Life in Pieces executive producer Jason Winer’s hourlong legal dramedy Token White Male has landed at Fox, while CBS is developing a CBS spy drama from the team behind Scorpion.
Mosaic
A story that finally tackles the question every woman has asked at one point in her life… why can’t I just date my best girlfriend?
Pulitzer-prize winning writer Robert Schenkkan has been brought on to write the drama K Troop for Amazon Studios. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is attached to star in and produce the film through his hitRECord Films.
Logline: An engineer creates an android that takes her place when life gets difficult, but she must deal with the consequences when the robot becomes self actualized.
Two new shows have been given put pilot commitments from Fox: Controversy and an untitled workplace comedy from the creators and executive producers of The Grinder.
In the 22nd century, it is widely known that the world will end soon, prompting most people to travel back in time, or “skip,” by way of driving old cars into the desert. A convict forced to be the desert tow truck driver, worried he’ll be the last person on Earth, decides to go against the powers that be where he finds love through a series of whimsical adventures.
Limitless star Jake McDorman has joined the upcoming film Unlovable from internet sensation Charlene deGuzman and actor-writer-director Mark Duplass. In July, the project started a Kickstarter campaign and ended up raising over $60,000 in August.
After being passed around, Amblin Entertainment’s sci-fi romance Intelligent Life may have officially landed in the hands of Jay Roach. The award-winning writer-director is circling the project originally written by Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly.
Logline: A story that finally tackles the question every woman has asked at one point in her life… why can’t I just date my best girlfriend?
Coming off of one of the summer’s biggest comedy successes, Sausage Party co-director Conrad Vernon has already lined up his next project with The Toxic Avenger remake. The film is set to be a more grounded, live-action version of the Troma Films franchise that debuted in 1984.
Logline: A 21-year-old frat boy enters an all-female eating disorder clinic where he discovers love, loss, and purpose.
Former Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul is developing an hourlong drama series at NBC, reports say. Paul will executive produce through his production banner Lucid Road, with brothers John Sonntag and Thomas Sonntag writing the script and serving as additional executive producers.
Israeli filmmaker Tali Shalom Ezer is set to helm Mercy, starring Ellen Page and Kate Mara as lovers-at-odds. The film also stars Amy Seimetz, Pablo Schreiber, and Elias Koteas.
Logline: After their inquisitive 11-year-old son is replaced by a look-alike imposter, the fractured Bach family must come together to solve the mystery, discovering the true meaning of family as they embark on a dangerous, often hilarious adventure that will call into question the very fabric of their reality. Think The Truman Show meets E.T.
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The Huntsman: Winter’s War star Jessica Chastain is in talks to join Jake Gyllenhaal in The Division, the adaptation of the best-selling video game Tom Clancy’s The Division from Ubisoft.
The trifecta of Jessica Williams, Chris O’Dowd, and Noël Wells have signed on to star in an upcoming Untitled James Strouse Comedy. James C. Strouse will be directing and writing the indie romantic comedy.
A western-era comedy about a man trying to marry the woman of his dreams.
The forthcoming drama Chappaquiddick has added Ed Helms and Kate Mara to the John Curran-directed film which tells the true story of Ted Kennedy’s headline-making car accident with Mary Jo Kopechne in Martha’s Vineyard during the ’60s.
Faux-news correspondent Jessica Williams announced her exit from The Daily Show today via Twitter. The comedian joined the late-night program in 2012 and has since become one of the laffer’s most popular performers.
It was a banner day on the spec market, as three major sales went down. The Jennifer Lawrence-Adam McKay pitch Bad Blood was the first to find a home, followed closely by Moonfall from director Roland Emmerich and Mary from Anthony Jaswinski.
After a heated bidding war, Oscar-winner Adam McKay’s pitch Bad Blood has landed at Legendary Pictures with Universal set to distribute.
Story is based on embattled medical company Theranos and its 32 year-old founder Elizabeth Holmes.
The bidding war for Adam McKay’s Theranos medical drama Bad Blood is starting to heat up, with nine offers on the table for the package that includes Jennifer Lawrence and a book proposal from Pulitzer Prize winning author John Carreyou.
Aleister Arcane is the next comic headed to the big screen as Jim Carrey and Eli Roth team up for the adaptation. Jon Croker will write the script and Carrey is set to star and executive produce.
Stand-up comedian Hannibal Buress and a trio of young actors have boarded Spider-Man: Homecoming as the cast continues to expand heading into production. Isabella Amara, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., and J.J. Totah will join Tom Holland, Robert Downey Jr. and Marisa Tomei in the Sony/Marvel superhero reboot.
Earlier this month, we learned that Jennifer Lawrence was teaming up with Adam McKay for a film about embattled medical company Theranos. Now the package is out to potential buyers – the list of which continues to grow as this heads into the weekend.
Adam Pally, Brooklyn Decker, Fred Armisen, Hannah Simone, Ravi Patel, and Susie Essman are all in talks to star in the project alongside Lister-Jones, who wrote the script and is set to make her feature directorial debut.
Story details are being kept under wraps.
Story is based on embattled medical company Theranos and its 32 year-old founder Elizabeth Holmes.
Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence is teaming up with fellow Oscar winner Adam McKay for The Big Short director’s drama about embattled medical company Theranos and its founder, 32 year-old Elizabeth Holmes.
