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EXCLUSIVE: Uri Singer and Aimee Peyronnet are teaming to acquire two works from the estate of French author Pierre Boulle, who wrote the novels The Planet of the Apes and The Bridge Over the River Kwai, which both were turned into iconic Hollywood movies. The pair have acquired Boulle’s 1974 novel The Virtues of Hell…

EXCLUSIVE: The Dispatcher, created by author John Scalzi, started life as an Audible original audiobook narrated by Zachary Quinto. It is now being adapted for the small-screen after producer Uri Singer, the producer behind Netflix's feature film adaptation of Don DeLillo's Underworld, acquired the rights. The Dispatch…

EXCLUSIVE: Ted Melfi, whose new film The Starling premiered last night at the Toronto Film Festival, has been set to adapt, direct and produce for Netflix Underworld, based on the seminal novel by Don DeLillo. The novel is a sprawling tapestry spread across decades that has a through line of the home run Bobby Thomson…

EXCLUSIVE: Uri Singer has secured the rights to The Silence, the latest novel by prolific author Don DeLillo. Singer is currently producing a film adaptation to DeLillo’s highly-regarded 1985 novel White Noise, which Noah Baumbach is directing for Netflix and Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig are attached to star. Released…

EXCLUSIVE: TaleFlick, a platform that identifies adaptable books, has launched a production company to put some of its own content on the screen. It has selected four titles that are now in development. The company, founded by producer Uri Singer (Tesla) and Netflix alum George Berry, scans thousands of books to…

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…