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EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has acquired a pitch for an untitled romantic comedy from Home Again filmmaker Hallie Meyers-Shyer, for which she'll write and direct. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but we hear that the project will be a modern spin on the romantic comedy genre. Amy Pascal will produce through…

EXCLUSIVE: Winning what was a competitive bidding situation, Amy Pascal via Pascal Pictures just nailed down a sci-fi pitch from screenwriter Kat Wood. This is the second project that Pascal has bought from Wood, following another sci-fi project, Envoy, that Pascal brought into her company last year. This latest pitch…

EXCLUSIVE: Amy Pascal and her Pascal Pictures pre-emptively picked up the sci-fi thriller spec Envoy from screenwriter Kat Wood. The character-driven piece is said to be in the vein of Arrival and The Day The Earth Stood Still and is about an elite military intelligence specialist who jumps at the chance to take part…

EXCLUSIVE: While she is busy in Boston producing the Paul Feig-directed Ghostbusters, Amy Pascal and her production chief Rachel O’Connor have secured Ian Dalrymple to open and run a New York outpost for her Sony-based Pascal Pictures banner. Dalrymple has just started, joining the company after most recently serving…

EXCLUSIVE: Rachel O'Connor will transition from SVP Production at Sony Pictures to run Pascal Pictures. That's the name that the former SPE Motion Picture Group chairman will call her new label, which is just getting underway at Sony with a bunch of high-profile pictures. O’Connor has been a protege who has worked her…