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EXCLUSIVE: HBO has made a two year, overall deal with Craig Zobel. Move comes as Zobel steps in to direct and become exec producer on Mare Of Easttown, the 7-episode limited series that is underway and stars Kate Winslet. The series started with Gavin O'Connor its director. The network said O’Connor has stepped back…

EXCLUSIVE: Scott Free and Black Bear have set Jason Segel, Dakota Johnson and Oscar-winner Casey Affleck to star in The Friend, a fact-based touching drama that STX International will launch for offshore sales at the European Film Market. Directing is Gabriela Cowperthwaite, whose Blackfish was a BAFTA nominee for…

EXCLUSIVE: Kate Winslet will make her limited television series debut in Mare of Easttown, a limited dramatic series for HBO, with Gavin O’Connor directing all the episodes. Brad Ingelsby created the drama, wrote all the episodes and will be the show runner. Winslet will play a small-town Pennsylvania detective who…

EXCLUSIVE: The Accountant team of Ben Affleck and director Gavin O’Connor are circling The Has-Been, a drama scripted by Brad Ingelsby. I’m told Warner Bros is trying to make a deal on a movie that would happen on a fast track. No deals have been completed at this point. The script by Ingelsby has drawn strong…

EXCLUSIVE: Studio 8 just brought in another project. The company has acquired the action/thriller Champion about two American brothers, wrongly sentenced to prison in Thailand, who are then forced to compete in Thai boxing for a chance to win their freedom. The company is now out to directors. This comes after Studio…

EXCLUSIVE: The Brad Ingelsby spec Claire has been bought by Erika Olde of Black Bicycle Entertainment, who will produce with Scott Free’s Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer and Michael Pruss. The script is a thriller that follows a mother who lives on a rural farm who must protect her daughter when she falls in with the…

EXCLUSIVE: Scott Free has come aboard to produce The Burning Woman, a package that has Anne Hathaway circling to star in a spec script by Brad Ingelsby, whose latest script Run All Night, was turned into the Jaume Collet-Serra directed action film that stars Liam Neeson and Ed Harris. Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has just closed a mid- against high-six-figure deal for A Better Place, a spec script by Brad Ingelsby that will be produced by Scott Free’s Ridley Scott and Michael Schaefer, with Michael Pruss exec producing. This amounts to a reteam for Ingelsby and Scott. Ingelsby was a 27-year-old AFI grad living…

EXCLUSIVE: As New Line today opens Jack The Giant Slayer and Disney readies next week’s Oz The Great And Powerful, Hollywood’s infatuation with revisionist fairy tales shows no signs of abating. DreamWorks jumped into the fray last night by closing a mid-six figure against seven-figure deal for Merry Men, a pitch for…

EXCLUSIVE: Indian Paintbrush has put the finishing strokes on a high-six figure preemptively acquire The Signal, a pitch by hot scribe Brad Ingelsby. The company is keeping the logline under wraps, but it is a contained family-adventure film that has a sci-fi element and is set over the course of a family’s weekend…

EXCLUSIVE: Brad Ingelsby, the scribe who blazed on the scene with the script The Low Dweller and who recently sold the script Run All Night at Warner Bros, has been tapped by Screen Gems to write the script for The Raid. XYZ Films is producing the remake of the Gareth Evans-directed martial arts film that won the…

EXCLUSIVE: In what might be the first solid spec sale of 2012, Warner Bros made a preemptive acquisition of The All-Nighter, an actioner scripted by Brad Ingelsby. Deal was mid-six figures up front and the film has Roy Lee and Brooklyn Weaver attached as producers. Ingelsby in 2008 made a big spec deal for the revenge…