EXCLUSIVE: In heated competition, Netflix has optioned the rights to Callie Hart's fantasy romance BookTok phenom novel Quicksilver. Deadline hears this is a 7-figure deal. Elizabeth Cantillon will produce for The Cantillon Company. Hart will be executive producer. WME brokered the…

When you make as many shows as Taylor Sheridan, everybody pitches in. Above, watch a clip from the short film The Writer, featuring a scene between Jefferson White (he plays Jimmy Hurdstom in Yellowstone) and Neal McDonough (he plays the nasty Cal Thresher in Tulsa King, and a much nastier land thief…

EXCLUSIVE: Production/management company Sugar23 has teamed with Fifth Season to launch a venture which will co-finance over $100 million in production with strategic brand partners over the next three years. Fifth Season will fund the venture, and Sugar23 will bring the expertise and brand relationships…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of Sunday’s Yellowstone episode “Counting Coup.” “When I find myself in the position of therapist, this family's fucked.” That is Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly), who has spent most of the long run of Yellowstone distinguishing herself as the toughest person on…

EXCLUSIVE: A serious case of Thanksgiving indigestion was caused yesterday by caustic comments attributed to Gladiator II cinematographer John Mathieson against the film’s director Ridley Scott on The DocFix Documentary Storytelling Podcast. Today, both the DP and the podcaster are each eating a bit of…

EXCLUSIVE: Fifth Season and Selena Gomez's Wondermind have acquired the rights to Julianna Baggott's high-concept short story Baggage Claim. They've set Yvonne Hana Yi (Mr & Mrs Smith) to write. The project marks the first scripted content to be produced by Wondermind, co-founded by Mandy Teefey and…

SPOILER ALERT: This article includes details of Yellowstone‘s Season 5 episode “Three Fifty-Three.” Sunday night’s Yellowstone episode belonged to Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes), the youngest son of patriarch John (Kevin Costner, who was unceremoniously written off the show after disputes with co-creator…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA will be shopping Cold Blooded: The Apollo Gym Murders, based on a 10-episode podcast by Scott Weinberger about the 40-year old cold case murder of a Florida bodybuilder, bound with his throat slashed in his townhouse in Miramar. Framed around a decade of drug trafficking and…

EXCLUSIVE: Jon Watts, the filmmaker who stepped out of the Spider-Man franchise with Tom Holland and Zendaya to script and direct George Clooney and Brad Pitt in the film Wolfs for Apple, created a press dustup yesterday when he let slip that he and they would not be doing a sequel, even though Wolfs…

EXCLUSIVE: Idris Elba is set to join Masters of the Universe, the Travis Knight-directed film for Amazon MGM. Sources said that Elba will play the role of Duncan, Man-At-Arms. The film is a coproduction between Escape Artists and Mattel. Pic stars Alison Brie as Evil-Lyn, Nicholas Galitzine as…

EXCLUSIVE: Cross Creek Pictures has acquired all film and television rights to the unpublished literary manuscript "Trucked Up" by YTE Truck, a New Orleans-based author. Cross Creek also acquired an accompanying hip hop music soundtrack, Straight Outta the Beautiful Underbelly of New Orleans. That is by…

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov has signed with Artist International Group for management. Bekmambetov, who remains repped by WME, most recently wrapped the Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson starring sci-fi feature Mercy for Amazon MGM Studios. Produced by Oscar-nominated producer Charles Roven…