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The disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is to be charged with two counts of indecent assault against a woman in London in August 1996. According to the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Weinstein has been charged following a review of evidence by the Metropolitan Police, with the CPS “reminding all concerned…

EXCLUSIVE: Blumhouse and Miramax’s Dracula film Mina Harker isn’t happening, Deadline has learned. Originally, Blindspotting actress and #FreeRayshawn Emmy winner Jasmine Cephas Jones was set to headline Karyn Kusama's Mina Harker, with cameras set to roll in three weeks. However, the production isn’t moving forward…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner Carrie Preston (The Good Fight) has signed on to star alongside Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph in the Miramax film The Holdovers, from two-time Oscar winner and seven-time nominee Alexander Payne (Nebraska, The Descendants). The dramedy written by Whiskey Cavalier creator David Hemingson…

EXCLUSIVE:  Reign Edwards is set to star in Bill Burr’s Miramax comedy Old Dads. Edwards joins previously announced cast of Burr, Bobby Cannavale, Bokeem Woodbine and Katie Aselton. She plays the role of Britney, the young girlfriend of Woodbine. Burr co-wrote the movie and is currently directing the movie in Los…

EXCLUSIVE: Katie Aselton (The Morning Show) has signed on to star alongside Bill Burr, Bobby Cannavale and Bokeem Woodbine in the comedy Old Dads, which Burr wrote and is directing for Miramax and his company All Things Comedy. The comedian's feature directorial debut centers on a middle-aged father, Jack (Burr), and…

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian and actor Bill Burr (F Is for Family) is writing, directing and starring alongside Emmy winner Bobby Cannavale (Boardwalk Empire) and Emmy nominee Bokeem Woodbine (Fargo) in the original comedy Old Dads, which Miramax has come aboard to produce in conjunction with Burr’s All Things Comedy. Burr’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Neil Sacker has put up a new legal shingle in town. The former Miramax EVP has founded Sacker Entertainment Law Firm. Joining the now ex-Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP partner at the new LA-based venture is former Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP associate Andy Tan, who most recently served as an investment firm…

EXCLUSIVE: Pete Davidson is set star in the new Miramax horror thriller The Home with The Purge helmer James DeMonaco directing the pic. Davidson will play Max, a troubled man who starts working at a retirement home and realizes its residents and caretakers harbor sinister secrets. As he investigates the building and…

As the digital clock ticks away, Quentin Tarantino and Miramax's legal dust-up over the Oscar winner's plan to auction off NFTs of his Pulp Fiction screenplay just opened a whole new front. A week before the first of seven offerings is set to start of the 1994 film's script, lawyers for the Bill Block-run studio just…

EXCLUSIVE: "That's how you're gonna beat 'em, Butch," says Bruce Willis' pugilistic character in Pulp Fiction. "They keep underestimating you," the Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avery penned script adds. Today those words from the 1994 flick at the heart of a lawsuit between Miramax and Tarantino seem prophetic as the…

UPDATE, 2:06 PM: It is fair to say that there doesn’t look like there is going to be a lot of nuance in the showdown between Quentin Tarantino and Miramax over the Pulp Fiction director’s decision to auction off NFTs of his classic Oscar winning film. Yesterday, the Bill Block run company took its one time Golden boy…

EXCLUSIVE: Following strong reviews for his new Netflix movie, The Guilty, and a big night at the Tonys, Jake Gyllenhaal looks to have found his next movie as he is in negotiations to star in the new untitled film from Guy Ritchie. The film will be produced by Miramax with Ritchie writing and directing. Not much is…