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EXCLUSIVE: Venom and Uncharted filmmaker Ruben Fleischer has been tapped to helm the next installment of Now You See Me from Lionsgate. The franchise involves thieving illusionists known as the Four Horseman, the first two movies combined making $686.5M. The previous films starred Jesse Eisenberg…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Lionsgate is working with Saturday Night Live alum Leslie Jones on an untitled Christmas comedy. She is producing the project with Ruben Fleischer and David Bernad’s The District who are coming off a Presidents Day weekend box office win with Uncharted which has grossed $139M WW to…

For Ruben Fleischer, Uncharted was two years in the making. But the feature take of the Sony PlayStation game has been in the works since 2008 with several directors attached, from David O. Russell and Neil Burger to Travis Knight and Shawn Levy to name just a few. It just so happened that Fleischer’s schedule timed…

ABC has put in development The Three Joaquins, a Latinx family drama from writers Jordan Heimer and Manuel Figueroa (Stumptown, Step Up), Ruben Fleischer and David Bernad’s The District, and ABC Signature. Written by Heimer and Figueroa, The Three Joaquins is based in part on Figueroa’s childhood…

A couple weeks after Deadline reported that Ruben Fleischer was atop the list to direct Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg in Sony Pictures’ Uncharted, and the race was on to keep the pic on track to shoot before the next installment of Holland’s Spider-Man, the studio changed the release date of the Columbia Pictures…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures is racing to keep Uncharted on track to shoot before the next installment of Spider-Man with Tom Holland. Deadline hears that Ruben Fleischer is atop the list to direct Holland and Mark Wahlberg in the film. Sony was moving on an accelerated track that knocked out Laika’s Travis Knight late…

Greg Rucka’s graphic novel Stumptown is headed to ABC – but there are no heroes in capes or tights, villains who are plotting to take over the world, magic, mutants or out-of-this-world powers. It’s about a mortal woman named Dex Parios, a marine veteran who is just living her life. But don’t get it twisted — it very…

Before I Fall star Zoey Deutch will test her zombie apocalypse survival skills in Zombieland 2, Sony’s follow-up to the 2009 sleeper hit. Ruben Fleischer, who is coming off the box office success of Venom, is returning to helm the sequel with the original stars — Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, and…

ABC has put in development a single-camera comedy starring, created and executive produced by Trae Crowder, known for his stage persona the Liberal Redneck, and his writing and comedy touring partners Corey Forrester and Drew Morgan. The project hails from Ruben Fleischer’s The District and ABC Studios where Fleischer…

Comic-Con fans were caught in a Hall H web when Sony swung into the confab with Venom and Spider-man: Into The Spider-Verse with mind-blowing footage. The Spidey extravaganza was moderated by the Nerdist’s Jessica Chobot with the first half of the panel included Phil Lord & Christopher Miller’s Into the…

It’s official. Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, and Abigail Breslin have all signed up to return Zombieland with the original film’s director Ruben Fleischer also on board to direct the film for Sony Pictures. Fleischer, the director of Sony’s hotly anticipated Venom standalone, is reteaming with the…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal has acquired an untitled buddy cop comedy hatched by Ruben Fleischer, David Bernad and Murray Miller. This one has John Cena (Trainwreck) and Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick) attached to star in the project. Fleischer, who helmed Zombieland and will next direct Venom, is attached to direct and will…