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Jimmy Kimmel Live again will join forces with Bono and RED for a special episode of the ABC late-night show to raise money and awareness in the fight against AIDS.  Kimmel’s 4th annual (RED) benefit show will air Monday, November 19, ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1st. Guests for this year’s program include…

AT&T, Warner Bros. and the maker of the RED camera, a favorite of filmmakers from David Fincher to Peter Jackson, are teaming up for the rollout of a super-high end mobile phone called the Hydrogen One. In a recent press preview event in New York, they unveiled the device, which will launch Friday in AT&T and Verizon…

Tony Award-winning director Michael Grandage will produce and direct Jack and Lem, a feature film chronicling the thirty-year friendship between John F. Kennedy and Kirk Lemoyne “Lem” Billings. Screenwriter David Scearce (A Single Man) will adapt David Pitts’ book Jack and Lem: The Untold Story of an Extraordinary Frie…

Michael Grandage’s West End production Red is headed to theaters via Trafalgar Releasing. MGC announced today that Trafalgar will film the production of the John Logan-written play starring Alfred Molina and Alfred Enoch to release in UK and North American theaters on Nov. 7. The play will be filmed on July 28 when it…

Jimmy Kimmel Live again will join forces with Bono and RED for a special episode of the ABC late-night show to raise money and awareness in the fight against AIDS. Julia Roberts, Channing Tatum, Kristen Bell, DJ Khaled, Neil Patrick Harris, Halsey and the Killers are booked to participate in the November 22 edition of…

EXCLUSIVE:  Relativity and EuropaCorp’s RED has promoted Christine Manna to EVP On Demand Licensing, Brendan Kelly to EVP Television Business Administration, and Joshua Sherman to coordinator, Domestic TV & Digital Distribution in the distributor’s Domestic Television and Digital Distribution department. Manna and…

One day they’ll run out of numbers but for now, Sky is reuniting with bestselling author Harlan Coben on The Four. The series is a stand-alone, character-driven thriller that tells the story of an idyllic family community irrevocably shattered by secrets, lies, suspicions and misguided trust. The new series follows…

In its second adaptation for the Indian market, Lionsgate is teaming with Anil Kapoor's AKFC production banner on a Hindi version of Summit’s action comedy Red. Veteran Indian actor and producer Kapoor, whose screen credits include Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Slumdog Millionaire and Fox's 24, is a big brand…

EXCLUSIVE: Luc Besson has long held a comfortable identity as France’s answer to Spielberg, an idea generator who hatches commercial hits. From Paris, he and EuropaCorp partner Christophe Lambert built a powerhouse company on Besson’s imagination that has fueled a long string of moderately budgeted Euro-flavored…

It’s been another late start to the network buying season. As pitching is finally, slowly, getting into gear, here are some of the top items on the broadcast networks’ wanted lists. It’s time to lighten up. Following “the season of dead children,” as some dubbed last season — which was marked by a number of dark…

NBC is developing Red, an hourlong series based on the movie franchise. The TV adaptation hails from the films’ creative auspices — Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber, who wrote the 2010 hit and its 2013 sequel, and Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian, who produced both movies. Lionsgate TV, whose sibling Summit…

EXCLUSIVE: After months of feverish speculation about how Vivendi intends to spend its $15B war chest, the company’s strategy is starting to come into focus. Deadline has learned the French media giant aims to become Europe’s most talent-friendly creative hub for writers, directors and producers. A Euro United…