Soon to be taken over by Paramount, Warner Bros just dated a big tentpole: Game of Thrones: Aegon’s Conquest is set to hit theaters June 1, 2029. Owen Harris directs off Oscar-nominated scribe Beau Willimon’s screenplay. No cast or production start info yet. The movie reportedly…

Digger is unlike any film coming from a major Hollywood studio in years, at least in my memory. It makes sense it comes from Warner Bros, which is the one major that seems to take real swings with big budgets, directors and stars in films you might say…

UPDATED: A Zoom call on Wednesday with 500 senior Warner Bros staffers to discuss Paramount’s settlement of the antitrust lawsuit brought by state attorneys general related to its merger with WBD did little to dissipate the gloomy, Mordor-like clouds over the Burbank lot, to use a Lord of the Rings…

The WGA has confirmed that its own lawsuit over the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger also has been settled, following the same move by the 12 state attorneys general announced Monday morning by California AG Rob Bonta. In a statement, the guild acknowledged that it could not go it…

Editor’s note: AGC CEO and chairman Stuart Ford, a veteran of the independent film scene, trained as a lawyer before working for Miramax and then running IM Global and AGC, which has a busy slate of film and TV projects. Here, he considers how the independent business could be impacted by the Paramoun…

Warner Bros/Alcon’s Practical Magic 2 wound up flying to a $46M global debut, with $16M overseas and $30M domestic. Note the sequel to this Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman 1990s property is stateside driven, so expect a bulk of the gross to come from there. However, the $16M start is under the…

While Paramount CEO David Ellison grapples to take control of Warner Bros Discovery, he should be mindful to remember the architects in addition to the architecture. In other words, in the pursuit of merging content, be careful not to throw out those who shepherded it. No, that wasn’t the…

More than 27 years later, Lilly Wachowski has unplugged from the Matrix franchise that launched her and sister Lana’s filmmaking careers. On Friday, Lilly shot down any speculation that she’d return to the directors chair for a fifth Matrix installment, noting that they “stick our noses in a…

Scores of Hollywood’s A-listers and D-listers might oppose Paramount’s $111 billion merger with Warner Bros Discovery, but not Tom Cruise. "I think it's awesome.” That’s what the star of Paramount’s Mission: Impossible and Top Gun franchises told Pat McAfee of the ParaBros merger and David E…

James Gunn is clearing up several reports about DC Studios projects amid the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger. The merger of the two media companies is at a standstill, but that doesn’t mean that development of superhero franchises at DC is on hold. Answering a fan query on Threads about the…

EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Gosling and his Open Invite producing partner Jessie Henderson are in early development on a live-action Flintstones feature project at Warner Bros, we hear, one that would center on a grown-up Bamm-Bamm Rubble. Right now we hear the duo are looking for a writer. The first…

Warner Bros. Pictures Animation’s Margie Claus starring Melissa McCarthy will fly into theaters on Nov. 12, 2027. The pic has also set its additional voiceover cast with Jim Gaffigan as Santa, Andrew Scott as Jack Frost along with Annie Mumolo, Georgette Falcone, Octavia Spencer, Gary Farmer, Luis…