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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…

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…