Paramount on Thursday at CinemaCon unveiled new footage from Scary Movie, the first installment in the horror spoof franchise of the same name since 2013. It opens with Ghostface from the Scream films in a Get Out hypnotism sequence with Marlon Wayans, where he floats out into another dimension…

Paramount on Thursday debuted a sizzle reel teasing Call of Duty, its live-action adaptation of the hit first-person shooter video game franchise from Activision, and dated it for June 30, 2028. Peter Berg, who is directing from a script written with Taylor Sheridan and producing, presented the…

Protestors took to the streets to show their support for Palestine amid the Scream 7 premiere at Paramount Pictures Studios in Los Angeles. “Paramount has a BLACKLIST of actors who criticize Israel,” read one side of a sign by an activist, with the other sign urging people to “Cancel Paramount+.&#8221…

EXCLUSIVE: Swedish genre filmmaker David F. Sandberg (Shazam!) has attached to direct A Little Slice of Hell, a horror film in development at Paramount Pictures based on a short story of the same name by John Goodrich. While plot details for the feature are under wraps, the story follows two…

Paramount Pictures has signed director and producer Dan Trachtenberg to a three-year first-look directing and producing deal with the studio. "As a kid I remember seeing the Paramount logo and dreaming of the epic adventure that would follow…now to have the opportunity to bring new huge and…

Nine-time Emmy nominee Issa Rae is the latest talent creator to be signed by the David Ellison-run Paramount, inking a three-year first-look film and TV production deal. The deal follows Paramount pacts with the Duffer Brothers and Will Smith among others. Rae’s deal starts this month. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has acquired the bestselling Recovery Agent book series by Janet Evanovich for feature development as a potential starring vehicle for Gal Gadot, Deadline has learned. Paramount will develop and produce the project alongside Carol Mendelsohn and Julie Weitz under…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is developing The Arcane Arts, a feature adaptation of the forthcoming novel by S.D. Coverly. S.D. Coverly is the pseudonym for collaborators Dana Schwartz and Dan Frey, who will adapt their own work. Temple Hill will produce, with Annika Patton overseeing the…

EXCLUSIVE: Lia Buman is the new Head of Global Acquisitions and Republic Pictures at Paramount Pictures. In addition, Buman will oversee Republic Pictures as a targeted development and production label within Paramount, zeroing in on commercially driven movie with a strong independent…

EXCLUSIVE: Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, the filmmakers behind this year’s horror smash Final Destination Bloodlines, are in final talks to direct sci-fi drama The Traveler for Paramount, sources tell Deadline. Lipovsky and Stein are taking over the reins on the Skydance project from Lee Isaac…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is developing BadAsstronauts, the 2022 novella from top genre author Grady Hendrix, for film, with Todd Garner and Adam Goldworm to produce and Hendrix to exec produce. The novella is described as a blue-collar space odyssey about a washed-up astrophysicist who…

Buzz is building for Paramount Pictures and Legendary's Street Fighter. A teaser of the video game adaptation starring Noah Centineo, Andrew Koji, 50 Cent, Jason Momoa and wrestlers Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes, has dropped at the Game Awards, and a helluva lot of action is on…