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EXCLUSIVE: The Crawl production team of Sam Raimi and Craig Flores have another contained genre feature in development over at Paramount entitled Be My Eyes. Directing Be My Eyes is Child’s Play and Polaroid filmmaker Lars Klevberg. Written by Jud Cremata with rewrites underway by Pet Sematary scribe Jeff Buhler, Be My…

A new, updated take to hit 1983 Paramount movie Flashdance is in early development at CBS All Access, soon-to-be-rebranded as Paramount. The potential series hails from Paramount Television Studios, with Tracy McMillan set to write the script and Angela Robinson on board to direct. The 1983 movie starring Jennifer…

EXCLUSIVE: Joe Penna has been set to direct Paramount’s World War II action pic Blessed Event. Temple Hill's Marty Bowen, Issac Klausner and John Fischer will produce the project with Adam Goldworm serving as executive producer. The film is based on a screenplay by Jeremy Lott. Set in the South Pacific during WWII…

ViacomCBS Tuesday named Tom Ryan, currently CEO of Pluto TV, as president and CEO, ViacomCBS Streaming, unveiling a new leadership structure for its evolving global free and pay streaming services. Marc DeBevoise will step down from his role as chief digital officer, ViacomCBS, and president and CEO, ViacomCBS…

Love and Monsters star Dylan O’Brien said there’s no better time to come into adulthood than during an apocalypse. During a New York Comic Con panel for his monster flick from Michael Matthews, O’Brien said that his character’s environment adds a new element to the coming-of-age genre. “He’s been so stunted from…

Aaron Sorkin tends to build movies around disturbing ideas rather than empathetic protagonists, thus revisiting tense courtrooms and raucous newsrooms. The price: Sometimes the characters get buried by the rhetoric. His new movie, The Trial of the Chicago 7, opens this week at a propitious time when “serious&#8221…

EXCLUSIVE: Three crew members on the Wilmington, NC production of Spyglass Media Group/Paramount’s Scream relaunch have tested positive, but filming will solider on, with the Radio Silence-directed movie set to resume as scheduled on Monday. Yesterday’s day of filming wrapped on time, I hear, for a weekend break. It’s…

ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish Tuesday called Paramount, "one of the most storied brands in Hollywood" and a "natural choice" of name and content machine for its fast-growing OTT service in a rebrand announced this morning. Previous Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman wanted to unload the studio, or a big chunk of it. But Bakish is…

ViacomCBS today confirmed Paramount+ as the new name for the company's CBS All Access streaming service. The rebrand, which takes effect in early 2021, had been reported in recent weeks and executives have been talking about the revamp throughout this year. The official announcement of the shift didn’t offer many…

ViacomCBS's new streaming service Paramount+ will feature a limited drama about the making of The Godfather and a spy thriller from Yellowstone co-creator Taylor Sheridan. Elsewhere, a new reboot of BET's The Game is in development, it is reviving VH1's classic rock-doc strand Behind The Music and ordered a true crime…

Paramount Pictures president of production Elizabeth Raposo has exited the studio. This has been a rumor around town ever since Wyck Godfrey exited after Emma Watts became president of the Paramount Motion Picture Group in late June. Godfrey and Raposo worked closely together. Raposo is an effective exec and she will…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures  has acquired the home entertainment and TV licensing rights to three Romulus Entertainment features films: Dreamland starring Margot Robbie, the Charlie Hunnam and Jack O’Connell boxing movie Jungleland, and the Amber Heard-Jonathan Majors-Terrence Howard LA crime pic Gully.  All three…