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‘Stranger Things’ Season 4: ‘Fleabag’s Brett Gelman Upped To Series Regular

09.07.2020 - 00:08

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By Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office Editor EXCLUSIVE: Brett Gelman has been promoted to series regular on Netflix’s Stranger Things season 4.

On the hit series, Gelman plays Murray Bauman, the journalist-turned-conspiracy theorist who was first introduced in season 2 and had a significant role in season 3.

This news comes fresh off the heels of Gelman’s wide success with Amazon’s Fleabag sweeping awards season as the Best Comedy Series category at the Emmys, Golden Globes, and the Critics’ Choice.

Gelman shared two SAG cast ensemble noms this past January with both Fleabag in the comedy category, and Stranger Things in the drama category.

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18.07.2020 / 03:29

Charlize Theron Netflix Movie ‘The Old Guard’ Seen In 72M Households To Rank Among Streamer’s 10 Most Popular Pics

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorNetflix has posted on social media that the Charlize Theron, Gina Prince-Bythewood Skydance movie The Old Guard has easily become one of the streamer’s top 10 most popular, viewed by 72M households in just four weeks.Netflix also reports that Prince-Bythewood is the first Black female director on that list.Other Netflix streaming benchmarks:–The Adam Sandler-Jennifer Aniston comedy Murder Mystery was watched by 31M accounts in its first two days on Friday and Saturday.–Netflix reported that the first week of the Sandra Bullock thriller Bird Box was watched by 45M global accounts during its first seven days. Nielsen later verified that 26M U.S.

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18.07.2020 / 02:35

Paul Thomas Anderson 1970s San Fernando Valley Movie Heading To MGM

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: We hear that Paul Thomas Anderson’s new 1970s San Fernando Valley movie is jumping from Focus Features to MGM. Neither studio would confirm, but we know that it’s a deal that’s going down according to sources, and that the production is leaving the Universal specialty label which made his Oscar-winning, near $48M WW global grossing period feature Phantom Thread. CAA Media Finance represents the film.The movie did not go into production prior to the shutdown of feature productions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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17.07.2020 / 02:57

How China Is Reopening Movie Theaters Faster Than The U.S. During The Pandemic

Anthony D'Alessandro, Nancy Tartaglione In the wake of the China Film Administration announcing yesterday the reopening of cinemas on July 20, there’s been several questions as to what China is determining to be a low or high risk COVID-19 area. We heard from a number of industry sources today that the majority of the country’s exhibitors can reopen except for Beijing and its immediate five market surrounding area as newly confirmed COVID-19 cases remain high there at 226.While there’s been this notion that the reopening in China will be slow, one source tells us, that’s not the case: major circuits like Wanda are poised to open next week.

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17.07.2020 / 01:03

‘American History X’ Filmmaker Tony Kaye To Direct ‘Civil’

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: British filmmaker Tony Kaye has boarded the civil rights feature drama Civil. Written by Austin Wright and Adam Knox, Civil follows two young men from opposite sides of the racial divide in the months leading up to the movement in 1955, who discover the real meaning of equality, through the ashes of tragedy.Subscribe to Deadline Breaking News Alerts and keep your inbox happy.Signup for Breaking News Alerts & NewslettersGet our latest storiesin the feed of your favorite networksWe want to hear from you! Send us a tip using our annonymous form.Sign up for our breaking news alerts

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16.07.2020 / 22:47

‘Black Adam’ Adds Noah Centineo As Atom Smasher

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorTo All the Boys I’ve Loved Before actor Noah Centineo has joined New Line/DC’s Dwayne Johnson movie Black Adam which is set to shoot in Georgia during early 2021.Centineo will play Atom Smasher, a character who can control his molecular structure with the ability to manipulate his size, strength and durability. Centineo can be seen next in the WWII drama The Diary and To All the Boys 3.

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16.07.2020 / 20:03

Netflix Sets New Animated Movie With Richard Linklater: ‘Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Adventure’

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorRichard Linklater has a new animated movie in the works at Netflix, Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Adventure. The movie, directed and written by Linklater, is set against the backdrop of the 1969 Apollo mission to the moon, which celebrates its 51st anniversary today, and is inspired by Linklater’s childhood in Houston, TX. The live action shoot wrapped in March in Austin, and the innovative hybrid of hand drawn and computer animated imagery will be completed at Minnow Mountain in Austin and Submarine in the Netherlands.Linklater previously made the Rotoscope-animated-live action hybrid A Scanner Darkly in 2006 based on the Philip K.

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16.07.2020 / 19:43

Kristen Wiig Signs With CAA

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: CAA has inked Oscar nominee and eight-time Emmy nominee Kristen Wiig.The Groundlings alum who went on to a seven year career on Saturday Night Live, has continued on to work with such acclaimed filmmakers as Darren Aronofsky (mother!), Alexander Payne (Downsizing), Richard Linklater (Where’d You Go, Bernadette?), Sebastian Silva (Nasty Baby), Ridley Scott (The Martian), and Marielle Heller (The Diary of a Teenage Girl).Wiig will star next in the Warner Bros./DC Patty Jenkins-directed sequel Wonder Woman 1984 as Barbara Minerva aka ‘Cheetah, opening on Oct.

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16.07.2020 / 08:33

China Movie Theaters In Low Risk Areas Can Reopen On July 20

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorBREAKING: Those theaters in low risk areas in China “can resume business in an orderly manner” as early as Monday, July 20, the China Film Administration announced in a recent notice.There were rumblings in foreign distribution that China would start reopening on this date, however, sources weren’t so sure whether that meant simply that the Shanghai Film Festival would take place at this time (and thus, movie theaters would reopen).

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16.07.2020 / 03:59

Henry Golding To Star In Paramount Animation’s ‘The Tiger’s Apprentice’

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorCrazy Rich Asians star Henry Golding will be the lead voiceover in Paramount Animation’s The Tiger’s Apprentice based on Lawrence Yep’s 2003 bestselling novel. The feature, currently schedule for a Feb. 11, 2022 release date, will rep the directorial debut of Pixar animator Carlos Baena.Pic, adapted by David Magee, Harry Cripps, Kyle Jarrow follows Tom, a teenage Chinese American boy, who learns that he is the Guardian of the Chinese Zodiac.

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16.07.2020 / 03:59

Viacom Unloads Foreign Rights For ‘SpongeBob: Sponge On The Run’ To Netflix

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEven though Paramount’s SpongeBob: Sponge on the Run is heading to VOD and ultimately CBS All Access in the states next year, overseas it will be streamed by Netflix; the exception being China. Netflix has acquired international rights for what was originally intended to be one of Paramount’s big summer movies.

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16.07.2020 / 02:29

Former Imagine Artist Management Partner Raj Raghavan Joins Echo Lake Entertainment

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Former CAA agent and Imagine Artist Management partner-manager Raj Raghavan is joining Echo Lake Entertainment as a talent manager, where he’ll continue to rep a roster of accomplished actors, playwrights, comedians and novelists.Raghavan’s clients include Golden Globe Nominee Jason Lee (My Name Is Earl), four-time Filmfare Award winner and Bollywood superstar Alia Bhatt (Gully Boy), British Independent Film Award winner Ashley Walters (Top Boy), BAFTA nominee Suraj Sharma (Life of Pi, God Friended Me), Ryan J.

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15.07.2020 / 21:43

Apple Expands Slate With Justin Timberlake-Fisher Stevens Feature ‘Palmer’

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorApple has landed the SK Global feature drama Palmer starring Justin Timberlake and directed by Fisher Stevens.The movie, written by Cheryl Guerriero, whose script appeared on the 2016 Blacklist, follows a former college football phenomenon named Eddie Palmer (Timberlake) who, after a stint in prison, returns to his hometown to get his life back on track. There, he faces not only lingering conflicts from his past but also a much more surprising challenge as he finds himself suddenly in charge of a unique young boy who has been abandoned by his wayward mother.

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15.07.2020 / 19:19

‘Fletch’ Modern Day Reboot In The Works With Jon Hamm & Miramax

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorFletch is making a comeback: Jon Hamm will star as and produce a new feature film about the brazen investigative reporter to be directed by Superbad‘s Greg Mottola and Miramax. The movie, like the Chevy Chase films in the 1980s, is based on Gregory Mcdonald’s 1970s and 1980s Fletch mystery novels.The new film adaptation will specifically be based on the second book in the Mcdonald series, Confess, Fletch.

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15.07.2020 / 18:39

Universal & Mattel Developing ‘Wishbone’ Feature Based On PBS Jack Russell Terrier TV Series; Peter Farrelly Producing

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorUniversal Pictures and Mattel Films are in the works on Wishbone based on the PBS TV series from the 1990s about the iconic Jack Russell terrier.Green Book Oscar-winning producer Peter Farrelly is producing the live-action feature alongside Mattel Films. The family film project reps the first theatrical collaboration between Mattel Films and Universal Pictures and the ninth Mattel Films project in development.

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15.07.2020 / 18:39

Radar Pictures Developing ‘Unseen’ Based On Audio-Only Horror Mobile Game ‘BlindSide’

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorRadar Pictures is developing a movie based on the audio-only mobile horror game BlindSide, which they’ll entitle Unseen, with sisters Jen and Sylvia Soska writing, directing and producing.The horror feature will follow a Boston couple who wake up blind in a terrifying world they cannot recognize. They fear their sanity slipping away.

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15.07.2020 / 01:49

Gina Prince-Bythewood To Direct ‘Woman King’ For Viola Davis

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorIn the wake of Netflix recently streaming Skydance’s Old Guard, that pic’s director Gina Prince-Bythewood is looking to direct The Woman King at TriStar for Oscar winner Viola Davis.The movie is set in The Kingdom of Dahomey, which was a powerful state of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries. Davis will play Nanisca, the general of an all-female military unit, who alongside her daughter Nawi, crusade against the French and regional tribes who violated their honor, enslaved their people and threatened to destroy everything they’re about.Cathy Schulman’s Welle Entertainment is producing with Davis and Julius Tennon of JuVee Productions and Maria Bello of Jack Blue Productions.

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14.07.2020 / 22:03

ICM Hires Jen Rudin As Animation & Voice-Overs Talent Agent

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: ICM Partners has hired casting directing vet Jen Rudin as a talent agent specializing in animation and voice-over work for the agency’s clients. She starts at ICM Partners today and will be based in New York.During her 15-year career in casting, Rudin worked as a casting executive at The Walt Disney Company, casting such titles as The Incredibles, The Princess and the Frog and Chicken Little.

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14.07.2020 / 21:25

New ‘Dirty Dancing’ Movie? Jennifer Grey To Star In & Executive Produce Dance Pic At Lionsgate

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: A new untitled dance movie is taking shape at Lionsgate, set in the 1990s and starring and executive produced by Dirty Dancing Golden Globe nominee Jennifer Grey.While details are being kept very quiet, there’s some rumblings that a new Dirty Dancing movie could be in the works. Sources aren’t confirming but they aren’t putting the idea in a corner either.Lionsgate holds the distribution rights to the Dirty Dancing films, and Grey, of course, played teenage Baby in that movie who falls for her Catskills resort dance instructor, Johnny Castle, played by the late Patrick Swayze.

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14.07.2020 / 20:09

Slated Taps Tim Wesley As CEO; Yair Landau, David Wertheimer And Michael Joe Join Board

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorSlated, the online film financing, sales, packaging, and development marketplace, has hired Tim Wesley as CEO.Wesley recently served as an executive digital consultant for AMC Theatres and is the former General Manager of RedBox On Demand.He will report to Slated’s newly installed Board of Directors.

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14.07.2020 / 00:43

Freestyle’s Romantic Drama ‘2 Hearts’ Heads To October

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorUpdate: Freestyle Releasing’s 2 Hearts is moving to Oct. 16, in hope that the COVID-19 cases will have quelled by then.

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13.07.2020 / 22:57

Doug Belgrad’s 2.0 Entertainment Taps Sam Chalsen & Nelson Greaves To Pen Unabomber Feature

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Doug Belgrad’s Sony-based 2.0 Entertainment has hired writers Sam Chalsen and Nelson Greaves to write a psychological thriller about Ted Kaczynski, who went from Harvard math prodigy, to the subject of an intense psychological experiment, ultimately becoming the Unabomber.Chalsen and Greaves began their writing career together after their pilot Potus Maximus sold to Fox with Howard Gordon executive producing. Their blind deal at Warner Bros led to the pair writing the videogame adaptation Spy Hunter as well as a reboot of Inspector Gadget for Disney and producer Dan Lin.

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13.07.2020 / 22:15

‘Songbird’: ‘Riverdale’s KJ Apa & ‘Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists’s Sofia Carson Land Lead Roles In Pandemic Thriller

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorRiverdale‘s KJ Apa and Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists‘ Sofia Carson have landed the lead roles as star-crossed lovers in the Adam Goodman and Michael Bay pandemic thriller production Songbird which started filming last Wednesday in Los Angeles.Told from street level through the eyes of the characters, Songbird takes place two years into the future, as a lockdown has been re-implemented after a more serious virus continues to mutate. In a feeble attempt to keep the sickness contained, the city has been bisected into haves and have nots. Songbird follows an essential worker (Apa) who has a rare immunity, a delivery man who delivers goods and hope throughout the city.

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13.07.2020 / 20:03

Amblin Partners & Tate Taylor Reteam For Jean Smart Feature ‘Miss Macy’

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: We can tell you first that Amblin Partners is reuniting with Tate Taylor, who directed the studio’s box office and award-lauded hits The Help and The Girl on the Train. The new feature project is Miss Macy and it’s based on the true story of Trisha Mitchell Coburn and her life after she meets her mentor “Miss Macy”. Three-time Emmy winner Jean Smart will star as Miss Macy and serve as EP.

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13.07.2020 / 19:31

‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’: New Animated Series To Debut On Disney+ In 2021

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorDisney+ has ordered the next Lucasfilm animated series, Star Wars: The Bad Batch with a premiere set for 2021.Clone Wars architect and The Mandalorian EP and director Dave Filoni will return for Bad Batch as EP, alongside Athena Portillo (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels), Brad Rau (Star Wars Rebels, Star Wars Resistance) and Jennifer Corbett (Star Wars Resistance, NCIS) with Carrie Beck (The Mandalorian, Star Wars Rebels) as co-executive producer and Josh Rimes as producer (Star Wars Resistance). Rau is also serving as supervising director with Corbett as head writer.

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11.07.2020 / 23:19

Thandie Newton On The Dispossessed & The Spiritual In ‘Westworld’, And What’s To Come In Season 4 – Emmys

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorWarning: This interview contains spoilers from Season 3 of HBO’s Westworld.Part of Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s m.o. with HBO’s Westworld is breaking archetypes, especially when it comes to redefining the roles of females in westerns, i.e.

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11.07.2020 / 21:33

‘Empire Strikes Back’ Leads At The Weekend Box Office Again, 23 Years After Sequel’s Special Edition

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorFor the first time since the February 1997 reissue, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is leading at the box office this weekend after clocking an estimated $175K at 483 locations. Empire should end the weekend with a 3-day take in between the high $400K and low $500K.

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11.07.2020 / 08:57

‘Legally Blonde 3’: Mindy Kaling & Dan Goor Giving Fresh Take To MGM-Hello Sunshine Sequel

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11.07.2020 / 08:51

Vertical Entertainment Picks Up Vinnie Jones, Ron Perlman & Malcolm McDowell Action Thriller ‘The Big Ugly’

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11.07.2020 / 08:48

‘Scream’: David Arquette Returning As Dewey Riley In Spyglass Media Group Reboot

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11.07.2020 / 08:48

Focus Features Moves Horror Pic ‘Come Play’ To October

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11.07.2020 / 07:53

Is ‘Tenet’ Still Sticking On Its July 17 Release Date?

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11.07.2020 / 07:50