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EXCLUSIVE: Alloy Entertainment and Paramount Players are set to produce David Yoon’s upcoming YA novel Frankly in Love. Yoon illustrated the New York Times bestselling novel Everything, Everything which was written by his wife Nicola Yoon and made into an MGM and Alloy Entertainment feature last year. Frankly in…

EXCLUSIVE: Another day, another sexual harassment allegation against a powerful man. This industry is making strides to right the ship, but how many women are actually being employed in this industry behind the camera? Are people just talking the talk but not walking the walk? Deadline decided investigate, looking at…

Freeform has put in development Flighty, a single-camera, half-hour comedy, from Alloy Entertainment and Warner Horizon TV. Written by Marissa Berlin (Baby Daddy), Flighty is a comedy about millennial flight attendants searching for adventure, romance and meaning in their lives. Berlin also serves as supervising…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros and MGM have teamed to acquire The Sun Is Also A Star, the YA bestselling novel by Nicola Yoon. Tracy Oliver has been set to write the script. Alloy Entertainment’s Les Morgenstein and Elysa Dutton will produce. Novel is the second by Yoon, whose debut Everything Everything was turned into a…

EXCLUSIVE: Hannah Macpherson is in final talks to direct The Merciless, the Lionsgate adaptation of the Danielle Vega horror novel about good girls gone evil. Script has been written by Marlene King, creator and showrunner of the hit ABC Family teen series Pretty Little Liars. She is exec producer. Alloy Entertainment…

Alloy Entertainment and Alloy Features are moving to produce Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, a feature film based on the book by William and Ellen Craft first published in 1860 that tells the true story of their daring escape from slavery in 1840s Georgia. Married in 1846, the couple fled slavery in 1848 when…

EXCLUSIVE: Alloy Entertainment and corporate sibling Warner Bros Pictures are teaming to develop Private, a feature film adaptation based on the Kate Brian’s bestselling YA book series. That series has spanned 14 books, two prequels and six books from Brian’s spinoff series Privilege via Simon & Schuster. Stacy Rukeyse…

Gina Girolamo, who had been head of television for three years at indie producer Alloy Entertainment, is returning to the fold to head up television operations again with the title of SVP Television Production and Development. The move comes after Girolamo had been EVP of TV at Working Title Films, where she had been…

Alloy Entertainment has landed rights to Maureen Johnson’s bestseller 13 Little Blue Envelopes and will develop the YA novel as a feature film with corporate sibling New Line Cinema. Black List scribe Harper Dill (Friend Of Bill) has been tapped to adapt the book, originally published in 2006 by HarperCollins. A…

Alloy Entertainment has attached Jane The Virgin star Gina Rodriguez and The Sessions writer-director Ben Lewin to Purple Hearts, a film project that Alloy commissioned internally by Alloy Entertainment Features. Written by Kyle Jarrow, it’s a love story about an aspiring musician and a soldier who marry under false…

UPDATED with more details: Lionsgate is in negotiations to acquire the YA novel Blackbird from author Anna Carey in a competitive situation and is talking with Danny Mackey to pen the adaptation. If the deal makes it will be the latest YA book-to-film play from the studio that has reaped such enormous windfalls for…

Alloy Entertainment is developing the fifth and final novel in the Sisterhood series by Ann Brashares for feature treatment. Sisterhood Everlasting will follow the two previous pics based on The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants novels. Sisterhood Everlasting picks up ten years later, after the Sisterhood friends have…