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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…

BeIN Media Group is looking to sell part of Miramax, Deadline has confirmed. We hear this is a strategic move, and one that was initiated because BeIN was approached by interested parties. The studio is being valued at $650M, and BeIN is trying to sell as much as 50%, one in which they would retain…

EXCLUSIVE: Miramax has preemptively secured the rights to Peter Hoare's pitch, The Twenty Year, a comedy about two females who, 20 years after raising money to go toward their class' eventual 20-year reunion, reluctantly reunite in order to access that bank account.  Unfortunately, they also need to track down the…

Miramax has secured the film rights to I Won’t Be Home For Christmas, a holiday film written by Lauren Iungerich, who is also set to direct the feature as her first directorial outing. Iungerich is best known as the creator behind MTV’s Awkward series, which ran for five seasons, and co-creator of Netflix’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Industry veteran Michael Lachance has joined Miramax as EVP of its newly created Family & Animation division. He will oversee the creative direction of the unit, reporting to COO and general counsel Bob Osher. Lachance had been SVP Creative Development at Sony Pictures Animation, where he developed such…

EXCLUSIVE: Miramax has acquired screen rights to the Erica Ferencik novel The River At Night. The project will be shaped by Kevin Williamson and Eli Roth, teaming for the first time after each had an illustrious genre past with the original Miramax. Williamson and Ben Fast will produce through their Outerbanks banner…