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Starz is asking a U.S. District Court judge to deny a motion by MGM to dismiss the pay TV network’s lawsuit that claims the studio violated exclusivity provisions on more than 300 movies and TV titles. In a filing earlier this week, Starz argued that the contention in MGM Domestic Television Distribution’s motion to di…

Eight-time Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper is in talks for MGM’s untitled Paul Thomas Anderson movie. Deadline first told you that the movie’s domestic release was heading from Focus Features to MGM. There is a chance still that Universal could be involved with the pic’s foreign release, which is being determined. While…

EXCLUSIVE: Epix comedy documentary series Unprotected Sets is moving from television to podcasting with a 12-episode audio series. MGM and Audio Up, the podcasting company that the studio invested in earlier this year, will launch the series on August 5. It is the latest MGM series to move into the podcast form after…

A dispute over rights to a Sin City TV series and a Hard Boiled film have turned hardcore between Cursed co-creator Frank Miller and producer Stephen L'Heureux. Hardcore to the tune of more than $25 million, as a defamation and economic-interference lawsuit from the Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For producer…

Groundbreaking ideas seem in short supply at the moment. This summer's streamer hits drew big audiences but did not resonate in terms of novelty. Charlize Theron returns as a lethal and immortal mercenary in The Old Guard. Tom Hanks again calmly captains a World War II warship in Greyhound. Most of the “new” original…

EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of the great response from Jennifer Hudson’s performance of Aretha Franklin’s “Young, Gifted & Black” on the BET Awards and the 60-second trailer that followed, MGM/United Artists Releasing is now going wide with its biopic about the legendary performer on January 15, 2021, MLK weekend. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Lauren Lake’s Paternity Court will soon be available as a podcast. MGM and Audio Up, the newly launched podcast content production studio, platform and network, are set to launch a new podcast based on the studio’s Emmy-winning, nationally syndicated courtroom series. Additionally, Lake has expanded her…

EXCLUSIVE, UPDATED: We hear that Paul Thomas Anderson’s new 1970s San Fernando Valley movie is jumping from Focus Features to MGM. Neither studio would confirm, but we know it’s a deal that’s going down, according to sources. The production is leaving the Universal specialty label that made his Best Picture…

MGM claims that Starz is turning a “routine licensing dispute” into “an overblown federal copyright case,” as it seeks to dismiss almost all of the pay TV network’s allegations that the studio’s television division violated exclusivity provisions on more than 300 movies and TV titles. In a motion to dismiss filed in…

UPDATED, 3:39 PM: Let the movie re-dating begin. After Warner Bros. moved Christopher Nolan’s Tenet yesterday to Wednesday, Aug. 12 following COVID-19 cases spiking nationwide and New York moving movie theaters out of phase 4, United Artists Releasing is now pushing their Orion threequel Bill & Ted Face the Music to Au…

MGM has picked up the remaining offshore territories for Bill & Ted Face the Music from Endeavor Content. The Orion movie opens on Aug. 14 stateside. The new deal adds France, Italy, Spain, Japan, South Korea, Scandinavia, Taiwan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Hungary, Turkey, Benelux, Bulgaria, Singapore and Romania to MGM’s…

EXCLUSIVE: MGM Television is searching out international formats with U.S. potential after striking a deal with Small World IFT, the company behind NBC's Better Late Than Never. Small World IFT was founded by former Sony exec Tim Crescenti, the man who discovered the Japanese format that became ABC's Shark Tank and…