IM Global. Stampede announced the hire Friday, when it also said it had inked a first-look deal with Snail, one of China’s largest video…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix will make a CG-animated feature film inspired by the childhood of Haitian singer and The Fugees co-founder Wyclef Jean. Greg Silverman’s upstart production company Stampede is partnering with the three-time Grammy Award-winning musician to produce the film. Script will be written by Justin Marks…