Paramount Global parent company National Amusements and Skydance Media have agreed to merge less than a month after they previously ended deal talks, CBS News is reporting. Paramount, the owner of Paramount Pictures movie and television studios, along with the CBS television network and CBS News, announced the news yesterday. Skydance, an entertainment business founded…
Photo by Nicole Wilder/PARAMOUNT+ – © 2022 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved. Paramount has tapped Miles Teller to star in its update of the 1982 blockbuster An Officer and a Gentleman, which originally starred Richard Gere. Dana Fox is writing the script for the reboot, working on a draft written by Matt Johnson. The news was…
Sony Pictures Entertainment has bought the renowned theater chain Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, according to their statement Wednesday, the deal also encompasses the Fantastic Fest Film Festival. Alamo Drafthouse was founded by Tim and Karrie League in 1997 as a single-screen theater in Austin, and it has grown to 35 locations in North America and became…
©Courtesy of CODA Siân Heder has been tapped to direct Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow for Paramount Pictures, an adaptation of the eponymous best-selling novel by Gabrielle Zevin. Heder’s CODA won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2022. Mark Bomback will be writing the screenplay based on a draft by Zevin. The film will…
Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Tony Vinciquerra is in talks with Apollo Global Management about making a joint bid to acquire Paramount, Deadline is reporting. The news comes as Skydance/Redbird Capital is also in exclusive talks with Paramount Global’s majority shareholder, National Amusements, to take control of the studio. Sony and Apollo’s offer is reportedly an…
According to an announcement at CinemaCom, Paramount will be backing Damien Chazelle’s next film, despite the red ink the studio incurred in producing his Babylon, which reportedly lost some $87 million. Few details are available about the new project, but it reportedly will be set in a prison and will be scripted by the director…
Ridley Scott is reportedly talking with Paramount Pictures about directing an upcoming biopic about the Bee Gees musical group. Though nothing has yet been finalized, Deadline is reporting that Scott would also produce the as-yet-untitled film along with Michael Pruss, Graham King, and Stacey Snider. John Logan, who will write the script, had earlier been…
@Photo by Paramount Pictures/Paramount Pictures – © 2019 Paramount Pictures Corporation. All rights reserved. Tom Cruise, the versatile actor/producer, is cruising full speed ahead on a bunch of new projects, including Top Gun 3, which is in development at Paramount. He’s also shooting Mission : Impossible 8 for the same studio and is working on a…
Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global are reportedly talking about a potential merger. According to press reports first published by Axios and confirmed by Variety, the CEOs of the two companies—Warner’s David Zaslav and Paramount’s Bob Bakish–met for lunch in New York on Tuesday to discuss the potential marriage. Zaslav has also reportedly been in talks…
Universal Pictures is preparing to shoot a cinematic biopic about the life of Martin Luther King Jr. The studio has optioned the rights to adapt writer Jonathan Eig’s critically acclaimed biographical book, King: A Life. Universal is currently in final discussions with Chris Rock to direct and produce the film, which Steven Spielberg will serve…
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