Paramount Global, the sprawling media empire behind CBS, MTV and one of Hollywood’s best-known movie studios, has agreed to merge with tech magnate David Ellison’s Skydance Media, ending years of speculation about the company’s fate. The deal, announced late Sunday, came just weeks after Ellison’s previous bid to buy Paramount fell through at the last…
In preparation for the third film of the famous Top Gun franchise, Paramount hopes to rev up the engine once more. Top Gun: Maverick co-writer Ehren Kruger is working on a script for a potential new Maverick film, and reliable sources indicate that Maverick director Joe Kosinski will also be directing. Kurger’s involvement was initially…
The 2023 MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs) in Paris have been cancelled by Paramount Global, who cites the “volatility of world events” as the reason. The Paris Nord Villepinte was scheduled to host the musical event on November 5. As the Middle East crisis worsens, it has now been apparent that it will not proceed.…
A third theatrical film has been announced for 2026, just days before Spin Master/Paramount/Nickelodeon’s PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie debuts with a chance at No. 1 and $20M. With a first weekend of $13.1M, a domestic final of $40.1M, and a global total of $144.3M, the long-running preschool franchise, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary,…
Following Emma Watts’ departure as President of the Motion Picture Film Group, her Co-Presidents of Production Mike Ireland and Daria Cercek are being raised to run the film bunch now as co-heads. Ireland and Cercek will report straightforwardly to Brian Robbins, President and Chief Executive Officer of Paramount Pictures, effective pronto. Cercek and Ireland will…
Fundamental is seeing Regé-Jean Page’s halo. Page, the breakout actor from Neflix’s Bridgerton, has gotten on to star in and executive produce the studio’s reboot of The Saint. Simultaneously, playwright and actor Kwame Kwei-Armah has been acquired to compose another draft of the content for the adventure thriller. This is Page’s second project with Paramount…
Following quite a while of pausing, we at last have a report on the situation with Evil season 2. On the drawback, that update is certifiably not a debut date declaration. EW has discovered that Evil may move from CBS to Paramount+ for its hotly anticipated second season, which has been moping away in Purgatory…