The original comedy pilot, pitched as Encyclopedia Brown meets House, depicts a genius thirteen-year-old college graduate who, looking to prove herself, starts a detective agency with her best friend.
One of the things that has caught my attention of late, and that of others’, obviously, is the growing power of the foreign box office to the overall success of not just a given movie, but also the studios and distributors that put them in theaters. That is especially true of the fastest growing audience in the world, the one in China.
Warner Bros. is developing Impossible Odd, based on a memoir written by Jessica Buchanan and her husband Erik Landemalm, which will be directed by Clint Eastwood. The true-life story will be adapted for the screen by Brian Helgeland who previously worked with Eastwood on Mystic River.
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