[ MORE developers are turning optimistic on the industrial-property sector, with major players eyeing more land and new firms looking to the segment for revenue diversification. Axis Real Estate Investment Trust (Axis-REIT), a major player in the industrial-property space, announced last month that it would be acquiring an industrial complex and an open storage yard … Read more
[ EXCLUSIVE: Following a competitive situation with what we hear were four offers, TriStar Pictures has snapped up film rights to Wesley Wang‘s nothing, except everything., a short film that Wang will adapt for the big screen as writer and director, with Darren Aronofsky‘s Protozoa producing. A 19-year-old currently studying economics at Harvard, Wang made … Read more
[ EXCLUSIVE: The comedy duo of Mimi Davila (Problemista) and Laura Di Lorenzo (Selena: The Series)—who perform as The Chonga Girls— are set to write, star and co-executive produce an eponymous multi-camera comedy series in development at CBS Studios, Deadline has learned exclusively. The project hails from Marlena Rodriguez (Silicon Valley, Clone High) who will … Read more
[ EXCLUSIVE: Physician turned #1 NYT bestselling author Robin Cook is partnering with Euro Gang Entertainment, the entertainment company of Gianni Nunnari and Simon Horsman, on a pair of new projects for film and TV. The first, Bellevue, will be a feature based on Cook’s forthcoming novel of the same name, which marks a departure … Read more
[ Scott Derrickson has been set to direct an adaptation of Davis Grubb’s classic 1953 novel The Night of the Hunter for Universal Pictures, working from his script written with C. Robert Cargill, his longtime collaborator on The Black Phone, Doctor Strange and other projects. Peter Gethers will produce through his KramMar Delicious Mystery Productions, … Read more
[ EXCLUSIVE: Tony Hawk long ago conquered the skateboarding world and next up on his list of tricks is animation. The legendary skateboard champion has teamed with Montreal’s Laughing Dragon Studios to develop Skatebirds, an animated TV series aimed at kids aged 6-11. The series, inspired by Hawk’s ‘Birdman’ nickname, will aim to “celebrate skateboarding’s … Read more
[ EXCLUSIVE: Toronto’s Skyfox Media and Munich’s Studio 100 International have put into development a comedy-adventure feature promising a blend of “fantasy, steampunk and humor.” Grimmlings is billed as a heartwarming comedy-adventure set in St. Crispin’s Orphanage, Shropshire, England, in 1908, and will explore themes of friendship, family and self-discovery in a “fantastical world” of … Read more
[ A live-action Teen Titans movie is in development at DC Studios, Deadline has confirmed. Set to pen the script, after being tapped by the studio to write Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, is Ana Nogueira. No word yet on a logline for the film or who will be producing. A director for the project has … Read more
[ EXCLUSIVE: Terence Winter, the writer-producer known for his work on Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos and more, will team with Vincent Piazza, Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and Phiphen to develop Midge, a tragicomic feature based on an absurd but true, as-yet-untold story. At the center of it is Thomas Midgley, Jr., the man who in … Read more
[ EXCLUSIVE: Foundation Media Partners has secured the exclusive life and book rights of the FBI, Secret Service, and U.S. Marshals’ most-wanted con man Matthew Cox. The company will immediately begin developing both scripted and non-scripted limited series around Cox’s life and infamous exploits, as a mortgage fraudster who stole more than $50 million, beginning … Read more
