A court ruling that dropped today allowing movie studios to buy theaters (whether or not they want to — and they probably don't) is the latest snub to an industry that's been rattled by change for years, in particular since March and COVID-19.
Exhibition hasn't been this pressured in a century. When the 1918 Spanish…
EXCLUSIVE:Â After earning some of the best reviews of his acting career for The Way Back, Ben Affleck is ready to make his return behind the camera, and he looks to have zeroed in on his next directing job. We are hearing that Affleck has signed on to direct The Big Goodbye for Paramount, an adaptation of the Sam…
A federal judge has given the green light to Justice Department to terminate the 71-year-old consent decrees that have restricted major studio control over the exhibition process.
The lifting of the decrees will clear the way for studios to once again take significant ownership of theater chains, now in dire straits…
Adding to comments from media executives in recent days about the state of theatrical movie releases, ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish defended Paramount Pictures but said windows will “probably shorten.”
Paramount “is an incredible asset for ViacomCBS,” Bakish told Wall Street analysts during the company’s second-quarter…
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has made a deal to turn the horror short film Laura Hasn’t Slept into a theatrical feature. The short’s writer-director Parker Finn also will write and helm the film, and Temple Hill will produce. Finn is repped by Grandview and CAA.
Laura Hasn’t Slept was set to premiere as SXSW in…
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has come aboard Flight, feature based on a spec script by Miles Chapman, the screenwriter behind the Sylvester Stallone-led Escape Plan movies. 47 Meters Down and 47 Meters Down: Uncaged helmer Johannes Roberts will direct. Akiva Goldsman's Weed Road Pictures (Star Trek: Picard) is…
In the wake of the departure of Paramount Pictures and Paramount Television EVP of Casting Joseph Middleton back in January, the studio has split his job into two, just as Deadline heard, and hired Deborah Aquila and Tricia Wood as EVPs of Casting. Aquila will run point on TV reporting to Paramount President of…
UPDATED, 8:31AM April 23: In the latest release-date move amid the coronavirus shutdown, Paramount has moved its Johnny Knoxville pic Jackass from its planned March 5, 2021, release to July 2 next year. It’s the fourth movie based on the MTV stunt-prank reality series.
PREVIOUSLY, December 18: Jackass will continue to…
UPDATE: Despite the buzz and anticipation for the Clueless pop up restaurant in Los Angeles to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the ’90s take on Jane Austen novel Emma, creators of the experience have announced they have pushed the opening of the restaurant and tickets will not be on sale today as previously…
With the sequel to its popular, young-skewing romantic comedy, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before starting to stream today, Netflix is letting non-subscribers watch the original movie for free until March 9.
More than 80 million subscribers watched the 2018 original, according to Netflix. Young stars Lana Condor and…
Bird Box writer Eric Heisserer will produce an English-language re-imagining of the Paraguayan thriller Morgue under his Chronology banner, which has a freshly inked first-look deal with Paramount Pictures.
The original version of Morgue was written, produced, and directed by Hugo Cardozo, and featured dialogue…
Every couple has that defining moment in their new relationship, but it usually doesn’t involve vehicular homicide, much less a funny vehicular homicide.
In The Lovebirds, Leilani (Rae) and Jibran (Nanjiani) become unintentionally embroiled in a murder mystery, and as their journey to clear their names takes them from…
