100% of tracked dealflow (1/1) is greenlight; 100% of classified deal mediums are film; 100% of staged deals sit early-funnel (in-development or greenlit).machine-derived from the deal record below — not an editorial mandate statement
| Apr 17 |
David Ellison assures no cut in film production amid Paramount–WBD merger talks
with Paramount Pictures, World War Z, Brad Pitt, Max Brooks, Steven Knight
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Google News (Paramount Pictures)+5 src | A+ |
Source. Assembled from ScreamWire's classified archive — 41 wire items (Feb 19 → Jul 16) matching David Fincher, deduplicated by URL (0 cross-day re-sightings removed). Every entry links to the original reporting. Descriptive, never predictive.
Why no deal amounts. Only 0.7% of tracked deal items site-wide carry a reported figure — the trades rarely publish terms — so dollar amounts appear only as the source phrased them (e.g. “rich eight-figure deal”), never as comparable numbers. This is a deal-flow tracker, not a comps database.
Buyer/seller roles are captured on a minority of deal items today; role-based stats are suppressed until capture coverage improves.
Slate clusters coverage by project title; stage is the latest reported stage, never a projection. Amber “via” badges mark titles tracked within this entity's coverage orbit but released by another distributor. Grades are ScreamWire's editorial coverage grade — how strongly the wire covered the story — not a deal-quality score.