EXCLUSIVE: The spec script Princesses is closing in on a six-figure deal with Pascal Productions’ Amy Pascal and Rachel O’Connor, and Grey Matter Productions’ Lawrence Grey. Spec, which got a lot of interest around town, is written by Nir Paniry and Heidi Sherman Grey did a rewrite. The film’s premise is likened to The…

EXCLUSIVE: After a career full of performances in front of the camera, Tobey Maguire is ready to take his place behind it. Maguire’s Material and Lawrence Grey’s Grey Matter Productions have acquired the screen rights to the Jo Nesbo novella Blood on Snow. They will develop it as a directorial debut vehicle for…

EXCLUSIVE: After helping to hatch the MI6 formation story Section 6 that Universal will make with Joe Cornish directing and Jack O’Connell starring, and doing it again on a Winter’s Knight sale to Sony that got Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales helmers Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg attached to…

EXCLUSIVE: Bruce Lee, who became pound for pound the best action hero Hollywood has ever produced even though he died at age 32 when he was just getting started, is such an iconic figure that when his daughter Shannon held meetings with prospective Chinese production partners on a biopic, she was told that when it…

2ND UPDATE, 12:01 PM PT: After much back and forth Saturday involving Sony, Universal and a last-ditch overture from Warner Bros, Sony finally closed its deal for Winter’s Knight, the Viking-mythology-tinged origin story of St. Nick and Christmas. Sony emerged as front-runner when it agreed to pay $1 million to newbie…

EXCLUSIVE: Oculus filmmakers Mike Flanagan and Jeff Howard have sold their original pitch Peekers to Lionsgate. It's a low-budget horror film that they will adapt from the short story by Bram Stoker Award-winning Irish novelist Kealan Patrick Burke. Last Vegas' Lawrence Grey will produce through his Grey Matter…

EXCLUSIVE: Producers Roy Lee, John Middleton and Lawrence Grey have partnered in Primal Pictures, a new genre arm of Vertigo Entertainment. The company will share the first look deal that Vertigo has with Warner Bros, and a big part of Primal’s mission is to put the studio into the ultra-low-budget genre game. Primal…