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Gerard Butler kicked off the year on the big screen with Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, but the year before his first outing as Big Nick, he headlined a sci-fi disaster movie that critics tore apart — and that film has just secured a fresh streaming home. Released in 2017, Geostorm tells the story of a scientist racing to stop a system of climate-control satellites when they suddenly turn against Earth. Geostorm is currently available on Tubi, but Paramount+ has confirmed it will join the platform beginning September 1.

Despite earning a meager 18% from critics and 35% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, the film managed to pull in $221 million worldwide on a $120 million budget.

Gerard Butler began the year in movies with Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, but one year before he played the famous Big Nick for the first time, he starred in a critically panned sci-fi film that just landed a new streaming home. 2017 brought on the release of Geostorm, the sci-fi disaster thriller following a scientist who must stop a network of climate change satellites that begin to attack Earth unexpectedly. Geostorm is currently only streaming on Tubi, but Paramount+ has announced that it will begin streaming on the platform starting next month, on September 1. Geostorm earned “Rotten” scores of 18% from critics and 35% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, but it still grossed $221 million at the global box office against a $120 million budget.

It’s been reported that Jerry Bruckheimer was brought on to produce the film during its final leg of post-production, and it was in such bad shape that Warner Bros....

Gerard Butler’s new movie, the live-action How to Train Your Dragon film, is now playing in theaters everywhere, but one of his more unique flicks approaching its tenth anniversary just got a disappointing streaming update. Butler stars alongside Landman’s Andy Garcia in Geostorm, the 2017 disaster thriller following two estranged scientist brothers who have to solve a global climate catastrophe. Geostorm has been streaming on Netflix since April, and the film even settled into an extraordinary run of success shortly after its debut, but Netflix has since announced that it will leave the platform at the end of the month on June 30. During a 2013 interview on Good Morning America to promote the film, Butler described Geostorm as “a cautionary tale” and “a little bit scary,” but he maintains that its message is still largely positive.

While Geostorm gained momentum ahead of its release, the film was poorly received by...

One of Gerard Butler’s most forgotten movies is stirring up a storm on Netflix nearly 10 years after being released. Butler stars alongside Andy Garcia and Ed Harris in Geostorm, the 2017 sci-fi/disaster thriller that tells the story of a team of scientists led by Jake Lawson (Butler) who race against the clock to save Earth from a dangerous geostorm that is capable of wiping out the entire planet. Geostorm recently made its streaming debut on Netflix to kick off April and has found major success on the platform, climbing to the #4 spot in the streamer’s top 10. Geostorm earned “rotten” scores of 18% from critics and 35% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, but the film grossed over $220 million at the global box office, including $187 million in international markets.

Dean Devlin wrote and directed Geostorm, with Paul Guyot also contributing to the script. Geostorm was Devlin’s directorial debut, and he followed...

The Leverage Crew is back to fight for the little guy. Today, Prime Video revealed the premiere date and first look for Leverage: Redemption Season 3.

The third installment of the drama will consist of 10 episodes with the first three episodes premiering April 17, and new episodes releasing every Thursday. The first and second seasons of Leverage: Redemption as well as all seasons of Leverage are available on demand and as a Fast Channel on Prime Video.

In Season 3, the team pits themselves against a power broker stealing the clean water under people’s feet and turning it into dirty money, fights against a mayor who’s the judge and jury of his small town, outruns a mark who’s finally caught up with them mid-con, outhustles a pool hustler with a side business in international extortion, and brings down an industrialist exploiting child labor.

All this while dodging an intricate plan...

Matt Sohn directs from screenplay by lead Lisa Brenner.

Electric Entertainment has announced at AFM that Linda Lavin from Being The Ricardos has joined Lisa Brenner on the cast of new AFM sales title One Big Happy Family.

Matt Sohn’s (The Muppets Mayhem) film is based on a screenplay by Brenner about a woman who embarks on a journey with her mother to find her real father after a mail-in DNA test reveals the man she thought was her father for 40 years is not her biological parent.

One Big Happy Family is expected to be completed by the end...

Executive will be based in London and has worked at Electric Entertainment, Umbrella Entertainment.

With the EFM around the corner, Radiant Films International president and CEO Mimi Steinbauer has appointed Hannah Keogh international sales executive, effective immediately.

Keogh will report directly to Steinbauer and joins fellow Radiant Sales executive Karis Aldridge in the company’s London office.

She previously worked alongside the international sales team at Electric Entertainment and acquired titles such as Bad Samaritan starring David Tennant and Kerry Condon and sci-fi thriller The Deal.

Prior to that she spent two years in theatrical marketing at Australian distributor Umbrella Entertainment,...

Following its Halloween season release in theaters, Prey for the Devil is coming home for the holidays via Lionsgate when it arrives on Digital on December 13th, followed by a 4K Uhd, Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand release on January 3rd.

Below, we have a look at the cover art as well as the official press release with full details on the home media releases of Prey for the Devil, and in case you missed it, listen to Heather Wixson talk with director Daniel Stamm about the film on a previous episode of Corpse Club!

Press Release: Santa Monica, CA – Experience the true horror of exorcism when Prey for the Devil arrives on Digital December 13 and on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray and Digital), Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital), DVD, and On Demand January 3 from Lionsgate. Directed by Daniel Stamm (The Last Exorcism), and Screenplay by...

Netflix may be undervaluing their latest original thriller from Babak Anvari by unceremoniously dropping it on the streaming platform today, but we at /Film know a solid thriller when we see it and will happily pick up the mantle to sing its praises. Directed by Anvari from a script he co-wrote with Namsi Khan, "I Came By" is a twisty thriller about a young graffiti artist named Toby Nealey (George MacKay) who intentionally tags the homes of the elite, but gets more than he bargained for after breaking into the home of a high-profile judge Hector Blake (Hugh Bonneville) and discovering the truth of his hidden basement.

Now, Tobey has put himself and his loved ones in harm's way, as Blake will do anything to keep his secret under wraps. Netflix describes the film with the tagline "Privilege hides the darkest secrets," which sounds like a no-brainer hit for the streaming juggernaut.

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Electric Entertainment, the production company behind programming such as Leverage: Redemption and Almost Paradise on Amazon’s Freevee, said Thursday that it closed a 100 million loan credit facility with the Bank of America.

The company will first use the five-year financing on its slate of programming, which also includes The Ark on the Syfy Channel. Leverage: Redemption is a spinoff of Leverage, one of Freevee’s first originals, and is currently in production on its second season, while Almost Paradise first premiered on Wgna and is now preparing for a second season on Freevee.

“With the advent and continuation of the streaming industry’s growth, we have been lucky to continue to do what we do best — create original scripted programs that audiences love. With not only our broadcast, but now our streaming channel and platform partners, our content is in higher demand...

This Young Justice: Phantoms review contains spoilers.

Young Justice: Phantoms Season 4 Episode 24

It’s not possible for the Young Justice: Phantoms team to be reading what’s published on this little ol’ site and responding to it in almost real time. The lead time on animation is usually massive: what we see on HBO Max was probably written a year or more ago. That said, it certainly feels like the writers were thinking the same thing I was after last week: holy cats there’s a lot left to do.

And this week they started crossing stuff off their list.

General Zod

By my count, we’ve got three episodes left, and three villains that the story is orbiting around. The first is General Zod, who along with a Phantom Zone-brainwashed Conner Kent, spends much of the episode kicking the asses of the original team minus M’gann.

M’gann,...

(from left) Norah (Leah Sava Jeffries) and Nathan (Idris Elba) in Beast, directed by Baltasar Kormákur.

Here’s your first look at the just released trailer for Beast, starring Idris Elba, only in theaters August 19

Sometimes the rustle in the bushes actually is a monster.

Idris Elba stars in a pulse-pounding new thriller about a father and his two teenage daughters who find themselves hunted by a massive rogue lion intent on proving that the savannah has but one apex predator.

Elba plays Dr. Nate Daniels, a recently widowed husband who returns to South Africa, where he first met his wife, on a long-planned trip with their daughters to a game reserve managed by Martin Battles, an old family friend and wildlife biologist. But what begins as a journey of healing jolts into a fearsome fight for survival when a lion, a survivor of blood-thirsty poachers who now sees all humans as the enemy,...

Netflix's "Dead to Me" will be returning for its third and final season this fall, but fans of the series' signature dark humor shouldn't despair. According to Variety, series creator Liz Feldman has just landed a deal for a new show on Netflix, titled "No Good Deed."

Little is known about the new series yet, including any casting details, but it will reportedly be a half-hour dark comedy about a trio of families who are all in pursuit of the same 1920s Spanish-style villa. Whoever lands the deed will apparently get more than they bargained for, as Variety's synopsis notes...

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Liz Feldman has lined up her next show at Netflix.

On the anniversary of the series premiere of Dead to Me, the streamer ordered a new series from the show’s creator, Liz Feldman, with the greenlight of No Good Deed.

No Good Deed is a half-hour, "a dark comedy that follows three very different families vying to buy the very same 1920s Spanish style villa that they think will solve all their problems," according to the official description.

"But as the sellers have already discovered, sometimes the home of your dreams can be a total nightmare."

“No Good Deed was inspired by my many late nights during the early pandemic maniacally searching Zillow listings for a way out of my house,” said Feldman.

“I'm endlessly grateful to Netflix for being such a supportive creative home and for continuing to allow me to turn my crippling anxiety into entertainment.”

Feldman...

Liz Feldman is about to deliver her second comedy to Netflix: The streamer has greenlit her new dark comedy No Good Deed.

No Good Deed “follows three very different families vying to buy the very same 1920s Spanish style villa that they think will solve all their problems,” according to Netflix. “But as the sellers have already discovered, sometimes the home of your dreams can be a total nightmare.”

Feldman, who has a multi-year overall deal with the streamer, will executive produce the comedy along with Will Ferrell, Jessica Elbaum and Brittney Segal for Gloria Sanchez Productions, as well as Christie Smith and Silver Tree. Silver Tree will direct the No Good Deed pilot, along with additional episodes.

“No Good Deed was inspired by my many late nights during the early pandemic maniacally searching Zillow listings for a way out of my house,” said Feldman in a statement. “I...

“Dead to Me” Season 3 is coming to Netflix this fall, the streamer has announced.

No official premiere date for the new season has been set, but it was previously announced that the third season of the dark comedy starring Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini will be the show’s last.

It was also announced that “Dead to Me” creator Liz Feldman has landed a new series order at Netflix for the comedy series “No Good Deed.” The news comes on the third anniversary of the series premiere of “Dead to Me” — May 3, 2019.

“No Good Deed” is described as a half hour dark comedy that follows three very different families vying to buy the very same 1920s Spanish style villa that they think will solve all their problems. But as the sellers have already discovered, sometimes the home of your dreams can be a total nightmare.

“’No Good Deed’ was inspired...

Another Liz Feldman dark comedy is coming to Netflix. On Tuesday, May 3 — the three-year anniversary of Dead to Me‘s series premiere — Netflix announced it has green-lit Feldman’s No Good Deed, a dark comedy inspired by her experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic. No Good Deed is a 30-minute comedy following three very different families vying to buy the same 1920s Spanish style villa. They think (read: desperately hope) the house will solve all their problems. But as the sellers have already learned, sometimes the home of your dreams can be a total nightmare. “No Good Deed was inspired by my many late nights during the early pandemic maniacally searching Zillow listings for a way out of my house,” Feldman said in a statement. “I’m endlessly grateful to Netflix for being such a supportive creative home and for continuing to allow me to turn my crippling anxiety into entertainment.

Liz Feldman is adding another dark comedy to Netflix’s slate. The “Dead to Me” creator has received a series order for “No Good Deed,” the streamer announced Tuesday.

The half-hour series follows three very different families vying to buy the very same 1920s Spanish style villa that they think will solve all their problems. But as the sellers have already discovered, sometimes the home of your dreams can be a total nightmare.

“‘No Good Deed’ was inspired by my many late nights during the early pandemic maniacally searching Zillow listings for a way out of my house,” Feldman said in a statement. “I’m endlessly grateful to Netflix for being such a supportive creative home and for continuing to allow me to turn my crippling anxiety into entertainment.”

The upcoming series is part of Feldman’s overall deal with Netflix. She will also serve as an executive producer. Will Ferrell,...

Exclusive: New Line has picked up the rights to Rebecca Serle’s New York Times bestselling novel In Five Years for HBO Max and set No Good Deed scribe Aimee Lagos to adapt. Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will produce.

In Five Years is a love story that explores the power of loyalty, friendship, and the unpredictable nature of destiny. It follows an ambitious lawyer who experiences an astonishing vision that could change her life forever.

The New York Times bestselling author Serle also wrote One Italian Summer, The Dinner List, and the YA novels The Edge of Falling and When You Were Mine. Serle developed the hit TV adaptation Famous in Love, based on her YA series of the same name. In Five Years spent 16 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

Lagos most recently wrote the screen adaptation of Terry McMillan’s bestselling novel...

Exclusive: Kate Del Castillo, the Mexican actress who stars in Telemundo’s hit drama La Reina del Sur, has signed with Buchwald.

One of the highest rated Spanish-language series in the world, La Reina del Sur adapts the bestseller by Spanish novelist Arturo Perez-Reverte. In the crime drama, which recently wrapped filming for Season 3, Del Castillo plays Teresa Mendonza, a woman from Mexico who becomes the most powerful drug trafficker in southern Spain.

Castillo recently completed a two-series deal with Telemundo. Her production company, Cholawood, has a first-look development deal with Boomdog, the Mexico City-based division of Endemol Shine North America.

The actress starred opposite Will Smith as the villain in Sony’s Bad Boys for Life, also recently featuring on NBC’s sitcom Mr. Mayor, from creators Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, and the Netflix animated series Maya and the Three, created by Jorge R. Gutiérrez. She gained notoriety...

Will Packer Productions has tapped Leon Chills to adapt Stan Parish’s “Love and Theft” into a new movie for Universal Pictures.

Based on Parish’s novel, which was published in 2020 by Penguin Random House through its imprint at Knopf Doubleday, “Love and Theft” is a global romantic heist film set in Las Vegas, Mexico, and Spain.

Chills has previously written episodes for Netflix’s “Spinning Out” and Amazon’s “The Wilds,” where he was a story editor. On the feature side, Chills’ first spec sale was “Shadow Force,” an action drama sold to Lionsgate.

Packer and Johanna Byer will produce the movie, while Alvie Hurtado will oversee the production for Wpp. Lexi Barta, Universal Pictures’ vice president of production development, will oversee on behalf of the studio.

Packer’s production company has amassed a box office haul of more than $1 billion dollars, boasting ten films that have opened at number one,...

Will Packer Productions has tapped screenwriter Leon Chills to adapt Stan Parish’s novel Love and Theft for Universal Pictures.

Published by Penguin Random House through their Knopf Doubleday imprint in 2020, Love and Theft is billed as a global romantic heist film set in Las Vegas, Mexico and Spain.

It centers, per the publisher, on Alex Cassidy and Diane Alison, who develop an instant and undeniable chemistry when they meet at a party in Princeton, New Jersey. She’s a single mother, local fixture and owner of a successful catering company. He’s a single father and weekend homeowner—and leader of an armed-robbery crew that just pulled off a record-breaking, precision jewel heist in Las Vegas. Neither one realizes that their lives have overlapped before, and that the shared history they uncover will threaten everyone they love.

Will Packer and Johanna Byer will produce the...

Exclusive: Viola Davis is in talks to star in Two Butterflies, an Amazon drama based on an original idea and script by Evan Dodson, which will be directed by Strong Island‘s Yance Ford.

Two Butterflies follows two estranged sisters who are torn apart by tragedy and forced to reunite when one sister must be transported to an Alzheimer’s facility. Dodson became the youngest scribe ever to make the Black List of the year’s best unproduced screenplays when his script was selected in 2016.

Davis and Julius Tennon will produce the upcoming film for JuVee Productions, with Rob Hardy for Rainforest Entertainment.

Davis is an Oscar, Emmy and Tony winner best known for turns in films including Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Fences, The Help and Doubt, as well as for the role of criminal defense attorney Annalise Keating in ABC...

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ABC has put the drama “No Good Deed” into development, Variety has learned.

The project has received a script commitment with a penalty attached at the network. Jeannine Renshaw will write and executive produce. Nzingha Stewart will direct and executive produce. “This Is Us” star Justin Hartley will also executive produce under his ChangeUp Productions banner along with ChangeUp’s Julianna Larosa, the company’s head of development. 20th Television, where Hartley is under an overall deal, will produce.

“No Good Deed” follows a warm-hearted botany professor with a dark secret who welcomes a troubled student into her home. But then the seeming victim turns out to be a deadly parasite who uses her wiles and charms on vulnerable friends and family, unearthing secrets in this small mountain town, and destroying lives in order to cement her own twisted bond with her professor.

Renshaw most recently worked as a writer...

ABC has given a script commitment with penalty to No Good Deed, a drama from writer Jeannine Renshaw, Nzingha Stewart (From Scratch), Justin Hartley (This Is Us) and his ChangeUp Productions and 20th Television, where Hartley is under a pod deal.

Written by Renshaw and directed by Stewart, No Good Deed follows a warm-hearted botany professor with a dark secret who welcomes a troubled student into her home, only the seeming victim turns out to be a deadly parasite who uses her wiles and charms on vulnerable friends and family, unearthing secrets in this small mountain town, and destroying lives in order to cement her own twisted bond with her professor.

Renshaw and Stewart executive produce with Hartley via his ChangeUp Productions. ChangeUp Head of Development Julianna Larosa serves as producer. 20th Television is the studio.

Renshaw most recently served as co-executive producer on Manifest,...

This Is Us star Justin Hartley has landed a project at ABC — as an executive producer.

Hartley is teaming with Manifest co-executive producer Jeannine Renshaw and director Nzingha Stewart (Maid, Little Fires Everywhere) for No Good Deed, a thriller from Disney’s 20th Television. ABC has given a script commitment with penalty to the project.

No Good Deed centers on a warm-hearted botany professor with a dark secret who welcomes a troubled student into her home. The seeming victim turns out to be a deadly parasite who uses her wiles and charms on vulnerable friends and family, unearthing secrets in this small mountain town and ...

This Is Us star Justin Hartley has landed a project at ABC — as an executive producer.

Hartley is teaming with Manifest co-executive producer Jeannine Renshaw and director Nzingha Stewart (Maid, Little Fires Everywhere) for No Good Deed, a thriller from Disney’s 20th Television. ABC has given a script commitment with penalty to the project.

No Good Deed centers on a warm-hearted botany professor with a dark secret who welcomes a troubled student into her home. The seeming victim turns out to be a deadly parasite who uses her wiles and charms on vulnerable friends and family, unearthing secrets in this small mountain town and ...

Will Packer has been named Producer of the 94th Annual Academy Awards, set for March 27.

This will be the first Oscar show to be produced by Packer, a prolific producer of numerous films and TV projects including Straight Outta Compton, Ride Along, Girls Trip, the Think Like a Man films and the television remake of Roots, for which he received an Emmy nomination. But his credits do not include a lot of live TV projects, so taking on the Oscars will be a relatively new experience. His wide-ranging credits in comedy give hope that he also will be creating a fun Academy Awards.

The Academy clearly is looking for fresh ideas and new directions after the pandemic-affected, critically derided and record-low-rated 2021 telecast produced by the trio of Steven Soderbergh, Stacey Sher and Jesse Collins. Of course the ratings collapse of that show, which was delayed to April 25, was not entirely...

Following in the footsteps as such big names as Steven Soderbergh, Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher, Lynette Howell Taylor, Stephanie Allain, and Donna Gigliotti, Hollywood multi-hyphenate Will Packer will produce the 94th Oscars. Shayla Cowan, chief of staff of Will Packer Productions and Will Packer Media, will serve as co-producer alongside Packer. The move marks Packer’s first involvement with the Oscars, which will air live on ABC and broadcast outlets worldwide on Sunday, March 27, 2022.

“Will is a powerhouse producer who has enjoyed success across all movie genres. He’s already bringing a boundless energy and a focus on innovation to this year’s Oscars, to entertain the widest spectrum of fans. Many wonderful surprises ahead!,” said Academy President David Rubin and Academy CEO Dawn Hudson in an official statement.

Added Craig Erwich, president of Hulu Originals and ABC Entertainment, “There is no one better than Will Packer to celebrate our collective love for cinema.

Will Packer Productions has promoted Alvie Hurtado to director of development.

In the new role, Hurtado is responsible for identifying content, filmmakers and talent for feature film development and production. He reports directly to Johanna Byer, Will Packer Prods.’ (Wpp) executive vice president of motion pictures.

“Alvie is an integral part of our film team,” producer and founder Will Packer said, announcing Hurtado’s promotion. “As we embark upon a rousing new chapter at Wpp he will be essential to our short and long term goals.”

Hurtado joined Wpp in 2017 as an assistant to the president of film and was upped to creative executive in 2020. During his tenure with the company, Hurtado has focused on the company’s expanding development slate while championing diverse and innovative voices. Outside of Wpp, he is a co-founder and board member of The Latin Tracking Board, an organization for up-and-coming LatinX executives in Hollywood.

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for The Resident Season 5 Episode 2 “No Good Deed.”] One of Chastain’s own is out of the woods by the end of the second episode of The Resident Season 5, just in time for some bad news to come in about another of the staff. And just because we had a feeling it was coming doesn’t make it any easier. “No Good Deed” appears to be the true beginning of how the Fox medical drama will be writing out nurse practitioner Nic (Emily VanCamp). But before her husband, Conrad (Matt Czuchry), gets an unwanted visitor to his door, we have to find out what’s going on with Devon (Manish Dayal), who ends up a patient after being exposed to some sort of gas. Meanwhile, Billie (Jessica Lucas) runs into the last person she wants to see at the hospital — the son she gave up for adoption after she was raped at the age ...

Well, fellow Resident viewers — [heaves a deep sigh] — we knew this was coming. We’d seen the ominous Season 5 trailer, news of Emily VanCamp’s exit had broken, and we endured that heartbreaking — and heavy-on-the-foreshadowing — season premiere last week.

So when Conrad’s doorbell rang at the end of Tuesday’s episode, but he was met with two cops instead of Nic’s smiling face, it wasn’t entirely surprising. But hoo boy, did it still hurt.

More from TVLineOur Kind of People's Yaya DaCosta Reveals Why a Slap Scene Got Cut and a Juicy All My Children ConnectionThe Resident Sneak Peek Reveals Devon's...

Paging all fans of The Resident: We’ve got an exclusive sneak peek at tonight’s episode (Fox, 8/7c), and it’s a three-for-one deal.

Not only does the video above introduce newcomer Miles Fowler as Billie’s estranged son, who unexpectedly crosses paths with Billie at Chastain, but it also reveals what happened to Devon after he got trapped in a janitor’s closet with a gas leak during the Season 5 premiere.

More from TVLineThe Resident Season 5 Premiere Sets Up Emily VanCamp's Looming ExitThe Resident Adds Newbie Miles Fowler as Billie's Estranged Son in Season 5Our Kind...

Though the summer movie season is winding down (if it ever really started this year), Amazon Prime’s list of new releases for September 2021 is chock full of worthwhile movie options.

For starters, Amazon’s library movie titles are quite good this month. September 1 sees the arrivals of heavyweights such as Apollo 13, Arachnophobia, Romeo + Juliet, The Descent, and The Social Network. And if that weren’t enough, the streamer is trying out some intriguing original movies as well. Cinderella, a modern update on the classic fairy tale, premieres on September 3. That will be followed by “exotic thriller” The Voyeurs (Sept. 10), musical adaptation Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Sept. 17), and French thriller The Mad Woman’s Ball (Sept. 17).

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Will Packer Productions and Mo Abudu’s EbonyLife Studios are teaming to develop an untitled project based on Evan Ratliff’s Bloomberg article, “The Fall of the Billionaire Gucci Master.”

The companies won the rights in a highly competitive situation and have set up the project at Universal Pictures.

Ratliff’s article digs into the story of Nigerian Instagram influencer Ramon Abbas. The figure otherwise known as Hushpuppi, or the Billionaire Gucci Master, is alleged to have perfected a simple internet scam that allowed him to launder millions of dollars.

Packer and Abu’s project is described as a globetrotting action thriller — a hybrid of Catch Me If You Can and The Usual Suspects.

Writer discussions are said to be progressing quickly.

Will Packer and James Lopez will produce through their Will Packer Productions, with Abudu producing for EbonyLife.

“EbonyLife is uniquely positioned to ensure the depth and authenticity of this film,...

Film aficionados will want to keep an eye on Amazon Prime Video in August, as the streaming giant is set to debut two Cannes Film Festival premieres: “Val,” a new documentary about Val Kilmer that uses archival footage shot by the actor himself, and “Annette,” Leos Carax award-winning musical (it won best director at Cannes) starring Adam Driver and Maron Cotillard and featuring music by Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks.

But beyond the Prime Video originals, the Amazon library content added to the service next month is vast and impressive. Among the major movies coming to Prime Video include “Aliens,” “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” “Jaws,” “Moneyball,” and “Predator.” Meanwhile, IMDb TV, the free service that users can access without a corresponding Amazon Prime subscription, will host “Apollo 13,” “La La Land,” and “Ghostbusters” among many other big titles.

Here’s everything coming to Amazon Prime Video in August...

Eric Paquette, former senior VP at Sony Pictures and MGM, has launched a new company, Meridian Pictures, with a focus on film and TV projects. Paquette said that he’ll be working with direct to consumer platforms, financiers and studios to fill their pipelines with “compelling stories for their specific audiences.” The projects in development include Papa Alpha Heavy, from writer Michael Walker, an action thriller set on a commercial airline. Gary Fleder is set to direct, and Chrisitain Mercuri’s Capstone is financing. Other projects Paquette is packaging include Meltdown, from screenwriter Jessica Postigo, based on the life of Bonnie Klea, the former Rocketdyne employee whose advocacy for worker victims of nuclear radiation exposure at the contaminated Santa Susana Field Laboratory led to a massive restitution program. Paquette will produce.

Kinetic, from Chris Dennis, is an action thriller where a truck drive has to deliver dangerous cargo to save his pregnant wife.

Sony has revealed the first trailer for Escape Room: Tournament of Champions. This is a sequel to 2019's Escape Room, which turned out to be quite the hit for the studio. As is almost always the case in the world of horror, plans for a sequel were quickly hatched. Now, we have our first good look at the follow-up, which once again sees a group of strangers having to survive a series of deadly rooms. Only this time, we're going to follow a group of people who have already had to survive a similar deadly game and escaped with their lives.

Escape Room 2 is broadening the concept introduced in the first movie. As it turns out, many of these games have taken place at various points. The group we're following in the sequel all had to play once before. Now, they are thrown back in the mix and are...

Escape Room 2 is coming to a movie theater near you much sooner than expected. Sony Pictures has opted to bump up the release of the upcoming horror sequel by a full six months. It will now arrive smack dab in the middle of July, putting it right in the heart of the summer movie season, something that was virtually nonexistent in 2020. But that looks to change this year and Sony is trying to get a possible hit on the books sooner rather than later.

Sony will now release Escape Room 2 in theaters on July 16. It was originally slated to hit theaters in August of last year. But theater closures and uncertainty at the box office prevented that from happening, as was the case with many movies from various studios in 2020. Sony had previously delayed the sequel to 2019's Escape Room until January 7, 2022, seemingly content to wait until the time was right.

Exclusive: Director Rob Hardy is cranking up the power with a new first-look deal with Lionsgate and Power creator Courtney Kemp’s End of Episode Productions.

“Rob is a brilliant director and a tremendous creative force,” Kemp told Deadline. “It is my great pleasure to have the opportunity to continue our collaboration, and I look forward to a bright future together bringing more series to the screen, with Bipoc representation both on camera and behind the scenes,” the Power Book II: Ghost showrunner and EP added.

Under the provisions of the multi-year agreement the Ghost Season 1 finale helmer will direct more of the evolving Powerverse, along with other Lionsgate shows. The deal also sees Hardy and his Rainforest Entertainment producing partner Mitzi Miller develop and oversee original shows for the studio and Kemp’s shingle.

“I’m thrilled to partner with Lionsgate in directing other series from their robust television...

Will Packer Productions (Wpp) and writer Felicia Pride are teaming up for a new romantic drama, set in the world of collegiate track and field.

The project, titled “Like It’s the Last,” comes from an original idea from Pride, who will also write the script.

Will Packer will produce the film on behalf of his eponymous production company alongside Wpp motion picture president James Lopez. The new film marks the second teaming between the trio, who also have the erotic drama “Deeper” in development with Universal.

Pride and Wpp’s Johanna Byer will serve as executive producers.

Packer’s production company has a long history of mainstream theatrical success, with a box office haul of more than $1 billion dollars. The company also boasts ten films that have opened at number one, including “Night School” and “Girls Trip,” which were the top grossing comedies of 2017 and 2018 respectively. Other Will Packer Productions films include “The Photograph,...

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Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos are raising Kane — maybe even Erica.

The married alumni of daytime’s All My Children are among the team working on a primetime continuation of the long-running soap opera, our sister site Deadline reports.

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The new project is titled Pine Valley, aka the Pennsylvania community in which AMC was set.

Oscar nominated and Golden Globe winning actress Taraji P. Henson is making her feature directorial debut the Bron Studios’ drama Two-Faced in which she’ll also star.

Two-Faced, written by Cat Wilkins, follows Joy, a Black high school senior whose chances to attend the college of her dreams are threatened by her wildly popular and charismatic school principal, Jerald, after she confronts him with evidence of his racist past. With the help of her friends, Joy sets out to expose Jerald for who he truly is but quickly learns that he is not above waging all-out-war against the students trying to take him down. Henson will play Gina Robinson, Joy’s mother.

Wilkins recently graduated from the Mfa Screenwriting Program at UCLA. Her Two-Faced screenplay won first place in the feature comedy category at the 2020 UCLA Screenwriters Showcase. Henson and her Tph Entertainment will produce with Aaron L. Gilbert on behalf of Bron, Tim Story on behalf of The Story Company and Sharla Sumpter Bridgett. EPs are Wilkins, Christine Conley and Trent Hubbard.

Said Henson: “After two decades spent in front of the camera, I’m thrilled to finally jump behind it for my feature directorial debut! What first attracted me to this project was Joy – she is the character I needed to see in films growing up, but never had. It’s important that stories be told from a woman’s point of view and partnering with Bron Studios and the amazingly talented Tim Story – both who use their platforms to help elevate women and people of color – feels like the perfect match. I can’t wait to bring this hilariously heartfelt script by Cat Wilkins to life!”

Added Gilbert: “Taraji is an important voice in the world and Bron is thrilled to support her directorial debut, of a script from Cat Wilkins, that through its comedic elements examines race and culture in America. We also look forward to working with Taraji’s long-time collaborator Tim Story and the rest of the team behind the film.”

Said Story: “I could not be more excited to support one of the most talented people I have ever known. Taraji and I have done three movies together and I knew it was only a matter of time before she would make this leap to directing and I am honored to produce this film along with Bron Studios. Taraji is like family to me and I cannot wait for everyone to see her directorial vision of this hilarious script by Cat Wilkins brought to the screen.”

Bron Releasing and UTA Independent Film Group will oversee film sales and distribution.

Henson won a Golden Globe in 2016 in the Best Actress TV Series Drama category for her turn on Fox’s Empire. She was nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category at the Oscars in 2009 for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. She’s also a 2017 SAG Ensemble winner for the feature Hidden Figures. Henson directed the 2020 episode “Come Undone” of Empire. Her Executive Producer feature credits include No Good Deed, Proud Mary and What Men Want.

She is represented by M88, UTA, Ziffren Brittenham and The Lede Company. Wilkins is represented by UTA and Echo Lake Entertainment. Story and The Story Company are repped by UTA, Ziffren Brittenham and The Collins Jackson Agency.

Exclusive: Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe-winning actor, writer, producer, activist and overall queen Taraji P. Henson has signed with M88. Henson will be repped by the entire M88 team, led by new partner Oronde Garrett and co-founder Phillip Sun.

Henson has an acting career that showcases both her range and personality. Most recently, she wrapped Empire where she played the memorable no-nonsense Cookie Lyon. The role earned her three Emmy nominations, a Golden Globe, a Critics’ Choice Award and three BET Awards.

In July, Henson’s production company Tph Entertainment signed a first-look deal with Twentieth Century Fox TV. The first project in development out of the gate is — you guessed it — a Cookie Lyon spinoff series. The agreement with Fox will also include other projects for multiple platforms.

Henson’s breakout performance in Hustle & Flow was a launching pad to stardom. Her credits...

Idris Elba will star in the survival thriller “Beast” for Universal Pictures with Baltasar Kormakur directing and producing.

Universal is keeping the story line under wraps. “Rampage” writer Ryan Engle wrote the script, based on an idea from Jaime Primak-Sullivan.

Will Packer and James Lopez will also produce through their Will Packer Productions. Kormakur will produce through his Rvk Studios. Primak-Sullivan will executive produce. Packer, Lopez, Primak-Sullivan and Engle worked together on the 2018 thriller “Breaking In.”

Universal’s executive vice president of production Matt Reilly and creative executive Tony Ducret will oversee the project on behalf of the studio.

Elba starred in “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw” for Universal. His “Concrete Cowboy,” in which he portrays a modern-day cowboy in Philadelphia, premiered several weeks ago at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival. He’ll star as Bloodsport in James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad” for DC Entertainment and is attached...

Will Packer Productions has hired Johanna Byer as executive VP of motion pictures.

For the past four years, Byer has served as senior VP of film and television for French film studio Gaumont. Prior to that role, she was the VP of development at Working Title Films, where she played key roles in producing and developing numerous film projects including “We Are Your Friends,” “Baby Driver,” “Theory of Everything,” “Everest” and “Les Miserables.”

In her new position, Byer is responsible for identifying, developing and producing the company’s feature film projects as well as working closely with filmmakers, directors and other talent. She reports directly to James Lopez, president of Will Packer Productions.

“Johanna is a highly regarded and respected executive who will be a great addition to Wpp as we ramp up our slate of films and expand our features business,” said Lopez. “We look forward to developing meaningful and impactful projects with her.

Exclusive: Doug Williams, the first black quarterback to win the Super Bowl, is to be the subject of a new sports movie biopic from Night School and Girls Trip producers Will Packer Productions.

The ground-breaking La-based production company has secured exclusive rights to the life story of ground-breaking Qb Williams, who hoisted the Lombardi trophy for Washington in 1988.

The timely biopic will chart Williams’ storied career and his extraordinary journey to the top of the NFL, where he was known as a great leader, beloved by his teammates. It will also explore how Williams helped shatter the myth that African-American passers lacked the intellect and skills to win at the sport’s highest level.

In college, Williams was named Black College Player of the Year twice. He would become the first black Qb ever to be taken in the first round of the NFL draft. He became the only starting...

Will Packer’s movies have grossed more than $1 billion worldwide, with 10 films that opened at number one. However, “a lot of people think I just popped up with Will Packer Productions,” Packer said. “They don’t know about the grind years and years and years before that.”

Packer made his first film, “Chocolate City,” when he was an engineering undergrad at Florida A&m University in 1994. Scrappy indies led to direct-to-video “urban” features to low-budget genre titles like Beyonce’s fatal-attraction drama “Obsessed” (2009) and the Taraji P. Henson thriller “No Good Deed” (2014). The reviews were often unimpressive, but all were made for a price, all featured black casts, and all made money.

Today he leads his eponymous production company, with credits that include the “Ride Along” franchise as well as critically acclaimed titles like “Girls Trip,” “Straight Outta Compton,” and most recently “The Photograph” starring Issa Rae and Lakeith Stanfield.