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TanNa Young, a longtime TV producer and production executive, died March 17 in Williamsburg, VA of cancer with complications from Covid-19. She was 51. For the past three years, Young was at Scott Free, serving as a production executive on a number of projects, including playing a key role in shepherding the company’s…

Fox has given a script commitment with penalty to The Counsel (fka Untitled Sunny Hostin Project) a one-hour drama from Sunny Hostin, Scott Free Productions and Universal Television. The project is a co-production of Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, and Fox Entertainment. Written by Erica…

Hot off Insecure winning its first Emmy earlier this month, Issa Rae has now put her production slate under one HOORAE banner and given a promotion to a valued member of her executive team to help lead the new charge. Sara Rastogi has been promoted to SVP of Development, HOORAE Film & TV, the newly minted banner…

Narcos director Andrés Baiz will helm Scott Free and AGC thriller Panopticon, based on the Black List script by Emily Jerome. Tom Moran and Vera Meyer will shepherd the project with Kevin Walsh producing for Scott Free alongside Jerome and AGC Studios CEO Stuart Ford and Head of Production Linda McDonough. Ridley…

Ridley Scott is partnering with financier-producer Anton and UK production outfit Stigma Films on CURS_R, a short-form thriller series that has been set up at Quibi. Written by Simon Allen, whose credits include the recent big budget Das Boot remake, the show will follow a broke student who, in pursuit of an unclaimed…

FX has boarded the BBC's adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol. The three-part series is produced by Ridley Scott's Scott Free, Tom Hardy's Hardy Son & Baker and FX Productions. The U.S. cable network will air the series in December, the latest collaboration between the two broadcasters following Tab…

EXCLUSIVE: Olivia Cooke has signed on to star opposite John Boyega In Naked Singularity, the heist fil helmed by first-time feature director Chase Palmer, who also penned the screenplay with David Matthews. Scott Free Productions is producing the pic, which is an adaptation of the same-titled novel by Sergio De La…

EXCLUSIVE: Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Production, Atlas Industries, and Spin a Black Yarn are teaming on a film adaptation of Bird Box author Josh Malerman's novel Black Mad Wheel with Barnett Brettler on board to write the screenplay. Sean O'Grady and Bill Stertz are producing the project for Atlas along with Ryan…

EXCLUSIVE: Ridley Scott’s Scott Free is restructuring its TV operation, promoting longtime US-based President of Television David W. Zucker to Head of Worldwide TV.  In his expanded new role, he will oversee both Scott Free’s US and UK TV divisions as the company is looking for stronger integration of its creative…

12 Years A Slave and Bohemian Rhapsody outfit New Regency today formally launched international TV outpost New Regency Television International, with former Scott Free UK managing director Ed Rubin at the helm. Based out of London, the division will be charged with producing TV content for the international…

EXCLUSIVE: The era of The Man in the High Castle is coming to an end. The upcoming coming fourth season of the acclaimed Amazon series based on Philip K. Dick's 1962 novel will be its last, I've learned. That fourth and final season is set to launch on the Jeff Bezos-founded streamer this fall. MITHC meticulously and…

EXCLUSIVE: Ed Rubin has stepped down as Managing Director of Scott Free London, we have learned. Rubin, the former Origin Pictures head of film and TV whose credits as executive producer include BBC series The Woman In White and Helen Mirren feature Woman In Gold, joined Ridley Scott’s firm at the start of 2017. His…