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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…

Greg Silverman's Stampede announced the promotion of Cara Fano to Director of Development, Film & TV. Under her supervision, the company is set to produce a movie based on the popular video game Dance Dance Revolution. The project will explore a world on the brink of destruction where the only hope is to unite through…

Stampede, the indie media company formed by former Warner Bros president Greg Silverman, has brought on producer and executive Lisa Zambri as the new head of film. In this post, Zambri will oversee all film projects at the company and work to bolster Stampede’s slate, which includes recently announced projects such as…

EXCLUSIVE: Stampede, the indie media company formed by former Warner Bros president Greg Silverman, continues to scoop up book deals for its growing slate. It has just acquired movie rights to Devastation Class, an unpublished sci-fi novel co-written by filmmakers Glen Zipper and Elaine Mongeon. The novel follows an…