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EXCLUSIVE: When producer Michael De Luca made a lifestyle decision to split time between Hollywood and Texas, you had to figure the Captain Phillips and Social Network producer would make the most of his time and find a homegrown story from the latter locale with movie potential. Sure enough, De Luca Productions is…

BREAKING: Rachel Morrison is in negotiations to direct Flint Strong, the Universal Pictures drama that is based on the 2015 boxing documentary T-Rex and shapes up as a female Rocky-esque drama. Morrison, who made history being the first Oscar-nominated female cinematographer on Mudbound, makes her film directorial…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Reminiscence, the Lisa Joy-directed action thriller that will star Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson. The film marks the directorial debut of Westworld executive producer Joy, who also wrote the script. This was the hot package at Berlin, and the…

EXCLUSIVE: As the Sundance deal avalanche abates, it is time to focus on the film packages to be unveiled next week in Berlin. In what instantly becomes a hot property there, Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson are finalizing deals to star this fall in Reminiscence, a film that Westworld executive producer Lisa Joy has…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures is in negotiations to option rights to an untitled drama about the epic love story between John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and Jean-Marc Vallée has been set to direct and edit. He intends to make this his next film. The studio acquired a spec package from Michael De Luca Productions and…

EXCLUSIVE: FilmNation Entertainment is putting Grant Ginder’s comedy nuptial novel The People We Hate at The Wedding in development with three-time Oscar nominated producer Michael De Luca set to produce. Emmy-winning comedy writers Wendy and Lizzie Molyneux of Fox’s animated series Bob’s Burgers will adapt the novel…

If Jimmy Kimmel is nervous about presiding over Sunday’s 90th Oscarcast, he hides it well. In between rehearsals at the Loews Hollywood Hotel adjacent to the Dolby Theatre, Kimmel took a few moments to speak to Deadline about the show he and producers Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd have cooked up. You can be sure…

Sony has closed a deal for Infinitum, a spec by Marc Guggenheim that will be produced by Michael De Luca Productions. The pitch drew interest from Paramount, but Sony closed the deal. Studio is keeping the logline under wraps, but sources brought up the film Memento in describing the high-concept sci-fi action love…

EXCLUSIVE: LD Entertainment has optioned the rights to Celeste Ng's 2014 debut novel, Everything I Never Told You, and will team with Oscar-nominated producer Michael De Luca (The Social Network, Captain Phillips, Moneyball) on a film adaptation. Julia Cox (Amazon's The Last Tycoon) is attached to pen the…

Oscar-winning producer Michael De Luca has come aboard to produce Suicide Squad 2 alongside lead producer Charles Roven. The DC Universe follow-up has Gavin O’Connor aboard to direct that sequel, which has Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Jared Leto and the rest of the gang of villains returning from David Ayer’s 2016…

Universal has optioned film rights to Uncanny Valley, the upcoming memoir from Anna Wiener that chronicles her time transitioning from a publishing career to a new job in the tech world. Studio-based Oscar producer Michael De Luca and Elizabeth Banks & Max Handelman will produce. Weiner will serve as an executive…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has optioned the upcoming Melissa Del Bosque book Bloodlines: The True Story of a Drug Cartel, the FBI, and the Battle for a Horse-Racing Dynasty. Channing Tatum is attached to star, and Oscar-nominated Straight Outta Compton scribe Jonathan Herman will adapt. A rookie FBI agent named…