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Mere minutes after a federal judge signed off Wednesday on the antitrust settlement deal between Paramount, Warner Bros Discovery and a dozen blue state attorneys general, David Ellison has named Ynon Kreiz co-CEO of his soon-to-expand media giant. In a statement, Paramount said the former…

EXCLUSIVE: After acquiring Jason Pagan and Andrew Deutschman’s genre script Every House Is Haunted, based on the Ian Rogers short story “The House on Ashley Avenue,” in 2021, Netflix has sold the project to 20th Century Studios. Adam Schindler and Brian Netto, the filmmaking duo behind the 2024…

EXCLUSIVE: Orange County Choppers Originals is headed out of the garage and travelling to Europe. Hearst Networks has bought UK rights to the ‘reborn’ ob doc series from Off The Fence, which has boarded the show after striking an agreement to represent it worldwide (excluding the U.S.). The…

Paramount+ has gone shopping for a trio of A24 scripted TV shows. The streamer took U.S. and select international rights on comedy It Gets Worse, coming-of-age drama Major Players and the adaptation of The Ministry of Time. Deadline first told you about Leo Reich’s Channel 4 and Crave…

EXCLUSIVE: Juno Films has acquired North American rights to Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard's experimental biographical film The Extraordinary Miss Flower. Juno is planning a New York City and L.A. theatrical launch in early 2027 featuring live Q&As with its star, Icelandic performer Emilíana…

EXCLUSIVE: Lightdox has acquired world sales rights to the documentary My Home of Wind and Sand ahead of its world premiere Tuesday at the Zurich Film Festival. Filmmaker Patrick Wally spent over a decade on his film, a portrait of women's rights, human rights and climate activist Najla Mohamed…

Liz Murdoch and Jane Featherstone's Sister Group has taken a minority stake in brands and advertising specialist Common Interest. The two organizations have agreed a strategic partnership and are already working together. Founded by Anthony Freedman, agencies including Amplify, 21st Century…

Robert Eggers, the filmmaker behind Nosferatu and the upcoming Werwulf, is eyeing a return to Focus Features with a new take on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet that has been competitively sought after, Deadline has confirmed. Details as to Eggers’ take are under wraps. His deal is not…

In another sign of life for films looking for acquisitions out of film festivals, the Thunder Road and Tango thriller The Surgeon starring Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh is seeing its North American and some foreign rights won by Sony Pictures after multiple bids. Sony also took rights in Latin…

Searchlight Pictures has snapped up Playmates, a hot Playboy-themed package starring Lily-Rose Depp (Nosferatu), Bill Pullman (Independence Day) and Indiana Elle (The Housemaid). Marking the feature debut of Lorraine Nicholson, who directs from her own script, Playmates is an L.A.-set…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney+ has acquired EMEA rights to Season 1 of TF1's hit show Cat's Eyes, about three art-thief sisters, in a deal that will make the show available in the UK and Ireland, the Nordics, Benelux, Central Europe, Türkiye and South Africa beginning in December 2026. The TF1-backed show…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is opening Cookbook Media’s preschool franchise ChuChu TV. The streamer has struck a global content deal that comprises four ChuChu TV collections, including ChuChu TV Surprise Eggs, ChuChu TV Drawing with ChuChu, ChuChu TV Colors in FunZone, and ChuChu TV Nursery Rhymes in…