Lionsgate has acquired the motion picture rights for the popular Sega game, opening the door for a film adaptation of the beat-em-up franchise.

Today, Netflix has announced it has acquired Animal Logic, an animation studio with credits on films and shows such as Captain Marvel, The Lego Movie 2, Peter Rabbit, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, and more.

Sony and Netflix have struck a deal, with Netflix getting exclusive rights to upcoming Spider-Man films and more.

Netflix has acquired Leigh Janiak's Fear Street trilogy and plans to release the three interconnected films one month apart from each other as part of a themed programming initiative the streamer is calling "The Summer of Fear" according to Deadline, which broke the news. The Fear Street movies were part of an ambitious plan originally hatched by 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment that would draw on the popularity of R.L. Stine's beloved book series, which is much scarier than the author's younger-skewing Goosebumps books. In fact, I'm currently typing this story on a …

In the wake of its recent spending spree, Apple continues to stock up on stars, as the streamer has just acquired the Justin Timberlake drama Palmer from director Fisher Stevens and SK Global. In recent weeks, Apple has acquired the Leonardo DiCaprio movie Killers of the Flower Moon, the Will Smith film Emancipation, the Jake Gyllenhaal project Snow Blind, and Tom Hanks' naval war drama Greyhound, which cost the company more than $400 million. That's an average of at least $100 million per movie -- though that's a small price to pay to get into business with Hollywood's …

Netflix seems to be in the market for another future Oscar contender. The streaming giant is reportedly looking to acquire Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7 from Paramount Pictures. On Saturday morning, Variety reported Netflix is circling a purchase deal with Paramount for the Sorkin historical drama. No specifics on the deal were revealed at time of reporting. As such, it's hard to tell whether this deal is in the early stages of negotiation or is nearly closed. News of Netflix's interest in Trial of the Chicago 7 arrive just one month after we learned …

Stranger Things' Millie Bobby Brown and The Witcher's Henry Cavill are staying in the Netflix family. Legendary Entertainment announced today that Netflix has acquired global rights, excluding China, to Enola Holmes, starring Brown and Cavill.

The Mouse House dropped a large chunk of change.

The Green Hornet movie rights are acquired by Michael Helfant, co-founder of Amasia Entertainment and former executive at Marvel Studios.

Picture the current "streaming content" landscape as a vast ocean. And picture all the various studios, distributors, and hybrid content creators/platforms as the various fish and -- gulp -- sharks swimming around, looking for stuff to eat. Lately, in this ocean, we've been seeing a lot of aquatic animals consuming each other, resulting in strange hybrid fish-creatures trying desperately to fight other strange hybrid fish-creatures (i.e. HBO and WarnerMedia teaming up for HBO Max; Disney buying Fox and getting rid of the 'Fox,' etc.). But one fish hasn't found their shark to gobble them up: Metro-…

Chinese technology company Tencent is attempting to acquire full ownership of Conan Exiles developer Funcom by buying out the current shareholders.

The formerly independent developer of the cult hit Little Nightmares has just been purchased by THQ Nordic, shortly after announcing a sequel.

Wizards of the Coast has purchased Tuque Games and the company will now begin developing a new game based on the ever-popular Dungeons & Dragons.

Bethesda Softworks has acquired the mobile games development company Alpha Dog Games, creators of titles like Wraithborne and Monstrocity: Rampage.

A24 has added to its already venerable library of horror films with the acquisition of Saint Maud. The film marks the feature-length film debut of Rose Glass, a director whose previous work in mostly in shorts. Saint Maud stars Morfydd Clark (Love and Friendship, The Man Who Invented Christmas) and Jennifer Ehle (Vox Lux, The Miseducation of Cameron Post). According to Deadline, Saint Maud follows Maud (Clark), a young nurse who has sought out Christianity as a means of dealing with some obscure past trauma that haunts her into the present day. Driven by her newfound religious fervor, Maud …

HBO Max nabs the streaming rights to The Big Bang Theory, which will join Friends, Doctor Who, and dozens of other shows on the upcoming service.

Beloved lasagna eating cartoon cat Garfield is on his way to TV screens again, as Viacom acquires the rights for a new Nickelodeon series.

Back in October 2018, we reported that Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio were planning to make an adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon their next project with filming set to begin this summer. While that filming start date looks unlikely (it’s possible, but Scorsese is likely still in post-production on The Irishman), Paramount has now picked up the project. Deadline reports that the studio will finance and distribute the project, which was picked up by Imperative Entertainment back in 2016 for a hefty $5 million. Based on the book by David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: …