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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has made a deal to develop the comedy adventure Lost and Found as a starring vehicle for Gina Rodriguez and Zachary Levi, with Steve Pink (Hot Tub Time Machine) directing. Pink and Jeff Morris wrote the script, about a headstrong lawyer and an off-the-grid renegade who reluctantly team up to…

Shazam! star Zachary Levi has signed on to topline The Unbreakable Boy, an inspirational true story drama from Lionsgate and I Can Only Imagine and I Still Believe producer Kingdom Story Company. Jon Gunn is the screenwriter and director behind this project. He is the writer and executive producer of I Still Believe…

After becoming a hit with audiences and a box office success, fanboys and fangirls were thirsty for more of Shazam! with the titular wisecracking teen-who-turns-into-a-grown-adult superhero played Zachary Levi. Warner Bros recognized this and almost immediately set a sequel with screenwriter Henry Gayden and director…

Zachary Levi is tackling the role of NFL MVP and Hall of Famer Kurt Warner in the forthcoming American Underdog: The Kurt Warner Story biopic from Lionsgate and I Still Believe producer Kingdom Story Company. The Erwin Brothers — Jon Erwin and Andrew Erwin — will direct the film, which is expected to being production…

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysteri…

Shazam star Zachary Levi made the news official today about the upcoming music-driven family comedy film Undercover on his Instagram. Lionsgate is reuniting with Mandeville Films for the movie which will also star Cole Sprouse, and be directed by Steve Pink, who previously directed such music-driven movies as Hot Tub…

EXCLUSIVE: New Line Cinema is negotiating with Zachary Levi to star in Spy Guys, and it has just set Jeff Tomsic to direct the script by Adam Sztykiel. That puts the action comedy on a fast track as the aim here is to get the movie made before Levi reprises in the Shazam! sequel, which New Line is also…

Channeling his Shazam! character in a red suit, host Zachary Levi used his opening monologue at the MTV Movie & TV Awards to poke fun at celebrities but also empower young viewers.. Levi started off with an awards show monologue trope of jokes about nominees. “Sandra Bullock is nominated for Bird Box, quite literally…

His DC/WB superhero film spent two weeks atop the box office chart this month, and now Zachary Levi has another reason to grin. The Shazam! star is set to host the 2019 MTV Movie & TV Awards. The cable net also said today that its kudos show is set for June 17 at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. Categories and nominees…

DC Comics and Warner Bros take a bit of inspiration from Big, the classic 1988 Tom Hanks film, and then throws it all into a superhero format. As simple as saying “Shazam!” you have, Shazam! It is not one of the best-known of DC properties — certainly no Superman or Batman or Aquaman — but it has its charms, even in a…

Warner Bros/New Line's Shazam! has been confirmed for a China release on April 5. That's day-and-date with the DC pic's domestic release and comes during a lucrative period at Middle Kingdom turnstiles. April 5 kicks off the Qingming Festival, also known as Tomb Sweeping Day. The holiday was an extra boon for WB's Read…

Zachary Levi, who stars in DC and Warner Bros.’ upcoming Shazam, put the film in Hollywood screenwriting terms for the hundreds of fans who crowded into his panel session at New York Comic-Con’s SYFY Wire Live Stage. “It’s Big meets Superman,” Levi said. "There's levity built into it … It's not that it skews younger…