EXCLUSIVE: Angie Thomas, whose YA drama The Hate U Give was turned into a lauded film by Fox 2000, is moving her newest bestseller On the Come Up from that studio over to Paramountm and it will get made through the studio’s Paramount Players division.

This becomes the second – but likely not last – picture to move over…

EXCLUSIVE: In the first project that has come unglued from Fox since the Disney acquisition, Universal Pictures has picked up rights to The News of The World, an adaptation of the Paulette Jiles novel that is re-teaming Captain Phillips’ director Paul Greengrass and star Tom Hanks.

Scripted by Lion's Luke Davies, the…

EXCLUSIVE: In a surprise move, sources said that Disney will be shuttering the Fox 2000 label run by Elizabeth Gabler. It was believed that Gabler, who made a slew of mid-budget elegant tastemaker films, would continue to lead the executive team who make up her label, but sources said that isn’t going to be the case.

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EXCLUSIVE: Fox 2000 has optioned the Steven Rowley novel The Editor, and Greg Berlanti has been set to direct the film and produce it through his Berlanti Productions. Rob Weisbach will also produce.  This will be the first new project under a new multi-year first look feature deal 20th Century Fox has made for…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox 2000 emerged from a bidding battle that resulted in a substantial seven-figure deal for an untitled original musical fantasy about Hans Christian Andersen. It’s the first original musical from composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz since Wicked, and it will be scripted by David Magee, the Life of Pi scribe…

EXCLUSIVE: In one of the biggest pitch deals of the year, Fox 2000 won an auction for Fruit Loops, the working title for a pitch that Ted Melfi will write and direct, with Chernin Entertainment producing. Fox 2000’s Elizabeth Gabler prevailed over three other studios to win the project in what will be a seven figure…

EXCLUSIVE: Gillian Bohrer has been hired to be executive vice president of production at Fox 2000. The appointment was made by Elizabeth Gabler, who herself has just re-upped as president of the Fox division she has run since 1999. Bohrer recently left Lionsgate, where she saw through the transition of her projects…

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