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Indie feature studio Roadside Attractions, a Lionsgate sister company, is continuing its push into scripted television, acquiring Robert Dugoni’s bestelling and critically acclaimed spy thriller The Eighth Sister to develop as a series. Set in present-day US and Russia, The Eighth Sister, the first book in a planned…

EXCLUSIVE: Hideout Pictures has acquired rights to Kill Whitey Donovan, the upcoming comic book series produced and developed by the 12-Gauge Comics label and published by Dark Horse. Sigrid Gilmer (TNT’s Claws, Netflix’s Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events) has been attached to adapt the series into an…

EXCLUSIVE: AMC Studios has acquired the television rights to Jeff VanderMeer’s popular Borne universe novels to develop as a potential series. The books all take place within the same mysterious, mind-bending universe VanderMeer launched in 2017 with Borne, followed by The Strange Bird, and the latest, Dead Astronauts…

EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth Gabler’s Sony-based production label 3000 Pictures has acquired feature rights to the bestselling book Lost In Shangri La. Author Mitch Zuckoff will team with Richard Abate to adapt the book into a movie script. 3 Arts Entertainment's Abate & Will Rowbotham will produce along with Zuckoff. The…

Vice Media Group has all-but ruled out buying more production companies to bolster Vice Studios, as it focuses on achieving “organic” double-digit revenue growth at the content division in 2020. In a wide-ranging breakfast discussion with journalists from the UK’s Broadcasting Press Guild on Thursday, Vice’s…

Following a solid opening of the WWII pic Midway, Lionsgate is re-teaming with the film’s director Roland Emmerich by acquiring the North American distribution rights to his upcoming sci-fi feature Moonfall. Set to go before the lens in 2020, the pic will be directed by Emmerich based on a script he penned with…

Saban Films has secured the North American distribution rights to Martin Owen's drama Twist, a modern take on Charles Dickens' classic Oliver Twist. The pic, which was acquired out of AFM and will get a theatrical release Q1 of 2021, stars Oscar winner Michael Caine, Game of Thrones alum Lena Headey, recording artist…

Gravitas Ventures has secured the North American distribution to rights The Secret: Dare to Dream, starring Katie Holmes and Josh Lucas. Gravitas has partnered with Roadside Attractions to release the film in theaters on April 17. The pic, which hails from tri-G Films, was directed by Sweet Home Alabama helm Andy…

Channel 4 has nabbed British entertainment format Taskmaster – the highest profile channel swap for a show since The Great British Bake Off moved from the BBC to C4. The network has handed the Avalon Television-produced series a six season deal across three years and will launch episodes in 2020. The show, which was…

EXCLUSIVE: Parkes+MacDonald has acquired the television rights to two titles – Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows’ New York Times bestselling novel My Lady Jane, and forthcoming thriller novel People Like Her by Ellery Lloyd, for series development. My Lady Jane, one of Publishers Weekly's Best Young Adult…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has obtained rights to Seoul Girls, a comedy feature written by Pitch Perfect star Rebel Wilson, with a recent revision by Young iI Kim (Rodham, Billions). Wilson also will take on a role in the pic, which follows a Korean American high school girl and her friends who enter a worldwide talent…

Greenwich Entertainment has secured North American distribution rights to The Capote Tapes, a documentary feature by first-time director Ebs Burnough. The pic, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and closed the DOC NYC event last week, will get a theatrical release in 2020. The…