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UPDATED with Tyler Perry interest: Tyler Perry is eyeing BET Media as parent Paramount Global explores a sale of a majority stake in the division. Perry, who has a strong relationship with BET CEO Scott Mills as well as Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish, has expressed interest to Paramount in owning…

EXCLUSIVE: Following the success of Netflix's Wednesday and Oscar contender Elvis, Andrew Mittman has renewed his overall deal with MGM Television. Mittman, via his 1.21 label, has re-upped his exclusive deal with the studio, fresh from the launch of Amazon's Christoph Waltz-fronted series The Consult…

They’re on the list. The Sunday Times of London is reporting that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been invited to the May 6 coronation of King Charles III. Now the question is whether they will accept and show up. The couple’s spokesperson has confirmed they received an email to the…

Hulu Originals has renewed its first-look output deal with American High. The comedy production company, which first partnered with Hulu in 2019, has generated seven original films including Natalie Morales' Plan B and Crush starring Rowan Blanchard and Auli'i Cravalho, with an eighth and final film…

EXCLUSIVE: Blake Griffin and Ryan Kalil are getting into business with Sony Pictures Entertainment. The producing partners have signed a multi-year first-look development and production deal for film and TV via their Mortal Media production banner. Under the first-look pact, Mortal Media will develop…

New Line Cinema and Warner Bros Pictures have hammered out a new multi-year agreement with Embracer Group AB’s Middle-Earth Enterprises to team on new The Lord of the Rings movies. Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav dropped the news Thursday during the company’s call to discuss its Q4 2022 earnings res…

EXCLUSIVE: Smokehouse TV and 101 Studios have made a multiyear overall deal for original scripted and unscripted content for television. This formalizes a relationship that got underway with Smokehouse Pictures and 101 Studios already teaming on the upcoming docuseries about the decades-long abuse…

EXCLUSIVE: Five years after Netflix inked their first ever European overall series deal with Dark creators Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese, the studio has re-upped with the duo in a splashy, eight-figure pact, we can reveal. The German writer-creators, who most recently made big-budget mystery drama 1…

EXCLUSIVE: FilmNation Entertainment and ZQ Entertainment have finalized a multi-year feature film development fund deal. The first project to be developed under the initiative is Josephine Decker's feature adaptation of Karen Russell's 2011 Pulitzer Prize-nominated bestselling novel…

After two years of collective bargaining, the WGA East has filed another unfair labor practices charge against Hearst Magazines Media – this time for giving employees a raise while in contract negotiations with the guild. The guild, which says that this violates federal labor law, represents some 500 of…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Crichton's brilliant mix of science and narrative resulted in north of $10 billion in film and TV revenue and 250 million books sold. Now, the estate of the author who died in 2008 has made another major deal to bring his work back to new audiences. Blackstone Publishing has made a…

EXCLUSIVE: Saban Films has taken worldwide rights to action-thriller Hellfire, starring Stephen Lang, Harvey Keitel and Dolph Lundgren here at the European Film Market.  The title, which is directed by Isaac Florentine and written by Richard Lowry, follows a drifter (Lang) with a mysterious past who…