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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…

Russell Crowe will headline American Son, a mob thriller that was previously set up at Sony, but is now at Paramount. Based on Jacques Audiard’s French movie A Prophet, American Son will be directed by Andrew "Rapman" Onwubolu with Dennis Lehane writing the screenplay. Neal H. Moritz and Toby Jaffe are producing…

ViacomCBS Thursday reported declines in revenue and profit for three months ended in March but its numbers beat expectations sending the stock up close to 20% in early trade. It can really use the pop. As of yesterday’s close, the shares were down about 65% year to date. The company said revenue for its full quarter…

Deadline has confirmed that Paramount has picked up Mattson Tomlin’s original spec 2084 which Lorenzo di Bonaventura will produce at Paramount. Logline for the project is as follows: In an authoritarian society that rose from the ashes of global destruction and where people's lives are controlled down to the smallest…

Paramount has given a date for a new live-action Transformers movie of June 24, 2022. The studio is in development on two different projects: one by Murder Mystery scribe James Vanderbilt and the other by John Wick Chapter 3 EP and Army of the Dead scribe Joby Harold. The Vanderbilt project, from what we’ve heard, is…

Deadline has confirmed that Seberg writers Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse are writing a G.I. Joe universe sequel for Paramount which will further expand the IP, and build upon, upcoming spinoff Snake Eyes. That movie is due out on Oct. 23. G.I. and Transformers franchise producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura is returning…

Paramount has just made a few 2021 and 2022 release date changes with news that Mission: Impossible 7 will now open on Nov. 19, 2021 instead of July 23 next year. The Tom Cruise production was arguably the first Hollywood production to be halted out of safety due to the COVID-19 outbreak, with production completely…

André Øvredal has closed a deal to return as director for the sequel of his surprise horror hit from last summer, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. The screenplay is also being written by the first pic’s writers Dan Hageman and Kevin Hageman and will be based on a story by Guillermo del Toro who produced the first…

Paramount’s Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse, starring Michael B. Jordan, will now open on October 2 this year instead of September 18 — essentially a two-week shift. This comes in the wake of Sony moving Venom: Let There Be Carnage from October 2 to June 25, 2021.  Currently over the Oct. 2-4 period, Paramount is…

Paramount is bringing Blue Story straight to digital platforms after its UK theatrical debut last November. The pic was slated to hit U.S. theaters March 20 but due to closures in the wake of the pandemic, Blue Story will be available to purchase or rent beginning on May 5. Written and directed by Andrew Onwubolu…

In the ever-changing summer theatrical schedule, Paramount has pushed The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run from July 31 to August 7 as its Mark Wahlberg action feature Infinite jumps to Memorial Day weekend 2021. Deadline reported that latter news exclusively today. On its new date, SpongeBob will share the marquee…

"The situation is that it's a f***ing disaster everywhere," one distribution exec exclaimed recently regarding the impact from the coronavirus pandemic on the global and international box office. The hit 2020 is going to take in terms of worldwide ticket sales is incalculable at this point, but some sources estimate…