Entertainment Industry Mergers and Adaptations

EXCLUSIVE: Scalpel, please: HBO Max is developing medical dramas in France and Italy, and it’s taking creative cues from The Pitt for the procedure. Sarah Aubrey, HBO Max’s Head of Original Programming, revealed the news to Deadline in an interview today at Series Mania in Lille, France.

There’s a new game day for Jumanji 3. Sony Pictures said today that the fourth film in the longtime franchise is moving from its planned December 11 release date to Christmas Day — shifting from one week before the behemoth battle between Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Doomsday and Warn

Here’s your first look at Kit Harington suited up in MGM+ & the BBC’s A Tale Of Two Cities TV adaptation.  The four-part limited series is an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel and stars Harington (Industry, Game of Thrones) alongside François Civil (Beating Hearts, The Three Musketeers),

EXCLUSIVE: Former Warner Bros Pictures Group chairman Toby Emmerich has formed Fireside Access TV with Amanda Krentzman, former Executive Producer on Netflix’s International Originals team and Head of Global Original Series at Snapchat. The company hatched in partnership with Access Entertainment, a

Ynon Kreiz, who is stepping down as CEO of Mattel after eight years, will join David Ellison’s Paramount — which is on the brink of closing its mega-merger with Warner Bros. Discovery — in a senior role, according to two industry sources. One source close to the situation told Vari

Mike Flanagan adapted Stephen King’s Carrie into a series, and in a “dream scenario,” he would like it to run as a trilogy. Already counting on King’s approval of the adaptation, Flanagan has a specific vision for Carrie that could potentially go beyond the original story. &#

The Trump administration broadening its embrace of artificial intelligence. The results have been mixed, to say the least