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Amazon has struck an exclusive overall television deal with Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment. This marks the first ever exclusive TV agreement for Plan B, which met with a number of studios and streamers before setting up TV home at Amazon Studios. Under the pact, Plan B, run by co-presidents Dede Gardner and Jeremy…

The Producers Guild said Thursday that Plan B principals Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner will receive the 2020 David O. Selznick Achievement Award, the PGA’s honor for producers’ outstanding body of work in motion pictures. The award will be presented January 18 at the 31st annual PGA Awards at the…

Rebecca Lenkiewicz, the screenwriter behind critically acclaimed indie films like Colette, Ida, and Disobedience, has been tapped to script for a film about how New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey investigated and eventually broke the lengthy piece that detailed years of sexual misconduct by movie…

EXCLUSIVE: Production is currently underway on the Netflix and Plan B-produced Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde, which has Ana de Armas starring as Hollywood icon. The Andrew Dominik-helmed film has added Garret Dillahunt (Fear the Walking Dead, Widows), Scoot McNairy (Killing Them Softly, True Detective), Lucy DeVito (The…

HBO Max has given a straight-to-series order to Americanah, a long-time passion project of Lupita Nyong'o. The Oscar-winning 12 Years Of Slave standout will star in and executive produce the limited series based on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's best-selling novel of the same name. Nyong'o’s Black Panther co-star Danai Gur…

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Katherine Waterston (Fantastic Beasts franchise) is set for a major role opposite Jude Law in HBO and Sky drama The Third Day. HBO and Sky would not comment. Produced by Sky Studios and Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment, The Third Day is penned by Utopia writer Dennis Kelly and produced in…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Amazon Studios has landed Paper Girls, a drama based on Brian K. Vaughan’s best-selling graphic novel. The project, which has received a series commitment, hails from Legendary Television and Plan B (12 Years A Slave, Moonlight). Toy Story 4 co-writer Stephany Folsom will pen the…

Jude Law is set to star in HBO and Sky drama The Third Day. The Young Pope star is to front the series, which is produced by Sky Studios and Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment. The show is being written by Utopia writer Dennis Kelly and is produced in association with theater company Punchdrunk International. The Third D…

EXCLUSIVE: Picturestart has acquired film rights to Rainbow Rowell’s bestselling novel Eleanor & Park. Plan B will produce with Picturestart’s Erik Feig, whose upstart production company has committed to finance the film. The author is writing the script and will be exec producer. The novel is the bittersweet story of…

Jane Root’s Nutopia (One Strange Rock) and Plan B Entertainment are teaming to bring the Atlas Obscura phenomenon to television in a new premium docuseries. The project marks the first co-production for Nutopia and Plan B, and one of Plan B’s first forays into unscripted TV. Titled Atlas Obscura, the docuseries, which…

Annapurna and Plan B have optioned Alex Michaelides’ debut novel The Silent Patient which they will develop as a feature film. Sue Naegle and Ivana Lombardi will oversee the project for Annapurna. The Silent Patient centers around Alicia Berenson, a famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, who…

Robert Pattinson, Sean Harris, Ben Mendelsohn and Lily-Rose Depp are joining Timothée Chalamet and Joel Edgerton in Netflix’s feature The King, which begins shoot in the UK tomorrow [June 1]. Director David Michôd’s (War Machine) drama is based on classic Shakespeare plays Henry The IV [Parts 1 and 2] and Henry V…