UPDATE: Allison Shearmur, who died yesterday after a quiet battle with lung cancer at age 54, will have her funeral Monday at 4:30 PM at Temple Israel of Hollywood. Her family is requesting that in lieu of flowers donations be made to the Simms Mann Cancer Center at UCLA. The film community is reeling from the death…

EXCLUSIVE: The Age Of Adaline scribe J. Mills Goodloe is set to rewrite the script for Andrea Portes’ 2014 YA novel Anatomy Of A Misfit, which Paramount picked up in a pre-emptive deal in 2014 for producer Allison Shearmur. Goodloe is rewriting the latest draft from Portes and Joel Silverman. The book, published by…

Lillah McCarthy, a 12-year veteran of TNT and TBS, has joined Allison Shearmur Productions as head of its television operations under the company’s first-look deal with Lionsgate Television. Allison Shearmur Prods, in association with Lionsgate Television, is executive producing the three-hour ABC event musical Dirty D…

Lionsgate has optioned TV rights to Ben Macintyre‘s best-selling biography A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby And The Great Betrayal to be adapted by Flags Of Our Fathers scribe Bill Broyles for Allison Shearmur Prods. Shearmur and Broyles will executive produce. Published last month in the UK, A Spy Among Friends…

Lionsgate TV has  put in development a drama series based on Nick Bilton's bestselling book Hatching Twitter: A True Story Of Money, Power, Friendship, And Betrayal, with former executive and now Lionsgate-based producer Allison Shearmur attached to executive produce. Bilton, a columnist and reporter for the New York T…

EXCLUSIVE: What if Americans had no Independence Day to celebrate? A drama project in development at ABC answers that question by building an alternative reality where the 13 colonies lost the 1775-83 Revolutionary War. Titled The Thirteen, the contemporary drama takes place in a world in which the colonies lost their…

American Psycho is headed to television. FX has put in development an American Psycho drama series that takes place decades after the events in the 2000 movie starring Christian Bale and the novel on which the film was based. Lionsgate TV, whose sibling Lionsgate Films was behind the American Psycho feature, and FX…