EXCLUSIVE: Chris Pratt is negotiating to star in Ghost Draft, the working title for a grounded live-action science fiction film with tentpole potential that will be helmed by The Lego Batman Movie helmer Chris McKay. Skydance Media is producing and financing the project. The film has been in development at Skydance…

EXCLUSIVE: Imagine Entertainment has pre-emptively bought the film rights to the female-driven grounded sci-fi pitch Canary from Zach Dean. Imagine chairmen Brian Grazer and Ron Howard made the deal and will produce a project that will be developed as a directing vehicle for Howard. Imagine's Erica Huggins and Tyler…

While Skydance and Christopher McQuarrie are busy with M:I6 Mission Impossible at Paramount, David Ellison’s company is trying to move forward with Star Blazers, the live-action adaptation of the space-set 1970s anime TV series also known as Space Battleship Yamato. Ellison, in SXSW to do press for the Daniel…

EXCLUSIVE: Zach Dean has been set to pen for 20th Century Fox and director Shawn Levy a film based on the life of legendary rock promoter Bill Graham. It is Dean who will find the movie in Bill Graham: My Life Inside Rock and Out, the autobiography Graham wrote with Robert Greenfield that Fox bought early last year…

EXCLUSIVE: Imperative Entertainment has attached Bradley Cooper to star and Gavin O’Connor to direct Atlantic Wall, the Zach Dean-scripted WWII drama. Imperative's Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas, who bought this as a pitch several years ago, are producing. Madhouse Entertainment's Adam Kolbrenner also is producing…

EXCLUSIVE: In competitive bidding, Phantom Four has sold an original pitch by newly minted Black List scribe Zach Dean to Skydance. David Goyer and Kevin Turen of Phantom Four and Adam Kolbrenner of Madhouse Entertainment are attached to produce what’s described as a grounded science fiction film set in the future…

EXCLUSIVE: Neophyte shingle Imperative Entertainment has won a competitive bidding for Zach Dean’s World War II drama pitch Atlantic Wall, which Imperative will team with Madhouse Entertainment on to produce. Logline tracks a lone American paratrooper who is stranded behind enemy lines hours before D-Day, tasked with…