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Paramount Pictures has optioned the film rights to magic-themed YA book, Caster, which will be adapted as a live-action feature with Scholastic Entertainment, Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman’s Weed Road Pictures, and Josephson Entertainment developing and producing. Written by author Elsie Chapman, the book was first…

“Yes, oh my God, endlessly came up,” Constantine producer Akiva Goldsman said Saturday about the “Want to do a sequel” clamor following Warner Bros’ 2005 DC Keanu Reeves movie about a cynical demonologist who can exorcise demons back to hell. “Boy, we wanted to make a sequel, We wanted to make a hard ‘R’ sequel; we’d…

Editors note: The Star Trek: Picard Podcast is a weekly series of in-depth and informed discussions with the stars and creative team behind CBS All Access' series on the ideas, strategies and geopoetics behind the 10-episode first season of the Patrick Stewart-led sci-fi drama. The podcast is sponsored by CBS All…

Editors note: The Star Trek: Picard Podcast is a weekly series of in-depth and informed discussions with the stars and creative team behind CBS All Access' series on the ideas, strategies and geopoetics behind the 10-episode first season of the Patrick Stewart-led sci-fi drama. The podcast is sponsored by CBS All…

Editors note: The Star Trek: Picard Podcast is a weekly series of in-depth and informed discussions with the stars and creative team behind CBS All Access' series on the ideas, strategies and geopoetics behind the 10-episode first season of the Patrick Stewart-led sci-fi drama. The podcast is sponsored by CBS All…

Editors note: The Star Trek: Picard Podcast is a weekly series of in-depth and informed discussions with the stars and creative team behind CBS All Access' series on the ideas, strategies and geopoetics behind the 10-episode first season of the Patrick Stewart-led sci-fi drama. The podcast is sponsored by CBS All…

Editors note: The Star Trek: Picard Podcast is a weekly series of in-depth and informed discussions with the stars and creative team behind CBS All Access’ anticipated series on the ideas, strategies and geopoetics behind the 10-episode first season of the Patrick Stewart-led series. The podcast is sponsored by CBS…

Just more than a week before Star Trek: Picard debuts on CBS All Access, the return of the legendary Next Generation captain is as much a tale for the early 21st century as it is for the late 24th century, the Television Critics Association learned Sunday in Pasadena. Our world is pretty fractured, executive producer A…

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…