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The Tupac Shakur biopic from Morgan Creek has been given a summer release date, opening wide on June 16, 2017. Summit Entertainment is distributing All Eyez On Me, which chronicles the rapper's life and legacy including his rise to superstardom as a hip-hop artist and actor as well as his imprisonment and prolific…

Morgan Creek Productions said today that Voltage Pictures will handle foreign rights to the Tupac Shakur biopic All Eyez on Me, starting this week at AFM in Santa Monica. Domestic distribution talks are underway. The deal was negotiated by Brian Robinson and Jessica VanderYacht of Morgan Creek; Glen Mastroberte of…

Fox has given a pilot order to drama The Exorcist, a modern reinvention inspired by William Blatty's 1971 book. Morgan Creek, which has the rights to the property, took out the Exorcist drama series project, penned by young feature writer Jeremy Slater (Fantastic Four), in the summer 2013, around the 40th anniversary…

Morgan Creek might have some competition in its long-delayed efforts to bring a Tupac Shakur film to the big screen. Another project is also in the works, this one from Tupac's former producing partner Gobi Rahimi, who has just launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for his own long-delayed film about the…

EXCLUSIVE: Heading into MIPCOM, Revolution Studios has arranged for Miramax to manage global television and digital distribution licensing for all film titles in its library. That includes the Morgan Creek international film library that the reconstituted Revolution recently acquired. This extends an a relationship…

Morgan Creek International’s film library holds 64 titles including Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves and the Ace Ventura and Major League franchises. The acquisition announced today means Revolution now has 114 movies and 240 TV episodes in its library to exploit, and the deal is the first major acquisition completed…

UPDATE, 1:22 PM: Morgan Creek has confirmed Deadline’s report in a news release. It added that LT Hutton also is aboard as a producer and that the film will shoot in Atlanta. PREVIOUS EXCLUSIVE: Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films is teaming with Morgan Creek Productions to co-finance and co-produce Tupac, creating a new…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Starrbury has been brought on board to rewrite Morgan Creek Productions' Tupac Shakur biopic. Starrbury wrote the screenplay for The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, which is premiering at this year's Sundance Film Festival. The Tupac film was announced by Morgan Creek in early 2011. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Rick Nicita has left Morgan Creek, where he spent the past three years as COO and co-chairman alongside MCP owner James Robinson. Nicita, who left a longtime perch at CAA to take the job, left after his contract expired December 31. Nicita spent 42 years as an agent before taking the MCP job, and during his…

The press releases are flying over the transom and since the deal-making has been a bit slack. Here are a few tidbits. * Grosvenor Park will once again lend money to film productions, forming UK-based EIS Film Fund to disperse $100 million each year for productions. Grosvenor Park fled from the film-financing scene in…

Universal and Morgan Creek have put up a trailer for Dream House, the thriller that stars Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Naomi Watts. The Jim Sheridan-directed film will be released September 30. The trailer certainly lays out a lot of the plot and is it me, or is some of the imagery reminiscent of The…

The film from Universal stars Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts and Rachel Weisz and will be released in September. Here’s the MPAA release: LOS ANGELES — The Classification and Rating Appeals Board today upheld the R rating given to the movie Dream House. The Classification and Rating Administration (CARA) had assigned the…