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EXCLUSIVE: LA-based producer and sales firm Clear Horizon is lining up a historical drama about the Symbionese Liberation Army and its kidnapping of heiress Patty Hearst. Mizmoon will tell the story of Patricia ‘Mizmoon’ Soltisyk, the radicalized college co-ed who co-founded the terrorist group with her lesbian lover…

As the story of Chloe Dykstra’s sexual assault allegations against Nerdist founder Chris Hardwick continues to unravel, his mother-in-law Patty Hearst — the famed granddaughter of publishing giant William Hearst and kidnapping victim/socialite  — has tweeted her support for her son-in-law in her own special, ambiguous…

Deadline has confirmed that James Mangold is attached to direct an untitled Ford vs. Ferrari project for 20th Century Fox. The news comes in the wake of the studio halting production on the Patty Hearst biopic that Mangold was attached to direct. The Logan director is also set to direct The Force for 20th Century Fox…

EXCLUSIVE: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, who currently can be seen in 20th Century Fox’s The Greatest Showman, has signed on to star alongside Elle Fanning in James Mangold’s untitled Patty Hearst project for Fox 2000. Based on author Jeffrey Toobin’s bestseller, American Heiress, the story follows Patty, the heiress who was…

CNN will add five new original series to its slate in 2018, including four about the 1960s and 1970s, and one about the pope. The news will be unveiled at today’s Turner Upfront presentation in New York City. In addition, HLN will add new original series Unmasking A Killer to its slate in 2018. The new CNN Original…

CBS has put in development a limited series about the headline-making abduction of Patty Hearst. Written by Jonathan Tolins (Grease Live!), the untitled project chronicles the events in 1974 when Patty Hearst, granddaughter of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, was abducted from her Berkeley, California…

EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth Gabler’s Fox 2000 has acquired an untitled book that Jeffrey Toobin is writing about Patty Hearst, the heiress kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974 and brainwashed into becoming a bank robber and spokesman for the radical group’s causes before serving 22 months behind bars. Big Eyes…