EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is taking on a key character from the King Arthur legend, Lady of the Lake. The Internet network has teamed with famed comic book writer/artist Frank Miller (Sin City) and writer/producer Tom Wheeler (Puss In Boots) for original drama series Cursed. Netflix has given a 10-episode order to the…

Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business FLEMING: Since I first read John Steinbeck's novelized version of The Acts Of King Arthur And His Noble Knights taken from Thomas…

With Sony’s Life and Paramount’s Baywatch respectively impacting the spring and summer schedule next year, Warner Bros. is making a point to ensure that its assets have the best launch too. The Ryan Reynolds sci-fi thriller Life is landing on March 24 now, so Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur gallops away to May 12, Mothers…

Guy Ritchie’s untitled King Arthur film is moving to Presidents Day weekend. Warner Bros said today the film starring Charlie Hunnam as the British folk hero will open February 17, 2017. It’s part of a plan to capitalize on kids on winter break holidays — not just here in the States but also overseas, where the title…

Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell’s Safehouse Pictures, which had been housed at Warner Bros under Akiva Goldsman’s deal, has signed its own two-year overall deal with Sony Pictures. Harold hatched the multi-part King Arthur film series that will star Charlie Hunnam, and this becomes the latest writer-centric creative…

EXCLUSIVE: Going into his seventh and final season as the prince of the motorcycle club in Sons Of Anarchy, Charlie Hunnam will next have the opportunity to rise to king. Hunnam is director Guy Ritchie’s choice to play King Arthur in the epic Warner Bros project hatched by Joby Harold and intended to span six films…

Warner Bros and Village Roadshow Pictures have slotted the Guy Ritchie-helmed King Arthur for July 22, 2016. As we reported back in January, Ritchie was circling the project, a tentpole fantasy retelling of the Arthur legend. This new version was created by Joby Harold, who wrote the script for the first film…

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Schwartz has been hired as VP Film and Television at Weed Road/Safehouse Pictures, the shingle run by Akiva Goldsman, Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell. This marks a return for Schwartz, who began his career in development at Weed Road after a stint at ICM. He most recently has been an exec at Hutch Parker…

EXCLUSIVE: After numerous attempts by Warner Bros to make a new version of the King Arthur legend, I’m hearing that Guy Ritchie is again looking to make the movie. This one is a tentpole fantasy retelling of the Arthur legend, meant to span six films. It was created by Joby Harold, who wrote the script for the first…