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In the wake of his $1.5 billion grossing Sony Marvel Cinematic Universe sequel, Spider-Man: No Way Home, filmmaker Jon Watts is boarding New Line’s Final Destination 6 as a producer. Lori Evans Taylor and Guy Busick are writing the screenplay from a story by Watts based on his treatment. The sixthquel is destined for H…

EXCLUSIVE: New Line has picked up the original pitch The Naughty One from writer Zach Helm for HBO Max in a competitive situation. The movie, which Helm will write, is an action comedy set around Christmas. The storyline is being kept under wraps. Berlanti/Schechter Films' Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter will…

The second annual DC FanDome fired off Dwayne Johnson unveiling the first look at Black Adam which you can see below. In the clip Johnson’s superhero appears to a group of cave dwellers with machine guns, who decide to fire on him; him being totally bulletproof. Before the clip, star Pierce Brosnan who plays Dr. Fate…

EXCLUSIVE: Recent The Inheritance Tony nominee John Benjamin Hickey is set to play Father Callahan in New Line’s big feature adaptation of Stephen King's bestselling novel Salem's Lot which is hitting theaters in the Warner Bros. post Labor Day holiday corridor of Sept. 9, 2022. Hickey joins previously announced Lewis…

Brat TV, maker of young-skewing online series like Chicken Girls and Attaway General, has received an investment from New Line founder Bob Shaye, who is joining the company’s board. Terms were not disclosed. Brat, which was founded in 2017, says it tripled its revenue to $15 million in 2020 and projects reaching…

As we’ve seen with other HBO Max movies that hit theaters and the streaming service simultaneously, whenever there’s a solid number at the B.O., there’s also a solid draw in homes. That wasn’t the case with James Wan’s giallo-inspired horror title Malignant, which died at the weekend domestic box office with a $5.57M…

Today Independent Spirit Award winning-filmmaker Olivia Wilde announced the release date for her upcoming New Line horror drama Don’t Worry Darling of Sept. 23, 2022 on her social media handles. It’s a long away off, but don’t be surprised if this highly anticipated return by Booksmart director makes a big splash in…

Sunday AM Writethru: With great success comes continued great chaos for the theatrical experience this past week. On the plus side, the domestic box office is continuing its rebound during the pandemic, with the second weekend of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings earning $9.7M in its second Friday, -67%, for…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated actress Alfre Woodard is joining New Line’s Salem’s Lot bunch in the big-screen take of the 1975 Stephen King vampire novel, we can tell you first. She’ll play Dr. Cody, who in the novel is a guy, Dr. Jimmy Cody. Cody assists Ben Mears (Lewis Pullman in the film), Susan Norton (Makenzie…

EXCLUSIVE: New Line’s feature adaptation of Stephen King’s 1975 bestseller Salem’s Lot is expanding its cast with The Assistant actress Makenzie Leigh, Primetime Emmy nominee Bill Camp and Spencer Treat Clark who’ll star opposite of previously announced Lewis Pullman. In Salem’s Lot, author Ben Mears (Pullman) returns…

EXCLUSIVE:  We hear that New Line’s 8-Bit Christmas will premiere exclusively on HBO Max on Nov. 25th, in all countries where the service is available, meaning U.S. and Latin America. Here in the U.S., that date is Thanksgiving Day, a prime time for watching holiday movies on the couch. 8-Bit Christmas will be…

EXCLUSIVE: New Line’s reimagination of its 1990 cult classic House Party for HBO Max is restarting production Monday night after closing down briefly last week out of caution for a positive Covid case on the set. The County of Los Angeles Public Health reported that there were nine positive cases of Covid on House Part…