By Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film In the first deal by newly minted MGM Motion Picture Group chairman Michael De Luca, MGM has acquired North American rights to distribute Dog.
Deadline readers might recall this is the film that showed as much bite as bark when it was introduced last fall at AFM. Pic stars Channing Tatum, who will co-direct the film with his longtime creative partner, Reid Carolin.
Latter wrote the script based upon a story he hatched with Brett Rodriguez. Pic will shoot in May for U.S. release on Valentine’s Day weekend 2021 via MGM’s joint distribution and marketing entity United Artists Releasing.
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