In Development Archive

  • From DHD – Another day, another fairy tale remake. This time it’s Paramount’s Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters moving forward, with the studio setting Famke Janssen (X-Men) to play the leader of […]

    Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters rounds out cast

    From DHD – Another day, another fairy tale remake. This time it’s Paramount’s Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters moving forward, with the studio setting Famke Janssen (X-Men) to play the leader of […]

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  • From DHD – CBS Films has snapped up the rights to Marie Lu’s upcoming dystopian YA novel, Legend, the first of a trilogy. Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey (Twilight) will produce through their […]

    CBS Films acquires Marie Lu’s Legend

    From DHD – CBS Films has snapped up the rights to Marie Lu’s upcoming dystopian YA novel, Legend, the first of a trilogy. Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey (Twilight) will produce through their […]

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  • With pilot orders coming fast and furious from the nets (a pilot order is when the nets decide to shoot the first episode), we’re starting to get a hazy glimpse […]

    Bookish TV – the pilot season so far

    With pilot orders coming fast and furious from the nets (a pilot order is when the nets decide to shoot the first episode), we’re starting to get a hazy glimpse […]

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  • From DHD – Of the pack of Snow White projects racing towards the big screen, it looks like first off the mark will be Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman, which […]

    The avalanche of Snow White

    From DHD – Of the pack of Snow White projects racing towards the big screen, it looks like first off the mark will be Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman, which […]

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  • From DHD – Warner Bros and Anonymous Content have acquired the rights to Fletch, the classic Gregory Mcdonald series that spans eleven books and spawned two Chevy Chase movies. Anonymous Content’s […]

    Warner Bros to reboot Fletch

    From DHD – Warner Bros and Anonymous Content have acquired the rights to Fletch, the classic Gregory Mcdonald series that spans eleven books and spawned two Chevy Chase movies. Anonymous Content’s […]

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  • From DHD – Following in the wake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, another hugely popular Sweedish crime novel is heading for the big screen. New Regency has acquired Three […]

    New Regency up for Three Seconds

    From DHD – Following in the wake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, another hugely popular Sweedish crime novel is heading for the big screen. New Regency has acquired Three […]

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  • From DHD – Summit Entertainment has snapped up the rights to Kenneth Oppel’s upcoming novel, This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, and attached Karen Rosenfelt (Twilight) to produce. Teeming […]

    Summit acquires This Dark Endeavor

    From DHD – Summit Entertainment has snapped up the rights to Kenneth Oppel’s upcoming novel, This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, and attached Karen Rosenfelt (Twilight) to produce. Teeming […]

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  • From THR – Stephen King’s classic novel, The Stand, is finally heading for the big screen. The long-time rights holder, CBS, has at last decided to take on a partner […]

    The Stand is heading for the big screen

    From THR – Stephen King’s classic novel, The Stand, is finally heading for the big screen. The long-time rights holder, CBS, has at last decided to take on a partner […]

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  • From The Live Feed – The Bones spin-off has found it’s leading man, and his name is Geoff Stults (Happy Town, She’s Out of My League). Stults will play Walter Sherman, a former […]

    Bones spin-off casts its leading man

    From The Live Feed – The Bones spin-off has found it’s leading man, and his name is Geoff Stults (Happy Town, She’s Out of My League). Stults will play Walter Sherman, a former […]

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  • From DHD – In a surprisingly bold move, ABC has picked up Poe, a crime procedural that follows Edgar Allan Poe, the world’s very first detective, in 1840’s Boston as he […]

    ABC orders Edgar Allan Poe pilot

    From DHD – In a surprisingly bold move, ABC has picked up Poe, a crime procedural that follows Edgar Allan Poe, the world’s very first detective, in 1840’s Boston as he […]

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