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EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate won a multi-studio and streamer auction for the film rights to Judy Blume's classic novel Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret. Essentially, Lionsgate has committed to a green light on a film with a budget in the $30 million range, with Kelly Fremon Craig directing her scripted adaptation and…

EXCLUSIVE: In what will likely end in the first huge book to movie sale of the new year, producer James L. Brooks and writer/director Kelly Fremon Craig this week are in the mix with studios on a movie adaptation of the seminal Judy Blume book Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Deadline revealed last October that…

EXCLUSIVE: YouTube has given a pilot order to The Edge of Seventeen, a half-hour comedy pilot from STXtv, based on the 2016 critically praised film of the same name. Annabel Oakes (Transparent, Atypical) is writing and directing the pilot, which will be executive produced by the film’s writer-director, Kelly Fremon Cra…

EXCLUSIVE: In the nearly 50 years since she wrote her groundbreaking book Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Judy Blume has turned down overtures to turn her seminal novel into a film. Finally, she has said yes. Blume has granted the rights to producer James L. Brooks' Gracie Films and Kelly Fremon Craig, who…

Currently headlining the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour and working on a new album, while promoting her new teen comedy, Kelly Fremon Craig’s The Edge of Seventeen, Hailee Steinfeld couldn’t be busier. A newly-minted Golden Globe nominee, Steinfeld will compete against the likes of Emma Stone and Meryl Streep with her…

Producer James L. Brooks sees a similarity between Kelly Fremon Craig’s upcoming teenage comedy The Edge of Seventeen and his Oscar-winning film As Good as It Gets: Without the right cast, neither film could have gone forward. At a Contenders panel moderated by Deadline’s Pete Hammond today, Brooks spoke about landing…

In past years the Toronto International Film Festival has tended to end with a whimper, not a bang, in terms of its closing night film gala. Most of the out of town entertainment press and bloggers are gone and the air is out of the balloon. So when the festival announced that its closing film this year would be…