Tamir Muhammad Inks New First-Look Deals With Warner Bros., HBO & HBO Max

WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar, who is stepping down this week before the company’s merger with Discovery closes, takes pride in being “first over the wall” with a day-and-date streaming movie strategy.

HBO Max and Warner Bros. are looking to build a Sherlock Holmes film-TV universe in the mold of the TV series offshoots of Suicide Squad and The Batman on the WarnerMedia streamer.

Variety has previously reported, “Elvis” Baz Luhrmann’s drama about the rock-and-roll legend Elvis Presley, starring Austin Butler (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”) and Tom Hanks, will have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May.Cannes confirmed the premiere on Tuesday, adding that Luhrmann, Hanks and Butler will attend the premiere screening alongside Olivia DeJonge (“The Visit”), who plays Priscilla Presley in the biopic. They also released a new image of Butler as Elvis.The film is set for North American release on June 24 through Warner Bros.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorThree-part documentary series “Delphine: My Story” tells how the artist Delphine Boël, the illegitimate daughter of King Albert II of Belgium, fought for legal recognition, and is now known as Princess Delphine of Saxe-Coburg. It has been sold to multiple territories, Warner Bros. announced at MipTV in Cannes Tuesday.HBO Max has picked up the show in numerous territories in Europe.

The Flight Attendant.” The new season will premiere on Thursday, April 21.The dark comedy series focuses once again on lead character Cassie Bowden, played by Kaley Cuoco. Bowden is living a sober life in Los Angeles while moonlighting as a CIA asset in her free time when she is assigned overseas, leading her to accidentally witness a murder. Once again, Bowden is entangled in another sprawling network of international intrigue.The series stars Cuoco, and Season 2 will bring back series regulars Zosia Mamet, Griffin Matthews, Denis Akdeniz and Rosie Perez, as well as returning recurring guest stars T.R.

Succession.The star has now confessed that, in their shared home country, he almost ran over environmental activist Greta Thunberg, 19.Alexander, who is part of the famous Skarsgard family, nearly hit Amnesty International award-winning climate activist Greta while out on his bike. True to form, Greta was at a protest when the incident occured, while Alexander was on his way to an interview.Interviewer Jonathan Dean reflected afterwards: “Skarsgard cycled past Greta on his way to meet me; she was on a protest.”Greta is known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action on climate change mitigation and has inspired people across the world to join her cause.Like Alexander, Greta is one of the most famous names to come out of Sweden in recent years. Thankfully, he was able to avoid hitting her on his bike, and shared his thoughts on the young activist with the interviewer. “She's how we sell our country now,” he said. “And I almost hit her with my bike.”The star went on to add: “Greta is like a modern-day Viking and, like Greta, the Vikings refused to fly,” he told The Sunday Times.While Alexander cannot claim to have much of a connection to the vikings himself, his brother Gustaf might say differently. The second eldest Skarsgard brother, 41, played Floki in the History Channel series Vikings.He also portrayed Karl Strand in the second season of the HBO series Westworld alongside Evan Rachel Wood. His older brother Alexander has accumulated several high-profile roles over the years, including Succession’s Lukas Matsson, who is the gifted but unpredictable CEO of streaming platform GoJo in the show.He also played Eric Northman in popular vampire series True Blood and the titular character in Warner Bros’ The

Los Angeles County has more square feet of soundstages than New York and Georgia combined, and more is on the way, according to the latest report from FilmLA, the city and county film permit office.

Zack Sharf Franchises are set to have a big month this April with the theatrical releases of “Morbius,” “Sonic the Hedgehog 2” and “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore,” but perhaps the most significant movie event of the month is going to take place on streaming. With Matt Reeves’ comic book tentpole “The Batman” completing its 45-day theatrical window this month after opening in theaters March 4, all eyes are on Robert Pattinson’s Caped Crusader to make his streaming debut.

EXCLUSIVE: Vivian Bang, the co-writer and star of the Sundance Film Festival debut White Rabbit, has boarded the New Line ensemble comedy The Parenting for HBO Max.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterCliff Curtis has signed with Verve for representation, Variety has learned exclusively. Curtis continues to be repped by Anonymous Content.The New Zealand-born actor is known for his roles in films like “Training Day,” “The Dark Horse,” “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw,” “Whale Rider,” “Doctor Sleep,” and “Sunshine.” Curtis also starred for multiple seasons in the AMC series “Fear the Walking Dead.”On the horizon, Curtis will be seen in the highly-anticipated sequel “Avatar 2,” with Curtis also set to appear in both “Avatar 3” and “Avatar 4,” both of which are in various stages of production.He most recently appeared in the Lisa Joy film “Reminiscence” alongside Thandiwe Newton and Hugh Jackman.

EXCLUSIVE: After a turn on HBO’s In Treatment, and starring opposite Dwayne Johnson in Warner Bros/DC’s Black Adam, Quintessa Swindell is ascending to the lead role in Spyglass Media Group’s rock climbing thriller Deadpoint, Deadline can tell you first.

Trafalgar Releasing and Warner Bros. will present a digitally remastered ABBA: The Movie for two night in May to celebrate the Swedish pop sensation’s 50th anniversary.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“Navalny,” a fly-on-the-wall documentary about Russian dissident and one-time presidential candidate Alexei Navalny, was intended to debut directly on HBO Max. But since the harrowing story has renewed timeliness amid Russia’s recent unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Pictures is teaming with Fathom Events for a special theatrical event of the Daniel Roher-directed documentary, Navalny, which had its surprise screening at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Audience Award in the U.S. Documentary Competition section as well as the Festival Favorite Award.

Warner Bros. is continuing to expand its IT franchise by launching a new prequel TV series entitled Welcome to Derry.The series will explore the origins of the iconic villain Pennywise, and the curse that has haunted the town of Derry, Maine for years, according to The Ankler.Another report from Variety revealed the series will take place in the 1960s, and will ultimately lead up to the events in the 2017 movie IT: Chapter One.

HBO Max is developing Welcome To Derry (working title) a prequel series to the It film franchise, according to sources.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterA prequel to “It” is in development at HBO Max, Variety has learned from sources.The series, currently called “Welcome to Derry,” will begin in the 1960s in the time leading up to the events of “It: Part One,” the 2017 film based on the Stephen King horror novel. The story is also said to include the origin story of Pennywise the Clown.Andy Muschietti, who directed “It: Part One” and 2019’s “It: Part Two,” is attached to executive produce the series along with Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fuchs.

Warner Bros. has been all-in with actor Ezra Miller.

Gerard McMurray (The First Purge) will write and direct an adaptation of the comic book Black for Studio 8 and Warner Bros., Deadline has confirmed.

At the 94th Academy Awards, Dune‘s Greig Fraser landed his first Oscar for Best Cinematography, joking that he was happy his award was up early in the broadcast, so that he could “get out and get to the bar.”

Production designer Patrice Vermette and set decorator Zsuzsanna Sipos took home statuettes for their work on Dune at the Academy Awards on Sunday. Both Vermette and Sipos are first-time winners, though the former had previously been nominated for his work on the films The Young Victoria and Arrival.