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EXCLUSIVE: Sonic the Hedgehog franchise producer Original Film is developing a feature take of the Alexis Hall novel, Rosaline Palmer Takes The Cake. Original’s Neal Moritz and Karina Rahardja are producing through their discretionary fund with Paramount. David Mandell is adapting the Forever book, which follows a…

EXCLUSIVE: In a preemptive situation, Neal Moritz's Original Film has landed an untitled horror pitch from Jason Pagan and Andrew Deutschman. Amanda Lewis will be producing for Original. Pitch was bought through Original's Paramount discretionary fund. Details are under wraps, but the project is based on a series of…

EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Robinson’s The Nemesis Saga novel series is getting the small screen treatment. Project Nemesis, the first book in Robinson’s series, is being developed for television by Sony TV and Neal H. Moritz’s Original Film (The Boys), with John Wick helmer Chad Stahelski set to direct and executive produce. Pr…

EXCLUSIVE: Neal H. Moritz’s Original Film (The Boys) and Sony Pictures Television have acquired the rights to the upcoming War Arts Saga fantasy novel trilogy by The Lives of Tao bestselling author Wesley Chu to adapt it for television. The three books are set to be published by Del Rey in 2022, 2023 and 2024. Jason…

Solstice Studios is partnering with Fast and Furious producers Original Film on the original action thriller Shadow Run by Magnum P.I. and upcoming Cliffhanger reboot scribe Joe Gazzam. Shadow Run tells the story of a CIA agent who devoted five years of his life to capturing the Russian spy who killed his wife. His…

EXCLUSIVE: Original Film, G-BASE and Endurance Media are setting action director Jung Byung-gil to helm the Gerard Butler-starrer Afterburn. The film is eyeing a late summer production start from a script by Matt Johnson (Into The Blue). Jung made a splash at last Cannes with The Villainess, and before that Confession…

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…

In a competitive situation, Sony Pictures Television and Neal Moritz’s Original Film have optioned Adam Sternbergh's The Blinds to develop as a TV series. The thriller novel by the Edgar Award-nominated author of Shovel Ready, was published by HarperCollins on August 1. Imagine a place populated by criminals—people…

EXCLUSIVE: Who best to start a new IP for Neal Moritz’s Original Film (Fast and Furious) than the Ip Man himself? Martial artist Donnie Yen is set to star in a new feature from Moritz entitled Sleeping Dogs, which is based on the top-selling video game by Square Enix. Yen, who recently co-starred in Rogue One: A Star W…

Millennium Films’ submarine action-thriller has added another member to its crew, drafting Zane Holtz for a key role in the story about an untested sub captain teamed with an elite military unit to rescue the Russian president from an ongoing military coup. Joining Gerard Butler, Gary Oldman, Billy Bob Thornton…

EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel Chavarria has joined Millennium Films’ naval action thriller Hunter Killer in a key role, joining Gerard Butler, Common, and Gary Oldman in the story of an American submarine commander deployed to Russian waters in order to save the elected Russian president from a military…

EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Killer, the Gerard Butler-Gary Oldman action drama that got stalled by Relativity’s plunge into Chapter 11, has a new director and a start date from Millennium Films. iNumber Number director Donovan Marsh has taken the helm, and a July 25 start date has been set in London. Original Film's Neal Moritz…