NBC has given a script commitment plus penalty to Red Stick, a crime drama from Venom and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle producer Matt Tolmach, bestselling author Patricia Cornwell and Sony Pictures TV. Written by Samantha Humphrey (S.W.A.T.), Red Stick is based on an idea by Cornwell. It follows Dr. Annie Dodge who…

EXCLUSIVE: New Regency has acquired the feature film rights to Norman Partridge's award-winning horror novel Dark Harvest, with Michael Gilio set to write the project. Matt Tolmach, who has recently produced such hits as Venom and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (which together have made north of $1.4 billion…

Charleston, South Carolina native Paige Goldberg Tolmach is a local girl made good. She co-founded a successful eco products business in LA and recently earned an Emmy nomination for her directorial debut, the documentary What Haunts Us. Those accomplishments might seem enough for Charleston to take pride in Paige…

For more than two decades, Sony has tried to crack a sequel to the Robin Williams holiday hit Jumanji.  The movie, based on Chris Van Allsburg’s 1981 Caldecott Medal-winning picture book, opened on Dec. 15, 1995 — the same hot zone third-weekend-in-December corridor that’s been owned in recent years by Disney Star Wars…

Sony capped off their CinemaCon presentation tonight with a brand new five-minute clip of its upcoming Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, due out on Dec. 22. Introducing Dwayne Johnson, the studio’s worldwide marketing and distribution chief Josh Greenstein said that the movie will appeal to everyone “from eight to…

EXCLUSIVE: The Michael Pena-starring horror thriller The Bringing with Matt Tolmach producing has just been put into turnaround at Columbia Pictures. Jeremy Lovering (Sherlock) had been on board to direct the project but is no longer. The idea was inspired by the true-life story of a woman found dead in the water tank…

In a competitive situation, Hulu has landed Postal, a TV series adaptation of the Top Cow comics, from Matt Tolmach Productions and Legendary TV. The project, now in development, is being written by The Walking Dead co-executive producer Seth Hoffman. Based on the Postal comic series by Matt Hawkins (Think Tank) and…

EXCLUSIVE: Collateral Beauty‘s screenwriter Allan Loeb has come aboard to adapt the Evan Mandery time travel novel Q which is set up at Lionsgate. Matt Tolmach, Erwin Stoff and Francis Lawrence are producing the story about a 30-year-old guy who meets the woman of his dreams and life could not be better, but right…

EXCLUSIVE: Scott Rosenberg has just been tapped to do a rewrite on the redo of Jumanji for Columbia Pictures. The project is considered a high priority for the studio as it plan to have the film set for release on Christmas Day next year. The project, produced by Matt Tolmach and Bill Teitler, is said to be a…

In a competitive situation, I hear Hulu has landed Myst, a drama series based on the classic 1990s video game, with a script-to-series commitment. The project hails from Legendary Television, The Amazing Spider-Man and Sinister Six producer Matt Tolmach and Divergent writer Evan Daugherty. Written by…

EXCLUSIVE: TriStar has pre-empted film rights for Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Stephen Kurkjian's Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off The World's Greatest Art Heist. Matt Tolmach will produce a film that will tell the story of the 1990 art heist at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, where…

Sinister Six and The Amazing Spider-Man producer Matt Tolmach has hired David Manpearl to serve as EVP Production for his Matt Tolmach Productions banner. Tolmach, the former Sony Pictures co-president of production who departed that post in 2010 to segue into a first-look producing deal on the Culver lot, brings…