MGM has signed Smokehouse Pictures partners George Clooney and Grant Heslov to a two year first look deal. First up is an untitled film that Clooney will direct and possibly star in about controversial car engineer and designer John DeLorean. MGM Motion Picture Group president Jonathan Glickman made the deal. The film…

EXCLUSIVE: Chance The Rapper is at the center of Hope, an original movie musical that MGM will develop and finance. The three-time Grammy winner is partnered as producer with Haight Films' Pat Corcoran and Tradecraft's Scott Bernstein, latter of whom was a producer on Straight Outta Compton. Scripting will be Carlito…

MGM Motion Picture Group president Jonathan Glickman has promoted Cassidy Lange and Adam Rosenberg to be Co-Presidents of Production. They will report to Glickman, and will be charged with continuing to grow film franchises from re-imagined IP from the studio's library, and ramping up original productions. "Cassidy…

EXCLUSIVE: MGM is developing a new installment of RoboCop and has set District 9 director Neill Blomkamp to helm the picture, which is titled RoboCop Returns. The studio hopes to revive a franchise that began with the Paul Verhoeven-directed satirical sci-fi action thriller that Orion released in 1987. Original…