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Dave Filoni Has Been Promoted To Chief Creative Officer at Lucasfilm

Today, Vanity Fair announced that longtime Star Wars writer/director Dave Filoni has been promoted to Chief Creative Officer at Lucasfilm. This has been a long time coming, as many fans have grown sour towards President Kathleen Kennedy with her multiple announcements and then abandoning Star Wars projects over the years. These films included Boba Fett (twice),... Read More...

SAG-AFTRA Reach Tentative Agreement To Kickstart Hollywood Productions

Today, the negotiation committee for SAG-AFTRA reached a tentative agreement with every major Hollywood studio through AMPTP. The strike is officially over after 118 days that effectively shut down all major Hollywood productions. The ongoing actor's strike was similar to the WGA writer's strike earlier this summer. The actors' main concerns were the studio's residuals/bonus... Read More...

WGA Reach Tentative Agreement With Every Major Hollywood Studio

Industry News, News September 25, 2023 7:08 am Caleb Williams 0 Comments

Today, WGA and the AMPTP released a joint statement that the Writers Guild has reached a tentative deal with every major studio to end the ongoing writers' strike effectively. The almost 11,000 members must still ratify the agreement, but the WGA leadership has already accepted their terms have been met after 146 days on strike.... Read More...

SAG-AFTRA Go On Strike! Screen Actors Guild Fail To Reach Agreement With Hollywood Studios

Industry News, News July 13, 2023 7:35 am Caleb Williams 0 Comments

Today, the Screen Actors Guild has announced they will officially go on strike today as they failed to reach an agreement with AMPTP (on behalf of the major Hollywood Studios). The strike will effectively halt every major film and television currently in production indefinitely, including Deadpool 3 and The Gladiator 2. This strike is similar... Read More...

WGA Goes On Strike Halting Production For Many Film & Television Projects

Industry News, News May 2, 2023 10:55 am Caleb Williams 0 Comments

Today, the Writers Guild of America and 11,500 screenwriting members have officially gone on strike. Film and TV writers from across the country will begin picketing at every major studio company like Disney and Warner Brothers, including newcoming streamers like Netflix, Amazon, and Apple. Pre-production and script rewrites will cease immediately on all productions that... Read More...

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Amazon Studios Secures Rights To A ‘Tomb Raider’ Rebooted Movie and TV Series

Industry News, News January 27, 2023 6:21 pm Caleb Williams 0 Comments

Today, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Amazon Studios has landed the rights to the Tomb Raider video game franchise. They are looking to make the franchise into a full cinematic universe spanning a new film, TV Series, and video game that will all be interconnected. Phoebe Waller-Bridge has been brought on to pen the scripts... Read More...

Embracer Group Sweden Buys the ‘Lord of the Rings’ Film Rights For $770 Million

Industry News, News August 19, 2022 2:52 pm Caleb Williams 0 Comments

Recently, Swedish board game company Embracer Group announced that it had purchased the Lord of the Rings film rights from Saul Zaentz Company for $770 Million USD. The rights went up for sale earlier this year from the original owners as positive news for The Rings of Power series began to emerge. Saul Zaentz Company... Read More...

‘Lord of the Rings’ Film Rights Go Up For Sale

Industry News, News February 9, 2022 12:38 pm Caleb Williams 0 Comments

Today, Variety announced that the film rights to both the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films have gone up for sale. The rights reverted back to Zaentz Co in 2021 after Warner Brothers failed to produce any Middle-Earth live-action content since the release of Peter Jackson's saga. The Tolkien Estate also still holds... Read More...

Netflix Nabs Distribution Rights To Hasbro’s ‘Power Rangers’ Reboot

Industry News, News November 25, 2021 9:14 am Caleb Williams 0 Comments

Several months ago, we learned that eOne was in negotiations with Hasbro to acquire the rights to several of their smaller board games adaptions like Dungeons & Dragons, Risk, Clue, and Monopoly. eOne also looked to reboot Power Rangers once again after the failed (yet critically praised) 2017 film. Jonathan Entwistle was brought onto direct... Read More...

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Sony Pictures & Walt Disney Ink Deal To Stream Classic Marvel Films On Disney+

Industry News, News April 21, 2021 8:16 pm Caleb Williams 0 Comments

Today, Walt Disney announced in conjunction with Sony Pictures (via CNBC) that classic Sony/Marvel films will soon stream on Disney+ and Hulu. Tom Holland's Spider-Man trilogy will now finally appear on the streaming service alongside the other films set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Other classic films that will join those films include Sam Raimi's... Read More...