Date 22/02/2017 - News People
The news that A-list project has left Paramount comes on the heels of the major announcement that Brad Grey has exited the studio as chairman and CEO. Martin Scorsese's The Irishman has made the move to Netflix. The streamer has picked up the rights to the long-gestating gangster movie, which was originally set up at Paramount, sources confirm. In Cannes, STX prevailed in a heated bidding war to pick up the film's foreign rights for $50 million, with Paramount attached to handle the domestic distribution.