Paramount Pictures Lands Rights To The Bestselling Book Series ‘Wayward Children’

EXCLUSIVE: MGM and Plan B Entertainment have acquired the film rights to No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Taddeo’s novel Animal, which she will adapt for the screen, marking her feature writing debut. Plan B will produce the film as part of its overall deal with MGM.

Both CNN and its chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward are calling out Ted Cruz for spreading what they say is a misleading and inaccurate Twitter meme showing Ward in what the conservative senator calls a burka.

CNN chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward donned a hijab while reporting from Kabul on Monday morning, one day after the Taliban took control of the capital of Afghanistan.Ward used her “New Day” report to show just how dramatically things have changed in the city in the last 24 hours.“This is a sight I honestly thought I would never see,” Ward said. “Scores of Taliban fighters, and just behind us, the U.S.

Though you could say Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson are reteaming for a new film about real-life detective Kate Warne, this situation is a bit different than what we saw with “Jungle Cruise,” as Johnson is only serving as a producer. But still, the project has already caught the eye of Amazon Studios.

Naman Ramachandran Universal Pictures will handle the distribution of “Redeeming Love” in U.S. and Canadian theaters.

ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish acknowledged the Covid operating environment for Paramount Pictures is “a bit fluid” but said the studio is keen to preserve a theatrical window.

Marcia Nasatir, an film executive producer who shattered barriers as Hollywood’s first VP Production, working on back-to-back Best Picture Oscar winners One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Rocky and many other pics, died Tuesday morning at the Motion Picture & Television Fund hospital in Woodland Hills, CA. She was 95.

EXCLUSIVE: Jumanji producer Radar Pictures is adapting Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar literary universe for television.

Florida’s wealthy elite — a dream come true for a reporter whose beat is income inequality and who has long been fascinated by the exorbitantly rich.Soon after moving, everyday struggles like child care and health insurance begin to drive a wedge between Rebecca and her husband as they come to rely on the affluent Stones family for more than just Mickey’s paycheck. But as Rebecca gets a taste of Mr.

Saturday Night Live‘s Chloe Fineman, Curb Your Enthusiasm‘s Jeff Garlin and The Middle‘s Troy Metcalf have joined Damien Chazelle’s 1920s Hollywood epic ensemble Babylon for Paramount.

EXCLUSIVE: We are hearing that New Regency has boarded Craig Gillespie’s Chippendales film project starring Dev Patel as co-financier with Bold Films.

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Manori Ravindran International EditorInteractive game series “Isklander” is set for an on-screen adaptation.Gaumont U.K.

Jennifer Yuma editorMark Gordon Pictures acquired screen rights to “The Code Breaker,” based on Walter Isaacson’s “The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race.” The book was published March 9 by Simon & Schuster, and spent several weeks on the top of New York Times best sellers list.The book centers on how Doudna and her collaborators invented an easy-to-use tool to edit DNA.

EXCLUSIVE: A24 has won the rights to Octavia E. Butler’s science-fiction odyssey Parable of the Sower, the first in a two-book series and set Garrett Bradley to direct. Originally published in 1993, the book has recently been rediscovered by fans old and new and appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for the first time in September of 2020, fulfilling a lifelong dream of Butler’s.

EXCLUSIVE: Apple Original Films has landed rights to a package based on Judy Heumann’s best-selling memoir Being Heumann. Sian Heder, whom Apple signed to a multi-year overall deal in the wake of winning an auction for her Sundance sensation CODA, is adapting the film to direct.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (showrunner, writer and producer for Netflix’s “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”) titled “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #9.”Set to release Oct. 13, the collaboration between Aguirre-Sacasa and original comic series artist Robert Hack, “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #9” will return to the series’ satanic horror roots and continue the “Witch War” storyline, with both Spellmans – one from Hell and one from Earth – pitted against each other.