Paramount Stake Auction: DMG Entertainment Emerges As Surprise Suitor
Dan Mintz’s Beijing- and Los Angeles-based DMG Entertainment is one of the entities seeking to buy a piece of Paramount Pictures. The sale of what is believed to be a 40% stake in the Melrose Avenue studio is thought to be going for about $2 billion. (DH)
Julia Roberts To Star In Crime Drama ‘Train Man’
Julia Roberts is eyeing to star in Train Man, a courtroom drama about a real-life New York folk hero. The film is being produced by Gotham Group. (VAR)
Matthew Perry Cast As Ted Kennedy In Reelz Miniseries
Matthew Perry will star as Ted Kennedy in Reelz’s upcoming limited series The Kennedys - After Camelot. (TVG)
Chad Michael Murray Joins CMT’s ‘Million Dollar Quartet’
The One Tree Hill alum will play Sun Records founder Sam Phillips in Million Dollar Quartet, CMT’s upcoming adaptation of the Broadway musical. (TVL)
Abbie Cornish, Caleb Landry Jones Join Cast Of Martin McDonagh’s ‘Three Billboards’
Abbie Cornish and Caleb Landry Jones have boarded the cast of Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Fox Searchlight and Film4 are co-financing the film, which is also set to star Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell. (DH)
‘The Little Prince’ Won’t Get Paramount Release After All
Paramount has backed out of releasing animated pick-up The Little Prince in the U.S. It was scheduled to open stateside on March 18. (IW)
‘Birth Of A Nation’ Director Nate Parker To Adapt ESPN’s Lisa Fenn Memoir ‘Carry On’
Nate Parker will adapt ESPN producer Lisa Fenn’s memoir, Carry On, for the screen. Walden Media will develop, produce and finance the film. Mark Ciardi and Anthony Mastromauro will produce the Parker-penned script. (THR)
Trailer Buzz: ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children’
Tim Burton’s next film, an adaptation of Ransom Riggs’ Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, just released it’s first official trailer. (EW)