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Curry Barker will write, direct and produce his third feature, an original idea set up with Blumhouse Atomic Monster and Universal Film Group alongside Roy Lee and Steven Schneider’s Spooky Pictures and Divide/Conquer; Barker’s second film Anything but Ghosts is currently in post for Blumhouse/Focus.
Peacock gives Dungeon Crawler Carl a straight-to-series order, adapting Matt Dinniman’s sci-fi LitRPG books with Chris Yost writing and Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door producing. The streamer is betting on a monster-filled apocalypse series after keeping the project in development and following up another pickup this month.
Netflix lands a multi-year overall TV pact with Proximity Media after the company’s Disney agreement expired; the deal keeps Ryan Coogler’s television arm aligned with Netflix as its next slate moves into development.
Black Bear sets an Oct. 23 limited theatrical release and Oct. 30 expansion for Sundance pickup Wicker. The Tango and Topic Studios-financed adaptation will also be sold internationally by Black Bear, with UK and Canada handled through Elevation Pictures.
Domestic box office is back above $4.2B year-to-date, but execs at Deadline x Regal’s Future of Storytelling panel are taking a wait-and-see stance on the Paramount-WBD merger as consolidation looms. Panelists said Gen Z and Gen Alpha are returning through campaign pivots, meme marketing and premium-format screens.
Amazon/MGM's RoboCop series is set for a January 2027 Vancouver shoot; James Wan boards as EP and key-episode director, Peter Ocko is tapped to showrun, and the reboot introduces cyborg lead Marc Kyle.
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