Imax has named Jonathan Fischer, who has held senior-level executive posts at Netflix, Illumination and New Regency, as its Chief Content Officer. In his new role, Fischer will oversee Imax's content strategy across Hollywood and international films, as well as Imax's documentaries and live events…

EXCLUSIVE: Australian actress Markella Kavenagh (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power) will star alongside Tom Blyth and Sophie Wilde in New Regency’s suspense thriller Watch Dogs, based on the bestselling Ubisoft video game franchise, which wrapped production over the summer. Details as to…

EXCLUSIVE: New Regency and Maximum Effort are teaming on a feature adaptation of New York Times bestselling novel Eight Perfect Murders, having recently acquired rights to the Peter Swanson novel, attaching Harry Bradbeer to direct. The novel was published by William Morrow, an imprint of…

Shogun director Jonathan van Tulleken will lead a TV adaptation of Andrew Michael Hurley’s debut novel, The Loney. In a competitive situation, New Regency Television International acquired rights to the book and has attached van Tulleken, who will direct and executive-produce the initial episodes of…

Three time Oscar-nominated scribe John Logan is adapting National Book Award-winning author Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West for the big screen for New Regency. John Hillcoat, who previously adapted McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road, will…

New Regency is adding to its executive ranks with another former Netflix executive. The company has hired Nirokhi Raychaudhuri as SVP of Feature Film. Reporting to Natalie Lehmann, President of Motion Pictures and Television, Raychaudhuri joins her former Netflix colleague Laura Delahaye, who joined…

EXCLUSIVE: Following her breakout role in the A24 horror hit Talk To Me, Sophie Wilde has found her follow-up project as she is in talks to star in New Regency’s Watch Dogs, an adaptation of the popular UbiSoft hit video game. The film is set within the universe of Ubisoft's blockbuster video game…

White Lotus and One Day breakout Leo Woodall is leading an Apple TV+ thriller opposite Black Adam star Quintessa Swindell about a young maths graduate who discovers the secret to prime numbers, with Ridley Scott amongst the exec producers. Woodall will play Edward Brook in Prime Target and New…

New Regency Pictures, which is behind Amazon's Mr. and Mrs. Smith series, is staffing up. It has hired Netflix exec Laura Delahaye as Head of Domestic Television. Delahaye was most recently Director of Overall Deals, UCAN at Netflix, where she worked on series including The Fall of the House of…

New Regency Pictures has elevated Natalie Lehmann to President of Motion Pictures and Television. She was previously SVP. With the promotion, Lehmann expands and extends her oversight of film and television for New Regency. She will continue to report to New Regency chairman and CEO Yariv Milchan…

New Regency/20th Century Studio’s $104M-global grossing The Creator will debut on Disney-sister streamer Hulu on Dec. 20. That’s a very long 83-day theatrical window from the time the movie opened on Sept. 29 in the U.S./Canada. The Gareth Edwards directed original sci-fi movie stuck to its…

New Regency’s Jeff Nichols movie The Bikeriders, which we were told Focus Features took over from Disney, has set a release date of June 21, 2024. The only other title currently scheduled on that weekend is an untitled movie from Universal. The movie starring Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, Tom…