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EXCLUSIVE: Producer Todd Lieberman has formed Hidden Pictures and tapped Alex Young for the president post. Formed to generate film and TV projects, Hidden Pictures has entered a strategic film partnership with Lionsgate. The new company has gotten off the ground with a film rights deal in competition for Freida…

Producer Todd Lieberman admits that when Disney first approached him about making a Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers movie around nine years ago, his initial instinct was to say: “I’m not sure that’s a wise use of time, unless we do it in a very different way than one might expect.” The standard version of the film that…

Editor’s note: Todd Lieberman is the Oscar-nominated producer of The Fighter with credits including Beauty and the Beast, Wonder and The Muppets. A member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, he contributes occasional guest columns for Deadline. I'll never forget the first time I attended the Oscars…

EXCLUSIVE: Mandeville Films and Television partners and co-owners David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman could be ending their 20-plus-year run together. Deadline understands that the pair, who are behind feature films including Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast and Amazon's The Aeronauts and have racked up more…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios is teaming with Mandeville Films to turn the Antti Tuomainen novel The Rabbit Factor into a star vehicle for Steve Carell. Todd Lieberman and David Hoberman are producing and Alex Young will EP for Mandeville Films. In the adaptation of the darkly comic novel by the Finnish author, Carell…

EXCLUSIVE: In competitive bidding, Universal Pictures has acquired the next project from Michelle Harper, whose first script Tin Roof Rusted made the Black List and was acquired by TriStar. The new one is under wraps, but it is an untitled father/daughter dance dramedy, sources said. Todd Lieberman and David Hoberman…

Editor’s note: Todd Lieberman, who with David Hoberman co-owns Mandeville Films and Television, has been a prolific producer of films from Beauty and the Beast to The Aeronauts, Wonder, Stronger, The Fighter, The Muppets and The Proposal. Like most in Hollywood, he spends time in the pandemic prepping projects for the…

The filmmakers behind The Aeronauts went to great lengths — and heights — to make their movie about pioneering balloonists in 19th century England. So did stars Eddie Redmayne, who plays meteorologist James Glaisher, and Felicity Jones, cast as daredevil pilot Amelia Wren. "Right from the very beginning Felicity was…

Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones spent the majority of The Aeronauts by themselves in the basket of a hot air balloon. While this might sound confining, director Tom Harper reveled in the challenge of getting the best out of his two boxers, who had previously worked together on The Theory of Everything. "There's a…

David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman have moved their Mandeville Films from Disney to Universal. The duo is coming off the $300 million-grossing Wonder, the billion-dollar grosser Beauty and the Beast, the Jake Gyllenhaal-starrer Stronger about Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman, The Fighter and The Muppets…

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Fox has set Allan Loeb to write an untitled romantic comedy star vehicle for Ryan Reynolds that reunites the actor with Mandeville’s David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman. They first teamed on the hit The Proposal, the Reynolds-Sandra Bullock coupler that became 2009’s top-grossing romantic comedy…

Relativity Setting Business Venture In China The first of the film projects Relativity Media is making with its China joint venture partner Sky Land is officially underway in the Shandong province city of Linyi. The comedy 21 And Over was written and is being directed by The Hangover scribes Jon Lucas and Scott Moore…