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Fox 2000
After a fast and furious bidding war involving several studios, Fox 2000 has emerged victorious in picking up Fruit Loops, a comedy pitch from writer-director Ted Melfi.
Based on the lives of internet personalities and group of friends in Detroit who are devoted to living their lives to the fullest.
Amandla Stenberg has scored the lead in the film adaptation of The Hate U Give, the debut novel from Angela Thomas. The YA novel is inspired by the Black Lives Movement and will be directed by George Tillman Jr.
The story follows Starr, a 16-year old girl who grows up in the slums but now attends an upper class prep school in the suburbs. When she witnesses a police officer shoot an unarmed friend, her world is turned upside down.
Kevin Costner has been tapped to play the head of the space program in Fox 2000’s Hidden Figures. The Academy Award-winning actor will join his Black or White co-star Octavia Spencer and Taraji P. Henson.
The story follows Starr, a 16-year old girl who grows up in the slum but now attends an upper class prep school in the suburbs. When she witnesses a police officer shoot an unarmed friend, her world is turned upside down.
Centers on Katherine Johnson’s involvement in the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. Based on the book Hidden Figures: The Story Of The African-American Women Who Helped Win The Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly.
Fresh off of his Screen Actors Guild win for supporting actor in Beasts of No Nation, Idris Elba may have found his next starring role in The Mountain Between Us at Fox 2000.
Aniston will play sports dealmaker Denise White, who rose to the top of the male-dominated field by establishing herself as a tireless defender of her high-profile clients. Fox 2000 bought the pitch from Dallas Buyers Club scribe Melisa Wallack.
Denise White rose to the top of the male-dominated world of professional sports management by establishing herself as a tireless defender of her high-profile clients when their images were in serious peril.
The debut novel by Becky Albertalli will be adapted by scribes Elizabeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker. Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen and Isaac Klausner of Temple Hill Entertainment produce, along with Pouya Shahbazian of New Leaf Literary & Media.
A closeted gay teen must find a way to reinvent himself after his secret is exposed.
Kept under wraps, but pitched as a high-concept, original take with YA elements.
The original classic centered on a close-knit African American family who celebrated a tradition of coming together for a big dinner every Sunday, but finds that their family structure begins to fall apart after the death of their mother.
Logline: An adopted young woman who, after being raised in an stuffy, upper-crust household, sets out to find her birth mother–only to discover that she’s a total disaster.
After a private investigator is killed, he gets a chance at redemption, coming back to Earth as a dog in order to solve his own murder.
Set in a futuristic Victorian land ruled by a social class known as the High Hats, animal-human hybrids called Groundlings live in servitude, working in underground factories in the City Below the City.
Kept under wraps, but pitched in the vein of Night At The Museum, following a youngster who can see and interact with an imaginative world he inhabits, though invisible to the rest of us.
The studio is already at work looking to land a writer to script the family adventure film, which is being pitched as a fantasy combining elements from Night At The Museum, Peter Pan, The Neverending Story, and Jumanji.
Story details of the much buzzed-about thriller BED REST written by Lori Evans Taylor are being tightly kept under wraps, but we’re hearing it’s being pitched as a smart character-driven contained thriller.
The hugely popular YA writer of The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns has a new deal with Fox 2000