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EXCLUSIVE: Even with Venom: Let There Be Carnage and Morbius postponed until 2021, Sony Pictures is continuing to build up its slate of Marvel films. Sources tell Deadline that J.C. Chandor is in talks to direct Sony’s Kraven the Hunter, the latest film to gain momentum in the studio’s Universe of Marvel…

“You cannot go back to your normal life after tonight. You guys need to own the fact that what we’re about to do is criminal,” warns Ben Affleck’s character in the newly released trailer for the J.C. Chandor-directed Netflix film Triple Frontier. Affleck heads the A-list ensemble that includes Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunn…

“Do we finally get to use our skills for our own benefit?” is the question that resonates through the new trailer for the forthcoming Netflix action-drama Triple Frontier. J.C. Chandor directs the feature co-written by him and Mark Boal about a group of former Special Forces operatives played by Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaa…

EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Gertrude Shapiro, the creator-producer of Lifetime’s UnReal, is planning to make her feature film directing debut on a story garnered from some of the most heroic women in the world: the 100-plus female army fighting against ISIS whose members suffered through the Yazidi genocide in Iraq and then…

EXCLUSIVE: There might be hope for Triple Frontier, the J.C. Chandor-directed, Charles Roven-produced drama that was four weeks from a production start when Paramount dropped out along with Channing Tatum and Tom Hardy. Since Deadline revealed all this April 12, conversations have been ongoing with several suitors…

EXCLUSIVE: I have been hearing that things have been going sideways the past few days on Paramount's Triple Frontier, and now I’ve confirmed that Paramount has dropped out of the drama that J.C. Chandor was supposed to start production on next month. Channing Tatum and Tom Hardy also are officially out. Given how hard…

Following collaborations on A Most Violent Year and All Is Lost, FilmNation Entertainment is reteaming with J.C. Chandor to develop The Robber. A remake of Benjamin Heisenberg’ German/Austrian film Der Raüber, which was based on Martin Prinz’s novella of the same title, it has Neal Dodson, Anna Gerb and Chandor…

Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr. broke the news in June that A Most Violent Year director J.C. Chandor was in early discussions to direct Triple Frontier, the Paramount Pictures drama that was to be spearheaded by Zero Dark Thirty helmer Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal. Now Chandor’s deal is done, and the…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director J.C. Chandor just signed with CAA. The filmmaker moved after he exited the film Deepwater Horizon at Summit over creative differences. He had been repped by WME, and had a pretty admirable run there. Chandor had a long career directing commercials, but his ascension has been fast since…

The last major film festival of the fall season announced its highly anticipated opening night film this morning, and it is writer/director J.C. Chandor’s and Participant Media’s  A Most Violent Year. That’s a bit of a surprise for the AFI Fest 2014 Presented By Audi, as it is going out through upstart distributor…

A24 has slotted a December 31 release date for J.C. Chandor’s A Most Violent Year. The pic will open in NYC and Los Angeles on that date, then expand nationally. Chandor is currently completing the film starring Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain for A24, FilmNation and Participant Media.  A Most Violent Year…

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Wahlberg is in talks to star in the J.C. Chandor-directed Deepwater Horizon for Lionsgate’s Summit Entertainment and Participant Media. Based on the true-life story of the 2010 BP oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico which caused the worst oil spill since the Exxon Valdez, the movie is being…