EXCLUSIVE: Lady Bird and Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising star Beanie Feldstein has been set for the title role in Caitlin Moran novel adaptation How To Build A Girl, which Protagonist is launching world sales on in Cannes. The comedic coming-of-age story from UK producer Monumental Pictures will start shooting on…

Last year, all it took was a hashtag, #OscarsSoWhite, to re-energize an important conversation. Twelve months later, Moonlight director Barry Jenkins made history by becoming the first African-American filmmaker to be nominated for Best Director, Picture and Screenplay at the Academy Awards. And, as everyone knows…

Alison Owen and Debra Hayward's Monumental Pictures is set to make a big screen biopic about Victorian mathematician and computer science visionary Ada Lovelace. Development is being supported by Google and the National Academy of Sciences' program, The Science and Entertainment Exchange. Shawn Slovo, who wrote…

Canada’s CBC has greenlit Anne, an eight-episode adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classic children’s novel Anne Of Green Gables. An international co-production, the series is created, written and exec produced by Emmy winning Breaking Bad alum Moira Walley-Beckett. Northwood Entertainment’s Miranda de Pencier is…

Building on the corporation’s aggressive acquisitions spree, ITV unit ITV Studios Global Entertainment has taken a minority stake in Alison Owen and Debra Hayward’s Monumental Television. The indie was founded by the Oscar nominated producers as Monumental Pictures last September. The new agreement will see ITVSGE…

Monumental Pictures, the film and TV production shingle hung by Alison Owen and Debra Hayward in September, has acquired screen rights to How To Build A Girl, the bestseller written by Caitlin Moran. The fourth book by broadcaster, TV critic and Times columnist Moran was published in the UK by Ebury Press in July and…

Prolific UK-based producers Alison Owen and Debra Hayward have joined forces to launch Monumental Pictures. The new production outfit will focus on both film and TV content with the aim to “keep the costs small, but the vision big,” says Saving Mr Banks producer Owen. Long-time friends and colleagues, the pair last…