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In a deal sources place at $25M+ for worldwide rights, Searchlight Pictures has acquired Annapurna’s darkly comic horror film Nightbitch, starring six-time Academy Award nominee Amy Adams (Arrival), acquired in a competitive sale. Marielle Heller (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) has come aboard to direct the film, based on R…

EXCLUSIVE: Megan Ellison’s Annapurna has promoted Susan Goldberg to Head of Cross-Media development. In the new position Goldberg will focus on adapting Annapurna Interactive's IP to Film & TV, as well as managing Annapurna's push into documentaries and developing third party game IP for live action and animated…

EXCLUSIVE: Sue Naegle is leaving Annapurna after five and a half years at Megan Ellison’s film and TV company, most recently as Chief Content Officer, overseeing film as well two divisions she has been instrumental in launching, television and theater. Naegle’s departure is said to be amicable and she is expected to…

Annapurna has elevated Annapurna Interactive (AI) President Nathan Gary to President of Annapurna. In his new position, Gary will take on the central leadership role overseeing all divisions, film, TV, theater, and interactive. He will join the executive team alongside founder and CEO Megan Ellison, Chief Content…

Oscar-nominated Minari producer Christina Oh has been hired by Megan Ellison’s Annapurna as EVP, Co-Head of Film. She’ll work alongside Adam Paulsen who was recently also named EVP and Co-Head of Film, and Oh will report to Ellison, CCO Sue Naegle and COO Chris Corabi. Oh joins Annapurna from Brad Pitt’s Plan B which…

Apple TV+ has confirmed a series order for The Changeling, a drama based on Victor LaValle’s best-selling book of the same name, with LaKeith Stanfield (Atlanta, Judas and The Black Messiah) set to star. Kelly Marcel (Cruella, Venom) wrote the adaptation and serves as showrunner. Queen & Slim helmer and Insecure alum M…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Patricia Clarkson has been signed to Universal Pictures/Annapurna/Plan B’s She Said, based on New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor's best-selling book, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement, which chronicled their…

EXCLUSIVE:  Annapurna has hired Valparaiso Pictures' Adam Paulsen as EVP, Head of Film and Jack Parker as Creative Executive, reporting to CCO Sue Naegle and COO Chris Corabi. The film team also includes Director of Development Jess Biddle. Annapurna will absorb most of Valparaiso Pictures' slate, with Valparaiso's…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios is developing a TV series adaptation of Reeves Wiedeman's New York Magazine article “Who Killed Tulum?“. Written and executive produced by Mehar Sethi (BoJack Horseman, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia), the project hails from Annapurna, New York Magazine, and Vox Media Studios. Who Killed Tu…

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Heather McMahan, who is set to feature in upcoming Netflix film Love Hard, is prepping a half-hour comedy for Peacock based on her own life. McMahan, who has been a regular co-host and guest on the Today Show with Hoda & Jenna, lost her father to cancer in December 2015 and gave up her acting…

EXCLUSIVE: Annapurna has landed the rights to New York Times bestselling author, Grady Hendrix's forthcoming horror novel, The Final Girl Support Group and are adapting the book as a series. Co-creators of ABC's The Fix, Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain, are set to pen the adaptation. Hendrix will serve as an EP on the…

EXCLUSIVE: Annapurna has teamed with Janicza Bravo, the writer and director behind the forthcoming Zola, to write and direct a series adaptation of Ian Parker's New Yorker article A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions, which has Jake Gyllenhaal attached to star. Published in February 2019, Parker's story explores…