EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures and Appian Way have teamed with It: Chapter 2 director Andy Muschietti and his producer sister Barbara Muschietti to develop a new version of The Time Machine. Andy and Barbara Muschietti have written a treatment for the film and Andy Muschietti will direct it. Barbara…

EXCLUSIVE: Sky is taking another crack at time-travel after the pay-TV giant began developing a remake of H.G. Wells' classic novella The Time Machine with Tessa Ross and Juliette Howell’s House Productions. The BBC Worldwide-backed production company is developing the project with Nick Payne, the British playwright…

Fox Networks Group Europe and Africa is taking on a reboot of War of the Worlds as its second original commission. The international arm of the U.S. broadcaster has partnered with France's Canal+ and Atlantis producer Urban Myth Films on the eight-part remake, which will be set in the present day and tell the story of…

EXCLUSIVE: In a mid-six against seven-figure deal, Sony Pictures has acquired The Wells Initative, a pitch for a sci-fi/action adventure where a young H.G. Wells, the godfather of science fiction, actually experiences the events that will one day inspire his famous novels. The pitch is by Ben Lustig & Jake Thornton…