Weekend Box Office, Jimmy Kimmel to Host Emmys, Upcoming Sony Franchises, Eli...
Box Office: ‘Zootopia’ Defeats ‘Deadpool’ With Record $73.7M The Disney Animation title soars to $232.5 million worldwide; elsewhere, ‘London Has Fallen’ lags behind its predecessor, while Tina Fey’s...
View ArticleExec Shuffle for 3/7/16: Turner Incite to Utilize IBM Watson, YouTube...
Company Launches & Partnerships Sony Pictures Television is launching the True Crime channel in the UK on Freeview. The new channel will be the platform’s only dedicated crime channel. True Crime’s...
View ArticleSony’s Spidey Reboot Casts Zendaya, J.K. Simmons Joins ‘Justice League’, ‘La...
Exec Shuffle for 3/7/16: Turner Enlists IBM’s Watson, YouTube Empowering Female Creators, Multiple Shifts at Endemol Shine Group Sony TV is starting a new channel in the UK, Verizon and Hearst combine...
View ArticleMTV Movie Award Noms, Noah Baumbach’s New Film Cast, ‘Straight Outta Compton’...
MTV Movie Awards: ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Tops Nominations Star Wars: The Force Awakens scored a leading 11 nominations. It is also up for best female performance (Ridley), breakthrough...
View ArticleTV Development for 3/8/16: Disney Greenlights ‘Big Hero 6’ Series &‘High...
A Cinderella Story: If the Shoe Fits Network: Freeform Studio: Warner Bros. Television Writer(s): Elena Song Logline: Tessa agrees to accompany her evil stepmother and step-sisters to a Cinderella...
View ArticleTribeca Unveils Second Half Of 2016 Slate, Fincher Starts Casting...
TV Development For 3/8/16: Disney Greenlights ‘Big Hero 6’ Series & ‘High School Musical 4’, Julia Louis-Dreyfus Behind HBO Mini ‘Soldier Girls’ Meanwhile, Freeform (formerly ABC Family) fires up a...
View ArticleHot Book Auction, Morten Tyldum Planning ‘Headhunters’ Remake, Zach Helm To...
‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ In Brisk Auction; Book Is By ‘Lost City Of Z’ Author David Grann Just about every studio is in the mix on Killers Of The Flower Moon: An American Crime And The Birth Of The...
View ArticleFilm & TV Deals for 3/9/16: AMC to Buy Carmike Cinema & Become the Largest...
AMC Theaters announced they will acquire Carmike Cinemas. AMC’s 5,426 screens combined with Carmike’s 2,954 screens would combine to form “the largest chain of movie theaters in the U.S. and the...
View ArticleRep Moves for 3/9/16: ‘Vinyl’s’ Bobby Cannavale Shifts from ICM to WME,...
WME: Actor Bobby Cannavale has shifted from ICM Partners to WME. He currently stars in the HBO freshman drama Vinyl which was renewed for a second season. He previously acted in HBO’s Boardwalk Empire...
View ArticleMichael Keaton’s Next Big Role, Ryan Reynolds’ Brand New Director, Anna...
SSN ORIGINALS Film & TV Deals For 3/9/16: AMC to Buy Carmike Cinema & Become the Largest U.S. Theater Chain, beIN Media Acquires Miramax & More Meanwhile, Ben Silverman looks to make a big...
View ArticleFresnadillo to Direct ‘Haunted’, Netflix to Buy Will Smith Spec, Seth Rogen &...
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo To Helm Ghost Tale ‘Haunted’ For DreamWorks Amblin Entertainment is hiring Juan Carlos Fresnadillo to direct Haunted, a film that is inspired by the 1898 Henry James gothic...
View ArticleFilm Development for 3/10/16: A24 Scoops Up Brie Larson Starrer ‘Free Fire’,...
New Attachments A Tale of Love and Darkness Logline: Israeli writer Amos Oz reflects on his memories of growing up in Jerusalem in the years before Israeli statehood. Studio/Distributor(s): Focus World...
View ArticleWB’s Big Diversity Step, ‘Lethal Weapon’ Pilot Finds Its Riggs, ‘Star Trek’...
Film Development For 3/10/16: A24 Scoops Up Brie Larson Starrer ‘Free Fire’, J.K. Simmons Onboard for ‘Justice League’ Meanwhile, Natalie Portman’s directorial debut gets a distributor, Michael Keaton,...
View ArticleImperative Nabs ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ Erik Lomis Leaves Weinstein...
Imperative Entertainment Nabs Hot Book ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ For $5 Million After a truly major and heated bidding war involving studios, digital content streamers and financiers, the film...
View ArticleOn the Set for 3/11/16: Taraji P. Henson & Octavia Spencer Team Up for...
STARTS American Express 03/07/2016 Logline: On the verge of losing his job, a man discovers his wife has been cheating on him, so he kidnaps himself in hopes of collecting ransom....
View ArticleSSN Box Office Trending Report for 3/11/16: ‘Zootopia’ to Remain as Strong as...
-In our latest weekly series, SSN Insider will take a deep dive into the film ticket sales of the week leveraging data from the powerhouse ticketing website, MovieTickets.com. Not only will the...
View Article‘Downsizing’ Adds Waltz, The CW Renews … Everything, Nolan’s New Flick Adds...
SSN ORIGINALS SSN Box Office Trending Report for 3/4/16: ‘Zootopia’ to Remain as Strong as an Ox, While ‘The Divergent Series: Allegiant’ Starts Presale Climb In our ongoing weekly series, SSN Insider...
View Article‘Zootopia’ Continues Box Office Reign, Russo Brothers Launch Studio in China,...
Box Office: ‘Zootopia’ Reigns with $50M This Weekend, While ’10 Cloverfield Lane’ Earns its Keep at $25M Disney’s animated animal adventure Zootopia continued to dominate the box office over the...
View ArticleExec Shuffle for 3/14/16: Kevin Spacey Stepping Away from Relativity, Prime...
Company Launches & Partnerships After launching a new eSports vertical, Yahoo Sports has signed a deal with the NHL and will begin live-streaming up to four NHL hockey games per week, delivering...
View ArticleWB Finds a Writer For ‘Flawed’, Netflix Orders One Show & Casts Another,...
Exec Shuffle for 3/14/16: Kevin Spacey Stepping Away from Relativity, Prime PR to Fold into PMK-BNC, YouTube Co-Founder Launches Nom Meanwhile, Yahoo Sports makes a deal with the NHL, a bestselling...
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