- Disney has taken over the distribution and marketing rights for the Indiana Jones franchise from Paramount. This means that Paramount will still control the rights for the original four films, while Disney will be responsible for any future projects in the franchise. Disney has not yet announced that a fifth Indiana Jones feature is in the works. For more information on the deal, click here.
- Relativity has set a release date for Gina Price Blythewood’s upcoming Blackbird, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Minnie Driver, and Danny Glover. The film will premiere on November 14, 2014. Mbatha-Raw stars as an artist who cracks under the pressure of stardom and then falls for a policeman who has been assigned to her detail. To read more on the project, click here.
- The cast of David O. Russell’s American Hustle will be given the ensemble performance award at the Palm Springs Film Festival. The honor will be given at the festival’s gala on January 4. “American Hustle grabs you from the start and is populated by a group of eminently believable characters as brought to life by this brilliant cast,”said festival chairman Harold Matzner. For more information, click here.
- Skydance Productions and Anapurna Pictures are teaming up for a Terminator TV series. The companies have hired X-Men: First Class scribes Zack Stentz and Ashley Miller to write and produce the show, which springs from a critical moment in the first Terminator movie but begins a new narrative. Read more on the series here.
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