Universal Television and Emmy-nomninated writer and producer Charmaine DeGraté are entering into a new kind of first-look ...

A little over a year after making a worldwide deal for Tenzing, a new film based on the true story of sherpa Tenzing Norgay ...

DeGraté has struck a first-look deal with Universal Television. DeGraté, known for working on massive IP, will develop and ...

Tyler Perry is adding to his collection of first-look deals. Perry has struck a first-look series deal with Netflix, adding to his pact with the streamer on movies. As part of the new arrangement ...

Major Hollywood studios and streaming platforms are considering terminating some of their first look and overall deals with writers as soon as Aug. 1, more than half-a-dozen sources with knowledge ...

The first-look deal has real implications for creativity as the debate over the use of AI in Hollywood rages on. By Steven Zeitchik Senior Editor, Technology and Politics “This open up all kinds ...

Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao has signed a multi-year first look deal with Searchlight Television, a newly launched division of Searchlight Pictures. The deal marks Zhao’s first foray into ...

Cineflix Studios has inked a first-look deal with Canadian scripted producer December Films. The new deal builds on the existing relationship between the two companies for Reginald the Vampire ...

Tyler Perry has signed a multi-year first-look deal with Netflix. The prolific filmmaker behind “Boo!: A Madea Halloween,” “For Colored Girls,” “The Family That Preys” and “Why Did I ...

Robert Downey Jr. and his wife and producing partner, Susan Downey, have signed a one-year, first-look deal with the premium cable network. The company, which next has Matthew Rhys vehicle Perry ...

And the additional deal — Amblin Partners’ pact with Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall — is merely a bit of paperwork, as the indie studio was incorporated into Universal. The first-look ...