TNT has officially given a pilot order to Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay‘s long-gestating cocaine drama project. It was one of three drama pilots with blinking green light at the network, whose official pickup had been delayed by the regime change at Turner. The other two are Titans and Lumen. Written by Masters Of…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director William Monahan has signed a two-year first-look deal with Paramount Pictures. His company, Henceforth Pictures, has a number of projects already in development, including several Monahan originals. The deal comes as the Monahan-scripted reboot of The Gambler is in production at Paramount…

EXCLUSIVE: After being dormant for the past 2 years, the Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay-produced drama project for HBO Cocaine Cowboys is shifting into high gear with a new writer. Michelle Ashford (The Pacific) has been tapped to write a new pilot script for the potential drama series inspired by Billy Corben’s…

The Wagner/Cuban Company’s Magnolia Pictures acquired world rights to Square Grouper: The Godfathers of Ganja, a doc about pot smuggling in 1970s South Florida from Billy Corben and Alfred Spellman of rakontur, the filmmakers behind the globally popular Cocaine Cowboys series and ESPN's The…