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Gonzo Girl (Sales)
In order to get an editor to read her manuscript, a recent college graduate takes a job as Walker Reade’s assistant, where she must help him complete his latest novel.
A young girl’s parents aren’t happy together – anyone can see that. So, one winter afternoon, when a siren tells her that there’s a place to learn the future called the Night Forest, the girl follows. As she grows up without her parents in a supernatural forest both beautiful and terrifying, her broken father tries to figure out a way to break into the spirit realm to rescue her.
The Office star Jenna Fischer is set to headline an ABC comedy pilot and a Syfy star is moving to Fox for Bryan Singer’s Marvel pilot.
Producers Chris Morgan and Alex Kurtzman are the narrative architects behind the ambitious slate of genre movies.
The King of Pop’s story is returning to the small screen in a new TV movie following Michael Jackson’s final years through the eyes of one of his bodyguards, Lifetime revealed at TCA today.
The growing cast of the new adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express has added a new name: Willem Dafoe. The film, which hails from 20th Century Fox, is being directed Kenneth Branagh.
The Shallows writer Anthony Jaswinski has sold his latest spec script, Highway One, to DreamWorks in a reported near seven-figure deal. Denise DiNovi is attached to direct, with Lynn Harris and Matti Leshem producing.
John Clayton, a disgraced ex-Marine in the employ of the FBI, begins violently robbing banks with his former unit, killing anyone who stands in their way.
Roland Emmerich’s Centropolis Entertainment recently picked up the crime thriller spec Scarletville from Jason Young. The script, which briefly landed on the Black List, is described as a cross between Blood Simple and Red Rock West.
Lost Boy is a brand new pitch written by Anthony Scott Burns and Ash Thorp that is set to hit the town in a striking way. Jairo Alvarado of Circle of Confusion is representing the pitch as it goes out to major territories.
The popular, Eisner award-winning comic series Bone has found its new director and writer. Mark Osborne is set to helm the film and co-write the most recent draft of the script with Adam Kline.
British author Neil Gaiman is teaming with production company Angry Films to develop a new fantasy series called The Building for Fox, with 20th Century Fox TV as the studio. The series is based on the digital film Parallels, written and directed by Chris Leone.
TB has confirmed that screenwriter Derek Kolstad is teaming up with Alan and Peter Riche to hit the town the week after Thanksgiving with a hot new feature pitch based on Tim Lebbon’s novel Endure, and we’ve got the list of the first buyers lining up to hear it inside.
State Secret scribe Joe Gazzam has sold a pitch to Original Film in the mid-to-high six figures. Plot details are being kept under wraps but the project is being viewed as a potential tentpole for a global audience.
35 years later, Max Landis is set to remake his father’s comedy-horror classic, An American Werewolf in London for Universal Pictures. The Walking Dead’s David Alpert and Robert Kirkman are set to produce with their Skybound Entertainment banner.
Lauren Gussis has teamed up with Ryan Seacrest Productions, Storied Media Group, CBS TV Studios for insatiable, a procedural drama in the works at The CW. This is Gussis’s third sale after setting up projects at CBS and TNT.