UPDATED, 3:55 PM: The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office said today that producer and Benderspink co-founder J.C. Spink died of an accidental overdose or “multiple drug intoxication.” The report did not specify which drugs were involved. PREVIOUSLY, April 19: J.C. Spink, the Hollywood film producer…

UPDATE with statement: Chris Bender and JC Spink announced today they are calling it quits on Benderspink, the pair’s 18-year-old management and production company. Both will start new ventures, we’re told; Spink no longer works at the company’s offices. "We started Benderspink in our late 20's almost 18 years ago,” a…

It Follows writer/director David Robert Mitchell is making his first foray into TV. Universal Cable Prods and Benderspink are developing his crime series Mr. Postman. It follows a mailman who investigates the dark mysteries within his all-American town after a horrific event occurs on his own street. Mitchell is set…

EXCLUSIVE: Screenwriter Annie Neal is rewriting Agatha at Paramount.  The project originated as a spec screenplay by Allison Schroeder which the studio purchased in March 2013.  Disruption Entertainment’s Mary Parent and Cale Boyter are still producing the project along with BenderSpink’s Chris Bender, Jake Weiner and…

Universal Cable Productions has teamed with Benderspink (Ride Along) to develop the superhero comic book Dreadstar into a scripted series. Leading comic artist and creator Jim Starlin (Guardians Of The Galaxy, Captain Marvel) who will serve as executive producer and writer. Ford Gilmore is also signed on to…

EXCLUSIVE: Post-apocalyptic comic series Marksmen is eyeing a jump to the screen via Benderspink and Benaroya Pictures, who are teaming to produce a feature adaptation of the action-thriller saga. Marksmen takes place in a dystopian future America where civil war over oil resources has left New San Diego as the last…

EXCLUSIVE: Benderspink Productions has locked a long-in-the-making deal to develop Mark Powers’ critically acclaimed comic series Drafted. The sci-fi epic feature project will follow the story of Earth’s first contact with aliens who arrive to warn humanity of an impending intergalactic invasion. Men, women, and…

EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment shingle Aspen Comics has signed with management and production company Benderspink. The comic book publisher, founded in 2003 by artist Michael Turner, Frank Mastromauro and Peter Steigerwald, has had properties optioned for the screen before and partnered with Gale Anne Hurd’s Valhalla…

Universal Cable Productions has signed a first-look deal with Chris Bender, JC Spink and Jake Weiner's BenderSpink (The Hangover and The Ring franchises).  Under the deal, BenderSpink will develop and produce scripted programming with UCP for NBCUniversal-owned and outside networks. "BenderSpink has not only great…

I’ve learned that Syfy is finalizing a deal to develop a drama series based on Five Ghosts, the comic created by writer Frank J. Barbiereand artist Chris Mooneyham. The TV adaptation will be written by hot feature writer Evan Daugherty (Ninja Turtles, Divergent, Snow White and the Huntsman) who will executive produce…

Raise your hand if you remember this 2004 flick in which Ashton Kutcher suffered trauma-induced blackouts. Well, a new lawsuit says Benderspink was blacked out from profits generated by The Butterfly Effect, and the company wants its share. The suit filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court (read it here) names…

EXCLUSIVE: After Nazis-from-the-moon pic Iron Sky in 2012, and creature feature Big Ass Spider last year, could this be Berlin’s 2014 hot crossover “genre”? I’m a girl, and Deadline readers are not dupes, so I’m not going to make too many pointed references as to why Zombeavers might catch on in a kitschy fashion…