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EXCLUSIVE: Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps Entertainment has hired former Scrap Paper Pictures’ development executive Paige Simpson as a Vice President in the TV division. Simpson will be based in the company’s L.A. office and begins her new job on August 1. "We are thrilled to welcome Paige to the team," said Levy and Josh…

Netflix has picked up a second season of its praised fantasy series Shadow and Bone, based on Leigh Bardugo’s bestselling Grishaverse novels. The streamer ordered eight one-hour episodes for Season 2 of the series, which comes from writer Eric Heisserer (Bird Box) and Stranger Things EP Shawn Levy and his 21 Laps Enter…

After spending more then a decade calling 20th Century Fox home, Shawn Levy and his 21 Laps production banner have found a new home. Sources tell Deadline that, after considering several offers, Levy and 21 Laps Entertainment has signed a first-look deal for features with Netflix as well as extending his current TV…

Netflix will deliver more unexplained disappearances, tragic events and bizarre occurrences starting in the fall. The streamer has set an October 19 launch date for the remaining six episodes of Unsolved Mysteries’ first season. The initial half-dozen episodes of the rebooted series premiered July 1 on…

EXCLUSIVE:  We can tell you first that Screen Gems has preemptively acquired Gregg Hurwitz and Philip Eisner’s spec script Sabine for 21 Laps, which the latter’s Shawn Levy and Dan Levine will produce. The deal, we hear, went down over the Independence Day holiday. Sabine is an elevated thriller about an ambitious…

Netflix has set the cast for its eight-part adaptation of Leigh Bardugo's bestselling Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows Grishaverse fantasy novels, from Eric Heisserer, writer of Netflix's smash hit feature Bird Box. The story focuses on a young soldier who uncovers a power that might finally unite her country. But as…

Fresh off his Oscar win for Green Book, Mahershala Ali is diving into the sci-fi world in the upcoming Entertainment One film Sovereign. Details about the plot are being kept under wraps, but it will be directed by Marc Munden (Utopia) and produced by eOne along with 21 Laps Entertainment's Shawn Levy, Dan Levine and D…

EXCLUSIVE: Unsolved Mysteries is back after Netflix revived the long-running true crime and paranormal franchise. The series, which was hosted by Robert Stack and ran for over 500 episodes between 1987 and 2010, is being refreshed by Stranger Things EP Shawn Levy and his company 21 Laps Entertainment and Netflix. I…