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EXCLUSIVE: Shrink, a original IP based on Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld’s story about a female psychiatrist with a superhero clientele is being produced by Doug Belgrad and his production company 2.0 with producer Adam Fields and Liefeld at Sony Pictures. The project would mine the same comedic action vein as the…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures is moving forward with Jagged Edge, the thriller being crafted for Halle Berry to play the heroine lawyer role originated by Glenn Close in the 1985 hit. The studio has hired Melissa London Hilfers to write the script, and Doug Belgrad’s 2.0 Entertainment banner has been set to co-finance the…

Paramount Television has put in development a drama series based on the 2017 New Yorker article “Remembering the Murder You Didn't Commit.” The project hails from writer-director Hannah Fidell (The Long Dumb Road ) and Doug Belgrad’s 2.0 Entertainment. The magazine article by Rachel Aviv explores the true story of how…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures is in the early stages of mounting a remake of the 1985 thriller Jagged Edge, as a star vehicle for Halle Berry. The effort is being led by Steven Bersch, the Sony Worldwide Acquisitions Group head who took over the genre arm Screen Gems. This one could very well be a standard Sony release…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation with multiple networks pursuing, a Bad Boys spinoff TV series project starring Gabrielle Union has landed at NBC with a pilot production commitment. The project, centered on the Special Agent Syd Burnett character played by Union in 2003’s Bad Boys II who is making a cross-country…

EXCLUSIVE: The Bad Boys hit movie franchise is getting a spinoff TV series centered on the character played in the second film by Gabrielle Union. No one would comment but I hear the untitled project, which is currently being pitched to TV networks, already has garnered strong interest from multiple places and is…

EXCLUSIVE: Three months after ending a 25-year run as a Sony Pictures film exec — the last three as Motion Picture Group president after 10 as Columbia Pictures president — Doug Belgrad has christened his new production shingle 2.0 Entertainment. He has hired Open Road exec Sophie Cassidy to be SVP Production, joining…

Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group chairman Tom Rothman just announced that Sanford Panitch has been appointed president of Columbia Pictures. He will replace Doug Belgrad, who is exiting his post in July to kick off a multiyear production and finance pact at Sony. Panitch worked with Rothman at Fox and…

EXCLUSIVE: Though he was flushed out of the bush quicker than he expected to be by a spate of rumors this week that led to tonight’s press reports about his exit, Doug Belgrad is well along in the construct of a monied production company that will have an exclusive first look deal at Sony Pictures, one that chairman To…

In the second big departure in the executive ranks at Sony Pictures in two days, Doug Belgrad has stepped down as president of the Motion Picture Group after two years in the post. He will leave the studio he has called home for 27 years to move into a producing gig. This comes after weeks of rumors that a change was…

After the bombshell dropped today that Amy Pascal would end a decade atop the Sony Pictures Entertainment film studio to become a producer on the Culver City lot, we are left to contemplate her legacy, her successor and how an era of talent-friendly, lavish and gutsy film making might well be going by the wayside. Now…

Sony Pictures Entertainment continues to shuffle its motion picture division manpower. The studio announced this morning that Columbia Pictures president and former production president Doug Belgrad got promoted to the post of president of its Motion Picture Group. Belgrad continues to report to Amy Pascal…