Blumhouse and Atomic Monster, the newly converged horror producers, will unwrap yet another iconic movie monster. “The Mummy” is coming from Lee Cronin, director of the campy and cult-approved “Evil Dead Rise.” Cronin will write and direct the project, which has been dated for April 17, 2026, by New Line Cinema. “This will be unlike […]

A new documentary about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has withdrawn from January’s Sundance Film Festival. Titled “The Six Billion Dollar Man,” director Eugene Jarecki was set to mark the film’s world premiere in Utah next month. The festival routinely screens high-impact nonfiction projects, including recent harrowing docs on Michael Jackson’s sexual assault accusers and the […]

Jamie Lee Curtis better bust out the doilies and contempo casual trench coats — it seems she’s headed to “Murder, She Wrote.” Variety has confirmed that Oscar winner Curtis is in early talks to play the iconic Jessica Fletcher, a crime writer turned crack detective, who was at the center of the long-running original TV […]

The early word on James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” has rightly centered around a tremendous Timothée Chalamet performance, and an exciting discovery in Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez. But there’s a dark horse hiding in this story of Dylan’s overnight success and controversial decision to use electric guitars in the mid-‘60s: an […]

Is Village Roadshow about to take a major detour? The longstanding content co-financier and co-producer is suffering cash flow issues, multiple sources told Variety, forcing the shop into bad standing with the Writers Guild of America and inspiring whispers about its viability in show business. Majority owned by Vine Alternative Investments, the company behind valuable […]

Film executive Tristen Tuckfield has been named chief commercial officer at upstart studio Wonder Project, Variety has exclusively learned. The global skewing “faith and values” content shop will task Tuckfield with developing and managing deals on behalf of the firm’s film and TV slate. Reporting to Wonder Project CEO Kelly Merryman Hoogstraten, Tuckfield will also […]

Walden Media has named Juliana Janes as executive vice president of development and production. At the studio behind Apple’s Lincoln assassination series “Manhunt” and the upcoming Russell Crowe drama “Nuremberg,” Janes will elevate the content slate working closely with writers, directors and producers. She’ll report to Walden production president Benjamin Tappan. Janes comes from Bron, […]

Apple Original Films has scooped up “All Of You,” a slightly sci-fi, bittersweet romance from star and co-writer Brett Goldstein. The “Ted Lasso” alum shared scriptwriting duties with the film’s director William Bridges (“Black Mirror”) and co-stars with Imogen Poots (“The Father,” “Vivarium”). The project premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival and went on […]

Rising indie filmmaker Grace Glowicki’s latest, “Dead Lover,” has attached sales agency Yellow Veil Pictures to shop the project out of the upcoming Sundance Film Festival. She serves as director, star and co-writer. Premiering in the Midnight section, the film stars Glowicki as a lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses. When she finally meets her […]

“Zurawski v Texas,” a reproductive rights documentary which unfolds like a legal thriller, has found a streaming home in indie service Jolt. The nonfiction work is currently available to stream on the platform following an acclaimed festival run and awards-qualifying release. It boasts star power courtesy of Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence, Hillary Clinton and Chelsea […]

A slasher film set at Camp David where a young George W. Bush is hunted by a masked killer. A group of friends stuck overnight in an Ikea, unwittingly at the center of two rival crime syndicates. Audrey Hepburn hunting Nazis on her days off from filming “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” These are some of the […]