EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has set Joseph Kosinski to direct Spiderhead, an adaptation of the George Saunders short story that has been scripted by Zombieland and Deadpool scribes Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick. They just wrote the Michael Bay-directed Ryan Reynolds-starrer 6 Underground for Netflix.

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EXCLUSIVE: After a ferocious bidding battle that involved six studios, Netflix is closing a feature rights deal to The Watcher, an article about the true story of a creepy stalker whose menacing letters kept a family from moving into their New Jersey dream house. Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman are attached to direct…

Netflix continues to expand its relationship with Eric Newman. The streaming network has signed a multi-year overall series deal with the Narcos executive producer and…

EXCLUSIVE: Narcos executive producer and showrunner Eric Newman and I, Tonya producer Bryan Unkeless have joined forces to form Screen Arcade. Their new producing shingle will be berthed at Netflix in a multi-year first-look feature deal. This comes after the duo teamed to produce Bright, which became the first…

Iconic Jamaican music and its local and global impact will be the subject of a new TV series from Narcos showrunner/executive producer Eric Newman; producer Ben Silverman, Chairman and Co-CEO of Propagate Content (Apple’s Planet of the Apps); and Island Records founder Chris Blackwell.

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“Who among you has sat down with Sean Penn?” A reporter jokingly (and seriously) posed to the cast and exec producer of Netflix’s Narcos after they took the stage at today’s TCA. The panel included Executive Producer Eric Newman along with cast members Wagner Moura, Boyd Holbrook and Pedro Pascal.

In all seriousness th…

EXCLUSIVE: Producer Eric Newman's new Studiocanal shingle Grand Electric has set its first project, an adaptation of Trevor Lummis' Life And Death In Eden: Pitcairn Island And The Bounty Mutineers, which scribe Kristina Lauren Anderson has been set to adapt. The pic will tell the true tale of what happened after…

EXCLUSIVE: Producer Eric Newman has formed Grand Electric, a new shingle that starts with a multi-year co-venture with StudioCanal that will enable him to acquire, develop and produce films for the European and U.S. markets. The company will be based in Los Angeles, and StudioCanal will be the financier, foreign sales…

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