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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Naomi Watts is set to star in The Friend, based on Sigrid Nunez's hit book about a woman’s bond with her Great Dane. Nunez’s 2018 novel, which won the U.S.’s National Book Award For Fiction, charts the story of a writer who adopts a Great Dane that belonged to a deceased friend and mentor. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories and Liza Chasin’s 3dot Productions have optioned the rights to Sarah Vaughan’s upcoming novel Reputation to develop as a television series. This marks Vaughan’s second collaboration with Papandrea and Chasin following the high-profile limited series adaptation of Vaughan’s A…

Big Little Lies creator David E. Kelley and former House Of Cards showrunner Melissa James Gibson are collaborating to create an anthology series for Netflix, which will be directed by S.J. Clarkson (Succession, Jessica Jones). Anatomy Of A Scandal is a six-part series based on the bestselling novel of the same name…

As more filmmakers have entered the TV space, television programming is starting to resemble more and more big-screen fare, according to the INTV panel today The Film Factor: How Filmmakers are Changing the Landscape of Television.  “We’re producing episodic TV as we produced movies. It’s far more intense and rigorous…

EXCLUSIVE: Margaret Chernin, previously a VP at Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson’s Color Force and before that at Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Pearl Street, has been hired as SVP at Liza Chasin's 3dot Productions. The company last month inked a multi-year first-look film deal at Netflix to go along with its TV deal at…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has added Liza Chasin and her 3dot productions banner to its roster of first-look feature film producing deals. Chasin formed her production company early last year after ending a 26-year run as the Los Angeles head of prolific Working Title Films. Her producing credits include Baby Driver, The Theor…

Five months after Liza Chasin exited as Working Title Films’ President of US Production to segue to producing, she has launched 3dot productions and has signed a first-look television production deal with Anonymous Content. Under the pact, she will focus on developing and producing scripted programming for TV networks…

By way of explaining Endeavor Content's aim, Co-President Graham Taylor told the INTV conference here in Jerusalem today, “All we're trying to do is make dreams come true.” He was being slightly cheeky at the close of a panel titled “Disruption in Film,” but added quite seriously, “Apathy and cynicism are the death of…

Liza Chasin, the longtime president of Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner’s Working Title Films who joined the company 26 years ago, will leave at year’s end to transition into producing. The move has just been announced internally at Working Title (see the memo below). This comes at a time when the Universal-based production…