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Kasi Lemmons will adapt and direct Maaza Mengiste's historical fiction novel The Shadow King about the Ethiopian women soldiers, left out of the historical record, who went to battle against Mussolini's invading army in 1935 Ethiopia. Atlas Entertainment is producing. The novel follows, Aster, the wife of a commander…

Atlas Entertainment is expanding into literary management with the launch of Atlas Literary following the acquisition of HertzbergMedia. Alex Hertzberg will lead the new division as CEO as they focus on literary creators with unique artistic identities and brands. "Atlas Entertainment has since its inception had the…

EXCLUSIVE: Atlas Entertainment and LuckyChap Entertainment have optioned the film rights to My Year of Rest and Relaxation by PEN Award-winning author Ottessa Moshfegh. The book gets published tomorrow by Penguin. The novel follows a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended…

Atlas Entertainment has promoted Oscar-nominated producer Richard Suckle to the position of president. He will work with company founder and CEO Charles Roven to guide the direction of the film and TV company, mentor its creative executives and continue producing. Suckle joined Atlas in 1992 as Roven's assistant…

In a competitive situation with multiple bidders, Atlas Entertainment and Amblin Television have acquired rights to Astrid Holleeder's Dutch memoir, Judas, to develop as a television series. Judas is the unbelievable but true story which follows Holleeder's life as the youngest sister to Willem "Wim" Holleeder, the…

Mahershala Ali is in negotiations to join the cast of Paramount Pictures’ Triple Frontier, the thriller which will be directed by JC Chandor from a script by Mark Boal. Ali is in two Best Picture nominees this year — Moonlight, where he is also nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and the box office hit Hidden Figures…

EXCLUSIVE: New Line Cinema has acquired rights to Keep Calm, the first novel by filmmaker Mike Binder, which Henry Holt will publish next month. Binder, who most recently directed Black Or White with Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer, will write and direct the film. Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven and Alex Gartner…

Glazer, former EVP at Atlas Entertainment, said today he’s launched Trimax Media to develop feature films, television, digital content and applications. The company has an overhead deal with a private equity investor and a production financing alliance with Toronto-based Dominant Entertainment, led by financier…

In a seven-way bidding war, Alcon Television Group and Atlas Entertainment have teamed to acquire the rights to Joe Ide's upcoming debut novel IQ to develop as a drama series. Informed by Ide's early life, the novel tells the story of Isaiah "IQ" Quintabe, a young black man who has been on his own in the tough area of…

Atlas Artists, the management shingle recently launched by Charles Roven under his Atlas Entertainment, is building out its team, adding veteran execs Tory Howard as VP and Nicholas Todisco as talent manager. They're reuniting with Atlas Artists President Dave Fleming, having previously worked together at…

ABC Family is developing Sketchy, a drama series based on Olivia Samms’ young-adult novels The Bea Catcher Chronicles. Samms will write the TV adaptation for Charles Roven's Atlas Entertainment. A crime procedural with a supernatural twist, Sketchy follows Bea Washington, an edgy, rebellious 18-year-old with a “skill&#8221…

Atlas Entertainment has promoted Curt Kanemoto from his current position as Production Executive to Vice President and upped Topher Rhys-Lawrence, formerly Atlas founder Charles Roven’s first assistant, to Creative Executive. Kanemoto will join Production VPs Andy Horwitz and Jake Kurily, while Rhys-Lawrence will join…