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EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Alloy Entertainment has secured the rights to How Ted Bundy's Killing Spree Launched a Legion of Feminist Karate Masters, a story about The Feminist Karate Union, by Ivana Rihter, which was published on the Narratively media platform in October 2020. Alloy Entertainment president…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max has put in development The Probability of Miracles, a limited drama series based on Wendy Wunder’s book. The project hails from writer Katie Lovejoy, Alloy Entertainment (Gossip Girl reboot) and Warner Bros TV. In a competitive situation, Alloy acquired rights to the book and Lovejoy is attached to…

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Unjoo Moon has signed on to direct the Alloy Entertainment book adaptation Frankly in Love for Paramount Players, Deadline has learned. The movie project is inspired by the same-name novel from David Yoon, which Time magazine called one of the best YA books of all time. The book follows high…

EXCLUSIVE: Alloy Entertainment’s longtime head of television Gina Girolamo has been promoted to EVP. She will continue to oversee the television division of the Warner Bros. TV-owned company, founded and run by President and CEO Leslie Morgenstein. Girolamo, who established herself as a key executive at the book-to-TV…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has scooped up global rights to Alloy Entertainment’s Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum-directed romance feature Purple Hearts with Nicholas Galitzine cast as the male lead opposite previously announced Sofia Carson. The movie will begin shooting in California later this summer. Adapted from Tess…

EXCLUSIVE: Leslie Morgenstein, founder of Alloy Entertainment and producer of series including Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars, is staying at Warner Bros. Morgenstein has struck a contract extension with Warner Bros. Television Group that will see him continue as President of the books-to-TV and film…

EXCLUSIVE: The team behind hit serial killer drama You is getting the band back together – this time for Peacock. Sera Gamble has teamed up with Berlanti Productions and Alloy Entertainment to adapt You author Caroline Kepnes' book Providence for the NBCU streamer. The project, which is currently in development, will…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS is developing a single-camera comedy about foster parents and children from feature writers Chris Hazzard and Michael Fontana. The network has put the half-hour Foster Friends into development with You and Gossip Girl producer Alloy Entertainment in association with Warner Bros Television producing. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Fast-risers Sofia Carson (Songbird) and Charles Melton (Riverdale) have boarded director Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum's (Sneakerella) YA romance Purple Hearts about two star-crossed lovers. Adapted from Tess Wakefield's novel by Tony Award-nominee Kyle Jarrow (Valor) and Liz Garcia (The Lifeguard), Rosenbaum…

Snowfall writer Aziza Barnes and Insecure's Natasha Rothwell are developing an adaptation of Ibi Zoboi's novel Pride for HBO. Pride is an update to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, a Haitian-Dominican coming of age story that explores young love, teenage angst, and gentrification through magical realism. Barnes, who…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has optioned the rights to Ex-Mas, a feature comedy pitch from Chris Hazzard and Michael Fontana, based on Kate Brian’s 2009 book of the same title. Les Morgenstein and Elysa Dutton of Alloy Entertainment are producing. Set on Christmas Eve, the story follows exes Lila and Beau who take the…

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…