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EXCLUSIVE: The Shack author Wm Paul Young will develop and produce a feature film and TV anthology series based on the famed Christian-faith poem Footprints and based off the spec script by Vincent Prezioso. Pic tells the story of a high school gridiron star raised by a single father who lacks the resources to send…

Final Writethru, Monday: Late last night we saw that the Hugh Jackman movie was on track for an $87.56M opening after a Sunday that was off 26% from Saturday’s $31.3. Well, Logan is even bigger than that. Per estimates this morning, Logan will clock $88.4M in his first weekend, thanks to a Sunday that dipped 23% for…

Lionsgate has dropped a new trailer to the forthcoming faith-based film The Shack, directed by Stuart Hazeldine and starring Sam Worthington, Octavia Spencer, and Tim McGraw. Based on a New York Times bestseller by William P. Young, the pic follows Mack Phillips (Worthington) who is grieving after the abduction of his…

EXCLUSIVE: Mel Gibson’s next directorial, Hacksaw Ridge from Lionsgate, will open on Nov. 4. Deadline hears that the film tested through the roof and the best place for this title which has equal parts drama, action and faith-based nuances is right in the heart of the awards fall season.  Ali Jaafar originally broke…

Sumire Matsubara has joined the cast of The Shack, the faith-based pic based on William Paul Young’s best-seller. It centers on a man (Sam Worthington) who receives a mysterious note inviting him to the Shack. The letter is signed Papa, his wife's nickname for God. Mack responds and finds himself in the presence of…

EXCLUSIVE: Graham Greene, most recently on the A&E (and now Netflix) crime drama Longmire, has joined Sam Worthington and Octavia Spencer in Lionsgate’s faith-based feature film The Shack. The pic is based on the bestselling Christian novel by William Paul Young; the book was initially self-published in 2007 and has…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has found a director to bring the best-selling William Paul Young novel The Shack to the screen. They’ve hired Stuart Hazeldine to helm the film, which was scripted by John Fusco and will be produced by Gil Netter through Netter Productions and Brad Cummings. The hope is to get in production by…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has acquired The First Phone Call From Heaven, the bestselling novel by Mitch Albom that was published last November by Harper. Denise DiNovi and Alison Greenspan will produce. The book opens on a morning in the small town of Coldwater, MI, when the phones start ringing and the voices say they…

EXCLUSIVE: Forest Whitaker is in negotiations to helm The Shack, the adaptation of the bestselling William Paul Young novel that Summit Entertainment acquired in April 2013. Whitaker would also play a supporting role in the movie, which is being written by John Fusco and produced by Gill Netter and Brad Cummings. The…