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Will Packer Productions has tapped screenwriter Leon Chills (Spinning Out, The Wilds) to adapt Stan Parish’s novel Love and Theft for Universal Pictures. Published by Penguin Random House through their Knopf Doubleday imprint in 2020, Love and Theft is billed as a global romantic heist film set in Las Vegas, Mexico…

Will Packer Productions has promoted Alvie Hurtado to Director of Development. In his new role he will be tasked with identifying content, filmmakers and talent for feature film development and production at the company behind hit pics including Girls Trip and Night School. He will report to EVP Motion Pictures…

James F. Lopez, who for the past three years was president of Will Packer Productions where he produced a string of hits including Girls Trip and Night School, has been hired as president of Macro Film Studios, the motion picture arm of Charles D. King’s Macro. Lopez, who before joining WPP in 2015 worked at Sony’s…

Will Packer and James Lopez are developing Like It’s the Last, a romantic drama set in the world of collegiate track & field, from Grey's Anatomy and Queen Sugar writer Felicia Pride. Packer and Lopez will produce the project via the Will Packer Productions banner. Johanna Byer of WPP and Pride will serve as executive…

Will Packer Productions and Universal are developing a comedy feature, Hot Mess, which will be toplined by British comedian and actress London Hughes. The film is based on a pitch by Hughes and screenwriter Noushin Jahanian, who will pen the screenplay. Will Packer and James Lopez will produce through Will Packer…

EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Destiny, best known for starring in the Lee Daniels Fox series Star, has been tapped as the lead in Oracle, a psychological horror film that is being produced by Will Packer and James Lopez via Will Packer Productions. Heather Graham (upcoming CBS All Access miniseries The Stand, The Hangover) has also…

Will Packer Productions has hired Johanna Byer as Executive Vice President of Motion Pictures. Byer will report to WPP President James Lopez in her new role where she’ll be responsible for identifying, developing, and producing the company's feature film projects as well as working closely with filmmakers, directors…

EXCLUSIVE: Doug Williams, the first black quarterback to win the Super Bowl, will be the subject of a new sports movie biopic from Night School and Girls Trip producers Will Packer Productions. The groundbreaking Los Angeles based production company has secured exclusive rights to the life story of groundbreaking QB…

Focus Features and Will Packer Productions are developing When I Was You, a feature adaptation based on the forthcoming book from author Amber Garza. Described as a female-driven thriller, When I Was You centers on Kelly Medina, whose obsession starts on an ordinary fall morning when she gets a call from her son's…

EXCLUSIVE: Felicia Pride is bringing the heat to Universal Pictures. The studio is teaming with Will Packer Productions to develop Deeper, an erotic romance based on an original idea from the Queen Sugar writer. Pride is set to write the script, but specific details about the story are being kept under wraps. Will…

EXCLUSIVE: Kelvin Harrison Jr. (It Comes At Night), Chante Adams (Roxanne Roxanne), Jasmine Cephas Jones (Broadway's Hamilton), and Y'lan Noel (The First Purge) are the latest to board Stella Meghie’s romantic drama, The Photograph, set up at Universal Pictures. They join previously announced stars Issa Rae, LaKeith…

EXCLUSIVE: Will Packer Productions, the company behind 100+ million grossing comedies Girls Trip and Night School, has named Heather Washington as Director of Development, after previously serving a Creative Executive for the past two years. Washington’s new role involves identifying content, filmmakers, and talent…