In Development Archive

  • From DHD – Now that’s what I call a title! Disney has purchased Cowboy Ninja Viking, a feature pitch from Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese (Zombieland), based on the graphic novel […]

    Disney buys into Cowboy Ninja Viking

    From DHD – Now that’s what I call a title! Disney has purchased Cowboy Ninja Viking, a feature pitch from Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese (Zombieland), based on the graphic novel […]

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  • From Variety: It’s settled – Gary Ross (Seabiscuit, Pleasantville) will direct Lionsgate’s hotly anticipated feature adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ dystopian novel, The Hunger Games. Ross took part in the company’s AFM splash […]

    Gary Ross will direct The Hunger Games

    From Variety: It’s settled – Gary Ross (Seabiscuit, Pleasantville) will direct Lionsgate’s hotly anticipated feature adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ dystopian novel, The Hunger Games. Ross took part in the company’s AFM splash […]

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  • From DHD: The writer who brought us Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies continues his genre rampage – Seth Grahame-Smith is set to write the new […]

    Seth Grahame-Smith lands Dark Shadows gig

    From DHD: The writer who brought us Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies continues his genre rampage – Seth Grahame-Smith is set to write the new […]

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  • It’s the Shakespeare of the future – Darclight Films is producing a post-apocalyptic retelling of Shakespeare’s Henry IV and V. Adapted by Andrew Hislop, Steve Wilkinson, and Michael Anderson, with Michael […]

    Henry V is back, in a futuristic incarnation

    It’s the Shakespeare of the future – Darclight Films is producing a post-apocalyptic retelling of Shakespeare’s Henry IV and V. Adapted by Andrew Hislop, Steve Wilkinson, and Michael Anderson, with Michael […]

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  • From THR – Imogen Poots and Felicity Jones have joined Ed Westwick, Tamsin Egerton, Brooke Shields, Bill Bailey and Bill Nighy to round out the cast for Trap for Cinderella, a […]

    Trap for Cinderella rounds out cast

    From THR – Imogen Poots and Felicity Jones have joined Ed Westwick, Tamsin Egerton, Brooke Shields, Bill Bailey and Bill Nighy to round out the cast for Trap for Cinderella, a […]

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  • From Moviephone – John Carpenter has come on board to direct Darkchylde, a feature adaptation of Randy Queen’s comic series about a Southern teen who becomes the creatures from her […]

    John Carpenter to direct Darkchylde

    From Moviephone – John Carpenter has come on board to direct Darkchylde, a feature adaptation of Randy Queen’s comic series about a Southern teen who becomes the creatures from her […]

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  • From Variety – Of the three Snow White projects currently in development at various studios, it looks like Relativity Media’s adaptation will be the first out of the gate. Relativity Media […]

    Relativity’s Snow White lands director

    From Variety – Of the three Snow White projects currently in development at various studios, it looks like Relativity Media’s adaptation will be the first out of the gate. Relativity Media […]

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  • From DHD – And you thought Hannibal Lector was scary. Get ready to meet Dr. H.H. Holmes, one of America’s first documented serial killers – Leonardo DiCaprio, his Appian Way […]

    The Devil in the White City is Leonardo DiCaprio

    From DHD – And you thought Hannibal Lector was scary. Get ready to meet Dr. H.H. Holmes, one of America’s first documented serial killers – Leonardo DiCaprio, his Appian Way […]

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  • From Variety – Mark Canton and Lucky VIII Films have acquired the rights to Ryan Brown’s debut noval, the football-themed supernatural thriller Play Dead. Joe Schreiber has been tapped to […]

    Are you ready for some zombie football?

    From Variety – Mark Canton and Lucky VIII Films have acquired the rights to Ryan Brown’s debut noval, the football-themed supernatural thriller Play Dead. Joe Schreiber has been tapped to […]

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  • From THR – CBS Films has acquired the rights to Jennifer Egan’s bestselling novel, The Keep, and set Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo) to direct. Ehren […]

    CBS Films builds The Keep

    From THR – CBS Films has acquired the rights to Jennifer Egan’s bestselling novel, The Keep, and set Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo) to direct. Ehren […]

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