EXCLUSIVE: Levantine Films has optioned Jerry and Marge Go Large, an article by Jason Fagone for Huffington Post’s Highline. Brad Copeland will write the script. Gil Netter will produce alongside Levantine.

Fagone's article focuses on Jerry and Marge, a couple married for over 60 years who found a nifty way to finance…

Barbra Streisand has come aboard to direct Catherine The Great, a feature film from the Black List script written by Kristina Lauren Anderson. Gil Netter is aboard to produce, and now with Streisand attached casting is underway. The deal means the pic will mark Streisand’s first directing gig since 1996’s The Mirror Ha…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney has set Philippa Boyens to script an adaptation of The Merlin Saga, based on the series of books written by T.A. Barron. Life Of Pi‘s Gil Netter is producing. It’s a coup for the studio to land Boyens, who hasn’t really worked outside her long collaboration with Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, with…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has found a director to bring the best-selling William Paul Young novel The Shack to the screen. They’ve hired Stuart Hazeldine to helm the film, which was scripted by John Fusco and will be produced by Gil Netter through Netter Productions and Brad Cummings. The hope is to get in production by…

EXCLUSIVE: Summit Entertainment has acquired screen rights to the William Paul Young novel The Shack, with John Fusco aboard to write the script. The film will be produced by Gill Netter through his Netter Productions banner, and Brad Cummings.

The logline: In the aftermath of a devastating personal tragedy, Mackenzie…

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