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Veteran producer Joel Silver (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey’s Team Downey and Amazon Studios are partnering to develop a series of feature film and television projects based on Donald E. Westlake’s series of highly popular Parker crime fiction novels, written under the pseudonym Richard…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony has preemptively bought the spec The Dryline written by David Rothley, with Joel Silver attached to produce. Patrick Brennan will serve as exec producer. Sources add development is still early on the project and no director or talent are attached at this time. Plot details are being kept under…

UPDATED, 3:12 PM: A Los Angeles judge has exonerated The Matrix, Die Hard and Lethal Weapon producer Joel Silver from civil liability in the drowning death of his personal assistant during a 2015 trip to Bora Bora. Read details of the case below. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dennis J. Landin on Friday granted…

EXCLUSIVE: A shakeup has occurred that leaves Joel Silver exiting Silver Pictures, the production company named for him and which he founded. Silver resigned from the company, sources said. There will likely be more to this, but tonight, when contacted by Hal Sadoff, the former ICM Partners agent who joined Silver…

Joel Silver and his Silver Pictures Television have sold two drama projects to CBS — False Memories, written by Steve Maeda (Salvation), and Crooked Brooklyn, written by Adair Cole (Norco). Both hail from Lionsgate Television where Silver Pictures Television has a first-look deal. False Memories is co-produced by…

EXCLUSIVE: New Regency has won an auction for Rub & Tug, an American Hustle-like true story in which Rupert Sanders will direct Scarlett Johansson in the fact-based story of a woman who flourished in a male-dominated business of massage parlors and prostitution by essentially taking on the physical identity of a man…

Fox has given a script commitment plus penalty to The Nice Girls, a contemporary female take on the Joel Silver-produced 2016 feature film The Nice Guys, which starred Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe and was co-written and directed by Silver's frequent collaborator Shane Black. The project hails from Silver Pictures…

EXCLUSIVE: In its second slate-bolstering deal today at Toronto, Lionsgate has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Vigilance, an action thriller that will star Sandra Bullock. The Oscar-winning Gravity star aligned to the film when it was called Cash Truck, inspired by the 2004 French film Le Convoyeur. The film will…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock will star in Cash Truck, a film inspired by the 2004 French film Le Convoyeur, for Joel Silver’s Silver Pictures. Josef Wladyka, whose credits include Manos Sucias and Narcos, will direct the screenplay by Ethan Erwin, Albert Hughes and John Hodge. The deal came together…

CBS has put in development Southern/Eastern, a legal drama from American Pastoral writer John Romano and producer Joel Silver (Veronica Mars). Lionsgate TV, where Silver’s Silver Pictures Television has a first-look deal, is the studio. Written by Romano, Southern/Eastern is based on the upcoming nonfiction book of…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has acquired Do No Harm, a script by Julia Cox that made the Black List. Joel Silver produces with Ethan Erwin and Sarah Meyer overseeing for Silver Pictures. Script is an erotic thriller in the vein of Unfaithful and Fatal Attraction, and it's drawing interest from talent. Cox is…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is back on track with its long-gestating remake of the pulp sci-fi classic Logan’s Run, and has tapped USA’s Colony co-creator/showrunner Ryan Condal to write a new script. Condal will be basing his screenplay on a treatment by X-Men Apocalypse co-writer Simon Kinberg, who will be producing…