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EXCLUSIVE: Courteney Cox is returning for the next Scream as her famed dogged news reporter character Gale Weathers, we can tell you first. The Friends alum joins previously announced Scream castmember David Arquette who is also coming back as Dewey Riley. Cameras will roll on the Spyglass Media Group-Paramount…

Groundbreaking ideas seem in short supply at the moment. This summer's streamer hits drew big audiences but did not resonate in terms of novelty. Charlize Theron returns as a lethal and immortal mercenary in The Old Guard. Tom Hanks again calmly captains a World War II warship in Greyhound. Most of the “new” original…

The reteam of Ryan Reynolds with his Free Guy filmmaker Shawn Levy has been scooped up by Netflix. The time travel adventure project was initially set up at Paramount eight years ago with Tom Cruise attached. The latest draft is being penned by Jonathan Tropper off screenplays by TS Nowlin and Mark Levin & Jennifer…

Skydance and Paramount Pictures announced the release dates for two animated features today: Spellbound which will open worldwide on Nov. 11, 2022 and Luck on Feb. 18, 2022. Spellbound and Luck will be co-financed by Paramount. Luck reps the first title from Skydance Animation. President of Skydance Animation Holly…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount’s Grease prequel Summer Lovin’ is revving up its engine, with the studio tapping Brett Haley to direct the film. Leah McKendrick penned the script with Temple Hill and Picturestart producing. The 1978 musical classic starred John Travolta as greaser Danny and Olivia Newton-John as good girl Sandy…

After Warner Bros. put Wonder Woman 1984 on Oct. 2, Paramount has moved Skydance’s Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse to Feb. 26, 2021.  This is a delayed move by Paramount having nothing to do with the recent Tenet shift from July 31 to Aug. 12. Two weeks ago, Warners moved their Petty Jenkins-directed Gal Gadot sequel to…

BREAKING: Paramount is taking The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run off the theatrical calendar and sending it straight into homes for an early 2021 release. We heard sources talking about this earlier today. Sponge on the Run will go on PVOD before it hits CBS All Access. The movie was originally scheduled to play…

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Wahlberg canine adventure pic Arthur The King has moved from Paramount Players to Lionsgate for domestic and will enter the Cannes virtual market on the slate of eOne-backed international sales firm Sierra/Affinity. The film re-teams Wahlberg with his Contraband and 2 Guns director Baltasar Kormakur…

Mission: Impossible 7 is preparing to leap back into action again in September after the Paramount feature was forced to radically change its shooting plans in February because of the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking to the BBC on Tuesday following the publication of British Film Commission safety protocols, first…

Syrinthia Studer, the industry veteran who most recently was EVP Worldwide Acquisitions at Paramount, has been hired as EVP of Nickelodeon and Awesomeness Films. In the new role, she will oversee all live-action features for the combined labels’ Kids & Family Studio, a role that will encompass development, production…

Paramount Pictures and Sega Sammy have set a sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog in motion. Jeff Fowler will return to direct from a screenplay by original scribes Pat Casey and Josh Miller. Neal H. Moritz, Toby Ascher, and Toru Nakahara will return to produce with Hajime Satomi, Haruki Satomi, and Tim Miller serving as…

Marty Cohen, a longtime editor and post-production chief who worked on more than a dozen Steven Spielberg films for Amblin and DreamWorks and whose producing credits include such hits as The Hunger Games and Godzilla, has died. He was 67. An Amblin spokesperson said Cohen died May 17 of natural causes after a long…