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EXCLUSIVE: Apple Studios has committed to finance and produce Kitbag, the Napoleon Bonaparte epic that Ridley Scott will direct, with Oscar-winning Joker star Joaquin Phoenix playing the French emperor and military leader. Production will begin in early 2022 in the UK. Deadline last October revealed the aspirations of…

EXCLUSIVE: Ridley Scott will team with Joaquin Phoenix for Kitbag, with the Oscar-winning Joker star to play French military leader and emperor Napoleon. Pic is set at 20th Century Studios, where Scott Free has its deal. This comes as Scott today wraps production on The Last Duel in Ireland for 20th. Scott has…

EXCLUSIVE: In a last fevered auction before the holidays, Netflix prevailed and paid high six figures for First Ascent, a genre script by Colin Bannon with a female lead set in the world of mountain climbing. The project injects a genre element to a dangerous sport and was likened to The Shining meets Free Solo. Jake S…

EXCLUSIVE: Scott Free Films and New Sparta Films will team on Neither Confirm Nor Deny, the true story of the CIA secret mission to recover a nuclear Soviet submarine three miles under the Pacific Ocean. The companies have just acquired the David H. Sharp book The CIA’s Greatest Covert Operation. At the height of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Ridley Scott has promoted Michael Pruss to Executive Vice President of his L.A.-based production company Scott Free. This comes less than three weeks after he set Manchester by the Sea producer Kevin Walsh to become company president. The move reinforces Pruss’ position at the Fox-based company. He produced…

EXCLUSIVE: Ridley Scott has hired veteran producer Kevin Walsh as new president of his Scott Free Films banner. Walsh, who is riding high as producer of the Kenneth Lonergan-directed Manchester By The Sea, has been readying the Michael Gracey-directed P.T. Barnum Fox musical The Greatest Showman, on which he is…