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EXCLUSIVE: Scott Free’s Carina Sposato and Netflix’s Ernest McNealey have joined Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment as the company’s first dedicated, senior-level TV executives. The expansion of Plan B’s television division is part of the ongoing TV ramp-up at the company, run by co-presidents Dede Gardner and Jeremy…

EXCLUSIVE: MGM and Plan B Entertainment have acquired the film rights to No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Taddeo's novel Animal, which she will adapt for the screen, marking her feature writing debut. Plan B will produce the film as part of its overall deal with MGM. The novel follows a woman who, after…

Adria Arjona is ready to walk down the aisle with Andy Garcia. She has been tapped to play Garcia’s daughter and the bride-to-be in Warner Bros and Plan B’s reboot of Father of the Bride. Gaz Alazraki has been set to helm the studio's new reboot, which will revolve around a Cuban-American family, with Matt Lopez pennin…

EXCLUSIVE: IMDb TV, Amazon's free, ad-supported streaming service, has put in development High School, a coming-of-age comedy series based on the bestselling memoir by Grammy-nominated, Platinum recording artists Tegan and Sara Quin. It hails from Housebroken co-creator Clea DuVall, Plan B Entertainment and Amazon…

EXCLUSIVE: In an early buy for recently arrived producer Plan B Entertainment, Warner Bros has acquired Mickey7, a science fiction novel by Edward Ashton that will be published in 2021. Run by Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, Plan B will produce. UK rights to the book have been acquired by Solaris, and the…

Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment has locked in a first-look deal at Warner Bros, which will be the global distributor of the label’s titles. Previously, the Dede Gardner-Jeremy Kleiner-Pitt run studio had a three year first look with Annapurna Pictures, which released Oscar winners Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could…

Josh Brolin is returning to television as the star of Amazon’s mystery drama Outer Range. Under the rich talent deal, Brolin also will executive produce the series from playwright Brian Watkins, Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment and Amazon Studios. Created by Watkins, Outer Range centers on Royal Abbott (Brolin), a…

EXCLUSIVE: Topher Grace will join previously announced Oscar nominee Steve Carell, Rose Byrne, Oscar winner Chris Cooper, and Mackenzie Davis in Jon Stewart's next directing gig Irresistible. The film follows the story of a Democrat political consultant (Carell) who helps a retired ex-Marine colonel (Cooper) run for…

Lego Masters is heading to the U.S. Endemol Shine North America and UK-based independent production company Tuesday's Child are teaming with Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment to jointly produce a U.S. version of the hit British series. Talks with potential American-based platforms are set to start later this…

EXCLUSIVE: From the American Revolution to the jungles of the early 20th century, the adaptation of David Grann's bestseller has another explorer. Angus Macfadyen has joined the cast of The Lost City Of Z. Best known for his role as Robert The Bruce in Braveheart and currently playing Major Robert Rogers on AMC's <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/turn/" id="auto-tag_turn"…

EXCLUSIVE: Brad Pitt found his military sidekick in his new Netflix feature War Machine. Anthony Michael Hall has been cast to star opposite Pitt in the satirical comedy from writer-director David Michôd (The Rover, Animal Kingdom). The project, which was inspired by the bestselling book The Operators: The Wild And Ter…

HBO has put in development Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, a comedy project based on David Shafer’s darkly comedic debut novel, with Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment executive producing. Chuck alum Zev Borow will write and executive produce the adaptation, a half-hour comedy about three young adults grappling with the usual…