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EXCLUSIVE: MGM is repping sales on the new movie version of Long Day's Journey Into Night, starring Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ben Foster and Colin Morgan.  As we reported Monday, filming has wrapped on the under-the-radar screen adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer prize-winning play. Well…

MGM COO Chris Brearton, who was just named VP, PVS (Prime Video Studios) Corporate Strategy, MGM+ and MGM Alternative, has unveiled his team. Related Story Amazon Studios' Jennifer Salke Adds MGM Oversight, MGM's Chris Brearton To Take Over MGM+ & MGM Alternative TV In a…

It’s official – Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios, will also oversee MGM, the venerable film and TV studio, which was acquired by Amazon earlier this year for $8.5 billion. Additionally, MGM’s COO Chris Brearton will take on a new role, VP, PVS Corporate Strategy, MGM+ and MGM Alternative Television…

It's been a busy week at Amazon as the restructure involving MGM takes hold. Deadline revealed earlier today that Lindsay Sloane and Rola Bauer were handed key roles within MGM's new scripted TV structure. Related Story Amazon Studios Restructures MGM TV Scripted Operations: Leader…

EXCLUSIVE: After recently restructuring Amazon Studios’ original content operations, Head of Television Vernon Sanders now is setting up the MGM scripted TV leadership with new roles for Lindsay Sloane, Senior EVP of MGM Scripted TV, and Rola Bauer, President of International TV for MGM. He laid out the…

Mark Burnett, Chairman of MGM's Worldwide Television Group, is exiting after the company's $8.5B acquisition by Amazon. Burnett is leaving the company and will return to "independently creating and innovating" but will continue to oversee his legacy series, which include Survivor, Shark Tank and The V…

Exhibition stocks were up today on news from Bloomberg that Amazon is going to commit a reported $1 billion to theatrical releases annually. We hear that such a plan is truly in its early days — read Amazon doesn’t have an executive yet to lead MGM theatrical. Capisce? Since Amazon bought MGM, it…

Women Talking director Sarah Polley, stars Claire Foy and Ben Whishaw and the film’s two-time Oscar-winning producer Dede Gardner talked Saturday about creating a safe space on the set to explore trauma. The foursome made up a panel for the pic Saturday at Deadline’s The Contenders Film: Los…

Romance and cannibalism might seem like an unlikely pairing, but that's exactly why Bones and All screenwriter David Kajganich thought that only director Luca Guadagnino could do justice to his script, which he adapted from Camille DeAngelis' 2015 novel.  "This really interesting and intimate story…

Till tells the powerful story of Mamie Till-Mobley's fight for justice after her 14-year-old son Emmett Till was lynched in rural Mississippi in 1955.The drama from Orion Pictures, MGM Pictures and United Artists Releasing stars Danielle Deadwyler as Mamie Till-Mobley and Jalyn Hall as Emmett Till. Chinony…

EXCLUSIVE: The process of integrating MGM into the broader Amazon universe is starting to gain momentum eight months after the $8.5B sale by the tech giant was completed. Deadline understands that employees across MGM's television and film business who have contracts have been offered one-year…

Friday, we hear, is Courtenay Valenti’s last day as Warner Bros President of Production and Development after we told you first last month that she was exiting the Burbank, CA lot after a 33-year run. Valenti is a free agent, with no strings attached to Warner Bros iscovery, I hear, and given her…