EXCLUSIVE: Inner Child, an elevated Lego comedy from James Morosini, is in early development at Universal and The Lego Group, sources tell Deadline. Reps for Lego and Universal declined comment, but sources close to the project said Lego Group will produce. Plot details are being kept under…

Christopher Nolan has been criticized for shooting elements of Universal's all-star epic The Odyssey in Morocco-occupied Western Sahara. Earlier this month, the British director filmed for four days near the coastal city of Dakhla, which is part of a region that the United Nations has designated…

The first Bad Guys (2022) stood out for several reasons, primarily for a voice cast that sounded like the most stellar Sundance movie ever. The reason it worked, however, is that it capitalized on parent fatigue, replacing the black-and-white lecturing…

After Deadline reported a Murder, She Wrote reboot in the works at Universal, Jamie Lee Curtis has officially confirmed she’s on the case. The Oscar winner revealed she “a minute away” from taking over the late Angela Lansbury’s beloved middle-aged mystery writer and amateur sleuth role, Jessica…

EXCLUSIVE: Karen Allen (Raiders of the Lost Ark) has signed on for a role in Other Mommy, Host helmer Rob Savage’s new supernatural horror film for Universal and Atomic Monster, based on the book Incidents Around the House by Bird Box‘s Josh Malerman. Character details are under wraps. As…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate and Universal’s Michael Jackson biopic Michael is officially moving to Friday, April 24, and that’s a global theatrical release. At the same time, we hear that a second movie about Jackson remains in development. We told you at CinemaCon there were distribution plans…

EXCLUSIVE: Two years after the record-setting release of Barbie, the feminist live-action take on Mattel’s iconic doll that became a cultural phenomenon, Illumination and Mattel Studios have finalized a deal to develop a new Barbie movie that will be the first in animation for theaters, sources tell…

EXCLUSIVE: Sean Kaufman (The Summer I Turned Pretty) and Adam Silver (The Diplomat) are new additions to Other Mommy, director Rob Savage’s supernatural horror film for Universal and Atomic Monster that yesterday announced eight-year-old Arabella Olivia Clark as its lead. Character details are…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a young talent to watch: Eight-year-old Arabella Olivia Clark (Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere) has landed the lead role in Other Mommy, Universal and Atomic Monster’s new supernatural horror film from director Rob Savage. Clark joins a cast that includes the previously…

In one of the worst kept secrets since Woody Allen played Michael’s Pub, Imax 70MM showtime tickets to Christopher Nolan’s The Oydssey are expected to go on sale Thursday, a whole year before the Universal movie opens. Sources at Imax, Universal and other circuits are mum about this, as if Matt D…

Universal Pictures International's EVP and Manager Director Niels Swinkels will now add President, International Distribution, Focus Features, to his current role as EVP & MD, Universal Pictures International. Swinkels began as a Marketing Director at Universal in 2004. He was then appointed VP…

The DNA in this new round of dinosaurs is so good that it’s leading Universal/Amblin’s Jurassic World Rebirth to a higher worldwide opening than previously reported, that being $322.5M worldwide (instead of $318M+) with $147.8M domestic over five days and $174.7M foreign take. As we already told you…