EXCLUSIVE: Fortitude International has optioned two female-driven properties from recently hatched curation platform TaleFlick: historical fiction Madame Presidentess and essay collection Starfish On Thursday. Both center on strong women going up against overwhelming adversity. The company is eyeing feature…

Producer Uri Singer and former Netflix/Apple executiveGeorge Berry have launched TaleFlick, a searchable library of content that can be adapted for film, TV and digital platforms. TaleFlick seeks to satisfy Hollywood’s seemingly insatiable appetite for new stories with a platform that allows studios and producers to…

EXCLUSIVE: Producer Uri Singer has acquired remake rights to The Cakemaker, Israeli director Ofir Raul Graizer’s debut drama that played the festival circuit last year. Singer via his Passage Pictures will team with Graizer on a U.S. adaptation. The Iraeli-German film, which had its world premiere last year at the…

EXCLUSIVE: Marjorie Prime producer Uri Singer's Passage Pictures is embarking on its first TV series with action thriller My Eyes (Ayuni). From creators Guy Amir and Hanan Savyon, the story will examine the complexity of the Middle East conflict through the eyes of a desperate American father who is searching for his…

Veteran producer Uri Singer has opened a new production company, Passage Pictures and the set Marjorie Prime, Singer's second collaboration with director Michael Almereyda, as the first film released under the new label. The sci-fi drama will premiere at Sundance next month and stars Geena Davis, Tim Robbins, John…

The biopic about disgraced billionaire commodities trader Marc Rich has a writer. Matt Rager, who has worked on a trio of James Franco-directed pics, has come aboard to script The King of Oil. The film chronicles the life of Marc Rich, who rose from child of the Holocaust to immense wealth before being indicted on 65…

EXCLUSIVE: Director Michael Almereyda is teaming with producer Uri Singer on Tesla, a biopic about legendary inventor Nikola Tesla, whose real-life inventions and exaggerated public image have inspired future scientists as well as countless works of fiction, from comics to novels and films including The Prestige. Tesla…

EXCLUSIVE: Uri Singer’s BB Film Productions has acquired rights to Daniel Ammann’s book The King Of Oil: The Secret Lives Of Marc Rich, the biography about the billionaire commodities trader and Glencore founder who was indicted in the U.S. for tax evasion and illegal oil dealings with Iran during the Iran hostage…