Chappel McCollister has been hired as senior vice president of Strategic Partnerships at Paradigm Talent Agency. McCollister will be based in the agency’s Nashville office and represent music clients with a focus on the Nashville roster across a range of areas, including brand & corporate partnerships, premium VIP…

Lionsgate has entered a first-look film and television deal with helmer Jonathan Levine, director of the Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron-led romantic comedy, Long Shot, which will hit theaters this weekend. Under the deal, Levine and his partner Gillian Bohrer will base their new production company Megamix at the…

“I didn’t want to talk I’m too drunk,” said director Jonathan Levine after the screening of the world premiere of his film Long Shot on Saturday at SXSW. Levine, who was joined on the stage by stars Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen, O’Shea Jackson, June Diane Raphael and Ravi Patel, admitted that he was nervous that no one…

Director Jonathan Levine will team with Black-ish creator Kenya Barris on a sequel to Eddie Murphy’s 1988 hit Coming to America, Deadline has confirmed. Barris will rewrite a Barry Blaustein & David Sheffield script. Murphy is expected to reprise his role for the Paramount sequel, though nothing’s been…

Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen are set to star in and produce Flarsky, a comedy feature written by Dan Sterling and directed by Jonathan Levine. It centers on an unemployed journalist (Rogen), battered by his own misfortune and self-destructive ways, who endeavors to pursue his childhood crush and babysitter who now…

EXCLUSIVE: BET, coming off ratings records for its New Edition miniseries, has given the green light to another music-infused period scripted project based on the story of a famous performer. The network has ordered a pilot for Street Dreams, an hourlong series from Rush creator Jonathan Levine. It is executive…

Fox has bought Miami-set drama 305, from Endemol Shine Studios, with a script commitment plus penalty. Written by Sascha Penn (Survivor’s Remorse) and directed by Jonathan Levine (Warm Bodies), 305 — named after the Miami area code — is executive produced by Miami-born-and-raised rapper Armando Perez, known by his…

EXCLUSIVE: Warm Bodies helmer Jonathan Levine has been offered and is in early talks to direct the Fox film that Amy Schumer hopes to make her follow-up to the summer hit Trainwreck. The film's an untitled mother-daughter relationship story that takes place on a vacation gone wrong. It was scripted by Katie Dippold…

Welcome, extremely fun people. A Very Harold And Kumar Christmas finally has the perfect double feature companion for when you’re completely blotto during the holidays and need something to watch, and of course it’s from the other reigning kings of stoner comedy. Sony Pictures gives you The Night Before, a drug fueled…

EXCLUSIVE: As Sony Pictures preps The Dark Tower (talks are starting with Nikolaj Arcel to direct) and the Paul Feig-directed Ghostbusters as new franchises, and prepares to compete to re-up for the right to keep making James Bond movies when its deal expires after the upcoming Spectre (as our sister publication…

EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of the massive opening of Avengers: Age Of Ultron, it’s no surprise that the audition process everybody’s talking about is the selection of a director for the next iteration of Sony Pictures’ live-action Spider-Man franchise, the first one that teams rights holder Sony Pictures with Marvel…

Three months after rescuing Jonathan Levine‘s horror thriller All The Boys Love Mandy Lane from distribution purgatory and seven years after the Amber Heard-starrer was filmed, Radius-TWC has set fall theatrical and VOD dates for the film. The Texas-set slasher will hit VOD September 6 followed by an October 11…