In Development Archive

  • Northern Irish helmer Tom Collins will produce and direct a feature adaptation of Seamus Deane’s tome “Reading in the Dark.” Script has already been penned by “Public Enemies” scribe Ronan […]

    Reading in the Dark to be a feature

    Northern Irish helmer Tom Collins will produce and direct a feature adaptation of Seamus Deane’s tome “Reading in the Dark.” Script has already been penned by “Public Enemies” scribe Ronan […]

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  • Cinema Libre is developing a feature version of John Perkins’ “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man,” his behind-the-scenes memoir about the global banking structure and Third World Development. Los Angeles-based […]

    Confessions of an Economic Hit Man – in development

    Cinema Libre is developing a feature version of John Perkins’ “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man,” his behind-the-scenes memoir about the global banking structure and Third World Development. Los Angeles-based […]

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  • Reveille and Jack Black’s Electric Dynamite Prods. have optioned the TV rights to journalist/author A.J. Jacobs’ best-selling non-fiction book My Life As An Experiment for a potential half-hour comedy series. Esquire Editor-at-Large […]

    My Life As An Experiment optioned

    Reveille and Jack Black’s Electric Dynamite Prods. have optioned the TV rights to journalist/author A.J. Jacobs’ best-selling non-fiction book My Life As An Experiment for a potential half-hour comedy series. Esquire Editor-at-Large […]

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  • Alan Ball, the Emmy winning writer/producer behind Six Feed Under and True Blood, has set up Charlie Huston’s novel, The Mystic Arts of of Erasing All Signs of Death, at […]

    Charlie Huston novel heading to HBO

    Alan Ball, the Emmy winning writer/producer behind Six Feed Under and True Blood, has set up Charlie Huston’s novel, The Mystic Arts of of Erasing All Signs of Death, at […]

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  • Jack Ryan, Tom Clancy’s famous CIA analyst, is back! A new film is on track to shoot soon, according to producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura. The film will be called “Moscow,” and […]

    Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan is back

    Jack Ryan, Tom Clancy’s famous CIA analyst, is back! A new film is on track to shoot soon, according to producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura. The film will be called “Moscow,” and […]

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  • “Got a rabbit to pull out of your hat, Percy? You’ve got that Britain-can-make-it look about you. Very intimidating.”  – Bill Haydon, from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy From Variety – A […]

    Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy remake gets cast

    “Got a rabbit to pull out of your hat, Percy? You’ve got that Britain-can-make-it look about you. Very intimidating.”  – Bill Haydon, from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy From Variety – A […]

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  • Working Title (the production company that brought us Pride & Prejudice, Nanny McPhee, and Bridget Jones) and director Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice, Hanna) are developing a live-action adaptation of the […]

    The Little Mermaid live action remake

    Working Title (the production company that brought us Pride & Prejudice, Nanny McPhee, and Bridget Jones) and director Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice, Hanna) are developing a live-action adaptation of the […]

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  • Reviving Ophelia, the famous nonfiction book about raising teenage daughters, is heading to Lifetime. First published in 1994, Mary Pipher’s Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls became a bestseller […]

    Reviving Ophelia heading to Lifetime

    Reviving Ophelia, the famous nonfiction book about raising teenage daughters, is heading to Lifetime. First published in 1994, Mary Pipher’s Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls became a bestseller […]

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  • The rights to Robert Heinlein’s classic story, Have Space Suit, Will Travel, have been granted to Harry Kloor’s Jupiter 9 Prods by the Heinlein estate. Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Peter […]

    Have Space Suit, Will Travel – in development

    The rights to Robert Heinlein’s classic story, Have Space Suit, Will Travel, have been granted to Harry Kloor’s Jupiter 9 Prods by the Heinlein estate. Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Peter […]

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  • From Cinematical – Grassroots is shaping up to be an interesting little Indy film. Based on the book Zioncheck for President: A true story of Idealism and Madness in American […]

    Keep an eye out for Grassroots

    From Cinematical – Grassroots is shaping up to be an interesting little Indy film. Based on the book Zioncheck for President: A true story of Idealism and Madness in American […]

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