EXCLUSIVE: The Gotham Group has optioned film rights to Erin Somers' contemporary novel, Stay Up With Hugo Best which Somers will be adapting. The book was recently published by Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster on April 2. Stay Up With Hugo Best follows June Bloom, a broke, cynical 29-year-old writers'…

Fresh off of the SXSW premiere of their first directorial feature, Extra Ordinary, filmmaking pair Enda Loughman and Mike Ahern have inked with 1stAveMachine and The Gotham Group for literary representation. The Ireland-based duo, collectively known as "Daddy”, is expanding their relationship with 1stAveMachine from…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Players has bought an untitled pitch that is being called Devil Wears Prada meets Adventures In Babysitting, set at Coachella. The comedy is inspired by true events that are being kept under wraps. Brandy Finmark and Jessica Blackwell will write the script, and The Gotham Group’s Ellen…

EXCLUSIVE: Media rights agent Rich Green has joined The Gotham Group after four years at ICM Partners. He will continue to rep IP for TV and film. Green joined ICM Partners in 2014 before being named the head of their Media Rights department last year. “Rich has been an incredibly valuable team player for ICM for many…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney won a bidding war for 29 Dates, the new YA book written by The New York Times‘ bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz. The project is being fast-tracked for the studio’s streaming service, Disney+. The Gotham Group, which just wrapped Stargirl for the streaming platform, will produce this project. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Active Measures documentarian Jack Bryan is under new management. The Gotham Group has signed the filmmaker behind the pic that chronicles Vladimir Putin’s attack on the 2016 American election and the Donald Trump campaign’s collaboration. The film, which bowed day-and-date on August 31 via Super LTD, is…

EXCLUSIVE: Outside, the magazine which has published feature articles that were the basis for both film and television projects such as Everest, The Perfect Storm, Into the Wild, Blue Crush and 127 Hours, has just teamed up with The Gotham Group for representation for film and television. Outside Studios will produce…

EXCLUSIVE: Grace VanderWaal, who at 12 years old won American’s Got Talent two years ago playing the ukulele and singing her original songs, has beat out 700 other girls to take the lead in Disney’s Stargirl — one of the first original films that will go through the company’s new streaming platform. VanderWaal, who is…

EXCLUSIVE: Wanuri Kahiu, the award-winning writer-director of Rafiki, a film that was banned in Kenya after the filmmaker refused to alter the film’s portrayal of a lesbian relationship and played at this year’s Cannes in Un Certain Regard, has signed with The Gotham Group. The movie was the first Kenyan film invited…

EXCLUSIVE: Renée Zellweger, Louie Anderson and It‘s Owen Teague have been cast in the lead roles of Heft for director Max Nichols (Two Night Stand). Heft, based on the bestselling novel by Liz Moore of the same name, was adapted by the author. The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Eric Robinson, who acquired the…

EXCLUSIVE: The feature film rights to Marieke Nijkamp's bestselling YA novel This Is Where It Ends from Sourcebooks have just been optioned by The Gotham Group, the producers behind the YA sensation The Maze Runner franchise. Director/producer Lysa Heslov (Served Like A Girl) has been attached to direct. This Is Where…

The Gotham Group has optioned rights to Gork, The Teenage Dragon, the debut novel by Dear Mr. President author Gabe Hudson, to develop as a television series. Gork, The Teenage Dragon was published by Alfred A. Knopf in July 2017. It centers on Gork, a lovable dragon at WarWings Military Academy, who has a gigantic…