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EXCLUSIVE: Osgood Perkins is on board to rewrite and direct A Head Full of Ghosts, a Focus Features adaptation of the Paul Tremblay thriller novel. The film tells the story of Merry, who 20 years after her family was publicly consumed and destroyed by her teenage sister's mysterious and horrific affliction, is…

UPDATED – March 27, 2017: Universal Pictures' Untitled Doctor Dolittle project, starring Robert Downey Jr. as the title character, will be released on Friday, May 24, 2019. Directed by Academy Award winner Stephen Gaghan, the film is based on the enduring tales imagined by Hugh Lofting, with Gaghan writing the most…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. and Team Downey principals Robert Downey Jr and Susan Downey have enlisted Tate Taylor to direct and Mike Jones to script their untitled project on the USS Indianapolis. This is the harrowing WWII shark tale made famous by the chilling speech Robert Shaw's Quint character delivered to shipmates…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has acquired Cloaked, a pitch that will be scripted by Derek Connolly and will be produced by Warners-based Team Downey partners Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey. The pitch is based on an idea by Robert Downey Jr., and the Downeys developed the concept with the writer before bringing it to the…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros and Team Downey have set Bill Dubuque to write a new draft of The Judge, a dramedy that’s planned as a star vehicle for Robert Downey Jr., with David Dobkin directing. The drama centers on a big-city lawyer who returns home after the death of his mother to learn that his estranged father, a…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has acquired the Adam Gibgot pitch The Accidental Genius for Robert Downey Jr and Susan Downey’s Team Downey to produce with Ben Silverman’s Electus. In the drama, an ordinary man awakens from a coma with astonishing intelligence, and visions of a bizarre symbol recognized only by a burnt-out…

Sony Pictures Entertainment has optioned the Neil Strauss non fiction book Emergency!: This Book Will Save Your Life. It will be turned into a film that will be produced by Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey, and Michael DeLuca.  Wall Street 2 scribe Allan Loeb will write it as a potential star vehicle for Downey.  The…

EXCLUSIVE: In what becomes the first priority project for Robert and Susan Downey’s Team Downey production shingle, Warner Bros has hired Anthony Peckham to write Yucatan as a star vehicle for Downey. The Downeys will produce with Dan Lin. Peckham is being paid seven-figures to start over on a project that the studio…