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Solstice Studios will release a new cut of Mark Wahlberg's latest film under the new title Joe Bell on February 19, 2021, timed to the delayed 2020-21 awards season. Solstice, as Deadline first told you, picked up the movie at the Toronto Film Festival for $20 million. The movie was previously titled Good Joe…

EXCLUSIVE: Upstart Solstice Studios has won an auction for the Toronto buzz title Good Joe Bell, the Reinaldo Marcus Green-directed drama scripted by the Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain team of Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. The film stars Mark Wahlberg as the title character. Sources said the deal is around $20…

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Wahlberg canine adventure pic Arthur The King has moved from Paramount Players to Lionsgate for domestic and will enter the Cannes virtual market on the slate of eOne-backed international sales firm Sierra/Affinity. The film re-teams Wahlberg with his Contraband and 2 Guns director Baltasar Kormakur…

It has taken half a century since the 1969 TV debut of lovable great Dane Scooby-Doo to see an animated feature come to fruition, but its time has come and thus we have Scoob! The Warner Bros toon originally was scheduled to open wide in theaters today, but the studio scrapped those plans because of the coronavirus…

EXCLUSIVE: In a seven-figure deal, Netflix has acquired Our Man From Jersey, a star vehicle for Mark Wahlberg that will be scripted by Safe House writer David Guggenheim. Described as a blue collar 007, the film will be produced by Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson, who hatched the idea. Deals are being wrapped up…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has moved Infinite from its August 7 date to May 28, 2021. The studio believes that the Antoine Fuqua-directed and Lorenzo di Bonaventura-produced film has the goods to slot into what likely will be a crowded Memorial Day holiday corridor. The film, which stars Mark Wahlberg and Chiwetel E…

HBO Max has given an eight-episode series order to Wahl Street, a docuseries that takes an inside look at the life of Mark Wahlberg, starring and produced by Wahlberg. Per HBO Max, Wahl Street “offers fans a glimpse into global star Mark Wahlberg's life as he juggles the demands of a rigorous film schedule coupled…

Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said Tuesday that the streamer's army of nominations and awards — flowing freely this season — is a magnet for top talent and an insurance policy of sorts to attract A-listers in a cycle of prestige content to keep and attract viewers. Every nod and statuette furthers the…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures is racing to keep Uncharted on track to shoot before the next installment of Spider-Man with Tom Holland. Deadline hears that Ruben Fleischer is atop the list to direct Holland and Mark Wahlberg in the film. Sony was moving on an accelerated track that knocked out Laika’s Travis Knight late…

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Holland's Spider-Man schedule is crunching Uncharted's timeline and sources said that will cost the picture Travis Knight, the Laika animation wiz who made his live action directing debut on the Transformers spinoff Bumblebee. It looks like the movie will get pushed, but Holland and Mark Wahlberg…

Mark Wahlberg is in final talks to star opposite Tom Holland in Sony Pictures’ Uncharted, the long-in-the-works film adaptation of the bestselling PlayStation action-adventure video game. Deadline confirmed Wednesday that Holland officially is aboard to topline the movie, which moved forward in September when Travis Kn…

2 Guns director Baltasar Kormakur is returning to work with that pic’s star Mark Wahlberg for Paramount Players’ Arthur the King, which reportedly will shoot during the first half of 2020. The pic is based on the 2017 book Arthur: The Dog Who Crossed the Jungle to Find a Home by Mikael Lindnord, who was the captain of…