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Lionsgate has picked up Kevin Coughlin and Ryan Grassby's horror spec Mother Land in what we hear was a competitive situation. 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen are producing. Billed as a timely and high concept piece, Mother Land centers on a family who has been haunted by an evil spirit for years. Their safety and…

Netflix will deliver more unexplained disappearances, tragic events and bizarre occurrences starting in the fall. The streamer has set an October 19 launch date for the remaining six episodes of Unsolved Mysteries’ first season. The initial half-dozen episodes of the rebooted series premiered July 1 on…

EXCLUSIVE: In another deal that shows the streamer-fueled appetite for promising material and packages, Netflix has made a low-seven-figure commitment between rights to the Matt Query short story My Wife & I Bought a Ranch, and scripting fees for the author’s brother Harrison Query to write the screenplay. The story…

The reteam of Ryan Reynolds with his Free Guy filmmaker Shawn Levy has been scooped up by Netflix. The time travel adventure project was initially set up at Paramount eight years ago with Tom Cruise attached. The latest draft is being penned by Jonathan Tropper off screenplays by TS Nowlin and Mark Levin & Jennifer…

Following their collaboration on the soon-to-be-released film, Free Guy, Ryan Reynolds and Shawn Levy are reteaming on time travel drama for Skydance. Like Free Guy, Reynolds is starring and Levy is directing and the will also produce the pic alongside David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Don Granger of Skydance. Written…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures won a competitive auction for Home Before Dark, a thriller novel by bestselling author Riley Sager, with Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps attached to produce. Book will be published June 30 by Dutton. A woman returns to the house made famous by her father's bestselling horror memoir and the issue becomes…

Once again, the fans at CCXP proved that they are the world’s most passionate fans as they erupted with off-the-charts applause when Free Guy director Shawn Levy and actors Ryan Reynolds and Joe Keery took the stage to talk about the 20th Century Fox action-comedy about bank teller who realizes he is a background…

Netflix has started production on Dash & Lily, an eight-episode holiday romantic comedy series, from Shawn Levy's 21 Laps and Nick Jonas' Image 32. It marks the fifth Netflix series for Levy, who signed one of the first big overall deals with the streamer and has emerged as one of its most prolific producers. Austin Ab…

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…