Paradigm

The Path star Aaron Paul has joined Olga Kurylenko for Android. Niall Johnson is set to direct with a script he co-wrote with Matt O’Reilly.

The Daniel Adams-directed comedy An L.A. Minute has tapped Gabriel Byrne and Kiersey Clemons for the lead roles. The film will be a satirical look at fame, success, the star-making machinery and the karma that attaches to all those who worship at the altar of celebrity.

Star Wars: The Force Awaken actor Domhnall Gleeson has joined Sony’s upcoming live-action/CGI adaptation of Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit. He’ll be taking on the role of the pseudo-villainous farmer, Mr. McGregor.

Logline: “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” meets “Cryano” in this rom-com about a historical novelist who turns to writing erotica when his fiancé leaves him.

Centers on a man in a lonely spaceship orbiting Neptune as he fulfills his dream to rebuild his dead wife and their son as androids, but when the androids begin demanding a life of their own, his life is suddenly in danger and a battle of wits and strength ensues.

Summer hit Stranger Things from Netflix is gearing up for season two as they add Sadie Sink and Dacre Montgomery to the cast. They are also promoting Joe Keery and Noah Schnapp to series regulars from recurring. The show stars Wynona Ryder, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, and breakout star Millie Bobby Brown.

Details are being kept under wraps.

Oscar winner Mark Rylance and director Ciro Guerra are bringing Nobel Prize winner Waiting for the Barbarians to the big screen with producer Michael Fitzgerald. The book from J.M. Coetzee was published in 1980 and won numerous awards.

Follows a magistrate of the border outpost as the reckless behavior of the Empire he serves threatens to trigger a Barbarian invasion. He begins to question imperialism when he saves a young ‘barbarian’ and realizes that all is not what it appears to be.

TV Land’s pilot for the adaptation of the cult classic Heathers has found its J.D. and Veronica in James Scully and Grace Victoria Cox. The two will star as the volatile couple originally played by Christian Slater and Wynona Ryder in the 1988 dark comedy which focused on the social order of high school.

The article “She Would Have Been the Perfect Mom For Someone That Was Actually Sick,” by Michelle Dean details the strange 2015 case about Dee Dee Blanchard and her supposedly sick daughter Gypsy Rose.

Details the strange 2015 case about Dee Dee Blanchard and her supposedly sick daughter Gypsy Rose.

Article details the strange 2015 case about Dee Dee Blanchard and her supposedly sick daughter Gypsy Rose.

History is developing the alien-themed drama Blue Book from Robert Zemeckis and A+E Studios. Young & Hungry alum David O’Leary created and wrote the spec which follows the real-life, U.S. Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena from 1947-70.

Under their production banner Fazekas & Butters, showrunners Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters have been busy selling several projects, including two hourlong series to ABC, and one each at Freeform and Amazon, as well as developing a series based on the Tao trilogy by Wesley Chu.

Over the past several days, two networks, ABC and CBS, as well as the cable channels TNT and MTV, have picked up four brand-new drama series, continuing the Peak TV trend that’s gotten bigger and bigger in the last couple of years.

Logline: Set in a future where population growth is strictly controlled, a “broker” guides a young mother and her baby to a safe zone, in exchange for information that will allow him to enact a long-awaited revenge.

Based on the life of Deborah Sampson, a woman from Massachusetts who disguised herself as a man in order to join the Continental Army and fight for her country’s independence during the Revolutionary War

Based on a true story, a 30 year-old who’s settled for less than her dreams suffers a traumatic disappointment and then a bout of Transient Global Amnesia. She believes herself to be 18 years old again, giving her the opportunity to take another run at life, but also forcing her to relive past tragedies.

Based on the life of Deborah Sampson, a woman from Massachusetts who disguised herself as a man in order to join the Continental Army and fight for her country’s independence during the Revolutionary War.

Logline: Kept under wraps.

Logline: The inspirational true story of Dan Inosanto, Bruce Lee’s protégé, who trained the 1976 Dallas Cowboys in the art of Kung Fu and helped them win the Super Bowl.

PalmStar Media has acquired the rights to the classic novel The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho from The Weinstein Company for an eye-popping $6.5 million. Laurence Fishburne, who has been attached to direct the project for some time, will remain attached.

AMC has booked Tobias Menzies to lead their new anthology drama The Terror based on the novel by Dan Simmons. The 10-episode first season is due out next year.

A bolt of lightning inspires an incredible journey in this charming, magical realism adventure that takes four teens on an all-night journey through the streets of New York City.

Just weeks ahead of its release, The Odds of Lightning, a new YA novel from author Jocelyn Davies, is sparking some heat in the film rights market. The book, which is being published by Simon Pulse, is set to hit bookshelves on September 20.

Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist is the latest classic to get the television treatment with NBC giving the contemporary take a script commitment. Joel Silver and Lionsgate are behind the adaptation with scribes Chad Damiani and J.P. Lavin penning the pilot.

Chuck star Zachary Levi has put into development Unidentified at NBC with Universal Television and his Middle Man Productions banner. Levi has a first-look deal with Universal TV which began after he was cast in Heroes: Reborn.

Upcoming scifi-thriller Kin has landed itself an all-star cast including Dave Franco, Dennis Quaid, Jack Reynor and Zoe Kravitz. The film is based on the short film Bag Man from directors Jonathan and Josh Baker, who return to helm the feature version.

Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne, and Steve Carell are set to appear in Richard Linklater’s “sort of” sequel to the 1973 Oscar-nominated dramatic comedy The Last Detail starring Jack Nicholson.