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UPDATE: Shortly after Deadline broke the story, MGM sent out a press release, confirming Pam Abdy’s appointment. She’ll carry the title of MGM Motion Picture Group President. Read the release before Deadline’s scoop. EXCLUSIVE: Pam Abdy is being named to a top production post at the reconstituted MGM, sources said…

EXCLUSIVE: Just what we were waiting for, a hot film deal. Days after the town jumped all over the new novel by The Martian author Andy Weir, sources said that Project Hail Mary is in exclusive negotiations to be acquired by MGM in a 7-figure deal. Gosling will produce with Ken Kao. It is the latest bold move for Micha…

In the first deal by newly minted MGM Motion Picture Group chairman Michael De Luca, MGM has acquired North American rights to distribute Dog. Deadline readers might recall this is the film that showed as much bite as bark when it was introduced last fall at AFM. Pic stars Channing Tatum, who will co-direct the film…

Former New Line-DreamWorks-Sony executive and Fifty Shades of Grey producer Michael De Luca has been named Chairman of the Film Group. The move happened after MGM Motion Pictures Group president Jonathan Glickman stepped down to take a non exclusive producing deal. De Luca will report directly to MGM’s Board of…

BREAKING: We’ve confirmed that MGM Motion Picture Group president Jonathan Glickman is stepping down and transitioning to the role of being a producer for the studio. Former New Line-DreamWorks-Sony exec and Fifty Shades of Grey franchise producer Michael De Luca will imminently be named to a post that comes closer to…

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Duvall and Martin Sheen have joined 12 Mighty Orphans, the drama that stars Luke Wilson as legendary Texas football coach Rusty Russell. Ty Roberts is directing from a script he wrote with Lane Garrison from the acclaimed book by Jim Dent. At an orphanage perched atop a hill overlooking Fort Worth…

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…