Paramount Pictures Gets Financial Aid for 10 Upcoming Blockbusters, Shifts ‘Love and Monsters’ to PVOD

Posted on Thursday, August 20th, 2020 by Ben Pearson

Paramount Pictures, one of the oldest legacy studios in Hollywood, has not been in an ideal market position in a long, long time. Now the studio is getting some financial aid from New Republic Pictures, a production company whose credits include 1917, Black Swan, and Rocketman, for ten upcoming blockbusters, including Mission: Impossible 7 and Top Gun: Maverick.

The 100-plus-year-old studio has also decided to make its Dylan O’Brien-starring sci-fi adventure movie Love and Monsters available on premium video on demand services later this year, instead of giving it the theatrical release that was originally planned. Get the details below. Read More »

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‘Horrorstör’: Movie Adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s Novel About a Haunted IKEA in the Works

Posted on Tuesday, June 16th, 2020 by Hoai-Tran Bui

IKEA seems like the perfect setting for a horror movie — an unending labyrinth of sleek, Swedish furniture from which there is no escape. So it’s no wonder that Grady Hendrix’s debut horror comedy novel Horrorstör, which centers on a haunted furniture superstore modeled off the Swedish company, was a hit. Now New Republic Pictures, which co-financed and produced the Oscar-winning 1917, is developing a Horrorstör movie with Hendrix set to adapt his own material. Read More »

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‘First Wives Club’ Alums Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler & Diane Keaton Call Another Meeting With the Comedy ‘Family Jewels’

Posted on Saturday, February 22nd, 2020 by Hoai-Tran Bui

The First Wives Club members Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, and Diane Keaton are calling another meeting to order with a silver screen reunion in the comedy Family Jewels. New Republic Pictures won the rights to Family Jewels, a multigenerational family comedy that will reunite Hawn, Midler, and Keaton 24 years after they co-starred in the 1996 comedy The First Wives Club.

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