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EXCLUSIVE: Crazy Stupid Love directing duo, Glenn Ficarra and John Requa are returning to their roots as the two have come on to direct the Sony pic Misadventure. Sources close to the project say it is very early development with Jimmy Miller producing. Ficarra and Requa will exec produce alongside their Zaftig Films producing partner Charlie Gogolak.

EXCLUSIVE: Blue Bayou filmmaker Justin Chon has signed with WME and Blue Marble Management for representation. 

“, which both surpassed $1B at the global box office.  Hamada also shepherded the DC titles “The Batman,” “Black Adam,” “The Suicide Squad,” “Wonder Woman 1984” and “Shazam!,” as well as the studio’s upcoming DC-based releases include “The Flash,” “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,” and “Shazam: Fury of the Gods.”  Prior to that, he served as Executive Vice President, Production at New Line Cinema where he launched the highest-grossing horror franchise of all time with “The Conjuring,” and the adaptation of Stephen King’s iconic horror novel “IT,” which became a global phenomenon and the highest grossing horror film in history with more than $704 million in global box office receipts.Walter Hamada is represented by attorney Jeff Frankel and Mortimer PR.

Looking For Alaska, based on the award-winning novel of the same name. Deadline first reported the news.Published in 2021 by Berkley Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, the novel debuted on the New York Times bestseller list, spending over a year on the paperback list. The story follows college best friends Alex and Poppy, to very different people who vow to take a yearly vacation somewhere every summer.Henry, who most recently published “Book Lovers,” and who has a continuing book contract with Berkley Books for at least three more novels after her latest announced “Happy Place,” posted Deadline’s piece to her Instagram.She also later announced the news in her substack newsletter “Emily’s Grocery List,” the edition titled “About Time I Told You Some News.”“People We Meet on Vacation” is (very likely) going to be a movie!” Henry wrote in her newsletter.

EXCLUSIVE: Range Media Partners has signed acclaimed writer and playwright Stacy Osei-Kuffour, who recently became the first Black woman to pen a feature screenplay for Marvel Studios with the upcoming Blade, starring Mahershala Ali as the titular vampire hunter first brought to life on the big screen in 1998 by Wesley Snipes.

EXCLUSIVE: A Calculated Man is the latest graphic novel that could make its way to the small screen.

EXCLUSIVE: Lan Samantha Chang’s novel The Family Chao is getting a series adaptation after Sam Esmail and UCP optioned the rights to the book.

Grown-ish will return to Freeform for Season 5 with a familiar face and two new showrunners at the helm.

Greg Russo will bring his knowledge of adapting video games for screen to Binge, which has tapped the Mortal Kombat scribe to write and direct its upcoming live-action System Shock series.

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Sony is in early development on Thread, which Jeremy Slater, the head scribe of the upcoming Disney+/Marvel series Moon Knight, will write and direct.