Justin Kroll

Consumer marketing and branding veteran Joanne Freed has joined 42West. Freed comes to the agency from Hunter PR and will focus on spearheading the company's growing brand communications specialty. "Increasingly,...

John Boyega , star of 2011 British monster movie "Attack the Block," is set to join Fox's event series "24: Live Another Day" in a recurring arc. The show premieres...

Sony Pictures has made a preemptive acquisition of the film rights to " Lean In: Women , Work, and the Will to Lead" penned by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg ....

Justin Lin has acquired remake rights to the documentary "Battered Bastards of Baseball" that Todd Field is in talks to write and direct. Lin will self-finance and produce the pic...

"Terminator: Genesis" looks to be losing one of its financiers, as sources tell Variety that Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures is no longer funding the film. David Ellison's Skydance Pictures and...

Former Paradigm agents Mike Snider, Kevin Huffman and Dan Rauter have been hired to join WME 's music department. The three will be based in WME's Nashville headquarters and will...

With Warner Bros. untitled Superman-Batman pic moving to May 6, 2016, Marvel's "Ant-Man" has taken the opportunity to move into its old slot: it will be released on July 17,...

Sarah Paulson has closed a deal to join the Weinstein Co. pic " Carol ," starring Cate Blanchett . Rooney Mara also stars with Todd Haynes directing. Film is an...

Sacha Baron Cohen is in early talks to join the cast of Disney's sequel to "Alice in Wonderland," " Through the Looking Glass ." Johnny Depp and Mia Wasikowska will...

After the script to his latest pic " The Hateful Eight " leaked early, Quentin Tarantino has decided to not make his next directing assignment. Deadline Hollywood broke the news...