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Awkwafina & Ike Barinholtz To Produce & Star In ‘Crime After Crime’ Comedy At STXby Amanda N'Duka

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WGA Launches Script Submission System For Use If Last-Ditch Talks With ATA Fail

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The WGA's new Staffing Submission System is up and running. It's designed to help guild members find jobs if their leaders order them to walk out on their agents if a new franchise agreement isn't reached with the Association of Talent Agents by April 6. The WGA and the ATA are expected to return to the bargaining table this week, but no date has been set. "While no technological solution could fully replace the many functions of a good agent," the guild told its members… Read

‘Green Book’ Logs $300M+ At Worldwide Box Office; Tops $70M In China

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Best Picture Oscar winner Green Book has cruised past another milestone, topping $300M worldwide through Sunday. The split on the Participant Media/DreamWorks Pictures film from director Peter Farrelly is $84.48M domestic and $219.6M at the international box office, for a running global tally of $304M. In North America, where Universal handles the film, it continues to experience the highest post-Academy Awards bump since 2011 Best Picture winner The King’s Speech. Also… Read

Noah Hawley, Matthew Baker Team For ‘Lost Souls’ At Fox Searchlight & FX Pilot ‘Why Visit America’

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EXCLUSIVE: Noah Hawley’s 26 Keys has set a new feature and a TV pilot with Matthew Baker, the author who has set Hollywood on fire with short stories that have sparked major bidding battles over the past year. They will team for Lost Souls, a feature they’ve just set at Fox Searchlight, and Why Visit America, an FX pilot they’ll develop with Baker writing it, marking the first time he’s done that. Hawley will exec produce. Both of these are based on Baker short stories… Read

‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Caught In A Landslide Of Cash: No. 4 In 2018 Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament

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When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysterious end of the equation, Deadline is repeating our Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament for 2018, using data culled by seasoned and trusted sources. Bohemian… Read

Myriad Pictures Hires Former TWC Exec Paul Wilamoski As SVP Of Marketing & Operations

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Kirk D’Amico’s LA-based sales and production outfit Myriad Pictures has hired Paul Wilamoski, former TWC EVP of International Servicing & Marketing, as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Operations. Wilamoski will oversee all of Myriad's servicing, deliveries and post-production activities, working closely with producers and domestic and international distributors. Wilamoski previously spent ten years at The Weinstein Company, where he began as a Director and… Read

Blackstone & Story Factory Deal Pulls Bestselling Authors Steve Hamilton, Reed Farrel Coleman, Meg Gardiner Away From Penguin Random House

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EXCLUSIVE: In a surprise deal that could represent a shift within the publishing industry, Blackstone Publishing — the largest independent publisher in the multi-billion dollar audiobook business — has set up a partnership with The Story Factory to expand in the print and e-book markets. The centerpiece of the deal: Blackstone is making a three-author deal with New York Times bestselling and two-time Edgar Award-winning Steve Hamilton, five-time New York Times bestselling… Read

‘Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon’ Trailer; RTL CEO Exits; Team Unveiled For Multi-Million BFI Fund — Global Briefs

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Studiocanal has launched the first full-length trailer for Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, the Aardman sequel in which a visitor from a far off galaxy arrives in the quiet town of Mossingham. Pic is directed by Richard Phelan and Will Becher, produced by Paul Kewley and written by Mark Burton and Jon Brown, with executive producers Mark Burton and Richard Starzak, Peter Lord, Nick Park, Carla Shelley and David Sproxton. Voice cast includes Justin Fletcher, John… Read

Columbine School Shooting Documentary Follows Survivors 20 Years Later

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Leading up to the 20th anniversary of the shooting at Columbine High School this month, a new feature documentary revisits the hallways of the Colorado school and explores the topic of school shootings through the experiences of survivors. We Are Columbine, directed by one such survivor, Laura Farber, will be released in select theaters on April 9 by Virgil Films. It will also be on DVD and video on demand ahead of a streaming engagement on Hulu starting April… Read

Awkwafina & Ike Barinholtz To Produce & Star In ‘Crime After Crime’ Comedy At STX

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Awkwafina (Crazy Rich Asians, Ocean’s 8) and Ike Barinholtz (Blockers, The Oath) have signed to star in Crime After Crime, a caper comedy that they also will produce for STXfilms. Nick Stoller and Conor Welch also producing under their Stoller Global Solutions banner, along with David Stassen. Dan Gurewitch and David Young are writing the script, which is about a millennial podcast host who agrees to help the convict she's devoted her true-crime podcast to prove his… Read

Queen Latifah To Exec Produce & Appear In Gunpowder & Sky Teen Comedy ‘Paper Chase’

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Queen Latifah and Shakim Compere’s Flavor Unit production company is teaming with Gunpowder & Sky for the teen comedy Paper Chase, in which the Oscar-nominated actress also will appear. The comedy follows Alicia, an ideal-driven, well-meaning New Orleans teenager ready to reinvent herself at the fictional Kensington University in Atlanta. When Alicia can't pay her tuition fees, she and her cash-strapped mom, Valerie, must find a way to get the funds. With help from her… Read

‘Stranger Things’ Star Sadie Sink Joins Fox’s ‘Fear Street’ Trilogy

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EXCLUSIVE: Sadie Sink is set to star in the second installment of 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment’s Fear Street trilogy, based on the novels by R.L. Stine. Leigh Janiak is helming all three films. Previously announced cast includes Kiana Madeira, Olivia Welch, Benjamin Flores Jr., Ashley Zukerman, Fred Hechinger, Julia Rehwald, and Jeremy Ford. First released in 1989, the Fear Street book series was set in the fictionalized city of Shadyside and revolved around… Read

‘The Dead Don’t Die’ Trailer: Jim Jarmusch’s Severed-Tongue-In-Cheek Zombie Flick Is Coming To Get You

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In the peaceful town of Centerville, “something terrifying, something horrifying is coming.” When some people are violently killed at the local greasy spoon, the first responders and others ponder, “What the hell was it?” The go-to theory: wild animals. The new theory? “I’m thinkin’ zombies. You know, the undead. Ghouls.” Later, when town cops Bill Murray and Adam Driver discover freshly unearthed graves at the cemetery, comes the Understatement of the Day: “Oh man, this… Read

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