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Overbrook Entertainment executive Clarence Hammond is joining Paramount Players as SVP Production, reporting to Paramount Players president Jeremy Kramer. Hammond starts on November 30. In his new role, Hammond will help oversee the development and production of the label’s contemporary genre fare. Says Kramer, "With…

Following the news Deadline broke that he was the front-runner for the role, 20th Century Studios executive Jeremy Kramer has officially been appointed president of Paramount Players. Kramer, who will report to his former Fox colleague and now Paramount Pictures Motion Picture Group President Emma Watts, begins his…

BET and Paramount Players have set the premiere date for Quincy Ledbetter’s Alieu the Dreamer starring Denzel Whitaker (Black Panther, The Great Debaters, Training Day) and Haley Webb (The Final Destination, Blonde). The movie script was announced as the winner of BET's nationwide competition “Project CRE8” and will…

EXCLUSIVE: Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu has come aboard to direct Paramount Player’s feature adaptation of bestselling author Angie Thomas’ second novel On The Come Up.  The director behind the 2018 Cannes Film Festival premiere Rafiki is stepping in for George Tillman Jr. who was originally attached to On The Come Up…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is getting ready to rev up Paramount Players, the shingle that was formed around Brian Robbins several years ago to generate niche, genre and cutting edge films. It hasn’t had a president, or much output, since Robbins left to run Nickelodeon. Emma Watts is looking to revive the label and…

EXCLUSIVE….Developing…We’re hearing that Paramount Players creative executives Matt Dines and Ali Bell are departing the label that they arrived to in late August 2017. While these two key execs are leaving, the Paramount Players will remain in operation under the oversight of Paramount Motion Pictures Group president…

EXCLUSIVE: DeVon Franklin, the producer behind the faith-based drama Breakthrough, has signed on to produce Daring to Live, a film adaptation based on the forthcoming memoir Daring to Live: How the Power of Sisterhood and Taking Risks Can Jump-Start Your Joy by Sheri Hunter. The pic is set up at Paramount Players…

EXCLUSIVE: Peachtree & Vine, the newly formed production company from Tyler Perry and former Lionsgate marketing executive Tim Palen, has teamed with Sanjay Sharma’s Marginal Mediaworks to produce its first feature, Whitney (working title), a psychological thriller about the profound power of memory and monuments in…

EXCLUSIVE: Kay Oyegun, who currently serves as a producer and writer on NBC’s hit drama series, This Is Us, has been tapped to write the screenplay for the film adaptation of On the Come Up, the young adult novel by The Hate U Give author Angie Thomas. The project, originally set at Fox 2000 who released 2018’s The Hat…

EXCLUSIVE: I hear that screenwriter Randy McKinnon is set to adapt Justin A. Reynold's romance novel Opposite of Always for Paramount Players. Published by Katherine Tegen Books, Opposite of Always follows Jack and Kate who after meeting at a party, bond until sunrise. Jack is falling hard for her, and soon Kate is…

Mark Wahlberg is attached to star in Arthur the King, a Paramount Players film adaptation based on a true account detailed in the novel Arthur: The Dog Who Crossed the Jungle to Find a Home by Mikael Lindnord. Michael Brandt is adapting the screenplay. Tucker Tooley, Mark Canton, Courtney Solomon and Tessa Tooley are…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Players announced today that they have entered a first look deal with Oscar-nominated UK producer/actor Daniel Kaluuya's production company, 59%. Producers Amandla Crichlow, formerly of Tiger Aspect Productions and Framestore, and Rowan Riley (Lemon, co-creator of the Hulu series The Bisexual)…