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EXCLUSIVE: As of today, Verve has a fifth partner. Adam Weinstein, who guided the careers of writer-director Colin Trevorrow and scribe Derek Connolly from the 2012 indie Safety Not Guaranteed to Jurassic World — the biggest movie of all time not made by James Cameron — has been bumped up to the top rung at the…

After a trying WGA arbitration process, the credit scroll on Jurassic World will read: Screenplay by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver and Colin Trevorrow & Derek Connolly; Story by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver; Based on characters created by Michael Crichton. I've written two stories about this arbitration after Universal…

Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow and his writing partner Derek Connolly have lost another round in the ongoing arbitration of the upcoming film's writing credits. Last week, they appealed a WGA arbitration that ruled that they should share screenplay credit with Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, the…

There's a T. rex-sized dispute raging over the writing credits for Jurassic World, the next installment of the blockbuster franchise. Universal Pictures wanted the names of one writing team to appear in the screen credits, but a WGA arbitration panel has ruled that credit should be shared by two writing teams. Sources…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has acquired Cloaked, a pitch that will be scripted by Derek Connolly and will be produced by Warners-based Team Downey partners Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey. The pitch is based on an idea by Robert Downey Jr., and the Downeys developed the concept with the writer before bringing it to 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…