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EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century’s next series of Planet of the Apes films looks to have found a new lead for future installments as sources tell Deadline that Owen Teague has been tapped to play the lead primate in the newest film in the iconic franchise. Wes Ball is taking over directing duties for the property, which hopes…

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Downs Colaizzo is in talks to direct and rewrite Paramount Pictures' Harbinger, stepping in for Wes Ball. Ball was forced to step down to focus on the next Planet of the Apes pic, on which he is deep in pre-production. Neal Moritz and Toby Jaffe are producing Harbinger for Original Film. Dan Mintz is…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is in early development on an untitled H.G. Wells project from Wes Ball’s OddBall Entertainment, under its Paramount Players label. While specific information on the Wells novel at its center hasn’t been disclosed, we hear that it will be a very loose adaptation stemming from the…

EXCLUSIVE: We can be first to tell you that Maze Runner franchise filmmaker Wes Ball is attached to direct Paramount Pictures' adaptation of Valiant Comic’s Harbinger, which remains in development at the studio. The comic follows a group of teens with superpowers who go up against the corporation that tried to exploit…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount has acquired The Time Runner, a novella that Wes Ball will develop to direct. Steve Desmond & Michael Sherman will write the script. Sherman wrote the novella. Ball will produce with Joe Hartwick Jr, his partner in Oddball Entertainment, the producing shingle that was just recently staked to a…

EXCLUSIVE: Wes Ball and his Oddball Entertainment banner are moving into a first-look deal at Paramount Pictures. It reunites him with Emma Watts, the Paramount Motion Pictures Group President who gave Ball his start when she headed Fox and he directed the Maze Runner trilogy for the studio. Ball runs Oddball with Joe…

Maze Runner franchise filmmaker Wes Ball is set to direct the Hachette sci-fi Claire North novel The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August for Amblin Partners. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August follows a man who is repeatedly born into the same life, remembers all his past experiences, and seeks to save the world…

WME just signed Wes Ball and his Oddball Entertainment partner Joe Hartwick. The duo is in the early stages of rebooting the Planet of the Apes franchise for 20th. They will produce, and Ball will direct. Ball is best known for directing the Maze Runner trilogy that collectively grossed around $950 million worldwide…

The apes will live on. Deadline has confirmed that 20th Century Fox under its new parent Disney has tapped Maze Runner filmmaker Wes Ball to develop a new Planet of the Apes movie. It’s very early in the works, and it’s not certain if this will pick up where Matt Reeves’ War for the Planet of the Apes left off or if…

A little over ten weeks after Deadline broke the stunning news in April that Disney had canceled his epic $170 million animated film Mouse Guard two weeks before production began, director Wes Ball this week seemed to reconcile that his dream project was really over, at least for now. He has been fighting over two…

EXCLUSIVE: Two weeks out from its production start, the Fox motion capture picture Mouse Guard has been mouse trapped by Disney. The project was developed by Fox with the adaptation of David Petersen’s Eisner-winning comic book series to be directed by Wes Ball. The film had set to star Idris Elba, Andy Serkis, Thomas…

EXCLUSIVE: Sonoya Mizuno, who played Araminta Lee, a.k.a the bride, in Warner Bros hit rom-com Crazy Rich Asians, has been tapped as the title character in 20th Century Fox’s Wes Ball-directed Mouse Guard, the film adaptation to David Petersen's Eisner-winning comic book series. She joins Andy Serkis, Thomas…