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More than 1,000 industry creatives — including Joaquin Phoenix, Ben Stiller and Kristen Stewart — signed an open letter urging regulators to block Paramount Skydance’s proposed $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, warning mass consolidation would cut productions and jobs.
Netflix will launch The Boroughs, a supernatural series produced by the Duffer brothers, May 21; teaser shows Alfred Molina’s grieving lead encountering mysterious creatures and joining a band of seasoned misfits (Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard, Bill Pullman, Denis O’Hare) to uncover a dark secret in a gated retirement community.
Plus M Entertainment confirmed NEON will distribute Na Hong-jin’s Hope in North America; the Cannes competition slot and NEON’s track record position the film for a festival-to-theatrical launch and wider U.S. exposure.
Warner Bros. has optioned Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower for a feature film with Melina Matsoukas attached to direct, reviving studio interest in Butler adaptations after an earlier A24/Bradley version stalled — positioned as a provocative, socially conscious dystopian drama.
Netflix appears to have halted development on both an animated feature and an event series based on Brian Jacques' Redwall IP (under a 2021 deal with Penguin Random House Children’s U.K.); Patrick McHale had left the project earlier and neither Netflix nor the publisher have formally confirmed cancellation.
Netflix will premiere an adult animated adaptation of the comic Powers in 2026 with Brian Michael Bendis writing the pilot and Michael Avon Oeming involved in visual development; Dark Horse Entertainment is producing and Netflix aims for a mature, grounded superhero/crime procedural approach.
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