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EXCLUSIVE: Doug Liman has found his next TV project, and it's pretty timely. The Edge of Tomorrow director has signed on to helm a series adaptation of Bill Browder's book Red Notice, which explores the author's real-life fight against a corrupt Russian government under Vladimir Putin. Browder is an American hedge…

EXCLUSIVE: The Double Deuce may finally be reopening its doors. Sources tell Deadline that MGM’s Road House remake is gaining momentum, with Jake Gyllenhaal in talks to star and Doug Liman in talks to direct. When this would go into production is still TBD as Gyllenhaal is about to shoot Guy Ritchie’s The Interpreter…

Hot off her starring role in Apple's hit series Ted Lasso, Juno Temple has joined Ewan McGregor, Sam Heughan and Mark Strong in Everest, the adventure thriller set to be directed by Doug Liman. As the pic nears production, HanWay Films has closed a raft of significant pre-sales across major territories. Done deals…

Director Doug Liman likes that there’s so much buzz about space these days and takes a teensy part of the credit after news (broken by Deadline) last year that he plans to shoot a film up there with Tom Cruise in collaboration with Elon Musk's SpaceX and NASA. "It's good. If we can inspire kids to study science. I…

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to The Phantom by BAFTA-winning director Patrick Forbes (The Force). The Phantom tells the story of a dark episode in the history of American justice, the execution of Carlos DeLuna who was arrested in 1993 aged 21 for the murder of…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Netflix has landed an untitled espionage drama from Entertainment One and Hypnotic that is a star vehicle for Noah Centineo, who’s playing Atom Smasher in the Dwayne Johnson DC/New Line film Black Adam. The hourlong series, which has received an eight-episode order, is created by…

Lionsgate certainly is no stranger to wildly successful franchises developed from YA novels like Twilight, the Divergent series and The Hunger Games. So it is no surprise it would want to keep the cash cow going by launching yet another attempt at an ongoing dystopian movie series. Chaos Walking probably won’t do the…

The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Every installment asks the same five questions…

In the Doug Liman-directed Locked Down that premieres today on HBO Max, Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor play an estranged couple ready to call it quits if not for being shackled to their flat like every other Londoner by Covid. They co-exist uneasily and only find a spark when they hatch a daring plan to heist a…

If you are going to make a movie from scratch during a pandemic lockdown, you might as well have a little fun with it. That is exactly what director Doug Liman and screenwriter Steven Knight are doing with the irresistible stew they have concocted for Locked Down. Fortunately they have skilled stars of the caliber of…

HBO Max has taken the wraps off Locked Down, the pandemic-themed heist romantic comedy directed by Doug Liman and starring Oscar winner Anne Hathaway and nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor. They play a couple about to break up just as the coronavirus lockdown begins in London, forcing them to be stuck together. The find a light…

EXCLUSIVE: The Doug Liman-directed heist movie/romantic comedy Lockdown has been acquired in a major worldwide rights deal by Warner Bros Pictures. The intention is to have the picture premiere early 2021 as a Max Original. It’s more evidence of the streamer building up its arsenal of original programming as it adds…