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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…

Michael B. Jordan is opening up about how important it was for him to make Creed III more “honest to the sport of boxing” by incorporating elements of Mexican culture. Fans of the boxing franchise got a glimpse of Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez making an appearance in the trailer for the new film. The…

MGM has unveiled the first official trailer for its anticipated boxing pic Creed III, marking the feature directorial debut of franchise lead Michael B. Jordan, which is slated for release via United Artists Releasing on March 3, 2023. An offshoot of the classic boxing franchise Rocky, starring…

EXCLUSIVE: Laura Neal, who was lead writer and exec producer of the fourth and final season of BBC America's Killing Eve, is getting into business with MGM Television. Neal, whose other credits include Netflix's Sex Education, has struck a multi-year overall deal with the Amazon-owned production…

EXCLUSIVE: The MGM Snoop Dogg sports comedy The Underdoggs has added Tika Sumpter, Mike Epps, Andrew Schulz and George Lopez while casting the kid team of actors which includes Jonigan Booth, Adan James Carrillo, Kylah Davila, Caleb Dixon, Alexander Michael Gordon and Shamori Washington. Billed as The…

After closing an $8.45 billion deal last year to buy MGM, the longtime home of the James Bond franchise, Amazon has announced that 25 Bond films are heading to Prime Video in the U.S., UK and a few other territories. The move is hailed as part of the franchise’s 60th anniversary.RELATED: Photo Gallery: James…

MGM and The Black List have named Alex Liu as the third recipient to receive a two-step Guild minimum open script deal as part of their two-year feature film script writing partnership. The fourth and final opt-in period of the partnership, whose mission is to discover new voices from historically underrepresented…