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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle actress Madison Iseman, Ben O'Brien, Caleel Harris and It star Jeremy Ray Taylor have been tapped to star in Sony’s Goosebumps sequel, which Ari Sandel is developing based on one of the multiple iterations of R.L. Stine’s popular book series that have sold more than 350 million copies…

Sony has set Ari Sandel to direct Goosebumps 2, but the studio still hasn’t decided which of two versions in development he will film. One of the versions has a new script by Rob Lieber, and both are adaptations of different installments of the fright anthology novel series by R. L. Stine. In any case, Goosebumps 2…

EXCLUSIVE: Adam Devine is set to co-write and star opposite Alexandra Daddario in When We First Met, a romantic comedy from director Ari Sandel (The DUFF). Footprint Features, MXN and Wonderland Sound and Vision will produce the pic, which Good Universe will launch at Cannes. Devine stars as Noah, who spends the…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has found a director for Monster High, the live action film the studio hopes will add to its arsenal of movie franchises. I hear the job is going to Ari Sandel, who won the Oscar for his short film West Bank Story and followed up by directing The Duff for CBS Films. This was a big open…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS Films has set Ari Sandel to direct Preconception, a comedy about a mid-30s couple who resolve to cut loose and tick off items on a pre-parenthood bucket list before getting tied down by a baby. Donald De Line is producing. It was scripted by tyro scribes Jake Morse and Scott Wolman, who sold it as a…