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EXCLUSIVE: Producer Doug Belgrad, director-producer Rod Lurie, and writer Scott Conroy have teamed up for an untitled film based on the true story of how independent journalist and blogger Clare Rewcastle Brown blew the lid off of the Malaysian 1MDB financial swindle, which became one of the biggest public corruption…

Zack Conroy is joining Doug Belgrad’s production and financing company 2.0 Entertainment as SVP, Finance & Operations. Conroy will oversee all financial affairs of 2.0, including supervising accounting and tax matters and investor relations; he will also manage the banking facility led by Union Bank and the financial…

EXCLUSIVE:  Doug Belgrad's Sony-based 2.0 Entertainment has hired writers Sam Chalsen and Nelson Greaves to write a psychological thriller about Ted Kaczynski, who went from Harvard math prodigy, to the subject of an intense psychological experiment, ultimately becoming the Unabomber. Chalsen and Greaves began their…

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…