By Amanda N'Duka | Deadline EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Entertainment has officially promoted Nicole Brown to president of TriStar Pictures, one-year after Brown was tapped to head the film division for the specialty label following the departure of long-time exec Hannah...
By Mike Fleming Jr | Deadline Dwayne Johnson this week surpassed 200 million followers on Instagram, his go-to social media portal. He posted a video this morning to commemorate the milestone, one he said puts him atop the pile in terms of American men (the soccer...
By Anthony D'Alessandro Oscar winner Jamie Foxx and his producing partner, Datari Turner, have signed an overall deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment where they’ll develop and produce feature films. The first project in development that Foxx and Turner are producing...
Variety Staff | Variety Composer Terence Blanchard will receive the TIFF Variety Artisan Award at the TIFF Tribute Awards, scheduled to air Sept. 15 on CTV. The news was announced Wednesday by Joana Vicente and Cameron Bailey, the co-heads of the Toronto International...
by Joe Otterson | Variety Idris Elba and his Green Door Pictures production company have signed a first-look deal at Apple, Variety has learned. Under the deal, Elba and Green Door will produce both series and features for Apple’s streaming platform, Apple TV Plus....
By Mike Fleming Jr | Deadline Hollywood Malcolm D. Lee’s Blackmaled Productions has hired Sheila Walcott to be Head of Film and Television. Walcott moves from Warner Bros where she was Director of Development and worked on such films as Just Mercy, A Star is Born,...
by Alex Ritman | The Hollywood Reporter The streamer has signed a multiyear pact with the ‘Star Wars’ actor’s UpperRoom Productions, which has a focus on West and East Africa. Netflix has teamed with Star Wars alumnus John Boyega as it eyes Africa as its next major...
By Matt Donnelly | Variety The Sag-Aftra foundation has tapped actor Courtney B. Vance as its new president. The Emmy winner for “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” succeeds outgoing president JoBeth Williams, as the charitable arm of the actors’ union...
By Anthony D'Alessandro | Deadline Hollywood Universal Pictures has entered into a five-year exclusive production partnership with Oscar winner Jordan Peele and his Monkeypaw Productions, who were behind the studio’s combined half-billion-grossing successes Get...
By Denise Petski | Deadline Hollywood Award-winning filmmaker Antoine Fuqua is expanding his work in television, signing an exclusive multi-year overall production deal with Ben Silverman and Howard Owens’ Propagate. Under the deal, Fuqua and his production company...
By Mike Fleming Jr | Deadline Hollywood Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith are launching a new media venture, Westbrook Inc. It is a cross-platform holding company formed to execute the Smith Family’s global content and commerce business strategy. Westbrook Inc. will...
By Anthony D'Alessandro | Deadline Paramount Players announced today that they have entered a first look deal with Oscar-nominated UK producer/actor Daniel Kaluuya’s production company, 59%. Producers Amandla Crichlow, formerly of Tiger Aspect Productions and...