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…
EXCLUSIVE: Joseph Middleton, EVP Casting for Paramount Pictures & Paramount Television, has left the studio after nine years. I hear he departed last month when his contract was up. No replacement has been named yet.
Middleton was a well known feature casting director when he was brought in as head of casting for…
Paramount Pictures and San Francisco-based virtual reality startup Bigscreen have set a multi-year agreement that will see select titles from the studio distributed to social VR viewers.
The pact includes the U.S., UK, Canada, Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, and Japan.
On Bigscreen's…
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is in final talks with Noah Hawley to write and direct a Star Trek film. Through his 26 Keys production banner he will produce along with JJ Abrams and his Bad Robot banner. I don’t have too much more to report on the film, but my understanding is Hawley will helm the fourth film in this…
DeVon Franklin, the producer behind faith-based films such as the Jennifer Garner and Queen Latifah-starrer Miracles from Heaven, has inked first-look producing deal with Paramount Pictures.
Franklin’s most recent film, Breakthrough starring Chrissy Metz, was released in April via 20th Century Fox, where Franklin held…
Paramount is putting its Rugrats movie in timeout. The studio said today that it has pulled the Nick TV adaptation from its schedule after originally setting a January 29, 2021, release date.
Taking over that weekend slot is Rumble, the toon from Paramount Animation and WWE Studios that is set in a world where monster…
