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EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-winning The Americans star Matthew Rhys is returning to FX as the lead and executive producer of Wyrd, a drama inspired by the Dark Horse comic. The project, which is in development at the Disney-owned cable network, hails from Sheldon Turner (Up In the Air), Vendetta Prods., FX Prods. and 20th…

EXCLUSIVE: Sheldon Turner and Jennifer Klein and their Vendetta Productions are setting up shop at A+E Studios with a first-look television development and production deal. Under the pact, Turner will pen original series, and A+E Studios and Vendetta will also develop and produce projects targeted at all global and…

EXCLUSIVE: Up in the Air Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winning scribe Sheldon Turner has boarded Amazon’s football drama Work Horses in what is a complete reinvention of the project. He will produce with Jennifer Klein via their company Vendetta Productions. The project, which is being directed by Emmy winning America…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has put in development The Star Chamber, a thriller drama inspired by the 1983 Michael Douglas film of the same name, from Sheldon Turner and Jennifer Klein’s Vendetta Productions and Fox 21 Television Studios. The project stems from Vendetta’s deal at 20th Century Fox TV and Fox 21 TV Studios…

EXCLUSIVE: Existence, a survival story based on a screenplay by Anthony Jaswinski who penned the hit thriller The Shallows, will be directed by Brad Anderson (The Machinist) and produced by Tucker Tooley Entertainment. The harrowing story was inspired by the 1981 ill-fated shipwreck of a research vessel that became…

Universal Pictures has set Jane, a drama that Sheldon Turner will write, with Jennifer Klein producing through their Vendetta label. The African-set action thriller has a strong role for an actress. When well-trained and well-financed professional poachers begin to target a conservationist ranch in Tanzania, it falls…

Fox has handed out a put pilot commitment to Safe Harbor, a drama written by Sheldon Turner and to be directed by McG. The project is produced by Turner and Jennifer Klein’s Vendetta, McG’s Wonderland Sound & Vision and 20th Century Fox TV, where the two companies are under deals. Safe Harbor is an inside look at the…

Fox has given a script commitment plus penalty to Remedy, a medical drama from writer Katie Lovejoy (Dracula), Sheldon Turner and Jennifer Klein’s Vendetta Productions and 20th Century Fox TV, where Vendetta is based. Written by Lovejoy, Remedy is an aspirational drama about Remedy Shaw, a young female medical…

Sheldon Turner and Jennifer Klein and their Vendetta Productions are staying at 20th Century Fox Television. The duo have inked a two-year overall deal with 20th TV and its cable/digital division, Fox 21 TV Studios. Under the new pact, Turner and Klein will continue to develop new projects for network, cable and…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has acquired the Jonathan Miles novel Anatomy Of A Miracle, and Sheldon Turner will write the script. It’s Turner’s first job with the studio since he co-wrote Up In The Air, and before that The Longest Yard. Jennifer Klein is producing. The novel was published last March by…

Fox has given a script commitment plus penalty to Victory Lane, a soapy car racing drama from Oscar-nominated writer Sheldon Turner (Up in the Air). The project hails from Turner and Jennifer Klein's Vendetta Productions and 20th Century Fox TV, where the company is based. Written by Turner, Victory Lane is a…

Fox has given a put pilot commitment to Nightfall, a cop drama from Oscar-nominated writer Sheldon Turner (Up in the Air) and Emmy-winning producer Howard Gordon (24, Homeland). The project hails from Turner and Jennifer Klein’s Vendetta Productions, Gordon’s Teakwood Lane Productions and 20th Century Fox TV, where…