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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has won a competitive auction for the buddy comedy pitch package Foreign Relations. Kat Coiro is directing a star vehicle for Nick Jonas (Jumanji; The Next Level, Kingdom and the upcoming Jersey Boys Live!) and Glen Powell, who played one of the hotshot pilots in Top Gun: Maverick. Charlie…

BREAKING: Universal Pictures has put in development Invisible Woman, from an original pitch by Elizabeth Banks. Banks will direct and star in the film, and The Girl on the Train‘s Erin Cressida Wilson wrote the current draft. Banks and Max Handelman will produce through their Brownstone Productions, which did the Pitch…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has optioned film rights to The Grace Year, and Elizabeth Banks will direct the adaptation of a novel by Kim Liggett that will be published by Wednesday Books in the fall. Banks and Max Handelman will produce through their Brownstone Productions banner, along with New Leaf Literary…

EXCLUSIVE: Screen Gems has acquired Superfecundation, a spec script from Nicholl Fellowship scribe Savion Einstein. Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman’s Brownstone Productions is coming aboard to produce the comedy romance pic, which is being fast-tracked. The studio is now on the hunt for a director. The script…

Universal has optioned film rights to Uncanny Valley, the upcoming memoir from Anna Wiener that chronicles her time transitioning from a publishing career to a new job in the tech world. Studio-based Oscar producer Michael De Luca and Elizabeth Banks & Max Handelman will produce. Weiner will serve as an executive…

EXCLUSIVE: Brownstone Productions, the film and TV outfit run by Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman, has hired the Jackal Group exec Dannah Shinder its new VP Television. The company also named Dylan Clark Productions’ Sam Crawley as creative executive for both film and TV. The moves come as Brownstone is in full swing…

NBC has given a script commitment plus penalty for a half-hour single camera comedy from Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman’s Brownstone Productions, Black List scribes Sam Pitman and Adam Cole-Kelly and Warner Bros. Television. Co-written and executive produced by Pitman and Cole-Kelly, the untitled project centers on…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures and Brownstone Productions partners Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman haven’t gotten the holidays out of their system yet. The studio has acquired an original untitled holiday pitch by Emmy-winning writer John Riggi that centers on the adventures of Mrs. Claus as she navigates life and…

On the heels of Pitch Perfect 2‘s box office success, Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman’s Brownstone Productions is expanding its film and TV divisions with two new hires. Alison Small and Renate Radford have been tapped as SVPs of Film and Television, respectively. Small will oversee Brownstone's film unit, which is…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Tom Rothman’s TriStar has acquired the rights to Dirty Rush, the scathing comic novel that S&S division Gallery Books publishes this month. Brownstone Productions' Elizabeth Banks & Max Handelman will produce what is being called Mean Girls in a sorority house. Banks & Handelman…

Looks like it was a perfect pitch for the producers of the Pitch Perfect pics. Elizabeth Banks and hubby Max Handelman's Brownstone Productions have signed a two-year, first-look with Universal, the studio said today. And the timing is pretty good as Banks’ directorial debut and Universal-released Pitch Perfect 2 hits…

In its first collaboration, Paramount Digital Entertainment is teaming with Pitch Perfect’s Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman’s Brownstone Productions banner on the workplace comedy Resident Advisors. Banks and Handelman will exec produce and Ira Ungerleider (Friends) has come aboard to shepherd the project as both…