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Author Mo Willems, Stampede Ventures, and RedBird Capital Partners have formed Hidden Pigeon Company, a multiplatform kids and family content venture that will leverage Willems' best-selling catalogue of children's books and intellectual property across all entertainment platforms. Willems is a an…

I know that a lot of famous people — writers, directors, agents, lawyers, and powerbrokers — read Deadline every day. But so do a lot of dreamers. I know because for many years I was one of them. This is an open letter to all the dreamers reading Deadline today. Related Story …

Tom Hanks has weighed in on the hunt for the next 007, telling BBC News that Idris Elba is the man for the job. “Understand this,” he told the outlet, “James Bond has a license to kill. I would issue that license to Idris Elba just based on the work that I’ve seen him do." Elba has long been the…

This is a dark moment for frazzled members of the writing fraternity. Picketers in Hollywood and New York fear a prolonged standoff gripping film and TV. Also troubling, their colleagues in digital media are patching together their résumés as Vice Media…

Will there ever be a great book about the film business as it is now? I still think not. What used to be called The Industry, as it exists today, might be grist for a eulogy, a festival panel discussion or possibly an online technical manual—10 steps to reboot the software that made your last…

Editor’s Note: Decorated live event TV director-producer Don Mischer, a fifteen-time Emmy Award winner, has worked frequently with country legend Willie Nelson, who turns 90 today. The following is a chapter from Mischer's forthcoming book,10 Seconds To Air: A Life in the Director's Chair, written by him a…

EXCLUSIVE: New Regency is adapting Pulitzer Prize winner Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, widely considered one of the greatest works of American literature, as a feature film. John Hillcoat set to direct. The film will be produced by New Regency, Black Bear Pictures’ Keith Redmon, and Hillcoat…

EXCLUSIVE: Julia Hart is set to direct an adaptation of the 2019 Samantha Downing novel My Lovely Wife at Netflix. Hart will also co-write the script with Jordan Horowitz, who is producing through his Original Headquarters banner along with Brian Kavanaugh Jones and Fred Berger for Automatic and Roy Lee…

Darby Kane’s bestselling suspense novel Pretty Little Wife is getting the small screen treatment. Amazon Studios is developing a series based on the book with Gabrielle Union set to star and executive produce. Meredith Lavender, Marcie Ulin and Kristen SaBerre will write and executive produce the project…

EXCLUSIVE: QC Entertainment, the production company behind recent Best Picture Oscar contenders BlacKkKlansman and Get Out, has snapped up rights to J.D. Barker’s forthcoming erotic thriller novel Behind a Closed Door in a preemptive bid, with plans to adapt it for film.  Related Story Ne…

Matthew Perry has seen the error in his ways when it comes to dissing Keanu Reeves. While speaking at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Book on Saturday, the Friends actor vowed to remove Reeves’ name from future editions of his memoir "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing." The book was…

Tom Hanks has expertly re-invented himself over the years, moving from rom-com star (Big) to war hero (Saving Private Ryan) to character actor (Elvis), and as a writer-director with That Thing You Do! and Larry Crowne. His newest chapter: novelist. He's…