EXCLUSIVE: Neon has emerged from a days-long bidding battle near a deal to acquire worldwide rights to Together, writer-director Michael Shanks’ Sundance crowd-pleaser that stars Dave Franco, Alison Brie and Damon Herriman. The film premiered in the Midnight section on January 26 at the Eccles…

UPDATED EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures EVP of Production and Development Palak Patel is leaving the Culver City lot for a new gig as Chief Content Officer at Namit Malhotra's Prime Focus Studios. Prime Focus recently co-produced The Garfield Movie with Alcon Entertainment for Sony Pictures, grossing…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis is the top choice to star in the Murder, She Wrote movie coming together at Universal, Dish hears. No deal yet, but we here she’s looming likely to play the Jessica Fletcher role popularized by Angela Lansbury in the hit series that ran 12 seasons on CBS…

EXCLUSIVE: The final piece of Sam Mendes’ The Beatles puzzle is falling in place. The Dish hears Joseph Quinn is the choice to play George Harrison in one of the quartet of movies that Sam Mendes will direct on each iconic Mop Topper. Sources out of Europe said that Quinn has been seen lugging…

If there was awareness tracking for a TV series slated to premiere in two years, HBO’s Harry Potter would score through the roof. From the moment the “faithful adaptation” of the beloved book series by J.K. Rowling was officially announced in April 2023 as a “decade-long series,” the project has been…

EXCLUSIVE: All Quiet on the Western Front helmer Edward Berger and Elvis Oscar nominee Austin Butler are out to the town with The Barrier, a hot time-travel package that is expected to spur competitive bidding, sources tell Deadline. Plot details for the film, based on a short story by MacMillan…

EXCLUSIVE: Following their critically acclaimed collaboration on Queer, The Dish hears that Oscar-nominated filmmaker Luca Guadagnino and Daniel Craig are getting back together for Sgt. Rock at James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC Studios. Actually, this is poised to be Guadagnino’s next directing job…

EXCLUSIVE: John Mayer and McG are closing in to buy the famed Jim Henson Studio lot and the Charlie Chaplin Studios at 1416 N. La Brea in Los Angeles. Sources are telling us this tonight. No purchase price was disclosed. The Grammy-winning singer has offices at the Jim Henson lot and uses the…

EXCLUSIVE: Sources are telling us that Amazon MGM Studios has won the bidding war for Mattel’s animated feature Bob the Builder which had Netflix, DreamWorks Animation and others vying for the project. Not all deals are complete, I understand. Bob the Builder is being produced by Jennifer…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline hears that cameras are rolling on the set of the Amazon MGM Orion Pictures’ feature take of the 3x Obie-winning play, Is God Is with I’m a Virgo‘s Kara Young and Kindred‘s Mallori Johnson playing outcast twin sisters. Also starring are Oscar nominee and 3x Primetime Emmy winner…

EXCLUSIVE: Natalie Portman and Jenna Ortega are in talks to star in The Gallerist, with Cathy Yan on board to direct. Yan co-wrote the pic with James Pedersen. Portman and Sophie Mas will produce through their MountainA banner along with Jonathan King, Ash Sarohia, Tom McCarthy, Rae Baron, Sophie Mas…

EXCLUSIVE: While fans of the Netflix series Squid Game still have a couple months to go before the Season 2 premiere, they may be seeing this universe expand in a big way. Sources tell Deadline that a new English-language Squid Game series is in the works at the streamer, with David Fincher coming on…