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Netflix has handed a series order to a four-part limited series adaptation of Anthony Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller All the Light We Cannot See from Shawn Levy and Steven Knight. Stranger Things producer Levy has been developing the project for a couple of years through his company 21 Laps Entertainment at…

On Monday, Disney/20th Century Studios' Free Guy crossed the $300M mark globally, becoming the fifth Hollywood title to the milestone this year. To date, the Ryan Reynolds-starrer has grossed $108.8M domestically and $193.6M at the international box office for a worldwide total of $302.4M. The video game-inspired…

Shawn Levy had a fantastic weekend at the box office. Not only did his long-awaited 20th Century Studios Ryan Reynolds film Free Guy overperform in the face of a daunting pandemic with a $28.3M domestic start, the videogame-inspired romantic comedy repped a huge win for original tentpole material on the big…

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EXCLUSIVE: Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps Entertainment has hired former Scrap Paper Pictures’ development executive Paige Simpson as a Vice President in the TV division. Simpson will be based in the company’s L.A. office and begins her new job on August 1. "We are thrilled to welcome Paige to the team," said Levy and Josh…

Netflix has picked up a second season of its praised fantasy series Shadow and Bone, based on Leigh Bardugo’s bestselling Grishaverse novels. The streamer ordered eight one-hour episodes for Season 2 of the series, which comes from writer Eric Heisserer (Bird Box) and Stranger Things EP Shawn Levy and his 21 Laps Enter…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has acquired The Blindings, a pitch for an original genre film to be written and directed by Alexis Jacknow. 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy & Dan Cohen will produce. The storyline is being kept under wraps but it is a timely twist on genre that takes tonal and conceptual inspiration from such films as Ca…

EXCLUSIVE: The story of how three young men from the Midwest – Ronald Reagan, Lew Wasserman, and Sidney Korshak – became the most powerful man in the world, most powerful executive in Hollywood and the most powerful lawyer in the country – is being explored in a new podcast documentary series. Glitter and Might comes…

Netflix has acquired The Poet, a true crime article by Corey Mead that was published by Greg Nichols and Matthew Pearl's digital magazine and media company, Truly*Adventurous. The streamer has teamed with Stranger Things production company 21 Laps with Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen producing the project under the label…

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Romanek will make a long-awaited return to feature filmmaking to direct the horror film Mother Land for Lionsgate and 21 Laps. 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy & Dan Cohen are producing, and the script is by Kevin Coughlin & Ryan Grassby. The thriller deals with a family that has been haunted by an evil spirit for…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation with multiple offers from financiers and studios, Netflix has won the film rights to Max Taxe's short story Ripple. Taxe, who pitched the project in the room, will adapt his love story with a sci-fi twist. When a time traveler starts meddling with the past just as Miles finally…

After spending more then a decade calling 20th Century Fox home, Shawn Levy and his 21 Laps production banner have found a new home. Sources tell Deadline that, after considering several offers, Levy and 21 Laps Entertainment has signed a first-look deal for features with Netflix as well as extending his current TV…