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EXCLUSIVE: Neal Moritz’s Original Film has acquired Relay, a spec screenplay by Macmillan Hedges in a competitive bidding situation. The details of the script are being kept under wraps but is described as a big Sci Fi tentpole. It was bought through Original’s Paramount deal discretionary fund. Hedges is currently…

UPDATE, 4:36 PM PST: Got some clarity on Adam Wingard’s plans for Face/Off. He is approaching the film as a sequel to the original hit film, as opposed to a remake as I had been told when I broke the story. But I believe the leads will be re-cast. EARLIER EXCLUSIVE, 12:38 PM PST: Paramount Pictures has chosen You’re Ne…

EXCLUSIVE: Just like Hobbs and Shaw themselves, Universal and The Fast and the Furious franchise producer Neal Moritz have become a buddy flick again. Almost two years after Moritz took the Comcast-owned studio to court for breach of contract on the F&F spinoff starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham, the two sides…

Paramount has reupped its first-look deal with producer Neal Moritz, giving the acclaimed producer a two-year extension on his current pact. It extends the studio's relationship with Moritz through December 2023. "I am thrilled to extend this relationship with Neal and Original Film, which already has been so fruitful…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures made a preemptive mid-six against seven-figure deal on Murder In The White House, a spec script by Jonathan Stokes. Neal Moritz and Toby Jaffe will produce for Original Film. Script has a ring of a Knives Out-style whodunit, set inside the White House. The President is murdered during a…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is giving a face lift to Face/Off, the 1997 John Woo-directed action thriller that starred John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. The studio will reboot the film, with new cast. Oren Uziel has been set to write the script, and Neal Moritz will produce and David Permut will be executive…

EXCLUSIVE: Twenty six years after the iconic original debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, Neal Moritz’s (The Fast And The Furious) awaited reboot of hit action-thriller Cliffhanger is heading to the Cannes Marché where it will be among the buzziest projects on sale. In a zeitgeisty twist, the reimagined, big-canvas…

Fox is developing an adaptation of graphic novel Talent with Justified showrunner Graham Yost. The broadcast network has partnered with Boom! Studios, the comic book publisher behind the graphic novel, Neil Moritz and his Original Films firm and Sony Pictures Television to develop it as a one-hour drama. Fox has…

EXCLUSIVE: Sofia Vergara is set to star and produce an untitled project with Original Film. Kyle Pennekamp & Scott Turpel, the duo behind Baywatch and Last Vegas, are set to write. Specific plot is under wraps, but it’s a female ensemble comedy with action. Neal Moritz is producing with Amanda Lewis executive…

EXCLUSIVE: The Fast and The Furious spinoff Hobbs and Shaw opens next summer, but the Universal flick might be doing wheelies in the courts by then too. Franchise producer Neal Moritz today sued the Donna Langley-run studio for breach of oral contract and promissory fraud over being tossed out the door of the spinoff…

EXCLUSIVE: Women have already become staples of the superhero movie game, but now the genre will have its first plus-size female heroine. Sony Pictures is moving forward with a live action adaptation of the Valiant Comics superhero story Faith, and the studio has hired American Gods scribe Maria Melnik to write the…

EXCLUSIVE: The prolific producing pair of Amy Pascal and Neal H. Moritz have teamed to acquire film rights to Long Bright River, the upcoming suspense novel from Liz Moore. The book just sold at auction to Penguin Random House imprint Riverhead Books. Moore is also set to adapt the book, which is set in her native…