Exclusive: Sebastian Stan (Pam & Tommy) and Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) are attached to star in an untitled spy comedy in very early development at Paramount, Deadline has learned.
Jenny Bicks (Welcome to Flatch) is set to pen the script, which is said to involve a failed double agent who becomes an unlikely success, based off an original pitch. Paul Feig (The School for Good and Evil) is eyeing to direct and will also produce alongside Laura Allen Fischer for Feigco Entertainment, as well as Stan (A Different Man) and Emmy winner Emily Gerson Saines.
Stan landed his first Emmy, Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice Award nominations for his turn as Tommy Lee in Hulu’s acclaimed miniseries Pam & Tommy, also recently starring in Apple’s thriller Sharper opposite Julianne Moore, and in Mimi Cave’s horror-thriller Fresh with Daisy Edgar-Jones. The actor is otherwise...
Jenny Bicks (Welcome to Flatch) is set to pen the script, which is said to involve a failed double agent who becomes an unlikely success, based off an original pitch. Paul Feig (The School for Good and Evil) is eyeing to direct and will also produce alongside Laura Allen Fischer for Feigco Entertainment, as well as Stan (A Different Man) and Emmy winner Emily Gerson Saines.
Stan landed his first Emmy, Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice Award nominations for his turn as Tommy Lee in Hulu’s acclaimed miniseries Pam & Tommy, also recently starring in Apple’s thriller Sharper opposite Julianne Moore, and in Mimi Cave’s horror-thriller Fresh with Daisy Edgar-Jones. The actor is otherwise...
- 4/11/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
You Season 4 continues its reign over the Netflix Top 10, despite the debut of Shadow and Bone Season 2 last week.
The fantasy series hit the streamer’s English-language TV chart at No. 2 for the week of March 13-19, tallying 50.4M hours viewed in the days since its March 16 debut. It struggles to hold a flame to the 64.1M hours viewed that You Season 4 drew during that week.
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It’s worth noting that the final five episodes of You Season 4 dropped the week prior, meaning that they had an entire week’s worth of viewing to account for while Shadow and Bone Season 2 only had four days.
The fantasy series hit the streamer’s English-language TV chart at No. 2 for the week of March 13-19, tallying 50.4M hours viewed in the days since its March 16 debut. It struggles to hold a flame to the 64.1M hours viewed that You Season 4 drew during that week.
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It’s worth noting that the final five episodes of You Season 4 dropped the week prior, meaning that they had an entire week’s worth of viewing to account for while Shadow and Bone Season 2 only had four days.
- 3/21/2023
- by Katie Campione
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix has tapped Academy Award nominee Jon Spaihts (Dune: Part One & Two) to pen its live-action Gears of War film, based on the hit video game series, Deadline can confirm.
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First announced by the streamer back in November, the project will be produced in partnership with The Coalition, with an adult animated series set in the world of the games to follow, and the potential for further stories going forward.
Debuting on Xbox in 2006 and going on to sell 40M+ copies across six installments, Gears of War watches as a society divided and on the brink of collapse faces total extinction by the Locust, a monstrous threat from below.
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First announced by the streamer back in November, the project will be produced in partnership with The Coalition, with an adult animated series set in the world of the games to follow, and the potential for further stories going forward.
Debuting on Xbox in 2006 and going on to sell 40M+ copies across six installments, Gears of War watches as a society divided and on the brink of collapse faces total extinction by the Locust, a monstrous threat from below.
- 3/21/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Paul Feig is still waiting for Universal to give him the chance to make his monster movie Dark Army, a project that was first announced back in 2019. But while he waits, he’s keeping and busy, and Deadline reports that he might have just found his next directing gig. A film adaptation of the Riley Sager thriller novel The House Across the Lake (pick up a copy Here) is set up at the Netflix streaming service, with Feig and Laura Fischer producing for Feigco and Sarah Schechter, Greg Berlanti, and Mike McGrath producing for Berlanti-Schechter Films – and it’s said that Feig is considering directing the film himself.
Whoever ends up directing The House Across the Lake will be bringing the following story to the screen: Casey Fletcher is a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press. She retreats to the peace and quiet of her...
Whoever ends up directing The House Across the Lake will be bringing the following story to the screen: Casey Fletcher is a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press. She retreats to the peace and quiet of her...
- 3/21/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
From the bestselling author of Final Girls and Survive the Night, Riley Sager’s new novel The House Across the Lake was just released last year, and a movie is soon on the way.
Deadline reports today that Paul Feig (Ghostbusters) is potentially directing The House Across the Lake for Netflix, with Feig said to currently be eyeing the director’s chair.
Berlanti Productions and Feigco will be producing the film, with Sarah Schechter, Greg Berlanti and Mike McGrath producing for Berlnti, and Feig and Laura Fischer for Feigco.
In Riley Sager’s novel, “Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of bourbon, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple living in the house across the lake.
Deadline reports today that Paul Feig (Ghostbusters) is potentially directing The House Across the Lake for Netflix, with Feig said to currently be eyeing the director’s chair.
Berlanti Productions and Feigco will be producing the film, with Sarah Schechter, Greg Berlanti and Mike McGrath producing for Berlnti, and Feig and Laura Fischer for Feigco.
In Riley Sager’s novel, “Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of bourbon, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple living in the house across the lake.
- 3/20/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
On the heels of a breakout performance in The White Lotus Season 2, Will Sharpe has been tapped to direct Crying in H Mart for MGM‘s Orion Pictures, Deadline can confirm.
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The coming-of-age tale based on Michelle Zauner’s beloved memoir, which spent over 60 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, follows a half-Korean daughter who returns to small town Oregon to care for her Korean mother. Critical and smothering Chong-mi and creative and independent Michelle struggle to understand each other across a cultural fault line, only learning to see and accept one another...
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The coming-of-age tale based on Michelle Zauner’s beloved memoir, which spent over 60 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, follows a half-Korean daughter who returns to small town Oregon to care for her Korean mother. Critical and smothering Chong-mi and creative and independent Michelle struggle to understand each other across a cultural fault line, only learning to see and accept one another...
- 3/20/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Netflix has closed a deal to develop the 2022 bestselling Riley Sager novel The House Across the Lake, developing as a potential directing vehicle for Paul Feig. The pic will be produced by Berlanti-Schechter Films and Feigco, with Sarah Schechter, Greg Berlanti and Mike McGrath producing for Berlnti and Feig and Laura Fischer for Feigco.
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In The House Across the Lake, Casey Fletcher is a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press. She retreats to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of bourbon, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce,...
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In The House Across the Lake, Casey Fletcher is a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press. She retreats to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of bourbon, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce,...
- 3/20/2023
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Watching Clay McLeod Chapman do an in-person reading from his 2019 book The Remaking at The Overlook Film Festival was one of the best live performances I've ever seen and made me an instant lifelong fan of his work, so I'm absolutely thrilled that his new novel, Ghost Eaters, is now available from Quirk Books!
You can check out the cover art and synopsis for Ghost Eaters below, and to learn more about Chapman's current book tour for Ghost Eaters (including must-see live readings), visit:
https://claymcleodchapman.com/events/
Also, to learn more about Ghost Eaters and to order the book for yourself, visit:
https://www.quirkbooks.com/book/ghost-eaters
"In 2019, Clay McLeod Chapman made his horror debut with The Remaking, a true-crime-inspired tale that explores how the real-life horrors behind urban legends permeate and inform society and pop culture, which Kirkus Reviews likened to The Shining. Chapman’s 2021 follow-up, Whisper...
You can check out the cover art and synopsis for Ghost Eaters below, and to learn more about Chapman's current book tour for Ghost Eaters (including must-see live readings), visit:
https://claymcleodchapman.com/events/
Also, to learn more about Ghost Eaters and to order the book for yourself, visit:
https://www.quirkbooks.com/book/ghost-eaters
"In 2019, Clay McLeod Chapman made his horror debut with The Remaking, a true-crime-inspired tale that explores how the real-life horrors behind urban legends permeate and inform society and pop culture, which Kirkus Reviews likened to The Shining. Chapman’s 2021 follow-up, Whisper...
- 9/22/2022
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Two and a half years ago, Sony Pictures came out the winner in a bidding war over the film rights to author Riley Sager’s novel Home Before Dark (pick up a copy Here) – which hadn’t even been published yet at the time. Now the project is finally moving forward, as The Hollywood Reporter breaks the news that Creep and There’s Someone Inside Your House director Patrick Brice has signed on to direct the film, working from a screenplay by The Invitation‘s Blair Butler.
Shawn Levy’s production company 21 Laps Entertainment, one of the companies behind the Netflix series Stranger Things, is producing Home Before Dark, with SVP Emily Morris and creative executive Emily Feher overseeing the project. Since the adaptation is said to be in the “early development” phase, Sony isn’t sharing details on the plot… but since it’s based on Sager’s novel,...
Shawn Levy’s production company 21 Laps Entertainment, one of the companies behind the Netflix series Stranger Things, is producing Home Before Dark, with SVP Emily Morris and creative executive Emily Feher overseeing the project. Since the adaptation is said to be in the “early development” phase, Sony isn’t sharing details on the plot… but since it’s based on Sager’s novel,...
- 8/30/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Patrick Brice will continue hanging around in the horror genre with his next movie Home Before Dark, THR reports tonight.
Brice’s film for Sony will adapt the novel from 2021, written by Riley Sager.
THR details, “The plot of the film, which is in early development, is being kept under wraps, though Riley Sager’s book is centered on a young woman, Maggie, whose family fled their Victorian home 25 years earlier in an event that inspired her father to pen a best-selling nonfiction book claiming they experienced a haunting.
“Maggie, now an adult, doesn’t remember those events and doesn’t believe her father’s book. But when she inherits the old family home after her father’s death, she starts to question if there’s more to the house than she believed.”
Blair Butler is writing the script for the feature film adaptation of the novel, with Shawn Levy...
Brice’s film for Sony will adapt the novel from 2021, written by Riley Sager.
THR details, “The plot of the film, which is in early development, is being kept under wraps, though Riley Sager’s book is centered on a young woman, Maggie, whose family fled their Victorian home 25 years earlier in an event that inspired her father to pen a best-selling nonfiction book claiming they experienced a haunting.
“Maggie, now an adult, doesn’t remember those events and doesn’t believe her father’s book. But when she inherits the old family home after her father’s death, she starts to question if there’s more to the house than she believed.”
Blair Butler is writing the script for the feature film adaptation of the novel, with Shawn Levy...
- 8/29/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Click here to read the full article.
Sony is making moves on its adaptation of the 2020 novel Home Before Dark, adding filmmaker Patrick Brice to direct from a script by Blair Butler. 21 Laps, the Shawn Levy-led production banner behind Stranger Things and The Adam Project, is producing.
The plot of the film, which is in early development, is being kept under wraps, though Riley Sager’s book is centered on a young woman, Maggie, whose family fled their Victorian home 25 years earlier in an event that inspired her father to pen a best-selling nonfiction book claiming they experienced a haunting. Maggie, now an adult, doesn’t remember those events and doesn’t believe her father’s book. But when she inherits the old family home after her father’s death, she starts to question if there’s more to the house than she believed.
SVP Emily Morris and creative...
Sony is making moves on its adaptation of the 2020 novel Home Before Dark, adding filmmaker Patrick Brice to direct from a script by Blair Butler. 21 Laps, the Shawn Levy-led production banner behind Stranger Things and The Adam Project, is producing.
The plot of the film, which is in early development, is being kept under wraps, though Riley Sager’s book is centered on a young woman, Maggie, whose family fled their Victorian home 25 years earlier in an event that inspired her father to pen a best-selling nonfiction book claiming they experienced a haunting. Maggie, now an adult, doesn’t remember those events and doesn’t believe her father’s book. But when she inherits the old family home after her father’s death, she starts to question if there’s more to the house than she believed.
SVP Emily Morris and creative...
- 8/29/2022
- by Aaron Couch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
We love these products, and we hope you do too. E! has affiliate relationships, so we may get a small share of the revenue from your purchases. Items are sold by the retailer, not E! Summertime and the reading is easy. The sunshine season is upon us this month and you know what that means: All the beach reads! June is jam-packed with new books from some of our favorite authors, including the queen of Nantucket Elin Hilderbrand, thriller deliverer Riley Sager and Sloane Crosley, who returned to the novel after releasing three collections of essays. Whether you are in the mood for a swoon-worthy rom-com or a juicy mystery, we've got just the page-turner for you—because friends don't let...
- 6/1/2022
- E! Online
Clay McLeod Chapman is back with Ghost Eaters, a "haunting tale of ghosts, grief, and god complexes" that will be released by Quirk Books on September 20th! A killer concept that has me dying to know more, here's a look at the synopsis and cover art:
"In 2019, Clay McLeod Chapman made his horror debut with The Remaking, a true-crime-inspired tale that explores how the real-life horrors behind urban legends permeate and inform society and pop culture, which Kirkus Reviews likened to The Shining. Chapman’s 2021 follow-up, Whisper Down the Lane—called a “spellbinding psychological thriller” by Publishers Weekly in a starred review—centered on the McMartin preschool trial and Satanic Panic of the 1980s that created a hysterical culture primed by paranoia to believe the unbelievable. Now, Chapman returns with Ghost Eaters, a propulsive page-turner that uses a supernatural form of addiction to reckon with the complicated legacy of the...
"In 2019, Clay McLeod Chapman made his horror debut with The Remaking, a true-crime-inspired tale that explores how the real-life horrors behind urban legends permeate and inform society and pop culture, which Kirkus Reviews likened to The Shining. Chapman’s 2021 follow-up, Whisper Down the Lane—called a “spellbinding psychological thriller” by Publishers Weekly in a starred review—centered on the McMartin preschool trial and Satanic Panic of the 1980s that created a hysterical culture primed by paranoia to believe the unbelievable. Now, Chapman returns with Ghost Eaters, a propulsive page-turner that uses a supernatural form of addiction to reckon with the complicated legacy of the...
- 3/31/2022
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Much like the bad guy in a slasher film, author Grady Hendrix had one book idea that just kept coming back. He wanted to take on the horror movie trope of the final girl — the last character standing at the end of the flick — and bring it into the real world. Seven years later, and The Final Girl Support Group drops on July 13th.
Hendrix, the author of 2020’s New York Times bestseller The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, finished his first draft of what would become...
Hendrix, the author of 2020’s New York Times bestseller The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, finished his first draft of what would become...
- 7/13/2021
- by Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
Riley Sager has been writing thrillers for over a decade now, but each time he starts penning another, he’s gripped by the same terrible thought.
“There’s always this moment where I sit there and look at my blank page and think, ‘I don’t know how to do this,'” says Sager, who spent the first half of his career writing under his given name, Todd Ritter. “Then I eventually figure it out again, but it’s like this constant recurring amnesia. You sit and then you start again,...
“There’s always this moment where I sit there and look at my blank page and think, ‘I don’t know how to do this,'” says Sager, who spent the first half of his career writing under his given name, Todd Ritter. “Then I eventually figure it out again, but it’s like this constant recurring amnesia. You sit and then you start again,...
- 6/22/2021
- by Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
From the gory to the eerie, horror brings us cathartic chills and gritty adventure. Here are the best horror books coming out just in time for long days in June 2021 …
Survive the Night by Riley Sager
Type: Novel
Publisher: Dutton
Release date: June 29
Den of Geek says: Thriller bestseller Sager returns with the pop scares of the summer.
Publisher’s summary: It’s November 1991. Nirvana’s in the tape deck, George H. W. Bush is in the White House, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer.
Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie. They met at the campus ride board, each looking to share the long drive home to Ohio. Both have good reasons for wanting to get away. For Charlie, it’s guilt and grief over the shocking murder of her best friend,...
Survive the Night by Riley Sager
Type: Novel
Publisher: Dutton
Release date: June 29
Den of Geek says: Thriller bestseller Sager returns with the pop scares of the summer.
Publisher’s summary: It’s November 1991. Nirvana’s in the tape deck, George H. W. Bush is in the White House, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer.
Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie. They met at the campus ride board, each looking to share the long drive home to Ohio. Both have good reasons for wanting to get away. For Charlie, it’s guilt and grief over the shocking murder of her best friend,...
- 6/1/2021
- by Megan Crouse
- Den of Geek
After receiving nearly 400 nominations for the 2020 Popsugar Book Club Awards, it's finally time to reveal the shortlist. Take a peek at the full slate of Popsugar Book Club-approved nominees ahead, including Mexican Gothic by Silvia Garcia-Moreno, Jasmine Guillory's Party of Two, and more. Final voting takes place exclusively in our Popsugar Book Club Facebook group starting today, with polls closing on Nov. 18 at 9 p.m. Et. If you're not a member yet, it's not too late! Join right here and cast your vote in each category. Winners will be announced on Nov. 20.
Once you've voted in the Facebook group polls, stay tuned for our 2021 Popsugar Reading Challenge, launching Dec. 1. Cheers to all the wonderful books that made their debut in 2020 and to the nominees who gave us stories to cherish during a difficult year.
Related: 42 Books Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2021
Best Romance Book of 2020
Party of Two...
Once you've voted in the Facebook group polls, stay tuned for our 2021 Popsugar Reading Challenge, launching Dec. 1. Cheers to all the wonderful books that made their debut in 2020 and to the nominees who gave us stories to cherish during a difficult year.
Related: 42 Books Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2021
Best Romance Book of 2020
Party of Two...
- 11/13/2020
- by Lisa Peterson
- Popsugar.com
Perhaps best known for her recurring role in the Halloween franchise, Danielle Harris has also appeared in multiple horror properties and standalone projects over the years. The actress directed her first feature-length film, Among Friends, back in 2013, and is now making a new movie with Joe Dante. Titled Sequel, the picture is expected to take a meta approach to the genre, with Harris recently revealing a bit more about what it will focus on.
The actress shared some details about the project as part of an interview with Instinct Magazine, and alluded to how the “final girl” trope will be a big part of the production, commenting as so:
“I’ve directed a film in the past, but now I’m directing a horror film that is the ultimate Final Girl horror film. It’s about Final Girls who have survived mass murders in rural areas who are going to...
The actress shared some details about the project as part of an interview with Instinct Magazine, and alluded to how the “final girl” trope will be a big part of the production, commenting as so:
“I’ve directed a film in the past, but now I’m directing a horror film that is the ultimate Final Girl horror film. It’s about Final Girls who have survived mass murders in rural areas who are going to...
- 11/2/2020
- by Jessica James
- We Got This Covered
As horror fans know all too well, sometimes the most terrifying monsters are places: Riverdale (the town with pep that’s also the murder capital of the world), Hill House (whatever walks there walks alone), Twin Peaks, Salem’s Lot — atmospheric horror wreathes these landmarks and towns. There’s not one beast to eradicate, everything is infected.
Such is the case with the upcoming horror podcast Borrasca, which was created by The Haunting of Hill House writer Rebecca Klingel and stars Cole Sprouse, who plays Jughead in the dark, campy Archie Comics TV series Riverdale.
Such is the case with the upcoming horror podcast Borrasca, which was created by The Haunting of Hill House writer Rebecca Klingel and stars Cole Sprouse, who plays Jughead in the dark, campy Archie Comics TV series Riverdale.
- 5/18/2020
- by Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
Sony and Stranger Things producer Shawn Levy have won a competitive auction for Final Girls author Riley Sager’s upcoming, sure-to-be bestselling, novel Home Before Dark. In Sager’s new thriller, a woman returns to the home made famous by her father’s […]
The post Stranger Things Producer to Adapt Riley Sager’s New Novel Home Before Dark appeared first on Dread Central.
The post Stranger Things Producer to Adapt Riley Sager’s New Novel Home Before Dark appeared first on Dread Central.
- 2/25/2020
- by Mike Sprague
- DreadCentral.com
Exclusive: Sony Pictures won a competitive auction for Home Before Dark, a thriller novel by bestselling author Riley Sager, with Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps attached to produce. Book will be published June 30 by Dutton.
A woman returns to the house made famous by her father’s bestselling horror memoir and the issue becomes, is it really haunted as her father claimed? Some 25 years earlier, the young woman moved with her parents into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book called House of Horrors that described ghostly encounters with spirits that rivaled The Amityville Horror in popularity—and skepticism.
The woman restores old homes and was too young to remember what her father described in a book that made him rich. She inherits the property and counts...
A woman returns to the house made famous by her father’s bestselling horror memoir and the issue becomes, is it really haunted as her father claimed? Some 25 years earlier, the young woman moved with her parents into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book called House of Horrors that described ghostly encounters with spirits that rivaled The Amityville Horror in popularity—and skepticism.
The woman restores old homes and was too young to remember what her father described in a book that made him rich. She inherits the property and counts...
- 2/24/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Lit agency Aevitas Creative Management has expanded its operations to the UK by joining with Toby Mundy Associates to form Acm UK Limited. Mundy will serve as Chairman/CEO of the new venture.
Acm UK will providing literary representation and consulting services to authors. Mundy will be joined in the UK company by four agents: Natalie Jerome, Max Edwards, Trevor Dolby, and the writer and media consultant Simon Targett. Abner Stein will continue handling UK rights for Acm Us, and the current co-agents for Acm Us will continue handling translation rights; Acm UK translation rights will be handled by Susanna Lea Associates.
Aevitas Creative Management was formed in New York three years ago by managing partners David Kuhn, Todd Shuster, and Esmond Harmsworth. The agency has outposts in Gotham, Boston, Washington DC, Seattle, and Los Angeles, with 24 agents repping more than 600 authors, ranging from memoirists Cheryl Strayed and Arun Gandhi to novelists Ha Jin,...
Acm UK will providing literary representation and consulting services to authors. Mundy will be joined in the UK company by four agents: Natalie Jerome, Max Edwards, Trevor Dolby, and the writer and media consultant Simon Targett. Abner Stein will continue handling UK rights for Acm Us, and the current co-agents for Acm Us will continue handling translation rights; Acm UK translation rights will be handled by Susanna Lea Associates.
Aevitas Creative Management was formed in New York three years ago by managing partners David Kuhn, Todd Shuster, and Esmond Harmsworth. The agency has outposts in Gotham, Boston, Washington DC, Seattle, and Los Angeles, with 24 agents repping more than 600 authors, ranging from memoirists Cheryl Strayed and Arun Gandhi to novelists Ha Jin,...
- 10/16/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Paramount Television has put in development Lock Every Door, a thriller drama based on Riley Sager’s just-released novel, from Anonymous Content, former True Blood executive producer/showrunner Brian Buckner, executive producer Angela Robinson and Michael Sugar’s Sugar 23. The project is a co-production between Paramount TV and Anonymous Content as part of the companies’ agreement.
Buckner will pen the adaptation and executive produce. Here is a synopsis for the book, published today:
No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich, famous, or both. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen’s new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan’s oldest, most elite and secretive buildings in the Upper West Side. When a fellow apartment sitter goes missing, Jules begins to dig into the Bartholomew’s mysterious history, discovering sordid secrets hidden...
Buckner will pen the adaptation and executive produce. Here is a synopsis for the book, published today:
No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich, famous, or both. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen’s new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan’s oldest, most elite and secretive buildings in the Upper West Side. When a fellow apartment sitter goes missing, Jules begins to dig into the Bartholomew’s mysterious history, discovering sordid secrets hidden...
- 7/2/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
In a heated auction with multiple studios bidding, Netflix won movie rights to Dr. Rapp, and already is eyeing for John Hamburg to write the script and direct the film. The Atlantic magazine article by Jeff Maysh was published in January under How a Stroke Turned a 63-Year-Old Into a Rap Legend. It became the year’s first heated material acquisition.
David Klawans (Argo) will produce with Michael Sugar (Spotlight) and Ashley Zalta through Sugar23’s first-look Netflix deal.
Article tells the story of Dr. Sherman Hershfield, a respected neurologist from Beverly Hills who practiced medicine in the San Fernando Valley. When Hershfield suffered a stroke, an unusual side effect changed his life forever: He couldn’t stop speaking in rhyme. Remarkably, Hershfield then emerged in South Central as a freestyle performer, Dr. Rapp.
Hamburg’s scripting credits include Night School and Little Fockers. Films he has directed include Along Came Polly,...
David Klawans (Argo) will produce with Michael Sugar (Spotlight) and Ashley Zalta through Sugar23’s first-look Netflix deal.
Article tells the story of Dr. Sherman Hershfield, a respected neurologist from Beverly Hills who practiced medicine in the San Fernando Valley. When Hershfield suffered a stroke, an unusual side effect changed his life forever: He couldn’t stop speaking in rhyme. Remarkably, Hershfield then emerged in South Central as a freestyle performer, Dr. Rapp.
Hamburg’s scripting credits include Night School and Little Fockers. Films he has directed include Along Came Polly,...
- 1/31/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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