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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has won a competitive auction for the buddy comedy pitch package Foreign Relations. Kat Coiro is directing a star vehicle for Nick Jonas (Jumanji; The Next Level, Kingdom and the upcoming Jersey Boys Live!) and Glen Powell, who played one of the hotshot pilots in Top Gun: Maverick. Charlie Kes…

EXCLUSIVE; Multiple bids are in on Foreign Relations, a buddy comedy pitch to star Nick Jonas (Jumanji; The Next Level & Kingdom) and Glen Powell, who played one of the hotshot pilots in Top Gun: Maverick. Kat Coiro is attached to direct, Charlie Kesslering (Turned On) will write the script, and Elizabeth Banks and…

EXCLUSIVE: Kat Coiro (Marry Me) has been tapped to direct the first two episodes of The Spiderwick Chronicles, Disney+’s live-action series adaptation of the beloved fantasy books. She also will executive produce. The Spiderwick Chronicles book series follows the Grace Family — twin brothers Jared and Simon, their…

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off her rom-com Marry Me‘s release this weekend, director Kat Coiro looks to have found her next project. Sources tell Deadline that Coiro has been set to direct Sony Pictures' The Husband’s Secret. The film, based on Liane Moriarty’s No. 1 New York Times bestseller published in 2013, is currently in…

Jennifer Lopez knows a thing or three about media harassment and being in the public eye 24/7, but that only makes the far-fetched romantic comedy Marry Me seem even less tolerable or redeemable than it might have looked on paper. In its opening minutes, this slickly made, music-drenched concoction serves up a premise…

EXCLUSIVE: After landing coveted directing job for upcoming Marvel series She-Hulk, Kat Coiro continues to stay busy as she has come on to direct the pilot of Girls5eva, the upcoming Peacock comedy from Tina Fey, Robert Carlock and Meredith Scardino. The story follows a one-hit-wonder girl group from the 90's who gets…

EXCLUSIVE: With her next film landing the coveted Valentine’s Day weekend slot, director Kat Coiro is now headed to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She is in negotiations to direct the pilot and several other episodes of Marvel’s She-Hulk series for Disney+. Coiro will also serve as an executive producer on the…

Kat Coiro has been tapped to direct Happy Accident, ABC’s single-camera family comedy pilot from Modern Family writers Abraham Higginbotham and Jon Pollack, 20th Century Fox TV and ABC Studios. Written and executive produced by Higginbotham and Pollack, Happy Accident centers around two Pittsburgh families — a father…

Fox has given a put pilot commitment to Richard Lovely, a single-camera comedy from Grace and Frankie executive producer Billy Finnegan, director Kat Coiro (The Mick) and 20th Century Fox TV. Written by Finnegan, the project, which has an About a Boy vibe to it, is about Richard Lovely, a best-selling children’s book…

Kat Coiro has been tapped to direct Daddy Issues, Fox’s single-camera comedy pilot from actress-writer Erin Foster, New Girl creator Liz Meriwether and 20th Century Fox TV. Coiro’s hire completes a core creative team of all-female auspices on the project. What’s more, it marks the pilot directorial debut of Coiro, who…

ABC has put in development a single-camera comedy pilot from filmmaker Kat Coiro (And While We Were Here, A Case Of You), which Julie Anne Robinson (The Middle) may direct. The semi-autobiographical family comedy is set in a South Beach Haitian restaurant. Coiro grew up in the apartment above her parents’ Haitian…

Splitting The Difference, a comedy created by filmmaker Kat Coiro (And While We Were Here, A Case Of You), has sold to ABC with penalty. It hails from Eva Longoria’s UnbeliEVAble Entertainment and Universal TV, where the company is under a first-look deal. The project is based on Tré Miller-Rodriguez’s memoir Splitting…