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EXCLUSIVE: In Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, Jake Gyllenhaal throws on the military fatigues he hasn’t worn since 2005’s Jarhead, this time joined by an award-winning actor and real-life veteran in Dar Salim. In the new action movie from STX and MGM, Gyllenhaal plays U.S. Army Master Sgt. John Kinley, whose…

EXCLUSIVE: Sky has picked up UK rights to Jason Statham and David Ayer action film The Beekeeper from Miramax. Release date hasn’t been set but the movie will have some form of theatrical release in addition to playing on Sky Cinema as a Sky Original Film. Statham stars with Jeremy Irons, Emmy…

EXCLUSIVE: Ezra Emanuel has been promoted to Production Executive at Miramax. Emanuel previously served as Bill Blocks executive assitant, serving as the day-to-day point man. In his new role he will be reporting to head of production Andrew Golov and Miriam Brin, SVP of Production, helping to source both…

The demise of STX as a distributor continues to pose questions for the future of high-profile movies on their slate, including Guy Ritchie's action film Operation Fortune, Michael Mann's big-budget biopic Ferrari, and Daisy Ridley thriller The Marsh King's Daughter.  For months we've heard about a…

SUNDAY AM Writethru after Saturday AM Update: There’s about $10M missing from the current theatrical marketplace this weekend. Projections for Universal/Blumhouse/Miramax/Trancas’ Halloween Ends were expected to come in around $55M and the 13th sequel in the franchise originally created by John…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Jeremy Irons (Watchmen), Emmy Raver-Lampman (The Umbrella Academy), Bobby Naderi (Under the Shadow) and Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games) have joined Jason Statham (The Expendables) in action-thriller The Beekeeper, we can reveal. Filming is underway in the UK on the movie…

EXCLUSIVE: Miramax is producing the J.T. Mollner-directed thriller Strange Darling, which is currently shooting in Portland, OR with Willa Fitzgerald (The Fall of the House of Usher, Scream: The TV Series), Kyle Gallner (Smile, Dinner in America), Emmy nominee Ed Begley Jr. (St. Elsewhere, Better Call Saul) and Oscar…

UPDATE, 1:16 PM: Just under a year after it all started, Miramax and Quentin Tarantino have pulled the plug on their legal face-off over Pulp Fiction NFTs “The parties have agreed to put this matter behind them and look forward to collaborating with each other on future projects, including possible NFTs,” the Bill…

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…