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EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has set up a movie built around Rin Tin Tin, the venerable German Shepherd that once was credited with saving the studio from bankruptcy in the 1920s, and appeared as the hero in 27 films. Hired to write is Matt Lieberman, who most recently scripted another dog tale for Warner Bros in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Ice Cube is in the midst of making deals to star in a pair of movies. He has just closed with Focus Features to join the cast of the Working Title-produced film Covers, directed by Late Night helmer Nisha Ganatra. Production is just getting underway and he is starring alongside Tracee Ellis Ross and Dakota…

EXCLUSIVE:  Akira is revving back up, with Warner Bros negotiating with Taika Waititi, the New Zealand-born director and actor who helmed Thor: Ragnarok. Pic is  a live action version of anime artist Katsuhiro Otomo's 6-volume graphic novel. The story takes place in the rebuilt New Manhattan where a leader of a biker…

Double Dutch International (DDI) has acquired worldwide sales rights to director Gil Junger’s family film Think Like a Dog, the Andrew Lazar (American Sniper) production set for filming this fall. The title will be introduced to buyers at the Toronto International Film Festival later this week. The acquisition was…

EXCLUSIVE: New Line Cinema has acquired film rights to Swedish author Camilla Grebe's bestselling 2015 novel The Ice Beneath Her. The psychological thriller will be produced by Andrew Lazar (American Sniper). Similar in tone to such recent book-to-film adaptations as Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train with its…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount just sealed a deal for Bravado, a topical action spec script by Black List scribe BenDavid Grabinski. American Sniper producer Andrew Lazar developed the script and is producing. Bravado is Narc meets Training Day, on steroids, is how it was described to me. The protagonist is a former soldier who…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony is having a love affair with writers Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton. After closing a $1M deal with the studio last year for a spec and a previous big pitch deal, the writing duo is sealing yet another agreement for a new pitch. And yes, it’s another mid-six-against-seven-figure deal on an idea described…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has acquired rights to tell the story of Ghost Army, a squadron of recruits from art schools, ad agencies and other creative businesses who were tasked with fooling the Nazis into thinking the U.S. had larger troop numbers than it actually did. Bradley Cooper & Todd Phillips’ 22 & Green are…

Michael Chiklis has joined the cast of Rupture, the Steven Shainberg-directed sci-fi thriller starring Noomi Rapace that is the next project of American Sniper producer Andrew Lazar. The pic centers on a single mother (Rapace) struggling to raise her 12-year-old son alone who is abducted by a mysterious organization…

Steven Shainberg has been set to direct Rupture, a sci-fi adventure thriller that will serve as the next project from producer Andrew Lazar, who’s coming off 2014’s highest-grossing film and Oscar Best Picture nominee American Sniper. Details of the story are under wraps, but it centers on a single mother struggling…

EXCLUSIVE: How did Warner Bros win the most hotly contested book auction in a long time, closing a deal last night for It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life Of Love And War, the memoir of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Lynsey Addario? I’m hearing they were in a dead heat with several other suitors, until they…

EXCLUSIVE: John Brancato and Michael Ferris, who’ve scripted The Game and Terminator 3, have been set to write Influence, a thriller that incorporates a true story and terrorism and the dynamics of geopolitical power. Based on Dr. William Chasey's book, Truth Never Dies, the story details how Chasey, a high-powered…