Range Media Partners, Legendary Television to Co-Finance, Develop Ken Follett Novel ‘Evening and the Morning’

Joe Otterson TV ReporterAmazon Studios has ordered a YA pilot based on the Harlan Coben novel “Shelter,” Variety has learned exclusively.Shelter” is the first novel in Coben’s Mickey Bolitar book series. MGM has acquired the rights to all the other books in the Mickey Bolitar series as well.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated Brazilian filmmaker Carlos Saldanha has signed with Range Media Partners. Saldanha is one of the principle creative forces behind the Ice Age and Rio franchises during his time at Blue Sky Studios, where his films grossed over $2 billion at box offices worldwide. He is a two-time Academy Award nominee, first for the animated short Gone Nutty  and more recently, the animated feature Ferdinand.

EXCLUSIVE: Prolific filmmaker and Servant executive producer M. Night Shyamalan has signed with Range Media Partners, which will also represent Shyamalan’s production company, Blinding Edge Pictures, run by President of Production, Ashwin Rajan. At Range, Shyamalan rejoins his former WME agents Tanya Cohen and Rich Cook, now both managers and partners at the new company. He will continued to be represented by WME and attorney Michael Schenkman.

Matt James and Rachael Kirkconnell may have reunited, but they’re not back together, according to E! News. Bachelor Nation went into a frenzy when Reality Steve reported that Matt and Rachael were in New York City together in early April, but there was reportedly no romantic reconciliation between the exes, who met on season 25 of The Bachelor.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterTyler Perry is developing a drama prequel series about the early life of his iconic character Madea for Showtime, Variety has learned.Showtime has ordered multiple scripts for the projects, which is titled “Mabel.” Per the official description of the project, long before she was the force of nature known as Madea she was a smart, fierce, irresistible, dangerous, crazy 20-something black woman named Mabel Simmons.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterSarah Michelle Gellar is set to star in the YA comedy “Hot Pink,” which has been ordered to pilot at Amazon, Variety has learned.The show is loosely inspired by Elana K. Arnold’s book “What Girls Are Made Of.” In the book, Nina Faye was raised to believe that there is no such thing as unconditional love, meaning she will do anything for her boyfriend to prove her worthiness.

EXCLUSIVE: Josha Stradowski, who is set to star opposite Rosamund Pike in the upcoming series The Wheel Of Time at Amazon, has signed with Range Media Partners.

Soundgarden have accused Vicky Cornell of locking them out of the band’s website and social media accounts.Official court papers filed in Washington D.C.

International best-selling author Ken Follett has yet another book adaptation in the works as Legendary TV and Range Media Partners optioned The Evening and the Morning, the latest work in his Kingsbridge saga, for series development. Range and Legendary will co-finance the project.

Real estate developer Hackman Capital is planning to spend $1.25 billion to overhaul the nearly 70-year-old West Hollywood landmark CBS Television City including adding sound stages to supply the seemingly boundless demand.

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Legendary music mogul Tommy Mottola, NEON 16 co-founder Lex Borrero and representation firm Range Media Partners are teaming to launch a media company called NTERTAIN. The new venture will offer full-servicecontent production and includethe creation, development, and production of premier content across all mediums.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterVeteran music executives Tommy Mottola and Lex Borrero have teamed up with Range Media Partners to form Ntertain — a new cross-platform content company focused on Latino talent and storytelling.Ntertain has been quietly operational for the past six months, and is imminently preparing a slate of scripted and unscripted series and features, a well as podcasts, from top global-facing creators.

the global pop-culture,” Mottola added.

Neon16 co-founder Lex Borrero, music mogul Tommy Mottola and Range Media Partners have formed Ntertain, a new media company that will focus on creating, developing, and producing content across multiple platforms, telling Latin stories and launching talent, brands and culture.

Danny Glover, Matt Dillon, Danny Pudi and Michelle Mylett joined the cast of American Dreamer, the Paul Dektor-directed dark comedy that has just gotten underway in Vancouver. The actors join Peter Dinklage, Shirley MacLaine and Kim Quinn on the Ted Melfi scripted film. Dinklage, David Ginsberg, Quinn, Melfi and Dektor are producing along with Flying Firebird.

© @Copyright HELLO! Hello! Magazine Countryfile presenter Matt Baker has been a regular face on the BBC for many years now, having also hosted Blue Peter and The One Show. MORE: Countryfile's Matt Baker films at mammoth family farmhouse - watchBut away from his television roles, he can be found at home in Hertfordshire with his wife and two children.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterMatthew McConaughey is attached to star in a series adaptation of the John Grisham novel “A Time for Mercy,” which is currently in development at HBO, Variety has learned from sources.The book, published in 2020, is a followup to Grisham’s books “A Time to Kill” and “Sycamore Row,” all of which center on the character of attorney Jake Brigance. McConaughey previously starred as Brigance in the film adaptation of “A Time to Kill” in 1996.