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Red Band Trailer: ’21 Jump Street’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday November 2, 2011 @ 8:51pm PDTTags: 21 Jump Street, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube, Jonah Hill

Some of us are not sure what to make of this red band trailer for 21 Jump Street with Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill and Ice Cube in the movification of a long-ago Fox TV series about young cops going undercover in high school. The late ’80s TV show starred Johnny Depp.

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Toronto: Anchor Bay Acquires U.S. Rights To ‘Ten Year’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday November 2, 2011 @ 1:16pm PDTTags: Anchor Bay Films, Anthony Mackie, Channing Tatum, Chris Pratt, Jamie Linden, Justin Long, Kate Mara, Marty Bowen, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac, Reid Carolin, Ron Livingston, Rosario Dawson, Ten Year, Wyck Godfrey
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Anchor Bay Films has picked up U.S. distribution rights to Ten Year, the Jamie Linden-directed drama that premiered at 2011 Toronto Film Festival. The film will be released next spring. Anchor Bay has been negotiating for this for the … Read More »

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TOLDJA! Warner Bros Acquires Stripper Pic ‘Magic Mike,’ Bares June 29 Release Date

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday October 27, 2011 @ 11:53am PDTTags: Adam Rodriguez, Alex Pettyfer, Channing Tatum, Film Release Date, Gregory Jacobs, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash, Magic Mike, Matt Bomer, Matthew McConaughey, Nick Wechsler, Reid Carolin, Steven Soderbergh
Mike Fleming

As predicted here, Warner Bros completed its acquisition of domestic rights on the Steven Soderbergh-directed Magic Mike, which stars Alex Pettyfer and Channing Tatum in a Saturday Night Fever-type coming-of-age drama about a young exotic dancer who … Read More »

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Steven Soderbergh’s Stripper Movie ‘Magic Mike’ Gyrating Toward Warner Bros?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday October 19, 2011 @ 11:39am PDTTags: Alex Pettyfer, Channing Tatum, Glen Basner, Gregory Jacobs, Joe Manganiello, Magic Mike, Matt Bomer, Matthew McConaughey, Nick Wechsler, Reid Carolin, Steven Soderbergh, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: While several studios are in the mix on the Steven Soderbergh-directed Magic Mike, I’m told that Warner Bros has emerged as the frontrunner to acquire domestic distribution rights and that a deal could be done by next week. The … Read More »

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‘Zombieland’ Scribe Team Tackles Hasbro’s ‘Micronauts’ For JJ Abrams And Paramount

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday October 17, 2011 @ 4:03pm PDTTags: Brian Goldner, Bruce Willis, Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson, JJ Abrams, Jon M. Chu, Paramount, Paul Wernick, Rhett Reese, Ryan Reynolds
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese are getting the job turning the Hasbro toyline Micronauts into a feature film for JJ Abrams and Paramount Pictures. Along with the prospect of another Transformers film, Micronauts was one of the Hasbro brands … Read More »

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Dave Franco Joins ‘Now You See Me’ At Summit

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 5:50pm PDTTags: Channing Tatum, Isla Fisher, Jesse Eisenberg, John Malkovich, Jonah Hill, Louis Leterrier, Mark Ruffalo, Morgan Freeman, Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, Woody Harrelson
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Dave Franco has joined the cast of Now You See Me, which is his second straight movie for Summit Entertainment. Franco joins Mark Ruffalo, Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Morgan Freeman and Isla Fisher in the Louis Leterrier-directed drama about … Read More »

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2011 Toronto: ‘Shame’ Will Start Dealmaking Flurry, But Buyers Wait To Be Blown Away

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 7, 2011 @ 5:03pm PDTTags: 2011 Toronto Film Festival, Adam Scott, Alexis Bledel, Allen Hughes, Allison Janney, Anthony Hopkins, Anthony Mackie, Aung San Suu Kyi, Ben Foster, Bruce Beresford, Bruce Willis, Carey Mulligan, Catherine Keener, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Channing Tatum, Christian Bale, Danny Trejo, Eduardo Sanchez, Elizabeth Olsen, Ewan McGregor, Geoffrey Fletcher, Harvey Weinstein, Hugh Laurie, Ice Cube, James Gandolfini, Jamie Linden, Jane Fonda, Jon Hamm, Jonathan Teplitzky, Jude Law, Justin Long, Kate Mara, Kristen Wiig, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lasse Hallström, Luc Besson, Mark Wahlberg, Matthew Goode, Maya Rudolph, Megan Fox, Mia Farrow, Michael Fassbender, Michelle Williams, Michelle Yeoh, Mickey Rourke, Oliver Platt, Peter Morgan, Peter Schlessel, Rachel Weisz, Rebecca Hall, Robert Redford, Robin Wright, Rosario Dawson, Russell Crowe, Saoirse Ronan, Sarah Polley, Sarah Silverman, Selma Blair, Seth Rogen, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Frears, Steve McQueen, Terence Davies, Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, Zhang Yimou
Mike Fleming

Last year’s Toronto Film Festival started slow for acquisitions, but finished with a flurry of modest distribution deals that served notice the specialty film business had finally pulled out of its nosedive. This year’s festival hasn’t started and … Read More »

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Olivia Munn Joins ‘Magic Mike’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 31, 2011 @ 8:57am PDTTags: Aaron Sorkin, Alex Pettyfer, Channing Tatum, Magic Mike, Matt Bomer, Matthew McConaughey, Olivia Munn, Paul Schneider, Sarah Jessica Parker, Steven Soderbergh
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Steven Soderbergh’s hunkfest Magic Mike is finally getting something that has so far been missing: actresses. Olivia Munn is negotiating to play the role of Amber, the love interest to Channing Tatum, who plays Magic Mike. She’ll join Tatum, … Read More »

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‘White Collar’s Matt Bomer Joins Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Magic Mike’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 17, 2011 @ 4:01pm PDTTags: Alex Pettyfer, Andrew Niccol, Channing Tatum, Gregory Jacobs, Justin Timberlake, Magic Mike, Matt Bomer, Matthew McConaughey, Nick Wechsler, Reid Carolin, Steven Soderbergh
Mike Fleming

Matt Bomer, star of the USA series White Collar, has joined the ab-worthy cast of hunks who’ll play male strippers in Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh’s next film. So far, Soderbergh has cast Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer and Matthew McConaughey. Magic Mike is a Saturday Night Fever-style coming of age story. … Read More »

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JJ Abrams Moving Toward Helming ‘Star Trek 2,’ But ‘G.I. Joe’ Sequel Will Get His June 29, 2012 Release Slot

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday July 27, 2011 @ 12:20pm PDTTags: Adam Cozad, Adrianne Palicki, Alex Kurtzman, Channing Tatum, Damon Lindelof, David Koepp, Dwayne Johnson, G.I. Joe 2, JJ Abrams, Jon M. Chu, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Roberto Orci
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Now that the launch of Super 8 is behind him, JJ Abrams is moving toward a commitment to direct Star Trek 2. But just as Deadline has been telling you, there’s no way that he’ll be able to make the June 29, 2012 release date that Paramount carved out for the film. I’m told that the studio will give that slot to G.I. Joe: Retaliation, the sequel that will be directed by Jon M. Chu and stars Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson and Adrianne Palicki, with Lorenzo di Bonaventura producing.

Abrams has just returned from vacation and is hunkering down with writers Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof to work on the Trek script and beginning prep for a Trek sequel that will likely begin production in January and either be dated for release for the fourth quarter of 2012 or summer 2013. Abrams hasn’t formally committed and hasn’t approved a script yet, but the studio has exercised its option on the cast and they will be ready when Abrams is. All this means that Chris Pine will definitely play Captain Kirk before he reboots Jack Ryan for the same studio. Read More »

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Joe Mazzello Enlists For ‘G.I. Joe 2′

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday July 26, 2011 @ 4:27pm PDTTags: Adrianne Palicki, Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson, G.I. Joe 2, Jon M. Chu, Josh Schwartz, Ray Stevenson
Mike Fleming

Joe Mazzello has been set to play the role of Mouse in G.I. Joe 2: Cobra Strikes, a role a lot of young guys wanted in the Jon M. Chu-directed Paramount film that stars Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson, Adrianne Palicki … Read More »

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Oscar Isaac Is ‘Bourne’ Again In Robert Ludlum Thriller Spinoff

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 7:48pm PDTTags: Anthony Mackie, Carey Mulligan, Channing Tatum, Edward Norton, Jeremy Renner, Justin Long, Madonna, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Oscar Isaac, Rachel Weisz, Rosario Dawson, Ryan Gosling, The Bourne Legacy, Tony Gilroy, Viola Davis
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Not long ago, newcomer Oscar Isaac tested for Tony Gilroy and the lead role in Universal’s The Bourne Legacy and made such a strong impression that the director seriously considered giving the actor the lead role that went to … Read More »

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Adrianne Palicki Joins ‘G.I. Joe: Cobra Strikes’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday July 1, 2011 @ 9:01am PDTTags: Adrianne Palicki, Bruce Willis, Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson, G.I. Joe: Cobra Strikes, Jon M. Chu, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Rhett Reese
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Friday Nights Lights series star Adrianne Palicki will play the female lead in the Paramount sequel to G.I. Joe: Cobra Strikes. She’ll play Lady Jaye and joins a cast that includes Channing Tatum, as well as Dwayne Johnson, who … Read More »

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Steven Soderbergh Reiterates Retirement Plans: Wants “A Smallish Farewell Parade”

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 15, 2011 @ 7:29pm PDTTags: Alex Pettyfer, Channing Tatum, Contagion, George Clooney, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Magic Mike, Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Michael Douglas, Steven Soderbergh, Steven Soderbergh Retirement, Terry Curtin
Mike Fleming

While I have been on record expressing the sentiment that there are many filmmakers who should retire before Steven Soderbergh, I just got off the phone with the filmmaker. And damn it, he still wants to punch out by the time he hits 50. “I’m still following my plan,” he told me. “I’ve been stupid about it, I should have kept my mouth shut, but at the same time, I don’t think there’s anything that unusual about it. By the time I finish with the series of projects I’m planning, it will be 26 or 27 films. That’s plenty and if you take volume over quality; I’m twice as good as Kubrick.”

Forecasting his exit also didn’t help in terms of preparing the industry to make a fuss over him. “I figured by giving them two years lead time, they would line up those lifetime achievement awards, but there have been no calls or anything,” Soderbergh joked. Asked what he would like, he said, tongue firmly in cheek, “The Oprah thing. A year-long daily celebration of my fabulousness would be nice. Or maybe just a smallish parade.”

Soderbergh and I were speaking about Relativity Media’s decision to release Haywire, which it financed but set distribution originally through Lionsgate. Though that picture was shot before Contagion – the thriller about the outbreak of a deadly virus that stars Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard and Jude Law – Haywire will be released Jan. 20, 2012, three months after Contagion. Soderbergh will talk the picture up while promoting Contagion, which he feels will help an action film that leans heavily on Gina Carano, known only to mixed martial arts fans who’ve seen her fight on the circuit. Soderbergh also liked the Relativity move because it reunites him with Relativity’s new marketing chief Terry Curtin, with whom Soderbergh worked at Universal on Erin Brockovich.

“I think it might be best for Haywire to follow Contagion, which is the kind of film people like to see me make,” Soderbergh said. “It’s in the vein of Traffic, an entertaining multi-layered story about something timely right now. Because Gina has never been in a movie before, being able to draft off Contagion will be very good. We knew she could do the right stuff, but she really delivers as a screen presence. She looks comfortable, and then she tears these guys in half.”

Soderbergh said he’ll start work in September on Magic Mike, the film that will star Channing Tatum and Alex Pettyfer as male strippers in a coming-of-age story reminiscent of Saturday Night Fever. He’ll follow by directing George Clooney in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. in February. After that, Liberace with Michael Douglas and Damon will likely be Soderbergh’s swan song. While I reminded him that he’s walking away at a time when he has plenty to say and the wisdom to know how to solve problems that maturity brings, he disagreed. Read More »

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Relativity To Distribute Steven Soderbergh-Directed ‘Haywire’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 15, 2011 @ 4:58pm PDTTags: Antonio Banderas, Bill Paxton, Channing Tatum, Ewan McGregor, Gina Carano, Haywire, Michael Angarano, Michael Douglas, Michael Fassbender, Relativity Media, Steven Soderbergh
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Relativity Media will distribute Haywire, the Steven Soderbergh-directed action film that will get a Jan. 20, 2012 release date. Though Relativity Media financed the pic, it was originally going to be released domestically by Lionsgate. I’m told it was a … Read More »

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Dwayne Johnson Circles ‘G.I. Joe 2′; Channing Tatum Also Looking Good For Encore

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday June 6, 2011 @ 10:35am PDTTags: Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson, G.I. Joe: Cobra Strikes, Jon M. Chu, Justin Bieber
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: After seeing his stock rise from starring in Fast Five, Dwayne Johnson is in talks to join another sequel. I’m told Johnson is in discussions with Paramount to join G.I. Joe: Cobra Strikes. That’s the overhauled sequel that’ll be … Read More »

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Lasse Hallstrom In ‘Safe Haven’ Talks

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 1, 2011 @ 5:14pm PDTTags: Amanda Seyfried, Channing Tatum, Lasse Hallström, Marty Bowen, Nicholas Sparks, Ryan Kavanaugh, Safe Haven, Wyck Godfrey
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Relativity Media is in talks with Lasse Hallstrom to direct its adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel Safe Haven. I’m told that a deal will likely happen quickly. It’s not surprising that Ryan Kavanaugh would turn to Hallstrom to helm the adaptation of a book that Relativity paid around $2 million against $5 million to acquire in a heated auction last summer. Hallstrom directed the adaptation of the Sparks novel Dear John, a film that Kavanaugh financed.

The move also re-teams Hallstrom with Temple Hill partners Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey, who produced Dear John, a film that was well received and grossed $110 million worldwide with Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried starring. Relativity Media acquired Safe Haven with a ticking clock — basically a nine-month window to develop the script, or the book would go back to Sparks and he’d keep the upfront payment. They got Dana Stevens to write a script, and they certainly met the deadline, as they are already looking at cast for a fall start date. Bowen and Godfrey are producing and so is Kavanaugh. In Safe Haven, a young North Carolina woman is determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships. As she begins to fall in love, she struggles with a dark secret that still haunts and terrifies her. Read More »

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Alex Pettyfer To Co-Star With Channing Tatum In Soderbergh’s Male Strippers Pic

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday May 12, 2011 @ 4:14pm PDTTags: Alex Pettyfer, Channing Tatum, Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh

EXCLUSIVE: This is going to gobsmack almost everyone in Hollywood. Not only did Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh just choose 21-year-old newcomer Alex Pettyfer for this juicy role in Magic Mike. But also, as Deadline has previously reported, the film has such an interesting … Read More »

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As Dave Franco Joins ’21 Jump Street,’ Will Johnny Depp Make A Cameo?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday April 8, 2011 @ 11:07am PDTTags: 21 Jump Street, Anton Yelchin, Channing Tatum, Colin Farrell, James Franco, Johnny Depp, Jonah Hill, Toni Collette
Mike Fleming

We’ve certainly gotten an eyeful lately of actor/soap star/Oscar host James Franco. We even met his grandmother in that Funnyordie.com spot where she deemed moviegoers too squeamish to watch 127 Hours “a bunch of pussies.” Now it’s actor/writer Dave Franco … Read More »

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