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EXCLUSIVE: Adam McKay has berthed his new production company Hyperobject Industries to a first-look feature film deal at Paramount Pictures, and hopes the new relationship will get off the ground with the pending destruction of earth by a meteor, in a moment where everything is paralyzed by polarizing and partisan…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has acquired Brilliance, and will turn the Marcus Sakey novel adaptation into a re-team vehicle for Will Smith and Akiva Goldsman. Smith will star and Goldsman will write the script. They will produce with James Lassiter and Shane Salerno. Pic will be done as a co-production between…

EXCLUSIVE: Temple Hill has entered a three-year first-look film deal with Paramount Pictures. It puts producer Marty Bowen back in business with Paramount Motion Picture Group president Wyck Godfrey, who co-founded the production shingle with Bowen. They had been partners since Bowen hung up his agenting spurs and…

The journey to the moon for the creative team behind First Man began with Jim Hansen’s biography of the same name about astronaut Neil Armstrong. Reading the book, producer Wyck Godfrey recalled during Deadline’s The Contenders New York awards-season event last month, “I realized I knew nothing and contextually didn't…

EXCLUSIVE: The road to bringing First Man to the screen was certainly not as arduous as the real journey of putting a man on the moon, but it was a long labor of love that amazingly is the first time the backstory of Neil Armstrong and the history-making achievement has been told. The project, which has now been…

EXCLUSIVE: Todd Garner is moving his Broken Road Productions banner onto the Paramount lot. Garner has made a two-year first look deal to  develop and produce movies for both Paramount Pictures and Paramount Players. Garner, who makes mainstream comedies and genre films, had most recently been under a deal with Covert…

BREAKING 10:49 AM with updated details, noon: After working in the business for 20 years both as a producer and creative executive, Wyck Godfrey has been tapped to replace Marc Evans as Motion Picture Group President at Paramount Pictures. He will begin his job in January. Evans, as Deadline reported last night, is…

EXCLUSIVE: Temple Hill partners Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey have acquired rights to do a narrative drama based on Undefeated, the 2011 high school football picture that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary. The film, directed by Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin, chronicled the Manassas Tigers from inner-city…

On the surface, Fox’s Rosewood looks like a he said-she said procedural between Morris Chestnut as Miami’s top pathologist Dr. Beaumont Rosewood Jr., and Jaina Lee Ortiz as the detective he assists. But what was apparent coming away from the TCA panel, was that award-winning actress Lorraine Toussaint, notably last…

Temple Hill, which just hired former Xbox Entertainment Studios exec Albert Page as head of its TV division, has closed a two-year overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV Studios. Now the team of Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey and Page will develop new projects for the studio via their shingle, which on the TV side they…

EXCLUSIVE: Adam Shankman will be set by New Line Cinema to direct The Nutcracker, a new take on the classic fairy tale that is being eyed as a tent pole family holiday film for late 2013. The script was written by Darren Lemke, who just worked with New Line on Jack the Giant Killer, and whose credits include Shrek Fore…

If Summit Entertainment is actually serious about a merger or a sale, the company has the benefit of wheeling and dealing while it is at a high-water mark. Summit announced today that The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1, flew past $500 million in global box office in just 12 days. The film is at $508 million…