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The Writers Guild is on a roll, prevailing in yet another significant arbitration on behalf of its members – this time winning a dispute involving a feature film writer's right to reacquire his original, unproduced script that the guild says "paves the way for more similar rulings." The arbitrator's…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Eric Warren Singer, one of the screenwriters behind Paramount’s summer smash Top Gun: Maverick. The Tom Cruise sequel nearly 30 years in the making hit theaters on May 27 and has thus far grossed over $907 million worldwide, registering as the highest grossing film of 2022. Singer shares…

Lionsgate has hired Eric Warren Singer, an Oscar nominee for his work on American Hustle, to write the heist thriller Now You See Me 3, based on a fresh take by Singer. "Eric has always been fascinated with the fine art of deception and illusion in all of its forms and he came to us with a great story that takes the…

Production of the Apple series Shantaram has been put on hold for the next few months and will resume after the end of the monsoon season in India. The series, based on Gregory David Roberts' best-selling novel and starring Charlie Hunnam, had fallen behind on scripts and will use the hiatus to catch…

In a competitive situation, Apple has landed an international drama series project based on Gregory David Roberts’ best-selling novel Shantaram, from Anonymous Content and Paramount Television, to develop for straight-to-series consideration.  Anonymous Content and Paramount TV earlier this year won a monthlong bidd…

EXCLUSIVE: Eric Warren Singer, the co-writer and exec producer for the Oscar-nominated David O Russell-directed American Hustle, has returned to CAA. Singer left the agency almost a year ago and spent the past 10 months at UTA. He most recently turned in a rewrite of No Exit, which Joseph Kosinski will direct for…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has brought Oscar-nominated writer Eric Warren Singer into the agency fold, signing him over the weekend. Singer shared screenplay credit and an Oscar nom with David O Russell for American Hustle, and he also scripted the Tom Tykwer-directed The International. He adapted the Robert Stone novel Damascus G…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox is in talks with American Hustle scribe Eric Warren Singer to adapt the Jason Matthews espionage book Red Sparrow for Chernin Entertainment and Film Rites to produce. They have David Fincher and Rooney Mara circling to re-team for the first time since The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. The film will be…