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EXCLUSIVE: With her Emmy-winning show Pose coming to an end, writer/director Janet Mock looks to have found her follow-up feature. She has signed on to direct and rewrite The International Sweethearts of Rhythm for Sony Pictures. A previous draft was written by Pulitzer Prize winning writer Suzan-Lori Parks with Amy Pa…

EXCLUSIVE: Margo Martindale (Uncle Frank), Kristofer Hivju (Game of Thrones), Christian Convery (Sweet Tooth), Brooklynn Prince (The Florida Project), Kahyun Kim (American Gods), and newcomer Scott Seiss have joined Cocaine Bear, rounding out the cast of the Universal pic which heads into…

Peacock has landed for development Red Queen, a drama based on the best-selling YA fantasy novel by Victoria Aveyard. Elizabeth Banks is set to play a major supporting role and direct the potential series, which she and Max Handelman are executive producing through their Brownstone Prods. Co-written by former Arrow…

Yabba-Dabbo-Doo! Elizabeth Banks' Flintstones sequel series Bedrock has landed at Fox. The network is developing the primetime animated adult comedy series with the Charlie Angels and Hunger Games star set to voice Pebbles Flintstone in addition to producing. Banks has been developing a Flintstones project for a…

EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth Banks, who most recently directed the latest Charlie's Angels installment, has signed on to direct Cocaine Bear for Universal Pictures. Written by Jimmy Warden, the film is described as a character-driven thriller inspired by true events that took place in Kentucky in 1985. Banks and Max Handelman…

EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth Banks (The Hunger Games), Sigourney Weaver (Avatar), Kate Mara (The Martian) and Rupert Friend (The Death of Stalin) have been set to star in women’s rights drama Call Jane, which will be directed by Carol scribe Phyllis Nagy. The Blacklist script by The Resident writers Hayley Schore and Roshan…

EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman-led Brownstone Productions has tapped writer/director Karen Maine to direct Miss Conception, a romantic comedy set up at Screen Gems. Maine, who made her feature directorial debut with indie comedy Yes, God, Yes, is directing the pic from a script re-written by Lauryn Kahn…

Fox has put in development Foxy, a single-camera comedy from writer-producers Jennifer Crittenden & Gabrielle Allan (Veep, Divorce), Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman’s Brownstone Productions and Warner Bros. Television, where Brownstone is under a deal. The project is a co-production of Warner Bros. TV and Fox…

Universal, Elizabeth Banks’ Brownstone Productions and Marc Platt are developing a feature live-action hybrid movie about Scholastic's The Magic School Bus.  Joanna Cole wrote the books with Bruce Degen as illustrator. The science-centered series features the intrepid Ms. Frizzle and her class, who set out on field…

In the biggest panel of all 44 shows in Deadline’s Contenders Television virtual event, all seven key female stars of FX’s Mrs. America gathered in different locations to talk about the limited series, which centers on the fight for the ERA as well as the women's liberation movement centering on those who fought hard…

BREAKING: Universal Pictures has put in development Invisible Woman, from an original pitch by Elizabeth Banks. Banks will direct and star in the film, and The Girl on the Train‘s Erin Cressida Wilson wrote the current draft. Banks and Max Handelman will produce through their Brownstone Productions, which did the Pitch…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS has put in development Borrowed Time, a drama from writer Amanda Green; Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman's Brownstone Prods.; and Warner Bros. TV, where Green and Brownstone are under overall deals. This marks the second broadcast sale for Green and Brownstone via WBTV this season; they also have jury…