A few months ago, it was made official – Paramount Pictures was moving forward with a live-action “Call of Duty” movie in development at Activision. Taylor Sheridan and Peter Berg are co-writing the script and Berg, who has handled plenty of action films, is directing. The film is currently slated
Middle East Funds Set Big Paramount-Warners Stake
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
Depression-Era Bank Robbers Hit “Derry” Season 2
Andy Muschietti has offered new details about the second season of “IT: Welcome to Derry” during a recent Deadline TV panel for the HBO series. As expected, the new season will jump back in time to the 1930s, specifically 1935, and center on the Bradley Gang storyline which is an