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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…

Sony landed Infinite, a scifi- spec script by Jacob Chase. Neal Moritz and Original Film will produce. The script is described as a potential tent pole about a crew of scientists who explore the afterlife. Chase is the writer/director who just scored a deal with Amblin Partners to turn his horror short Larry into a…

Neal Moritz has made one of his first moves since landing at Paramount Pictures from his longtime Sony home, with his new studio nabbing movie rights to Sonic the Hedgehog, the iconic Sega video game franchise. The pic was set up by Moritz and Deadpool director Tim Miller at Sony in 2014 as a hybrid…

Paramount Pictures has staked Neal H. Moritz‘s Original Film to a first-look multi-year deal. Chairman and CEO Jim Gianopulos announced he’d gotten the prolific producer behind the Fast & Furious films. The deal begins January 1, when Moritz’s pact with Sony ends. This is a major move, partly because Moritz spent over…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony has hired duo Justin Tipping and Joshua Beirne-Golden to do a rewrite of their superhero film Harbinger. The project is being produced by Fast and Furious franchise producer Neal Moritz (Original Films). Harbinger is the first of five films that Sony has from a deal with comic book publisher Valiant Ent…