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EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is in early development on an untitled H.G. Wells project from Wes Ball’s OddBall Entertainment, under its Paramount Players label. While specific information on the Wells novel at its center hasn’t been disclosed, we hear that it will be a very loose adaptation stemming from the…

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…