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EXCLUSIVE: Woody Harrelson is backing his first short film. The multi-hyphenate has boarded Mary the Widow, writer-director Ryan Noufer’s live-action short, as an executive producer. It’s the first time he’s EP’d a short, joined by Jack Piatt (The Singers) and Kevin McCormick. “Mary the Widow is a special kind of film. It doesn’t waste a […]

Kathryn Ferguson’s IFTA-winning short film features original music by Bastille’s Dan Smith and cinematography by two-time Oscar nominee Robbie Ryan.

Matthew Weiner is no longer involved with the drama series “The Chairman” that is currently in development at Peacock, Variety has learned exclusively from sources. The project was first reported to be in the works at the streamer less than a month ago, with Eddie Murphy attached to star. According to sources, creative differences between […]

Krafton and Netflix today announced a live-action TV show based on PUBG, and it will star Emmy-winner Donald Glover. In fact, Glover will not only star, but also direct, write, and executive produce the show, along with his brother, Stephen Glover, as writer and executive producer. That's all Krafton had to say in its announcement, so it sounds like early da

Netflix is developing PUBG, a live-action series adaptation of Krafton’s bestselling battle royale game. Emmy winner Donald Glover will direct and star in the adaptation, which he is writing and executive producing with his brother Stephen Glover. Also executive producing are Michael Schaefer for Neon TV, Fam Udeorji for Gilga, and Taeseok Jang and Sujin […]

Stephen Glover is also writing and executive producing.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon is developing Whiskey Matriarch, a drama series starring and executive produced by Academy Award nominee Taraji P. Henson, sources tell Deadline. Reps for Amazon declined comment, and plot details are being kept under wraps. The series sold to Amazon competitively after being set up at Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Gr

EXCLUSIVE: Production has wrapped on under-the-radar “Gen Z music thriller” Dead At 27, starring Selma Blair (Cruel Intentions), Sierra McCormick (American Horror Stories), Logan Miller (Escape Room) and Dylan Playfair (Letterkenny). The film will feature acting and music from recording artists Iann Dior, Tommy Genesis and Kya (Bludnymph) Hansen. K. Asher Le

Oscar-nominated star Eric Roberts is leading the first vertical drama to be revealed from Alon Shtruzman and Scott Einbinder’s nascent Hollywood outfit New Short Media. Created by Gev Miron and Charlie Parker, It’s My Party and I’ll Die If I Want To will be released as both an episodic vertical series and feature film intended […]

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-winning Succession star Sarah Snook is returning to HBO as the star of The Birds, a limited series inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s film and Daphne du Maurier’s novella. HBO has nabbed the high-profile project, which was taken out by Universal Global Television this past summer, for development. It comes from two other key creative […]

EXCLUSIVE: A24’s fantasy video game adaptation Elden Ring is heading to the American Film Market where it’ll be the biggest-budget standalone project ever on sale at a film or TV market. We hear from sources the budget is being pegged between $175M-$200M, but closer to the latter, which takes the project beyond previous tentpoles that […]

Spooky season is about to reach its peak, and Ryan Gosling’s band Dead Man’s Bones are contributing to the holiday spirit this year with a new song and music video. The rock duo comprising Project Hail Mary star Gosling and Godzilla: The New Empire producer Zach Shields released their first and only self-titled album in […]

MGM+ is expanding its horror lineup with a series order to The Black Tapes, a supernatural investigation drama. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau stars in the eight-episode series based on the 2015 horror podcast of the same name created by Terry Miles and Paul Bae who are writers on the TV adaptation alongside John Rogers (Leverage). In The […]

A man was arrested Friday night near the Brooklyn set of “Miami Vice ’85,” a film starring Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler.

In a rare move, Mexico’s exhibition-distribution giant Cinépolis has landed Latin American rights to Spanish buzz title “5 More Minutes” (“5 Minutos Más”) starring Javier Cámara, who took home the Best Supporting Actor prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival. “We normally pick up only Mexican rights to films about 90% of the time but […]

Luke Evans is among the rare cadre of British actors who regularly balance Hollywood blockbusters with more modest British dramas. Not to mention the actor, who has starred in movies as diverse as “The Hobbit” trilogy and the live-action “Beauty and the Beast” opposite Emma Watson, also recently came off a five-month stint Broadway stint […]

EXCLUSIVE: Slava Denisov’s short film The Ride is getting the feature treatment with Alex Roe (The 5th Wave), Jack Topalian (Euphoria) and Shakira Barrera (GLOW) on board to star. Told entirely from the perspective of a single automobile and due to begin production in Los Angeles this fall, The Ride “follows a ‘76 Plymouth as […]

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Copenhagen-based DR Sales, the international distributor of Oscar-winning doc “Mr Nobody Against Putin” and Sundance winner “A New Kind of Wilderness,” has boarded Denmark’s “Father’s House,” starring David Dencik (“No Time to Die,” “The Chestnut Man”) and Trine Dyrholm (“The Danish Woman,” “Queen of Hearts”). Selected for the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festi