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‘A Nightmare On Elm Street’ Original Screenplay U.S. Rights Head To Paramount & Studio’s New Genre Label Primal Before Warner Bros Merger
Paramount has acquired the U.S. rights to Wes Craven’s original 1984 screenplay for A Nightmare on Elm Street and plans to reboot the franchise under its new genre label, Paramount Primal. The deal matters because the series has long been closely associated with New Line, but U.S. copyright law allowed the Craven estate to reclaim…
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Oil prices leap and stocks fall as Trump reinstates Hormuz blockade on Iranian shipping
Oil prices jumped and share markets fell after Donald Trump said the US would again block Iranian shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and impose a 20% toll on other eligible cargo using the route. The move followed further US strikes on Iran and retaliatory action from Tehran, deepening uncertainty over one of the world’s…
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‘American Ninja Warrior’ Producers Bring Luck-Based Competition Series To U.S.
EXCLUSIVE: Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS), the Japanese company behind the Ninja Warrior format, and A. Smith & Co. Productions, which produces the U.S. version for NBC, have teamed up again on another competition series. The two companies are developing Dumb Luck, a series based on Japanese format Kisuke, for the U.S. They have already produced…
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Cream Productions Names Matt MacLellan President & Promotes Francince DiBacco
EXCLUSIVE: Canada’s Cream Productions is handing promotions to a pair of senior production execs. Matt MacLellan has been upped to President from his current role as VP of Production, while Francince DiBacco is elevated from Supervising Producer to Head of Production. MacLellan will report into Cream founder and CEO David Brady, with DiBacco reporting into…
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More Windows security updates to come as Microsoft leverages AI vulnerability detection, but ‘only the highest-confidence findings reach the engineering team’
Humans still make the key decisions and handle fixes, though.
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Meccha Chameleon awarded Steam’s highest honor: a fast-follow AI ripoff that even uses the same name in some regions
Scribble Hunt, who?
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Taylor Sheridan’s Biggest Missing ‘Yellowstone’ Spin-Off ‘6666’ Just Got a Rare Update
Jefferson White shares a rare update on Taylor Sheridan’s long-delayed 6666 spinoff, revealing whether the Yellowstone series is still moving forward.
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‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ Getting Rebooted by Paramount in Deal With Wes Craven Estate
Freddy Krueger is ready for another close up. Paramount has closed a deal for the U.S. rights to adapt the original screenplay for “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” under its new genre label Paramount Primal. The The U.S. rights are being licensed from the Wes Craven estate, which includes Craven’s widow Iya Labunka and Craven’s…
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“A kick in the teeth for the fired workers”: Unionised former MindsEye devs protest alleged fan playtest at Build A Rocket Boy
The IWGB union have held a protest with former Build a Rocket Boy (BARB) staff outside of the MindsEye studio’s offices. The union accused the company of hosting an expenses-paid fan playtest event following layoffs, with IWGB chair Spring McParlin-Jones dubbing it “a kick in the teeth for the fired workers who are seeing fans…
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New twist in affordability checks row demands answers from Gambling Commission
Culture, media and sport committee questions bear a striking similarity to those racing industry has been asking Last Tuesday’s announcement by the Gambling Commission that it planned to introduce “Financial Risk Assessments” – or affordability checks – for gambling customers seemed to mark the end of racing’s fierce, five-and-a-half year campaign against the policy, but…