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The drama spec Adrift from writers Aaron and Jordan Kandell, which landed on The Tracking Board Hit List yesterday, is currently being packaged for financiers and distributors. Shailene Woodley is attached to star in the film, with Everest’s Baltasar Kormakur directing.

Pitch Perfect scribe Kay Cannon is getting to make her feature directorial debut with The Pact and has tapped John Cena, Leslie Mann, and Ike Barinholtz to star. The project hails from Seth Rogen’s Point Grey and DMG Entertainment.

The upcoming pic The Pretenders has taken a huge step forward after being circulated around Hollywood for the past three years. James Franco has signed on to direct the romance and up-and-coming actors Jack Kilmer, Shameik Moore, and Jane Levy have signed on to star.

Veep actor Timothy Simons is ready to go on some awkward dates at Freeform while ABC is developing a single-camera comedy from Christina Lee, who wrote and produced Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp for Netflix.

Following a recent bidding war, Participant Media has acquired the spec The Price of Liberty from writer Michael Gunn. They will produce alongside Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro of Tribeca Films and Cary Granat of Reel FX.

Inspired by true events at the end of the Cold War, a young American diplomat and two senators, one Democrat and one Republican, implement a plan to secure the dangerous, unprotected nuclear material of the fallen Soviet Union before it can fall into the wrong hands.

Inspired by true events at the end of the Cold War, a young American diplomat and two senators, one Democrat and one Republican, implement a plan to secure the dangerous, unprotected nuclear material of the fallen Soviet Union before it can fall into the wrong hands.

Comedian Tracy Morgan’s new comedy has received a straight-to-series order at TBS of ten episodes. Key & Peele‘s Jordan Peele created and executive produces the series with John Carcieri.

Sony Pictures’ Jumanji has added Rhys Darby and Morgan Turner to the cast. The pair join previously cast Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Karen Gillan, and Nick Jonas.

The cast for director Ava DuVernay’s next film, an adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, is shaping up nicely and now it has found its lead: young 13-year-old actor Storm Reid.

Comedian and actor Marlon Wayans is developing Naked, a new project with Rick Alvarez, whom he often collaborates with, and Todd Garner. All three are set to produce the American remake, which is currently in pre-production and slated to start production this fall. Wayans will also star as the lead character.

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.

After losing her boyfriend, job, and waking up naked in the middle of a bachelor party due to her constant hunger for physical intimacy, Joy realizes she has a problem: sex and love addiction. She seeks help and meets Maddie, who becomes her sponsor and gets Joy to agree to try to go 30 days without her ex, boys, sex, or romance.

The cast for Melissa McCarthy’s upcoming comedy Life of the Party continues to grow with the addition of comedic actor and UCB improv maestro Matt Walsh. The Veep star is set to play McCarthy’s husband who is “always wearing golf pants.”

Nick Stoller and Francesca Delbanco’s Netflix comedy Friends From College has landed a boatload of actors including the trio of Keegan-Michael Key, Cobie Smulders, and Fred Savage. Annie Parisse, Nat Faxon, and Jae Suh Park are also joining the ensemble comedy from the Neighbors director and his wife/writing partner.

Less than a week after it was announced that Jay Pharoah and Taran Killam would not return to Saturday Night Live, the pair are now set to each star in a series on Showtime.

Warner Bros. has set its main cast for the Ocean’s Eleven spinoff film Ocean’s Eight with Anne Hathaway, rapper Awkwafina (aka Nora Lum), Helena Bonham Carter, Mindy Kaling, and Rihanna.

When NBC’s sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live returns for Season 42 this fall, there will be three faces missing, including two veterans. The contracts for Taran Killam, Jay Pharoah, and Jon Rudnitsky have not been renewed for the upcoming season.

Dustin and his friends work as actors at a fake haunted house on Halloween, but all hell breaks loose when an ancient demon is released inside the house.

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.

After this week’s game-changing season 6 finale, producers have confirmed the first big information regarding the new season by revealing four directors booked for the show.

A group of failed robbers make a plan to rob an eccentric hip hop mogul.

Now You See Me 2 director Jon M. Chu is in early talks to helm In The Heights, the movie version of the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical.

Four friends go on a trip to New Orleans to rekindle their sisterhood and rediscover their wild sides.

An overprotective mother attempts to keep her teenage daughter, young son, and rowdy sister together, while sailing on the doomed voyage of the Titanic. Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead meets Titanic.

Logline: Dustin and his friends work as actors at a fake haunted house on Halloween, but all hell breaks loose when an ancient demon is released inside the house.

Mother/Daughter starring Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn, has booked The Mindy Project‘s Ike Barinholtz. He joins previously cast Goldie Hawn, Christopher Meloni, and Oscar Jaenada.

McKay is attached to produce and direct the adaptation of Mark Weid’s Irredeemable for 20th Century Fox, with Tommy Wirkola penning the script.

The Plutonian is considered the world’s greatest superhero until he begins heartlessly slaughtering the population of Earth – at least those who defy him. His former allies, the superhero group The Paradigm, attempt to find a way to stop his rampage.

A group of eccentric international assassins make a plan to kill the world’s greatest and arrogant hitman.