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‘Ride Along’ Detours To Universal As Kevin Hart And Ice Cube Vehicle

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday July 11, 2012 @ 11:31am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, Ride-Along, Tim Story, Universal Pictures
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has acquired Ride Along out of turnaround from New Line and the studio has set a late October production start with Kevin Hart and Ice Cube starring, and Tim Story directing. The comedy, which has drafts from scribes that include The Dictator co-star Jason Mantzoukas, will get a rewrite from the scribe team of Matt Manfredi & Phil Hay.

The film will be produced by Cube Vision’s Ice Cube, LBI Entertainment’s Matt Alvarez with Rainforest Films’ Will Packer, and by Larry Brezner. The project had languished at New Line, partly over trying to figure out the leads, but Universal was ready to move quickly in reteaming Story, Hart and Packer after Think Like A Man, a sleeper hit that has grossed $91 million domestic for Screen Gems. Hart will play a second-grade teacher who is ready to get married, but first he must survive a Training Day-like ride-along experience with his fiancee’s tough cop brother, who doesn’t want the marriage to happen and tries to scare off the suitor. READ MORE »

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Director F. Gary Gray Takes On ‘Straight Outta Compton’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 10, 2012 @ 1:26pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, F. Gary Gray, Ice Cube, New Line
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: As Deadline revealed earlier today,  F. Gary Gray is in final talks to helm Straight Outta Compton. That’s the New Line project that traces the formation of seminal hip hop group NWA, which launched careers including Eazy E, … Read More »

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Ice Cube To Star In And Produce Vigilante Drama Project For FX

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday December 5, 2011 @ 6:23pm PSTTags: Cube Vision, FX, Ice Cube, Jeff Kwatinetz, Prospect park
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: In what would be his first TV starring vehicle, Ice Cube is set to topline and executive produce Eye For An Eye, a drama series project in development at FX. The project hails from Ice Cube’s company Cube Vision … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Rampart’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday November 18, 2011 @ 6:44pm PSTTags: Anne Heche, Ben Foster, Cynthia Nixon, Ice Cube, Millennium Entertainment, Ned Beatty, Oren Moverman, Rampart, Robin Wright, Sigourney Weaver, Woody Harrelson

Oren Moverman’s corrupt LA cop drama Rampart stars Woody Harrelson, Sigourney Weaver, Robin Wright, Ned Beatty, Ben Foster, Ice Cube, Anne Heche and Cynthia Nixon. Millennium Entertainment plans to launch Best Actor, Director and Screenplay campaigns for Harrelson and Moverman.

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New Line, Ice Cube Plot Another ‘Friday’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday November 16, 2011 @ 10:13am PSTTags: Chris Tucker, Ice Cube
Mike Fleming

New Line Cinema is in talks with Ice Cube to write, produce and star in another installment of the Friday series. Cube could be in line to direct it as well, but all that is being worked out. A TMZ… Read More »

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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 … Read More »

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Toronto: Woody Harrelson Enters Oscar Race With Millennium’s $2 Million Deal For Cop Corruption Drama ‘Rampart’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday September 23, 2011 @ 6:29pm PDTTags: Anne Heche, Ben Foster, Cynthia Nixon, Ice Cube, Mark Gill, Millennium Films, Ned Beatty, Oren Moverman, Robin Wright, Sigourney Weaver, Woody Harrelson
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Millennium Entertainment is putting Woody Harrelson into the Best Actor Oscar race this year, closing a $2 million U.S. rights acquisition of Rampart. That is the Oren Moverman-directed police corruption drama that Moverman wrote with L.A. Confidential author James Ellroy. The plan is to open in 20 cities and launch campaigns for Harrelson and for Moverman for Best Director and Screenplay. A deal for Canadian rights is expected to close shortly. Millennium Entertainment CEO Bill Lee made the deal, and Millennium Films’ Mark Gill will be a consultant on this and get to roll up his sleeves and wage an awards-season campaign for Harrelson, who drew raves at the 2011 Toronto Film Festival for his portrayal of a corrupt cop in a drama that also stars Sigourney Weaver, Robin Wright, Ned Beatty, Ben Foster, Ice Cube, Anne Heche and Cynthia Nixon. The 1990s Los Angeles police family drama explores the dark soul and misadventures of an LAPD cop whose past finally catches up with him in a department-wide corruption scandal. 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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Johnny Depp’s Infinitum Nihil Makes Disney Deals For ‘The Night Stalker’ And Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday July 11, 2011 @ 5:30pm PDTTags: Armie Hammer, Christi Dembrowski, Disney, Gore Verbinski, Ice Cube, Infinitum Nihil, Johnny Depp, Rich Ross, Sean Bailey, Tim Burton
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Disney and Johnny Depp’s Infinitum Nihil are teaming up on two new projects: a feature version of the ’70s TV movie The Night Stalker, and a drama about the Midnight Ride made by Paul Revere to warn Colonial militia of the impending British invasion. Depp is the potential star of both films, and he and his Infinitum Nihil partner Christi Dembrowski will produce.

Like many, Dembrowski and Depp had fond memories of the ABC telepic and series The Night Stalker, and they got Disney’s Rich Ross and Sean Bailey sparked on a pitch for Depp to potentially play tabloid reporter Carl Kolchak. Originated by Darren McGavin, Kolchak was the dogged journalist first seen in the 1972 telepic (where he hunted a killer who was draining the blood of beautiful girls on the Las Vegas strip) and later in the ABC series Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Kolchak’s investigations always seemed to lead him to the doorstep of vampires, zombies, werewolves and aliens. For its time, it was pretty scary stuff. The studio will go out to writers shortly. David Kennedy will be exec producer.

Dembrowski and Depp set up the Paul Revere film at Disney with Batman Forever scribes Lee and Janet Batchler writing the screenplay. The film will focus on the Boston silversmith and that 24-hour period in which he made the risky “midnight ride” from Charlestown to Lexington, becoming a seminal figure in the American Revolutionary War. Jon Brown and Infinitum Nihil’s Margaret French-Isaac will be executive producers.

It is a coup for Disney’s Ross and Bailey to be back in business with Depp, right after Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides cracked the $1 billion mark in worldwide gross. It’s the third time that the studio has reached the billion-dollar milestone on a film with Depp in the lead role, after Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest and Alice In Wonderland. Depp next saddles up for the studio with Armie Hammer in the Gore Verbinski-directed The Lone Ranger. Read More »

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Disney In Talks For Ice Cube’s ‘Chrome And Paint’ Feature

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday April 8, 2011 @ 7:26pm PDTTags: Andrea Berloff, Chrome and Paint, Cube Vision, David O. Russell, Disney, Ice Cube, Jeff Kwatinetz, Matt Alvarez, Sean Bailey, UTA
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Disney is negotiating to finance and distribute Chrome and Paint, a gritty Boyz N’ The Hood-style drama that Ice Cube will direct and star in, based on a script he co-wrote with Eva Vives. The film is a … Read More »

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Brie Larson Lands ’21 Jump Street’ Lead

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday March 4, 2011 @ 1:10pm PSTTags: 21 Jump Street, 21 Jump Street Casting, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube, Jonah Hill, Movie Deals, Movies, United States of Tara
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Brie Larson has landed the coveted lead role of Molly in Sony Pictures’ 21 Jump Street, starring opposite Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum and Ice Cube. Neil Moritz is producing. Phil Lord and Chris Miller are directing.

Larson, best known for … Read More »

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Ice Cube Joining ’21 Jump Street’ And Shops Directing Vehicle ‘Chrome And Paint’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday February 15, 2011 @ 3:00pm PSTTags: 21 Jump Street, Andrea Berloff, Channing Tatum, Chrome and Paint, Cube Vision, David O. Russell, Hilary Swank, Ice Cube, Jeff Kwatinetz, Johnny Depp, Jonah Hill, Matt Alvarez, Neal Moritz, New Line Cinema, UTA
Mike Fleming

Ice Cube is negotiating to join Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum in 21 Jump Street. He is also preparing to shop Chrome and Paint, a gritty Boyz N’ The Hood-style drama that Cube wrote with Eva Vives as a starring … Read More »

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Katherine Heigl Will Celebrate ‘New Year’s Eve’ With Bon Jovi Instead Of Halle Berry

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday January 31, 2011 @ 8:37am PSTTags: Abigail Breslin, Ashton Kutcher, Garry Marshall, Hilary Swank, Ice Cube, Jessica Biel, Josh Duhamel, Katherine Heigl, Lakeshore, Lea Michele, Michelle Pfeiffer, New Line, New Year's Eve, Sarah Jessica Parker, Seth Meyers, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Sofia Vergara, Zac Efron
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Heigl, not Halle Berry,  will be the one smooching Jon Bon Jovi in New Line’s ensemble romantic comedy New Year’s Eve. I’m told Berry has dropped out of the picture, which is just getting underway. Heigl was available … Read More »

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Ice Cube & David O. Russell Launching Dirty Harry-esque Franchise

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday November 4, 2010 @ 5:44pm PDTTags: David O. Russell, Ice Cube, Movie Deals, Movies, New Line
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Ice Cube and his Three Kings director David O Russell are in talks with New Line to re-team to create a potential franchise. Cube will play a plainclothes detective … Read More »

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It’s Official: TBS Picks Up 90 Additional Episodes of Sitcom ‘Are We There Yet?’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday August 16, 2010 @ 9:12am PDTTags: Are We There Yet?, Are We There Yet? Syndication, Cable TV, Ice Cube, Terry Crews
Nellie Andreeva

‘Are We There Yet?’ Nears 90-Episode Pickup At TBS

TBS has ordered an additional 90 episodes of the hit sitcom ARE WE THERE YET? following this summer’s highly successful 10-episode run.  The series, which stars Terry Crews and Essence Atkins, is produced by Revolution Studios and Cube Vision and

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‘Are We There Yet’ Nears 90-Episode Pickup At TBS & Eyes Syndication Sales Next

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday August 9, 2010 @ 8:00am PDTTags: Are We There Yet?, Are We There Yet? Syndication, Cable TV, Ice Cube, TBS, TBS Pickup, Tyler Perry
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: I hear TBS is finalizing a deal to order 90 additional episodes of the Ice Cube/Joe Roth-produced comedy series Are We There Yet?, bringing the total order to the sitcom based on the 2005 feature starring Ice Cube to … Read More »

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