EXCLUSIVE: Screenwriter Janine Eser (Fanie Fourie's Lobola) has been brought on to adapt the screenplay to Trevor Noah's bestselling memoir, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, which has Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o attached to star. Liesl Tommy, the director behind the upcoming Jennifer…

Paramount Pictures released the first trailer Saturday for Dora and the Lost City of Gold.

The live-action film is based on the popular Nickelodeon animated series, Dora the Explorer, and stars Eva Longoria, Michael Peña, and Isabela Moner in the title role.

After spending most of her life exploring the jungle with her…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Rooker has been set to star alongside Dylan O’Brien in Monster Problems, a potential franchise film that Michael Matthews (Five Fingers for Marseilles) will direct with Shawn Levy producing at 21 Laps. Rooker will play Clyde, an expert hunter who teaches Joel Dawson (O'Brien) how to survive the…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Players has closed a deal for the Justin A. Reynolds YA novel Opposite Of Always. The film will be produced by Temple Hill’s Marty Bowen, John Fischer, and Isaac Klausner.

The novel was just published by Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins. When Jack and Kate meet at a party, bonding until sunrise over t…

UPDATED, 12:15 PM: Paramount said today that its Alexandre Aja-helmed horror pic Crawl has moved from an August 23 wide release to July 12. The pic starring Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper will open against STX’s Chadwick Boseman thriller 17 Bridges and Fox’s Dave Bautista-Kumail Nanjiani action comedy Stuber.

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EXCLUSIVE: Judy Greer is set to star opposite John Cena in Paramount Players’ upcoming Playing With Fire from director Andy Fickman.

The Halloween star will play Dr. Amy Hicks in the pic who is the love interest to Cena’s John Carson. In Playing With Fire, a depot in the remote Eastern Sierras becomes an unlikely safe…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Players has acquired Slime, a pitch for a family action-adventure film that will be scripted by writing partners Steve Pink and Jeff Morris. Pink will direct it. Pic is about a slime experiment gone wrong. Slime of course has long been a staple of sister network Nickelodeon.

This was a last-minute…

EXCLUSIVE: The Glass Castle and Just Mercy screenwriter Andrew Lanham is adapting David Arnold’s novel The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik for Paramount Players.

The studio acquired the Viking Books novel back in February. It centers on a 16-year-old boy (a Bowie believer, concise historian, disillusioned swimmer…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Players has acquired Unboxing, a script from Ice Age: The Meltdown writer Jim Hecht that indie studio Pocket.watch has been set to produce as a feature film. Albie Hecht, the former Nickelodeon and HLN boss and now Pocket.watch’s chief creative officer, is the producer.

The plot centers on a mischi…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Matthews is set to direct Monster Problems at Paramount Players, with Dylan O’Brien in talks to star. Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps is producing.

Matthews directed Five Fingers for Marseilles. Matt Robinson is rewriting the Monster Problems script by Brian Duffield, who wrote the Black List script Jane Got a…

EXCLUSIVE: Alloy Entertainment and Paramount Players are set to produce David Yoon’s upcoming YA novel Frankly in Love.

Yoon illustrated the New York Times bestselling novel Everything, Everything which was written by his wife Nicola Yoon and made into an MGM and Alloy Entertainment feature last year. Frankly in…

EXCLUSIVE: After a nine-month search, BET Networks and Paramount Players have named filmmaker Quincy Ledbetter as the winner of their Project Cre8 competition.

The competition gives an undiscovered filmmaker the opportunity to produce a feature film with a million-dollar budget. Brooklyn-based Ledbetter was named the w…