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Blake Lively has signed with WME. The former Gossip Girl star starred in the Rebecca Miller-directed The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee, the Ben Affleck-directed The Town and the Oliver Stone-helmed Savages. She’s next booked to star with Ellen Burstyn and Harrison Ford in Age Of Adaline. Lively left CAA recently, and WME…

EXCLUSIVE: Hutch Parker Entertainment has partnered with producer Shane Salerno to develop Savages author’s Don Winslow's bestselling 2007 thriller California Fire And Life. The producers will be going out to screenwriters and filmmakers shortly. California Fire And Life tells the story of Jack Wade, once a rising…

In my view, there hasn’t been a quality author more underrated than Don Winslow. He hooked me with The Winter of Frankie Machine and Power of the Dog, but various turns in turnaround hell on his movies has made him a well kept secret for close to two decades. While I think that Universal miscalculated by moving the Oli…

FX says both will come to the network in late 2014. Previously, FX locked up five of the six No.1 titles this summer including The Avengers, Men in Black 3, Snow White and the Huntsman,  Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, and Ted. The network's other summer movie acquisitions include Prometheus, Abraham Lincoln: Vampi…

July 6-8 Weekend Actuals 1. The Amazing Spider-Man 3D (Columbia/Sony) Week 1 [4,318 Theaters] PG13 Friday $20.5M, Saturday $23.7M, Sunday $17.9M Weekend $62M, Cume $137.0M International Cume $201.6M, Global Cume $338.6M 2. Ted (Universal) Week 2 [3,256 Theaters] R Friday $10.6M, Saturday $11.9M, Sunday $9.7M, Weekend…

EXCLUSIVE: Shane Salerno, who teamed with Oliver Stone and Don Winslow to adapt Winslow’s novel Savages, has acquired film rights to the Steve Hamilton novel The Lock Artist. Published by St. Martin’s Minotaur imprint, the novel won the Edgar Award for Best Novel. Salerno will co-write the script with the author and…

Here are five clips released by Universal to promote Oliver Stone’s new film Savages with cast members Aaron Johnson, Taylor Kitsch, Salma Hayek, Benicio Del Toro and Blake Lively. The movie is set to open in the U.S. on July 6. The first video features Johnson, with the rest on the jump.

In its continuing campaign to lure Latino audiences to its movies, Universal debuted a trailer specifically targeting this market titled Summer of Battles during tonight's Billboard Latin Music Awards on Telemundo. The two-minute Spanish-English ad combines footage from the studio’s upcoming summer movies Battleship, S…

Universal has released its first trailer for Savages, the Oliver Stone-directed adaptation of the bestselling Don Winslow novel about two pot growers from Laguna who are muscled by a Mexican drug cartel. When the cartel kidnaps the woman they share, the growers come up with a novel but dangerous way to pay the ransom…

EXCLUSIVE: Simon & Schuster has moved the publication date of the Don Winslow novel The Kings Of Cool from fall to June 26. The move was made to bring the book closer to the launch of Savages, the Oliver Stone-directed adaptation of Winslow’s novel that stars Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Johnson and Blake Lively. The Kings Of…

EXCLUSIVE: Looks like Universal Pictures smells a summer hit in Savages, the Oliver Stone-directed adaptation of the bestselling Don Winslow novel. After screening a cut late last week, the studio has moved the film up to a July 6 slot. It had been scheduled to be released September 28. That puts it right in the heat…

On-location filming in Los Angeles increased by 15.4% year-over-year during the third quarter, helped in part by eight feature film shoots in the region that were supported by the California Film & Television Tax Credit. The films — which include Warner Bros’ Ben Affleck-directed Argo and period L.A. mob pic Gangster S…