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Animated ‘Flintsones’ Pic Adds Pro Wrestlers To Its Bedrock

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday May 29, 2013 @ 6:00am PDTTags: The Flinstones, Warner Bros, WWE Studios
Mike Fleming

Warner Bros and WWE Studios are tag-teaming to co-produce a Flintstones animated movie to be released in early 2015. Here, fixtures of the ’60s Hanna-Barbera cartoon including Fred and Barney will be joined by WWE staples including Vince McMagma (voiced by Vince McMahon) and such WWE superstars and divas including John Cenastone (John Cena) and CM Punkrock (CM Punk). They will take part in a prehistoric WWE main event.

Considering the cartoon’s love for all things named for all things geological, it seems a glaring absence not to have Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson here, particularly since he occasionally gets in the ring. But maybe that’s too obvious, or too expensive. After all Johnson has been killing it this summer in G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Pain & Gain and Fast & Furious 6, and this one doesn’t look like it’s going to hit theaters. READ MORE »

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WWE Studios Taps Ex-Paramount Exec VP Marketing

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday May 17, 2013 @ 1:08pm PDTTags: Julie Tustin, WWE Studios

WWE Studios has appointed former Paramount Pictures and Miramax film executive Julie Tustin as VP Marketing. She will oversee all aspects of marketing, publicity and brand development for the studio and  work out of parent company WWE’s Connecticut … Read More »

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Anchor Bay To Bow WWE Studios’ ‘No One Lives’ On May 10

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday April 5, 2013 @ 2:40pm PDTTags: Anchor Bay, No One LIves, WWE Studios

The Ryuhei Kitamura-directed thriller stars Luke Evans, Adelaide Clemens, Lee Tergesen, and WWE’s Brodus Clay and centers on a ruthless criminal gang that takes a young couple hostage and goes to ground in an abandoned house in the middle of … Read More »

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WWE Studios, Edward R. Pressman & Jason Blum Team For ‘Cruisin’ For A Bruisin’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday February 14, 2013 @ 12:35pm PSTTags: WWE Studios

EXCLUSIVE: WWE Studios, producer Edward R. Pressman and Jason Blum’s Blum-Hanson-Allen Films are getting into the comedy game. The trio is developing Cruisin’ For A Brusin’, an action comedy to be written and directed by Adam Bhala Lough. It focuses on two rule-breaking ex-cops who get back together to take revenge on the crooks and corrupt senator who murdered their mentor. “As we continue to seek out key creative and strategic partnerships to broaden our release slate, the opportunity for WWE Studios to work with producers like Ed Pressman and Jason Blum, and their talented executive teams, was a natural fit for us,” WWE Studios president Michael Luisi said. Pressman, Scott Hanson and Luisi will serve as producers on Cruisin For A Bruisin’. Jason Blum, Jon Allen, and Pressman Films’ COO Jon Katz will executive producers. Read More »

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ABC Family & WWE Studios Tag Team For Holiday Movie With The Miz

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday October 26, 2012 @ 11:50am PDTTags: ABC Family, WWE Studios

Miz WWE ABC Family MovieEXCLUSIVE: ABC Family and WWE Studios are getting in the ring together for the first time with the TV movie Christmas Bounty. The two are developing the action comedy for a … Read More »

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WWE Studios And Warner Bros Team For Animated ‘Scooby-Doo’ Film

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 15, 2012 @ 8:14am PDTTags: Warner Bros, WWE Studios
Mike Fleming

Warner Bros and WWE Studios will coproduce a Scooby-Doo animated feature that will involve a mystery at WrestleMania. This seems a natural, since most Scooby-Doo episodes involved … Read More »

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WWE Studios & 20th Century Fox Go Another ’12 Rounds’ With Randy Orton

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday August 3, 2012 @ 9:11am PDTTags: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Movie Casting, WWE Studios

Randy Orton is getting back in the action for 12 Rounds: Reloaded. The three time WWE World Heavyweight Champ will star in the second installment of the action franchise for WWE Studios and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. … Read More »

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WWE Studios, Troika Pictures Join Halle Berry Thriller ‘The Hive’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday June 28, 2012 @ 11:07am PDTTags: Halle Berry, The Hive, WWE Studios

EXCLUSIVE: WWE Studios and Troika Pictures are teaming to co-produce and co-finance The Hive, starring Halle Berry and Abigail Breslin. The thriller, to be directed by Brad Anderson (The Machinist, Transsiberian), was written by Rich … Read More »

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WWE Studios Acquires Spec Thriller ‘Interrogation’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday June 8, 2012 @ 8:45am PDTTags: WWE Studios
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: WWE Studios has acquired Interrogation, a suspense thriller spec by Adam Rodin. The plot: a bomb will go off in Las Vegas on one of the busiest betting days. A brilliant interrogator is … Read More »

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‘Dead Man Down’ Filming Set As WWE Studios Joins IM Global In Co-Financing

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday April 20, 2012 @ 4:34pm PDTTags: Dead Man Down, IM Global, Niels Arden Oplev, Noomi Rapace, WWE Studios

Principal photography for Dead Man Down, a romantic thriller directed by Niels Arden Oplev, is slated to begin Monday in Philadelphia. The movie stars Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace, Terrence Howard and Dominic Cooper.… Read More »

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WWE And Fox Home Entertainment Tag Team On 3-Picture Pact

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 15, 2012 @ 8:43am PSTTags: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, WWE Studios
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: WWE Studios and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment have partnered on three films that will be DVD premiere titles. First up is The Marine: Homefront, a new installment of the franchise that started with the 2006 Fox theatrical release … Read More »

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WWE Studios Joins Found Footage Movie Rage With ‘Bermuda’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday January 20, 2012 @ 2:42pm PSTTags: Michael Luisi, WWE Studios
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: WWE Studios has acquired Bermuda, a found-footage horror spec script by Bobby Lee Darby and Nathan Brookes. Set in the Bermuda Triangle, the story focuses on a documentary film crew that goes missing. The only trace is the discovery … Read More »

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WWE 3Q Dips As Film Unit Dents Earnings

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Thursday November 3, 2011 @ 12:39pm PDTTags: WWE Studios

Shares of WWE were up more than 2% this afternoon, even though company said revenues and profits were down in 3Q — and it took a $5.1M write-down on its films Inside Out, The Chaperone, and Knucklehead. The company reported … Read More »

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Michael Luisi Tapped To Run WWE Studios

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday September 7, 2011 @ 2:06pm PDTTags: Luke Evans, Michael Luisi, WWE Studios

Michael Luisi, who until this year ran the day-to-day operations at Miramax as EVP Worldwide Operations, has been tapped as president of WWE Studios, where he joined in January as EVP Business Development and General Counsel. He will report to … Read More »

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