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A Beautiful Mind writer Akiva Goldsman has struck a first-look deal with MGM Television to develop scripted drama. Goldsman and his production company Weed Road Pictures has signed a multi-year deal with The Handmaid's Tale and Fargo studio. Previously, Goldman had a two-year, non-exclusive first-look deal at Imagine…

EXCLUSIVE: Akiva Goldsman’s Weed Road Pictures is teaming with FilmNation to produce YA movie The Map Of Tiny Perfect Things, I understand. Ian Samuels, director of Netflix’s Sierra Burgess Is A Loser will helm the feature, which novelist Lev Grossman is adapting from his own short story about two teens who live the…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has acquired Brilliance, and will turn the Marcus Sakey novel adaptation into a re-team vehicle for Will Smith and Akiva Goldsman. Smith will star and Goldsman will write the script. They will produce with James Lassiter and Shane Salerno. Pic will be done as a co-production between…

Showtime is developing an adaptation of fantasy drama Gormenghast from Doctor Who writer Toby Whithouse, Good Omens and American Gods' Neil Gaiman and A Beautiful Mind's Akiva Goldsman. Deadline understands that the premium broadcaster has handed the adaptation, which is a co-production between American Gods producer F…

EXCLUSIVE: New Line is back on the launchpad with Space Invaders, ramping up the movie version of the classic Taito arcade game from 1978. Warner Bros bought rights to the game several years ago, and New Line has hired Greg Russo to write the script, this after he wrote the reboot of Mortal Kombat for the studio that…

Sandra Bullock’s college experience is the inspiration for a dramedy series set in the world of music and dance, which is in the works at Amazon. Bullock is executive producing the project with fellow Oscar winners Akiva Goldsman and John Legend executive produce the project. Created and written by K.C. Perry (Constanc…

EXCLUSIVE:  Akiva Goldsman has signed on to write and produce the film adaptations of author Marcus Sakey's bestselling Brilliance trilogy. Goldsman will write the adaptations and produce the films with Shane Salerno and The Story Factory. The producers will shop the book series, which has sold two million copies…

EXCLUSIVE: Gormenghast, the sprawling epic created by British author Mervyn Peake, is finally set to get the adaptation it deserves as it's now possible to put the "impossible on screen", according to Neil Gaiman, Toby Whithouse and Akiva Goldsman. In an exclusive interview with Deadline, the trio talk about how they…

Content may be king in the small-screen hierarchy but context is everything, and Titans seeks to establish early on that this DC Universe series is not for kids. One well-placed "f*ck Batman" by Brenton Thwaites' Robin in the series created by Akiva Goldsman, Geoff Johns and Greg Berlanti that debuts Friday may seem…

Fox has put in development drama 100 Days Without Fear inspired by the life and blog of Michelle Poler, from Oscar-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman and his Weed Road Pictures, and 20th Century Fox TV. Executive produced by Goldsman, 100 Days Without Fear is based on the life and blog of Poler, who embarked on a…

Black Panther and Creed star Michael B. Jordan is in negotiations to star in and produce a film series based on the popular John Clark character from the Tom Clancy novels for Paramount Pictures. The deal is expected to close soon with Akiva Goldsman producing the pic alongside Jordan, Josh Appelbaum, and André Nemec…

EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman has returned to CAA. Goldsman ended a longtime relationship with that agency in 2014, and had moved to WME. There was no acrimony in the move back, but he needed a break back then but remained close friends with CAA chief Richard Lovett. The scribe, who won…