Drill an ice core into an Icelandic glacier and the frozen cylinder will tell the history of the Nordic land going back millennia – volcanic eruptions deposited as peppery flecks, air bubbles trapping ancient atmospheric data. But what happens when those glaciers melt? Does history itself…

EXCLUSIVE: The growing cast of Gina Rodriguez’s feature film directorial debut, The House of Guerrero, will now also include Lisa Vidal (Righteous Thieves, The Baker and the Beauty), Aaron Dominguez (Gossip Girl, Sitting in Bars With Cake), Jesse Garcia (The Odyssey, Flamin' Hot), Edwin Hodge (Matlock…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has promoted Maia Eyre to EVP Creative Development at Columbia Pictures. Eyre will report to Columbia Pictures' President of Production Peter Kang on the Culver City lot. She previously was SVP Creative Development at Columbia Pictures. Eyre is the executive…

Joachim Rønning, the Norwegian filmmaker most recently at the helm of Tron: Ares, has set up his next film, the horror flick System, with Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Studios. Currently in production in London, System‘s plot isn’t being disclosed. Unusually, its cast will remain under wraps…

Earlier this month, we scooped A24’s acquisition of an SCP Foundation movie from Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Studios, intended to bring one of the internet’s largest fan-built horror and sci-fi universes to the big screen for the first time. The announcement ruffled feathers, precipitating…

UPDATED with CA AG statement, Block The Merger response: A federal judge has approved the Sept. 21 settlement between Paramount and a group of state Attorneys General that sued to block its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, removing the last hurdle for the deal to close. “The Court finds the…

EXCLUSIVE: Range has signed award-winning Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel actress. Hsu received a Supporting Actress Oscar nomination, a Best Breakthrough Performance Independent Spirit win, and an Actors Award for Ensemble Cast for her dual role as Joy/Jobu in…

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…

Three-time Oscar nominated filmmaker David Fincher has decided not to renew his deal at Netflix, we’ve confirmed. The deal expires next year. Fincher isn’t necessarily taking a hike anywhere, and could be in business with Netflix again in the near future. Fincher has been at Netflix since…

John Grover, an English film editor who worked on a half-dozen James Bond pics, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago, Jim Henson’s Labyrinth and many others, died September 28. He was 87. British Film Editors, of which Grover was a longtime board member, confirmed…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios is continuing its relationship with The Boys creator Garth Ennis as it is in development on a feature adaptation of Freddie the Fix, based on the Hollywood horror-noir comic series from The Boys and Preacher creator. One of Them Days director Lawrence Lamont is on board…

Josh Hartnett shares steamy scenes with Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway on the set of Verity, and to make it happen, they used an intimacy coordinator. In a new interview, Hartnett opened up about how an intimacy coordinator “played a big part” in filming the Colleen Hoover novel…