EXCLUSIVE: If one wanted to encapsulate the surreal interruption of the way Hollywood dealmaking has functioned for decades, here is a good example. Universal last Friday won in competitive bidding Rubble, a Patrick Pittis-scripted spec whose premise we will keep under wraps other than to call it a contained thriller…

EXCLUSIVE: Antoine Fuqua and Universal Pictures are back in conversations about Scarface, a new version of the classic outlaw tale. They are in early talks for Fuqua to direct the film, and things are looking good as the negotiations get underway. Originally dated August 10, 2018, Scarface is now undated as the pieces…

Universal is staying in business with Dylan Clark, inking a new deal with the longtime producer and his newly launched Dylan Clark Productions. The new alliance keeps Clark, an ex-Universal exec, in the studio after a deal with his previous shingle, the Scott Stuber-founded Bluegrass Films. Stuber recently exited to…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has set 10 Cloverfield Lane scribes Josh Campbell & Matt Stuecken to adapt Scythe, the Neal Shusterman YA novel. Uni-based producer Dylan Clark will produce alongside Trevor Engelson. Shusterman will be executive producer. Scythe is set in a future where humans have eradicated disease…

EXCLUSIVE: While Dylan Clark is figuring out the next iteration of the Universal-based producing shingle Bluegrass after his partner Scott Stuber left to run the feature film division of Netflix, I hear there is also another big movie gig in his future: Batman for Warner Bros and DC. After working so closely with Matt…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures made a preemptive buy on Daniel Kunka’s spec script Space Race, with 10 Cloverfield Lane’s Dan Trachtenberg attached to direct. Dylan Clark will produce, and this marks his first major solo acquisition after partner Scott Stuber’s departure to head feature film at Netflix. Kunka and…

Veteran TV producer Jamie Tarses has teamed with Bluegrass Films partners Scott Stuber and Dylan Clark to form Bluegrass FanFare. The television production company will be based at ABC Studios, where it has entered a two-year overall deal. Under the pact, Tarses, Stuber and Clark — who all worked as top-level…

BREAKING: In a move that has been rumored now for two months, former Universal Pictures EVP Dylan Clark has joined Scott Stuber‘s Bluegrass Films as a partner who’ll oversee film and television. It reunites the duo, who worked together from 2001-2005 when Stuber was Universal vice chairman. Clark had been developing…

EXCLUSIVE: Dylan Clark, who three years ago transitioned from an exec veep post at Universal Pictures to become president of the film division of Chernin Entertainment, is in the process of transitioning out of that post to produce films for Peter Chernin’s shingle. Clark has been in the center of Chernin’s big film…

EXCLUSIVE: While screenwriter Jane Goldman and director Matthew Vaughn are expected to return for the sequel to X-Men: First Class, Goldman is in talks with 20th Century Fox on another priority project with a major director. She’ll adapt Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, the Ransom Riggs novel that…

EXCLUSIVE: In a match that seems ideal, Tim Burton is in early talks to come aboard Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, the Ransom Riggs novel that 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment acquired last spring. Burton is in talks to develop the book as a potential directing project, and he would be…

EXCLUSIVE: Chernin Entertainment has acquired Untitled Foreign Exchange, a comedy pitch that Shawn Harwell will write and Jeff Tomsic will direct.  Peter Chernin, Dylan Clark and Jenno Topping will produce for Chernin Entertainment, which won the pitch with a preemptive offer made from the company’s discretionary…