By Paramount Skydance has revealed in an FCC filing that approximately 49.5% of the merged Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery will be 49.5% owned by foreign investors. In addition, about 38.5% of the new company’s total equity is held by a trio of Middle Eastern funds. Specifically, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund will
Helgeland Pens Tarantino-Inspired “Django-Zorro” Film
Oscar winner Brian Helgeland (“LA Confidential,” “Mystic River”) has been set to pen the script for “Django/Zorro” at Sony Pictures. The project is dubbed a film continuation of a 2014 seven-issue crossover comic co-written by Quentin Tarantino and Matt Wagner. The comic is seen as essentially the closest thing Tarantino
“Mandalorian & Grogu” Box-Office Projections Climb
At last report the other week, tracking estimates for Disney and Lucasfilm’s “The Mandalorian & Grogu” suggested a worrisome domestic debut of at least $71 million over the Friday-Sunday opening weekend. While that may be in line with some of the biggest openings of the year, it would be the
