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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winner Colin Firth has signed on to star in New York Will Eat You Alive (tentative title), the STXfilms and Tencent Pictures action-comedy based on the digital comic Zombie Brother. Todd Strauss-Schulson (Isn't It Romantic) is attached to direct the adaptation, which is being co-produced by Tencent…

As it continues to partner on international productions, China's Tencent Pictures today said it has boarded a pair of upcoming titles. They include Sony/TriStar’s Mister Rogers pic A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood led by Tom Hanks as the children’s TV host. It has also become an equity partner on Constantin Film’s M…

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Phantom Four’s David S. Goyer and Keith Levine have set T.J. Fixman’s original action-thriller Rogue at STX Entertainment. Tencent Pictures will co-finance the feature and distribute in China. Rogue is in the spirit of Die Hard and follows a deep-cover CIA operative on the longest night of her…

China's Tencent is teaming with Paramount on Transformers spinoff Bumblebee, and next year's Top Gun sequel. Tencent Pictures is acting as an investor and co-marketing partner on the two films with the Transformers origin story set for release on December 21 in the U.S. and January 4 in the Middle Kingdom. It is the…

Chinese internet behemoth Tencent has boarded Skydance Media’s upcoming Terminator reboot as a global partner. It will co-finance the project and also handle distribution, marketing and merchandising in China. This is the first such deal for Skydance and Tencent since Tencent Pictures took a sizable minority stake in…