EXCLUSIVE: London-based lit agent Marnie Podos has left United Agents after eight years to form new management company Under New Mgmt. She will retain her client list including in-demand screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns, whose 1917 script with Sam Mendes is due to shoot next year, playwright Chris Urch (Lee), whose…

EXCLUSIVE: Amblin Partners has won a pitched spec package battle and will finance Oscar winning director Sam Mendes’ World War I film 1917. The film will begin production next April, for U.S. release December 2019 through Amblin’s distribution partner Universal.  Mendes wrote the original script with Krysty Wilson-Cair…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate is setting Tobias Lindholm to make his English-language feature directing debut on The Good Nurse, a thriller based on the book by Charles Graeber and scripted by Krysty Wilson-Cairns. Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa is producing. The pic tells the true story of the pursuit and capture of Charlie…

EXCLUSIVE: Krysty Wilson-Cairns is set to write the film adaptation of Gay Talese's The Voyeur’s Motel which Sam Mendes will direct and produce at DreamWorks Pictures with Steven Spielberg also producing. The hot project that was taken off the market for close to $1M two months ago is being adapted from Talese’s…

EXCLUSIVE– Brit director Marc Munden is in talks to direct FilmNation’s hot sci-fi thriller Aether. Deadline first broke the news last March that Glen Basner’s ambitious company had moved quickly to acquire Krysty Wilson-Cairns’ spec script and to produce, finance and handle worldwide sales on the project. This is a…

EXCLUSIVE: Just when it seemed we might see a week without a big spec script auction, FilmNation Entertainment just landed Aether, and will produce, finance and handle worldwide sales on the sci-fi thriller written by Krysty Wilson-Cairns. FilmNation is moving quickly, already looking for a director for the British…