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Thuso Mbedu Strikes Deal to Create Social Justice-Driven Shows for Paramount+

Thuso Mbedu won an Independent Spirit Award and a Gotham Award for her leading role in “The Underground Railroad,” a miniseries that drew startling connections between America during the...

Television

Paramount+ Snags Jessica Brown Findlay-Starrer “Flatshare,” Rose Lewenstein Penning Adaptation

Jessica Brown Findlay is heading far from the luxurious county estate where she launched her career. The “Downton Abbey” alumna will try out decidedly less glamorous living arrangements...

Trailers

Trailer Watch: Sutton Foster Gets Ready to Say Goodbye in “Younger’s” Seventh and Final Season

“I’m an editor. I know endings, and it doesn’t seem like that’s where we are — at the end,” says Sutton Foster in a new trailer for “Younger’s”...

Films

Leah McKendrick Writing “Grease” Prequel “Summer Lovin’” for Paramount

Leah McKendrick will tell us more, tell us more with her next project. The actress and filmmaker penned “Summer Lovin’,” Paramount’s prequel to the perennial musical classic...

Television

Sam Taylor-Johnson to Direct TV Adaptation of Pulitzer-Winning Novel “Middlesex”

Jeffrey Eugenides’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about immigration, the American Dream, family, genetics, and gender identity may finally be coming to the screen. According to Variety, Paramount...

Films

Rachel Chavkin Will Direct Paramount’s Psychological Thriller “Shrew’s Nest”

A Tony-winning director is set to make her feature directorial debut. Rachel Chavkin, who snagged last year’s Tony for Best Direction of a Musical for “Hadestown,” is locked in to...

Films

Tina Fey Is Adapting the “Mean Girls” Musical for the Big Screen

Gretchen Wieners is getting yet another shot to make fetch happen. A film adaptation of the “Mean Girls” musical is in the works, a press release has announced. Based on the 2004 cult...

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Paramount’s 2020 Slate Includes 16 Movies, and Just One Is Directed by a Woman

Paramount’s current 2020 film slate includes 16 films, and exactly one of them is directed by a woman: Reed Morano’s Blake Lively-starrer “The Rhythm Section.” As it stands,...

Films

Kirsten Smith and Karen McCullah’s “Party Girls” Film Pitch Nabbed by Paramount

Paramount Pictures has snagged “Party Girls,” an original film pitch from”Legally Blonde” screenwriters Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith and Karen McCullah. Deadline confirmed the...

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Paramount Launches New Dev/Green Light Process, Aims to Make Film Slate More Inclusive

Only a couple weeks after taking Time’s Up and the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative’s #4PercentChallenge — and promising to commit to a women-directed project in the next 18 months —...

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Paramount Accepts #4PercentChallenge from Time’s Up and Annenberg Inclusion Initiative

Paramount has accepted Time’s Up and the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative’s #4PercentChallenge. Paramount Pictures, Paramount Animation, and Paramount Players are committing to announcing...

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