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Carol Lombardini, president of the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers since 2009, is stepping down from the role. After 15 years in the top spot at the studio and streamer rep, she will be moving to an advisory role. An AMPTP spokesperson said Thursday that Lombardini had long planned to retire in 2025. […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/RGb4cjK

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios just won a battle for Love of Your Life, a spec by Nyad scribe Julia Cox, Deadline hears. Love of Your Life has been the talk of town this Halloween, and sources said the result is one of the biggest spec script deals in recent memory, landing in the $2 million […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/Mhsd3Sq

Alex and Justin Russo return to their magic schooling days in Wizards Beyond Waverly Place, a continuation of Disney’s Wizards of Waverly Place, just in time for Halloween. Nearly ten months after Deadline broke the news of the sequel spinoff series in January of this year, Selena Gomez and David Henrie will play supporting roles […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/3xJsaA2

Jared Harris (Chernobyl, The Crown, Mad Men) is going full circle and returning to the Royal Shakespeare Company for the first time in 34 years to play Claudius, the treacherous uncle in Hamlet. It is a play much-loved by his father Richard Harris, who played Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies and Marcus Aurelius in Ridley Scott’s original […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/l4haPZc

"Two best friends, one breakup pact...what can go wrong?" Max has revealed the trailer for a fun romantic comedy movie called Sweethearts , about two college freshmen getting into some romantic trouble. From the creator of "Dollface" comes an original movie - which is skipping theaters and will be out on streaming on Max at the end of November . Two college freshmen pull a "Turkey Dump" and break up with their high school sweethearts over "Drunksgiving" – the one chaotic night before Thanksgiving in their hometown that puts their codependent friendship to the test. Kiernan Shipka and Nico Hiraga star as the best friends, with Charlie Hall , Jake Bongiovi , Caleb Hearon , Tramell Tillman , and Christine Taylor . This is a very New Jersey movie - it was shot in Jersey City and Cranford, and at Ramapo College in Mahwah. This looks surprisingly smart and unique and upbeat, featuring some really clever humor that might actually get you to laugh. W...

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Holland, who has played Agent Emilia Harcourt in James Gunn’s DC movie The Suicide Squad and spinoff series Peacemaker, has signed with Strand Entertainment for representation. Holland has reprised the tough-as-nails Harcourt in such DC movies as Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam and Shazam! Fury of the Gods. Season 2 of Peacemaker began production […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/9uLFsmG

Instead of entering the world of videogame Tron, characters from the videogame will visit planet Earth in the next installment of the film franchise, Tron: Ares. The latest updates on the film arrived at Disney’s D23 convention in 2024, and there’s still about a year to go before viewers can expect to see it in […] from Deadline https://ift.tt/vbALFJN