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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Freevee will not be moving forward with two of its half-hour scripted pilots, Western and Open Book. Both are currently being shopped elsewhere. Western is a period comedy developed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller's Sony TV-based Lord Miller. Pen15 co-creator and star Anna Konkle had…

EXCLUSIVE: Aditya Sood has been promoted to President of Lord Miller — the production company of Academy Award-winning filmmakers Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) — with Dan Shear joining as EVP and head of Television.  These strategic moves are described as a natural…

Today on Crew Call, The Afterparty architects Phil Lord and Christopher Miller discuss how they took what was a feature concept at TriStar more than 10 years ago and turned into a Rashomon comedy series for Apple TV+. The streamer literally died for it, so much that they gave a greenlight to a Season 2 writers room…

Discussing her much-praised performance as The Afterparty's disarming and shrewd police detective Danner, the standup comic in Tiffany Haddish could not resist dropping some sly one-liners about her own recent real-life run-in with law enforcement. Haddish joined the "Roshomon"-like Apple TV+ mystery-comedy's…

The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Every installment asks the same five questions…

Netflix's The Mitchells vs the Machines, produced by Sony Pictures Animation, received an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature this morning. Along with Flee, Mitchells is one of only two animated films nominated that aren't made by Disney. Co-writer-director Mike Rianda, along with producers Phil Lord and Chris…

EXCLUSIVE: On November 3, Austin’s Alamo Drafthouse Cinema will partner with Janus Films to host the coast-to-coast world premiere for a new 4K remastering of Toho International Inc.’s 1954 classic, Godzilla (Gojira). The restoration screening comes on the King of Monsters’ 67th birthday, with others to be presented…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has purchased screen rights to The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, the new book by Michael Lewis about several U.S. heroes who, in the early days of Covid-19, tried to sound the alarm about the dangers of underestimating the deadly seriousness of the killer virus. Phil Lord & Christopher…

Phil Lord and Chris Miller have found a way to put their unmistakable stamp on the animated feature world with such out-of-the-box fresh hits as Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, The Lego Movie, The Lego Batman Movie and their Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, not to mention pitch-perfect live-action…

EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth Banks, who most recently directed the latest Charlie's Angels installment, has signed on to direct Cocaine Bear for Universal Pictures. Written by Jimmy Warden, the film is described as a character-driven thriller inspired by true events that took place in Kentucky in 1985. Banks and Max Handelman…

EXCLUSIVE: Following the success of their hit 21 Jump Street movies, Channing Tatum, Phil Lord and Chris Miller have found their next movie on which to team up, this time focusing on a classic movie character. Sources tell Deadline that Universal Pictures, Lord Miller and Free Association are developing an untitled…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has put together a monstrous package around the satirical Simon Rich New Yorker short story “Everyday Parenting Tips” that has Rich scripting for Ryan Reynolds to star and Paddington‘s Paul King to direct. Lord Miller’s Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Aditya Sood will produce along with…