Russell Ackerman and John Schoenfelder’s Addictive Pictures has signed a two-year first-look deal with AMC. Under the pact, the cable network will have first crack at Addictive Pictures development. Ackerman was Guillermo del Toro's development executive for six years, and worked on such films as the horror pic Mama…

Waypoint Entertainment has acquired the rights to author Jeff Lemire and illustrator Emi Lenox’s comic series Plutona, a coming-of-age story which centers on a group of kids who find the body of a famous dead superhero in the woods. The move comes right before the start of Comic-Con which starts in earnest next week…

BREAKING: Waypoint Entertainment has acquired the rights to two Mark Millar properties: American Jesus and Supercrooks. Millar is the comic book writer of Wanted, Kick-Ass, Kingsman: The Secret Service as well as Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War. Waypoint's Ken Kao (The Nice Guys) will produce with partner Dan Kao…

EXCLUSIVE: David S. Goyer's Phantom Four and Addictive Pictures beat out several others to produce Max Landis' next project, Deeper. In the drama, a disgraced astronaut embarks on a mission to reach the bottom of a newly discovered oceanic trench, theorized to be the lowest point on planet Earth. He encounters an…

EXCLUSIVE: Ken Kao was one of the new financiers who made a splash on the Croisette when he launched Bloom with former Exclusive Media exec Alex Walton and shopped international on several strong properties including Sea Of Trees with Gus Van Sant directing Matthew McConaughey, Naomi Watts and Ken Watanabe. Under his…