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EXCLUSIVE: Mark Gordon Pictures has tapped playwright John J. Caswell Jr. to adapt a stage musical of the acclaimed short documentary The Flagmakers, from Oscar winner Cynthia Wade and AFI Doc Award winner Sharon Liese. The New York Public Theater's associate artistic director Saheem Ali is attached to…

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Gordon Pictures has assembled an all-star cast including Beanie Feldstein, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Kat Dennings, Jameela Jamil and Lolly Adefope for the anthology series package Girls Can't Shoot (& Other Lies), which is based on the international bestselling essay collection Feminists Don't Wear Pink…

Producer Bibby Dunn has been promoted to President of Mark Gordon Pictures. In the expanded role, Dunn will run production and development for the company, produce scripted film and television content, manage sales across broadcast, cable and streaming, and oversee operations of the company's three offices in Los…

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Gordon Pictures is moving along with its series adaptation of Norman Mailer's spy epic Harlot's Ghost. The Grey's Anatomy and The Rookie producer has attached The Bureau creator Éric Rochant to serve as showrunner on the drama project, which is in development at the company. Rochant, who also is develop…

Mark Gordon Pictures has snapped up screen rights to Walter Isaacson's latest book The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing and the Future of the Human Race, about Nobel Prize-winning scientist and co-inventor of CRISPR technology Jennifer Doudna, which the label will develop as a limited series. The project…

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Gordon Pictures has acquired the rights Stephen McGinty's forthcoming book, The Dive with plans to develop as a feature film and has tapped Edward Hemming to adapt. Mark Gordon and Beth Pattinson will produce for Mark Gordon Pictures. "I'm delighted to be working with Mark, Beth and Ed as they adapt The…

A biopic chronicling the life of Fallon Fox, the first openly transgender MMA fighter, is getting the big-screen treatment from Mark Gordon Pictures and husband and wife writing team T Cooper and Allison Glock-Cooper. Fox originally hid her transgender identity when she began competing professionally as a mixed…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, the UK office of Mark Gordon Pictures has won film and TV rights to Calla Henkel's debut novel, Other People's Clothes, and set Emmy-nominated Unorthodox co-writer and co-creator Alexa Karolinski to adapt. Set in Berlin in 2009, darkly-comedic thriller Other People's Clothes…

EXCLUSIVE: The classic spaghetti Western that helped launch Clint Eastwood’s career looks to be getting the TV treatment as we are hearing Mark Gordon Pictures is developing A Fistful of Dollars as a series. The company has acquired rights to the 1964 film as well as Akira Kurosawa's 1961 samurai epic, Yojimbo, upon…