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Paramount Pictures and Skydance said Friday that they have made the decision to move Mission: Impossible 7 and Mission: Impossible 8 to 2023 and 2024, respectively. "After thoughtful consideration, Paramount Pictures and Skydance have decided to postpone the release dates for Mission: Impossible 7 & 8 in response to…

EXCLUSIVE: Joshua Jackson (Dr. Death) has been tapped as the co-lead opposite Lizzy Caplan in Paramount+’s Fatal Attraction, a series reimagining of the classic 1980s psychosexual thriller film in which the two central characters were played by Michael Douglas and Glenn Close. Written by Alexandra Cunningham from a…

SUNDAY AM WRITETHRU after Saturday update: We can complain about omicron. But I wouldn’t necessarily complain that the variant is spoiling the top films at the box office, as Paramount/Spyglass Media/Project X’s Scream had a robust first day of $13.3M (including $3.5M Thursday previews), and it eased accordingly on…

Paramount+ is to air live Premier League football in Mexico and Central America from next season. Subscribers to ViacomCBS’ SVoD in the region will be able to watch 380 live matches for three seasons from 2022/23 onwards as ViacomCBS looks to bolster Paramount+’s content offering, moving beyond scripted and…

Paramount Players romance feature The In Between will hit the Paramount+ streaming service on Friday, Feb. 11. The movie is a supernatural love story that centers on a teenage girl, Tessa (Joey King), who, after bouncing around in foster homes for most of her childhood, doesn't believe she deserves her own love story…

EXCLUSIVE: Following a bidding war that saw several major players in the mix, Paramount Pictures has landed the rights to the Children of Blood and Bone trilogy, the action fantasy film based on the bestselling YA novels by Tomi Adeyemi. Adeyemi will adapt, pen the script and also executive produce. Paramount Pictures…

Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home is expected to cede its four-weekend No. 1 run to Paramount and Spyglass Media’s Scream over the four-day MLK holiday, the latter eyeing a take that’s in the $20 million-plus range at 3,661 theaters. There’s a shot that Scream goes higher, but we’ll leave any lofty predictions in…

EXCLUSIVE: Eileen Jones is set to write the remake of the classic thriller To Catch a Thief for Paramount Pictures, with Gal Gadot attached to star. Gadot will also produce with her partner Jaron Varsano through their Pilot Wave Banner along with Neal Moritz, who will produce through his Original Film banner. The…

Heh-heh. Mike Judge said Beavis and Butt-Head will be returning this year with a brand new movie for Paramount+. Judge tweeted the information, but didn’t give an exact date for the return, indicating it will be “soon.” The reason for the delay? “They need some time to get back in shape,” he said of the duo, who are…

Production has been suspended on Paramount+ series Star Trek: Picard after more than four dozen cast and crew members tested positive for Covid, sources have confirmed to Deadline. Lead Patrick Stewart is not among them, we hear. Filming halted Monday on the show, which employs more than 450 staffers, but is scheduled…

The Good Fight has been taking the news of the day and turning it into quality, dramatic television since 2017. Season five, which debuted in June 2021 after a Covid-shortened fourth season, was set to be the first that transpired after the end of the Donald Trump Presidency. However, as a result of the January 6…

Paramount+ is to memorialize the anniversary of the January 6th attack on the Capitol with a six-part docuseries narrated by Mandy Patinkin. The former Homeland star is narrating Indivisible: Healing Hate, and the first episode of the investigative documentary series will debut will debut one year on from the…