Paramount Pictures

Those who feared that Jack Nicholson’s last film would be 2010’s forgettable How Do You Know? can rest easy, because’s Jack’s back, baby!

In what amounts to the least surprising news in the history of premature movie release dates, Paramount has pulled Brad Pitt’s World War Z sequel from its release schedule — along with the latest Friday the 13th reboot from producer Michael Bay.

Johnny Knoxville and his friends get the opportunity to operate their very own large and extremely dangerous theme park. What could go wrong?

Tracks several relationship stories all taking place in a group of neighboring high-roller villas in Las Vegas, similar to The Mansion at the MGM Grand.

Star-Lord, Jack Sparrow and Dom Toretto will likely appear, but what about Christian Grey or the Power Rangers?

Oscar-winner Leonardo DiCaprio is set to star in and produce The Black Hand, a new film set up at Paramount Pictures based on the book of the same name by Stephan Talty. DiCaprio’s Appian Way banner will co-produce alongside The Gotham Group.

NYPD detective Joseph Petrosino investigates and attempts to bring down the gang whose calling card is a black hand.

Paramount and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot are already working with Daisy Ridley on the fantasy thriller Kolma, and now they’ve enlisted the Star Wars heroine once again, as she’s attached to play a spy in A Woman of No Importance.

Follows American heiress and super-spy Virginia Hall, who attempted to break into the ranks of the American Foreign Service in the years before World War II. Rejected because of her gender and a disability, Hall worked during the war for the British intelligence unit SOE. She later joined the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA.

A brand new — and appropriately timely — spec is hitting the market this week from scribe Patrick McConville. The political thriller Inauguration Day has already captured the attention of several producers and is moving into major territories.

When a malicious cyber attack against U.S. Space Command forces the President-Elect and the outgoing President into the Situation Room hours before the Inauguration ceremony, the rival Presidents and their National Security teams work with and against each other to determine who is responsible for the attack and how to respond before it’s too late.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales co-director Joachim Ronning’s pitch for Origin has landed at Paramount Pictures with a preemptive deal. Ronning will co-write the script with his brother Andreas and is also attached to direct.

Story details kept under wraps.

Chronicles the career of Dick Cheney as Halliburton CEO and his rise to become vice president of the United States.

The ’60s TV action hero series The Green Hornet is coming to the big screen… again. Paramount Pictures and Chernin Entertainment acquired the rights to the show and are looking to give a makeover to the adaptation with Gavin O’Connor in the director’s chair.

Logline kept under wraps, but it will be a modernized action hero pic based on the ’60s TV series.

Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld is hoping lightning will strike twice as Paramount Pictures has made a preemptive film rights deal for his other creation, Avengelyne. Akiva Goldsman is set to produce with an eye towards directing the feature.

Based on the comic, it centers on an angel who fights the forces of evil and often finds herself face-to-face with demons and monsters. Described as John Wick with a fallen angel.

Treasure Island scribe James Coyne has sold sci-fi pitch Cascade to Paramount Pictures. Details of the plot are being kept under wraps.

Logline is being kept under wraps.

Logline: Story details being kept under wraps, but pitched as “Don’t Breathe” meets “The Shallows” with an alligator.

Logline being kept under wraps, but based on the series of novels by Ted Bell.

When she witnesses the betrayal and murder of her father during a smuggler’s drop, a vigilant and determined young woman calls in the help of a mysterious female assassin to seek revenge against all those responsible.

Music biography Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll is headed to the big screen as Paramount Pictures has acquired the book by Peter Guralnick with Leonardo DiCaprio set to star.

Follows Sam Phillips, the pioneering music producer who from the tiny Memphis-based Sun Studio that helped make stars of artists including Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Ike Turner.

Paramount Pictures has picked up the film rights to the upcoming Jeff VanderMeer sci-fi novel, set to be published next spring by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Scott Rudin is attached to produce through his Scott Rudin Productions with Eli Bush.

A woman in a ruined city of the future who is a scavenger of biotech, who finds a strange creature in the matted fur of a giant, psychotic bear named Mord that’s been terrorizing the city. The woman takes the creature home and slowly begins to bond with it against her best instincts.

Leonardo DiCaprio has his eye on the latest non-fiction best-seller from author Beth Macy and will develop through his Appian Way shingle as a potential starring vehicle.

the true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks while their mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back.

A mild-mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act.