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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden, Golden Globe winner Kyle MacLachlan and Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr. are joining Jon Hamm in the Miramax movie Confess, Fletch, directed by Greg Mottola. Principal photography is set to start Monday. The film is based on the original Gregory Mcdonald's 1970s mystery…

Project Greenlight is coming back. HBO Max has given an eight-episode series order to a new installment, from Issa Rae and Miramax Television. It is a reinvention of the critically acclaimed original Miramax and HBO docuseries. Project Greenlight will focus on the next generation of talented female filmmakers who are…

EXCLUSIVE: Miramax has greenlit an untitled penned feature thriller from Scream architect Kevin Williamson set during the pandemic which Blockers actress Gideon Adlon will star in. The feature takes place when the country locks down due to the pandemic and college student Parker (Adlon) and her best friend decide to…

Over the decades Hollywood has found the armored truck heist genre irresistible, so it isn’t so odd that Jason Statham and director Guy Ritchie would center Wrath of Man, their first screen teaming since 2005’s Revolver, around the idea. A supposedly bulletproof vehicle loaded with cash is an easy target for a…

EXCLUSIVE: MGM and Miramax’s Guy Ritchie-directed action thriller Wrath of Man is moving to the May 7-9 weekend, which was recently given up by Disney/Marvel’s Black Widow. Wrath of Man was previously dated for April 23. United Artists Releasing will be distributing the feature, which reps the filmmaker’s fourth film…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has picked up rights to Miramax’s She’s All That gender-swapped remake He’s All That. Sources tell Deadline that the deal is north of $20 million. The reimaging stars TikTok sensation-turned-actress Addison Rae who, sources say, is a key reason why this remake took off. The film also stars Cobra Kai…

EXCLUSIVE: Hulu has acquired the U.S. rights to the Miramax and 6th & Idaho sci-fi thriller Mother/Android starring Chloë Grace Moretz. The streamer will premiere the movie at some point this year. The pic, which reps Mattson Tomlin’s feature directorial debut, is set in the near future and follows Georgia (Chloë…

EXCLUSIVE:  Miramax has optioned Free Radicals, a short story by Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro, which revolves around the harrowing encounter between a young killer on the run and an ailing widow. The story will be adapted by writer-director Xia Magnus and producer Alyssa Polk, with Magnus also attached to…

EXCLUSIVE: We also hear today that Hugh Grant is in talks to join Guy Ritche’s latest action thriller formerly known as Five Eyes at Miramax and STX. The deal is not done yet. Grant would join Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett and Cary Elwes. Grant recently worked with Ritchie on Miramax/STX’s The…

EXCLUSIVE: Cary Elwes has joined the upcoming Miramax/STX feature spy thriller Five Eyes which reps the fourth reteam for filmmaker Guy Ritchie and star Jason Statham. The screenplay, penned by Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies (The Gentlemen) follows MI6 guns-and-steel agent (Statham) who is recruited by global…

UPDATE: Rachael Leigh Cook has officially signed on to join Miramax’s He’s All That. The actress who starred as Laney Boggs in the 1999 romantic comedy She's All That,  joins leads Addison Rae and Tanner Buchanan in the gender role-flipped remake. Rae, in a role inspired by Freddie Prinze Jr's Zackary Siler, plays…

2nd UPDATE, 12:18 AM: About nine hours after it was announced that the coronavirus testing site at Union Station would be shuttered on December 1 for a movie shoot, the Mayor of Los Angeles now has said that the venue will be open for business after all. Following a night of no small drama and overlapping emails, Eric…