EXCLUSIVE: Joachim Rønning, who helmed Jerry Bruckheimer’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales for Disney, is in talks to direct another Disney tentpole franchise: the sequel to the studio’s 2014 worldwide box office hit Maleficent. Angelina Jolie confirmed to Deadline last month that she will to return…

EXCLUSIVE: Amblin Entertainment is negotiating with Joachim Rønning to direct Micro, the final novel written by Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park and the screenwriter and director of 1973’s Westworld. Darren Lemke has written the script. Frank Marshall is producing and Sherri Crichton and Laurent Bouzereau are…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has made a preemptive deal for Origin, a pitch by Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales director Joachim Rønning. Rønning will write the script with his brother, Andreas Rønning, and he will direct it. Pirates producer Jerry Bruckheimer will produce through his Paramount-based…

EXCLUSIVE: It looks like David Heyman's biblical epic Methuselah with Warner Bros and Tom Cruise is revving up with Joachim Rønning, who is fresh off directing what is touted to be Disney’s 2017 summer blockbuster, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, attached to direct. Warner Bros and Heyman have been…

Kon-Tiki helmers Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg have been busy at home and abroad since their seafaring third feature scored an Oscar nomination last year. They are currently half-way through post on Beatles, a 1960s Oslo-set coming-of-age story that they’re producing and which releases in Norway on August 29th…

EXCLUSIVE: As Deadline Hollywood predicted last month, the Kon-Tiki directing team of Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg have landed the job directing Pirates Of The Caribbean 5. Disney, Johnny Depp and producer Jerry Bruckheimer have all signed off on the choice, and negotiations are underway on a deal that will make…

EXCLUSIVE: Legendary Pictures and Norwegian Kon-Tiki helmers Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg have parted company on Spectral, a big project they signed on to direct in January with much fanfare. It was their first studio deal, made around the time their pic was creating Oscar buzz for Best Foreign Language film…

Norwegian directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg drew keen attention from Hollywood in the wake of their Oscar-nominated sea-faring adventure Kon-Tiki, pacting with Legendary Pictures on supernatural project Spectral and becoming involved with a sci-fi period piece at J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot. Closer to home for…

EXCLUSIVE: Norwegian helmers Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg, whose film Kon-Tiki was Oscar nominated today for Best Foreign Language Film, are near a deal to make their first big splashy Hollywood helming deal. They are signing a 7-figure pact to direct Spectral for Legendary Pictures. The script, based on a…