‘Paper Girls’ Series Based on Sci-Fi Comics Gets Amazon Greenlight

While the US festival season has been in a bit of disarray since SXSW was canceled back in March, it appears that some events will actually take place before the end of 2020, led by the New York Film Festival in September.

Also Read: Steve McQueen's 'Lovers Rock' Set as New York Film Festival Opening Night Film“We’ve been watching New York filmmaker Azazel Jacobs for more than a decade, since his film ‘Momma’s Man’ screened in our New Directors/New Films festival in 2008,” New York Film Festival director Eugene Hernandez said in a statement.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaAzazel Jacobs’s “French Exit,” the story of a New York socialite who jettisons her old life for a new one in Paris, has been selected as the closing night feature of the 58th New York Film Festival.The film, which stars Oscar-nominees Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges, will make its world premiere at the festival, which is expected to be a mixture of physical and virtual events due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterElle Fanning is attached to star in the Universal Content Productions (UCP) series based on the real-life case of Michelle Carter, which has landed at Hulu, Variety has learned.Titled “The Girl From Plainville,” Fanning will star as Carter, who was infamously convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2017 after texting her boyfriend encouragement to commit suicide three years prior.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: AMC Studios is developing Stay Tuned, a TV series adaptation of the 1992 cult classic which starred John Ritter and Pam Dawber. The project hails from Fear The Walking Dead co-showrunner/executive producer Ian Goldberg & writer/producer Richard Naing, who will write the series, part of Goldberg’s overall deal at AMC Studios.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation with 10 bidders, Searchlight Television, along with Darren Aronofsky and his Protozoa Pictures, have won the television rights to David Gauvey Herbert’s New York Magazine article “Boss of The Beach” for series development.Search is underway for a writer to pen the adaptation, which Herbert will executive produce.Herbert’s June 23, 2020 article, published in New York Magazine‘s Intelligencer, chronicles the hopes, dreams

Variety, the Wolf of Wall Street-star is setting up a new television series adaptation of the author’s lesser known final work, Island. DiCaprio’s Appian Way is reportedly developing the series alongside In Good Company Films.Published in 1962, the novel is a counterpart to Huxley’s most famous novel, Brave New World.

Cinemax just announced the return of their action-packed drama series “Warrior” for a second season this October. The show, based on the writings of Bruce Lee, just debuted the first teaser for its second season, and it brings even more slow-motion fight scenes in the rain.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Faith-based drama Hunter’s Creed (previously known as Hunting God), starring Duane ‘Dog’ Chapman (Dog The Bounty Hunter), has scored a North American deal with Cinedigm.The story follows a man who loses his wife and reunites with his church buddies to film the hunting show they’ve always wanted to make together. Before long, he senses a dark presence in the woods eventually bringing him face to face with death and his faith.

Elisabeth Moss will star in thriller series “Shining Girls” at Apple TV+, with Leonardo DiCaprio set to executive produce the adaptation of Lauren Beukes’ 2013 novel, the streaming service said Thursday.Per the official description, “The Handmaid’s Tale” star will play “a Chicago reporter who survived a brutal assault only to find her reality shifting as she hunts down her attacker.”Silka Luisa will adapt Beukes novel and executive produce the series, acting as showrunner.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorApple has given a series order to Shining Girls, a metaphysical thriller based on Lauren Beukes’ 2013 best-selling novel The Shining Girls, starring and executive produced by Elisabeth Moss, and executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way.

A little more than a year ago, it was revealed that Amazon had started development on a TV series based on the best-selling comic book series, “Paper Girls” from creators Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang.

series commitment at Amazon last July. It comes as part of Vaughan’s multi-year overall deal with Legendary Entertainment.Here is the synopsis for “Paper Girls”: “Paper Girls follows four young girls who, while out delivering papers on the morning after Halloween in 1988, become unwittingly caught in a conflict between warring factions of time-travelers, sending them on an adventure through time that will save the world.

Peter White Television EditorPaper Girls, based on Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang’s graphic novel, has been ordered to series by Amazon.The streamer has handed the project a series order from Legendary Television in association with Plan B.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterA series titled “Revelations” based on Stephen King’s short story “The Revelations of ’Becka Paulson” is in the works at The CW, Variety has learned.In the potential one-hour drama, after accidentally shooting herself in the brain with a nail gun, a Pollyanna-ish Becca Paulson is recruited by an over-it Jesus to be his “chosen one” in stopping the apocalypse.

rambunctious cavalcade of pranksters, con men, and rapscallions — in other words, journalists — being brought together from across the globe to change not only the landscape but the power of the press forever from scandalous rumour to political puppetry.”“To do this production justice we always knew we would require writers who don’t hold back and go way further than most would dare,” Burning Wheel’s Shelley Hammond said in a statement.