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EXCLUSIVE:  Warner Bros just closed a deal for the horror short story On The I-5, written by bestselling author Kendare Blake. Shawn Levy and Dan Levine will produce for 21 Laps. The story is being kept under wraps but it's a female-empowered subversion of the serial killer genre. Kendare Blake wrote the best-selling…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix and Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps (Stranger Things, Arrival) have acquired the rights to Anthony Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller All The Light We Cannot See to develop into a limited series, Deadline hears. All the Light We Cannot See tells the story of Marie-Laure, a blind French teenager, and…

Fresh off his Oscar win for Green Book, Mahershala Ali is diving into the sci-fi world in the upcoming Entertainment One film Sovereign. Details about the plot are being kept under wraps, but it will be directed by Marc Munden (Utopia) and produced by eOne along with 21 Laps Entertainment's Shawn Levy, Dan Levine and D…

EXCLUSIVE: Unsolved Mysteries is back after Netflix revived the long-running true crime and paranormal franchise. The series, which was hosted by Robert Stack and ran for over 500 episodes between 1987 and 2010, is being refreshed by Stranger Things EP Shawn Levy and his company 21 Laps Entertainment and Netflix. I…

British director Jonathan Entwistle once saw a copy of Charles Forsman’s self-published microcomics series The End of the F***king World in a trash bin. The find led to him creating the cult comedy-drama series for Channel 4 which became a Netflix original in the rest of the world. Now Entwistle is taking another…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Matthews is set to direct Monster Problems at Paramount Players, with Dylan O’Brien in talks to star. Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps is producing. Matthews directed Five Fingers for Marseilles. Matt Robinson is rewriting the Monster Problems script by Brian Duffield, who wrote the Black List script Jane Got a…

EXCLUSIVE: A wild chase has ended with Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps and Greg Berlanti’s Berlanti Productions being chosen as the producers to shepherd a movie adaptation of Be More Chill, a Broadway-bound musical that became a viral sensation with young audiences even before its recent Off Broadway staging. Already, music…

20th Century Fox has attached Ryan Reynolds to star in Free Guy, with Shawn Levy poised to direct the film. Berlanti Productions’ Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter are producing alongside Reynolds’ Maximum Effort, Levy’s 21 Laps, and Adam Kolbrenner. This will be part of the multi-year film deal that Berlanti signed…

The red carpet at this year’s Emmys wasn’t filled with Time’s Up pins, ribbons, or other accessories that supported a cause — but that doesn’t mean issues affecting Hollywood weren’t present on the minds of those walking into the Primetime Emmys. Black-ish star Jennifer Lewis took the carpet in glamorous athleisure…

The anticipated third season of Netflix’s smash hit Stranger Things is “definitely going to yet darker still, places that I think audiences are going to really love,” executive producer and director Shawn Levy said Thursday after the series received 12 Emmy nominations. “It's got so much heart and humor.” Speaking in…

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Fox is finalizing a deal for The Boogeyman, a pitch package for a horror film that teams an iconic Stephen King short story with Scott Beck & Bryan Woods, the scribes behind the genre hit A Quiet Place. 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy Dan Levine and Dan Cohen are producing. King’s short story was first…

One of the biggest television phenomena of our time, what would the Duffer brothers’ Stranger Things be without The Upside Down, or its perfectly calibrated retro aesthetic? As expected last season, the series' production design found its place among 18 total Emmy nominations, though production designer Chris Trujillo…