“The Duff,” a low-budget high school comedy from CBS Films and Lionsgate, shows that Twitter, YouTube and other social-media platforms can be deployed to get 21st century teenagers interested in…
CBS Films has released the first trailer for high school comedy “The DUFF,” a week after announcing a three-year distribution partnership with Lionsgate. The first film to kick off the agreement is…
Can a film about shallow beauty and high school popularity also be empowering for women? It can if it's CBS Films' comedy-drama "The Duff." The adaptation of the YA bestseller by then-17-year-old…
CBS Films, which saw co-president Wolfgang Hammer depart recently, has cut staff by nine, including exec VP of production Maria Faillace. Faillace will transition to being a producer on the upcoming…
Terry Press is solely in charge of CBS Films after her co-president Wolfgang Hammer quietly stepped down last May, a company spokesman confirmed. Hammer will reportedly continue to play a consulting…
CBS Films has acquired the movie rights to A.G. Riddle’s trilogy of "Atlantis" science-fiction novels. The first book in the trilogy, “The Atlantis Gene,” centers on a brilliant geneticist and an…
Bianca Santos has been cast as a lead in the CBS Films high-school comedy "The DUFF," opposite Mae Whitman. McG and Mary Viola are producing for Wonderland Sound and Vision along with Susan…
“Parenthood” actress Mae Whitman is in negotiations to star in coming-of-age tale “The DUFF” for CBS Films. Ari Sandel was attached to direct the project last year from Josh A. Cagan’s adaptation of…
CBS Films has attached “Last Vegas” director Jon Turteltaub to direct and produce “The Lady in the Locker Room,” based on the life of female sports journalist Susan Fornoff and her book of the same…
Summit’s “Ender’s Game” is topping this weekend domestically with a projected $27 million bow, an OK start for the teen lit adaptation that was not quite as hotly anticipated as Lionsgate had hoped.…
CBS Films is saying “The F Word” and is in final talks to buy U.S. rights to the romantic comedy, three days after its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. The deal price is expected to reach the…
