Paramount Television Studios Acquires ‘You Can’t Catch Me’ Novel For Series Adaptation

Hair Love, the Oscar-winning short film from Matthew A. Cherry about a father's quest to do his daughter's hair, is now being developed into a 12-episode series at HBO Max.

reports Deadline.Cameron was born in Bermuda in 1917, moving to the U.K in 1939. He  joined the British Merchant Navy and by 1941 had his first role in a play called “Chu Chin Chow”. “When I arrived in London, I had no qualifications for anything.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: MGM Television is cementing its move into premium factual programming with a new partnership with Imax documentary producer and distributor K2 Studios.The Hollywood studio will co-produce eight premium documentary TV series with K2, which specializes in producing nature, wildlife, science and adventure programming.The deal also includes distribution of K2 library content and a first-look deal for new K2 content.The partnership comes after MGM revealed its

Also Read: 70% of Netflix's Top 10 Titles Over First Month of Daily Lists Were - Surprise - Netflix OriginalsBaker’s decision to step down comes after Red Arrow Studios International president Bo Stehmeier and head of acquisitions Alex Fraser made their respective exits, and a couple months after ProSiebenSat.1 decided to scrap its plans to sell the production company.It comes just months after ProSiebenSat.1 pulled the plug on a protracted sale of the production group, which owns 20 companies,

Jake Kanter International TV EditorSony Pictures Television has confirmed what we revealed back in April — that it is investing in Eleven, the British production outfit behind Netflix smash hit Sex Education.Sony has taken a majority stake in Eleven after a competitive process in which a host of potential suitors showed an interest in the producer, including All3Media.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: We hear that Evil Doghouse Studios has secured the rights to the popular Norwegian book series about eco-terrorist Rino Gulliksen written by author Lars Lenth.Norwegian director Geir Henning Hopland (Netflix’s Lilyhammer, Magnus) and screenwriter Rolf-Magne Golten Andersen (Magnus, Cabin Life) are attached to the project, which is currently in development as a scripted series.Lenth’s book series follows lawyer Leonard Vangen and

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office Editor101 Studios will release the Robert De Niro family comedy The War With Grandpa on Sept. 18 wide in conjunction with financier Brookdale Studios.Marro Media Company financed and produced the Tim Hill (The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run) directed movie based on the children’s fiction novel of the same name by Robert Kimmel Smith.

With Hollywood still under lockdown, projects that are being postponed now are going to clash with projects planned for the near future, leading to countless complications for the industry at large. One such filmmaker feeling the ramifications of the lockdown is Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín, who was supposed to be filming “Lisey’s Story” with Julianne Moore for AppleTV+, but that was all before the lockdown hit.

Jeff Deutchman negotiated the deal for Neon alongside Ryan Heller for Topic Studios with CAA Media Finance and Endeavor Content on behalf of the filmmakers. FilmNation Entertainment is handling international rights.

Neon has acquired the U.S. rights to Pablo Larraín’s “Spencer,” starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana, out of the virtual Cannes market for $4 million, an individual with knowledge of the deal told TheWrap.Steven Knight (“Peaky Blinders,” “Taboo”) wrote the screenplay and production is set to begin in early 2021.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe hit video game “Disco Elysium” is getting the TV series treatment.Indie game developer ZA/UM has partnered with the production company dj2 Entertainment to develop a series based on the game.Based on the universe introduced in Robert Kurvitz’s 2013 novel “A Sacred, Terrible Air,” the game follows a veteran detective with a mysterious past who must solve a crime that threatens to set powerful political factions into civil war.“We’re so gratified at the response ‘Disco

Also Read: River Road Entertainment Taps MACRO Producer Kim Roth as Chief Creative Officer“One of the most important aspects of what we do at MACRO is to identify and uplift Black voices in front of and behind the camera,” added MACRO TV Studios president Marta Fernandez who is overseeing both series for the studio. “Kevin is an exciting new producer with fresh ideas and a point of view not always put forward in television.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterKevin Jordan has signed a first look deal with MACRO Television Studios, Variety has learned exclusively.“Right now we’re in a creative renaissance of storytelling in television and film, at a point in history where audiences are demanding to see the many Black and Brown stories that have not been told before,” Jordan said.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerEXCLUSIVE: Producer Autumn Bailey-Ford (Through the Glass Darkly, Reach) of Prominent Productions has obtained the film rights to 2019 YA novel I’m Not Dying With You Tonight, written by activist Kimberly Jones and attorney Gilly Segal.

The trailer for Nikolaj Coster-Waldau‘s new movie has been released!

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Bestselling author Hugh Howey’s novel Half Way Home is in the works for the small screen. Alex Kurtzman’s Secret Hideout and CBS Television Studios, where Kurtzman is under a deal, have optioned rights to the book to develop as a television series.

Naman Ramachandran The U.K.’s ChorMedia and Holmgard Ltd are adapting Joe Dever’s popular fantasy-adventure gamebook series “Lone Wolf” as a live-action interactive series.Set in the fictional world of Magnamund, the series follows the adventures of Lone Wolf — the last surviving member of the Order of the Kai, an ancient caste of warrior monks who have mastered various natural and supernatural abilities.The gamebook series spans 32 books that have sold over 12 million copies worldwide,

Lori Loughlin fears she will contract coronavirus once she begins serving her prison sentence for her involvement in the nationwide college admissions scandal.The actress, 55, is “scared to death of catching COVID-19, as the virus is ravaging the federal prisons in California,” a source reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly.While Loughlin has “expressed remorse” for her actions, a judge will ultimately determine how much time she spends behind bars.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorAmazon Studios has taken all global rights to Story Syndicate’s Untitled Voting Rights documentary about voter suppression featuring politician, lawyer and author Stacey Abrams. The doc comes from Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Liz Garbus and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Lisa Cortés, and the plan is for Amazon to release the doc in theaters prior to this year’s U.S.

Ted Johnson Soledad O’Brien will host a one-hour special for Hearst Television premiering on Friday that takes a look at the response to the early outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States.The special, Outbreak: The First Response, will have exclusive access to the Seattle and King County public health director. It will look at how they treated the early days of the pandemic, and how they tracked and isolated those who became ill.