Michael Crichton’s Unpublished Work to Be Developed for Film and TV by Range Media Partners

UPDATE: Fox’s New Year’s Eve Toast & Roast 2021 has added to its celebrity lineup ahead of Thursday’s big countdown.

Emerald Fennell—best known as Camilla Parker Bowles on seasons three and four of , as well as the showrunner on season two of —makes her directorial debut with Promising Young Woman, out December 25. She also wrote the comedy-thriller, which stars Carey Mulligan as a former medical student who takes revenge on the people involved in the rape of her best friend.

Fair City fans can enjoy an extended episode on Christmas Day as there’s a 40-minute episode of Carrigstown drama in store.

EXCLUSIVE: Disney Investor Day unveiled a lot of new projects from the Mouse House and just when we thought there couldn’t be any more — there is. Disney+ is developing the one-hour action-adventure drama Secret Guide to Celestial Creatures from Michael Golamco, Randall Park and Hieu Ho’s Imminent Collision. The production banner has a first-look deal with 20th Television, which will serve as the studio.

EXCLUSIVE: Range Media Partners has promoted associates Austin Lantero, Laura Reddy, Jen Trofa and Paige Wandling to manager.

CrichtonSun, the film and TV production company overseeing the late Michael Crichton's vast literary archive, has signed a pact with Range Media Partners for future film and TV projects. Crichton, who died in 2008, was among the best-selling authors of his generation, known for Jurassic Park, Congo, Timeline and other books.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterThe publishing and production entity of best-selling author Michael Crichton’s estate has signed with Range Media Partners, Variety has learned.CrichtonSun, run by Sherri Crichton and partner Laurent Bouzereau, will partner with Range to produce, package and develop a slate of projects from the Crichton archives.

Range Media Partners has signed CrichtonSun, the LA-based archive, publishing and production company of late author Michael Crichton which is overseen by President Sherri Crichton and her producing partner, Laurent Bouzereau.

There will be a new, unfamiliar face joining the cast of Fair City this week, and just like others who have joined the soap in the past, drama ensues.

Sunday night in Carrigstown will bring new faces and inevitably new drama.

The video game division of JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot has formed an in-house game development studio, tapping industry veteran Michael Booth to serve as its general manager.

Psychological horror Saint Maudis a nose ahead of a tight-knit pack of lead nominees for the 2020 British Independent Film Awards, unveiled Wednesday morning by Holliday Grainger and Micheal Ward. The Film4-backed debut feature from Rose Glass, which released earlier this year in the U.K.

Upstart management firm Range Media Partners has added several notable filmmakers to its roster. Tim Van Patten,NiclasLarsson, Ricky Staub & Dan Walser, Corin Hardy and Cédric Jimenez have joined the company that was launched by a group of agents formerly of CAA, UTA and WME.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterRange Media Partners, a new management firm staffed with veteran Hollywood agents, has announced a slew of filmmaker signings.Tim Van Patten, the Emmy Award-winning director, writer and creator behind shows like “The Sopranos,” “Boardwalk Empire” and the recent HBO hit “Perry Mason,” has joined the firm.Van Patten is joined by Swedish-born Niclas Larsson, an award-winning commercial director and writer who also helmed the whimsical two-part Vogue series “The

Range Media Partners has strengthened its filmmaker roster, signing Tim Van Patten, Niclas Larsson, Ricky Staub & Dan Walser, Corin Hardy and Cédric Jimenez.

Jimmy Fallon and Andrew Rannells are saying “Good riddance” to 2020 with an epic musical.