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EXCLUSIVE: In a multi-million dollar deal, Lionsgate UK has boarded Guy Ritchie’s untitled Jason Statham action-thriller which was launched by Miramax and CAA Media Finance at the American Film Market. The project, which re-teams Ritchie and Statham for the first time since Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels and Snatc…

Veteran distribution executive Yvette Zhuang has been hired by Miramax as its SVP International Production and Distribution. Zhuang was most recently SVP of International Sales at STX Entertainment, the studio behind Bad Moms, The Upside, Molly's Game and Den of Thieves. She started her career in Australia ,working…

Word is that Viacom has sent a letter to Miramax owners beIN Media that the conglom is no longer looking purchase the award-winning 700-title library including such movies as Pulp Fiction, Shakespeare in Love and The English Patient. We hear that talks were getting drawn out and points changing all the time, hence the…

EXCLUSIVE: In what is likely to be one of the biggest deals at this year's AFM, I hear that MGM has taken domestic and select international rights on Cash Truck, the Miramax action thriller from Guy Ritchie that will star Jason Statham. The film will be released via MGM's joint venture UA Releasing domestically. MGM…

EXCLUSIVE: Pacific Rim: Uprising star Scott Eastwood is set to play opposite Jason Statham and Holt McCallanay in Cash Truck, the Miramax action thriller directed by Guy Ritchie. It’s a revenge story that shifts across timelines and between various character's perspectives. At the center is H (Statham), a cold and…

Oscar winner Russell Crowe is boarding a new untitled Miramax supernatural thriller that will mark the directorial debut of Joshua John Miller and M.A. Fortin (Final Girls, Queen of the South). They’ll direct from their original script. In the project, Crowe plays a troubled actor who begins to unravel while shooting…

EXCLUSIVE: Jason Statham, who broke out playing the fast-talking protagonists in Guy Ritchie’s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, is reuniting with the filmmaker again. The new as-yet-untitled project is a revenge-based action thriller from Miramax, which has acquired remake rights to the original 2004…

The Disney empire has soared in value thanks to its inspired acquisitions, but some Disney veterans still cringe in recalling their company's most troubling takeover: Miramax. In empowering Harvey Weinstein with Disney money and muscle, the rulers of the Magic Kingdom in 1993 transformed a struggling indie distributor…

We’ve confirmed reports from this afternoon that Viacom is in the lead for a portion of the Miramax library, though no deal is done and talks are ongoing. This comes in the wake of Lionsgate withdrawing its bid to focus on growing its core business. That said, Lionsgate’s current worldwide home entertainment rights…

EXCLUSIVE: Miramax, Barnyard Projects and Snoot Entertainment have greenlit Limbo, a horror thriller written by Matthew Jennison and Chris Peckover, with Peckover (Better Watch Out, Undocumented) set to direct. Limbo tells the terrifying story of a young mother whose body becomes possessed by something evil, rendering…

EXCLUSIVE: With AMC’s Preacher coming to a close this summer, Dominic Cooper is set to star in the six-part espionage Cold War series Spy City from Miramax and Germany’s H&V Entertainment and ZDF. Novelist and screenwriter William Boyd (the James Bond novel Solo, A Good Man in Africa and the 1992 movie Chaplin) is…

EXCLUSIVE: Since news dropped last week about Qatar’s beIN Media Group’s interest to unload a portion of the Miramax library, Deadline has come to learn that there’s certain interest chiefly by Viacom and Lionsgate. Meanwhile, Sony we understand is not considering any purchase of the 700-title library which boasts a…