Kenya Barris & Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson Team For ‘The 50th Law’ Series Adaptation At Netflix With Hale Rothstein

Joe Otterson TV ReporterA series adaptation of the Victoria Schwab novel “City of Ghosts” is in the works at ABC Signature and Searchlight Television, Variety has learned exclusively.David Lowery and Sehaj Sethi are attached to write the adaptation, with Lowery also onboard to direct. Schwab will executive produce along with with Sailor Bear’s Toby Halbrooks and James M.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterFX has ordered a limited series based on the Taffy Brodesser-Akner novel “Fleishman Is in Trouble.”Brodesser-Akner will serve as the writer and executive producer on the series, with Sarah Timberman, Carl Beverly, and Susannah Grant also executive producing. ABC Signature is the studio, with Timberman-Beverly currently under an overall deal at the studio.

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television is developing Invisible Women, a female-driven dark comedy based on Jeanne Ray’s novel Calling Invisible Women, with veteran screenwriter and showrunner Randi Mayem Singer (Mrs. Doubtfire) set to pen the pilot.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has put in development The Wives, a series adaptation of Tarryn Fisher’s bestselling novel, from writer-producer Kayla Alpert (Netflix’s Wednesday) and producer Patrick Moran.

Let’s face it: television’s digital menu is overstuffed. Even with the luxuries of delayed viewing, anytime-streaming and on-demand, it’s impossible to watch everything on so many platforms with too many shows.So it’s somewhat of a relief, then, that “Behind Her Eyes,” streaming on Netflix, follows the traditional six-episode British TV series model.

We’ve seen The Duffer Brothers homage multiple projects from Steven Spielberg in their popular sci-fi series “Stranger Things,” and they’ve finally joined forces with Spielberg’s Amblin Television and Paramount Television Studios for an adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Talisman” at Netflix.

EXCLUSIVE: Mumbai-based Abundantia Entertainment, which has credits including the Amazon series Breathe and follow-up Breathe: Into The Shadows, has taken rights to the Indian young adult book Along Came A Spyder.

You may have seen Keeley Hazell‘s name on British magazine covers in the 2000’s, but now her name is in headlines for being linked to Jason Sudeikis. The duo have appeared in acting projects together, but recent reports have suggested there’s supposedly something more to their professional and platonic relationship.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterApple has ordered a live-action series adaptation of the Korean webtoon “Dr. Brain.” The series will be the first completely Korean-language project at the streamer.Kim Jee-Woon will write and direct, with “Parasite” star Lee Sun-Kyun set to star.

EXCLUSIVE: Neal H. Moritz’s Original Film (The Boys) and Sony Pictures Television have acquired the rights to the upcoming War Arts Saga fantasy novel trilogy by The Lives of Tao bestselling author Wesley Chu to adapt it for television.

It’s been nearly three years since we last heard any news of Steven Moffat‘s adaptation of “The Time Traveler’s Wife” being ordered to series back, and now we know who is playing the titular time traveler and his wife. READ MORE: ‘Parallel’: Netflix Teams Up With ‘Source Code’ Writer For New Sci-Fi Heist Film Theo James and Rose Leslie have been cast as Henry and Clare, your typical marriage with issues anyone can relate to, like time travel.

After two great films, and four bad to mediocre ones, It’s clear the “Terminator” franchise has ground to a halt in live-action following, Tim Miller’s underwhelming “Terminator: Dark Fate.” But given the premium place spent on time-spent as a metric in streaming, Hollywood’s found a lot of success in animation and anime, and thus another way to keep I.P. content churn churning.

Angelique Jackson Jonathan Majors is in talks to star in Spike Lee and Stefon Bristol’s “Gordon Hemingway & The Realm of Cthulhu” at Netflix.Majors is in negotiations to play Gordon Hemingway, teaming up with Lee for a second outing, after starring in the filmmaker’s Netflix hit “Da 5 Bloods,” which debuted to critical acclaim last June.

As more novels have flown from the shelves to the screen, books such as Bridgerton, The Queen’s Gambit and more have been given literary revivals. Netflix announced Thursday that their recent adaptations of literary works, includingLupin and Firefly Lane,have achieved a rise in print sales withhalf of the top 10 titles featured onThe New York Timesbestsellers list forprint and e-book fiction tied to a series on the streamer.

In an impressive showing that signaled they want to be the new Disney+, CBS-Viacom really emboldened the notion that they will be a content force to be reckoned with in the future. During their immense Paramount+ investor day presentation, the streamer announced a massive wave of shows they’re developing based on intellectual property they own and existing feature films.

Black-ish creator Kenya Barris appeared during the ViacomCBS streaming event Wednesday to tease his first series under the mega deal he recently made with the company. It will be for Paramount+.

“Flashdance,” “Grease” and “The Godfather.”The projects were announced by Paramount Television Studios president Nicole Clemens at ViacomCBS’s streaming presentation to investors on Wednesday.

EXCLUSIVE: Fear The Walking Dead co-creator Dave Erickson has closed an overall deal with MRC Television. Under the multi-year pact, Erickson will exclusively work with the indie studio on the creation and development of television series on which he will serve as writer-showrunner or supervise other writers.

50 Cent and Black-ish creator Kenya Barris are developing a new Netflix series based on The 50th Law, the bestselling book co-authored by the rapper alongside Robert Greene.The 50th Law is a semi-autobiographical account of the ‘I Get Money’ artist’s early life and career, which also includes quotes from historical figures such as Sun Tzu, Socrates, Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, and Malcolm X.Barris will co-write and executive produce the pilot script with Hale Rothstein, who executive produces

EXCLUSIVE: Benedict Cumberbatch will star in the Anonymous Content limited series update of the classic thriller The 39 Steps. Series is created by The Revenant scribe Mark L. Smith and directed by Edward Berger. Berger teamed previously with Cumberbatch on Patrick Melrose, and was a director and executive producer of the just completed Showtime limited series Your Honor.