HBO has greenlighted Gorilla and the Bird, a new limited series from Jean-Marc Vallée, the director/executive producer behind the network’s Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects. Vallée is set to direct and executive produce the project, based on Zack McDermott's book Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother'…

EXCLUSIVE: In a deal in the seven-figures, Netflix has acquired the animated feature White Fang. This marks the first deal by Netflix for a film that debuted at last month's Sundance Film Festival. Netflix will launch the film later this year in the US, Canada, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Japan, South Korea, UK…

EXCLUSIVE: Big Beach is developing a new series titled Brujas Tanya Saracho (Vida) as showrunner. The series will follow four Afro-Caribbean/Latinx women in Chicago and series explore the relationships and community born out of the growing identification with the Bruja movement. Brujas marks the continuing…

Channing Tatum’s Free Association has teamed with Marc Turtletaub and Peter Saraf’s Big Beach to option Zack McDermott’s book Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love, for TV series development. Demolition scribe Bryan Sipe is attached to pen the adaptation and executive produce. The memoir…

Veteran television executive Robin Schwartz is joining Big Beach as head of the company’s TV division. Based in Los Angeles, Schwartz will work closely with company founders Marc Turtletaub and Peter Saraf in creating series that Big Beach produces. Schwartz also will work with the company’s West Coast division…

EXCLUSIVE: Marc Turtletaub and Peter Saraf’s New York-based indie production and finance company Big Beach is opening a Los Angeles office, to be led by executive Dani Melia. The new outpost will be headquartered at the Venice offices of Big Beach’s micro-budget producer Beachside, and the move will give the company…

EXCLUSIVE: Big Beach has teamed with French animation company Superprod and Luxembourg-bassed Bidibul Productions to turn the classic Jack London novel White Fang into an animated film. Alexandre Espirages, who won an Academy Award for his short animated film Mr. Hublot, has been set to direct. It’s the first animated…

EXCLUSIVE: Big Beach is developing a film about the origins of the most popular board game in history – Monopoly. Big Beach producers Marc Turtletaub and Peter Saraf have partnered with Diane Nabatoff to produce a film based on Mary Pilon's best selling non-fiction book The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Mitnick has made his mark as co-writer on last year’s The Giver as well as two hot scripts currently in the works for movies: the 2011 Black List script The Current War (now at The Weinstein Company) and Pinocchio for Robert Downey Jr and Warner Bros. Now he is set to jump behind the camera for the…

EXCLUSIVE: The filmmaking team behind the indie release Safety Not Guaranteed has lined up a follow-up project. Big Beach is re-teaming with filmmakers Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly on The Ambassador, an original screenplay that Connolly and Trevorrow will write and Trevorrow will direct. Big Beach’s Marc…