Exclusive: Amazon Studios has optioned the rights to Ex-Mas, a feature comedy pitch from Chris Hazzard and Michael Fontana, based on Kate Brian’s 2009 book of the same title. Les Morgenstein and Elysa Dutton of Alloy Entertainment are producing.
Set on Christmas Eve, the story follows exes Lila and Beau who take the road trip of a lifetime when they put their differences aside to chase down their younger brothers, who have taken off on a runaway mission to save Santa from climate change.
Alloy, a book-to-features and -tv company, has produced such global franchises as You, Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girls, and The Sisterhood Of Traveling Pants. Most recently, the company produced Netflix teen dance comedy Work It, starring Sabrina Carpenter as well as Good Girls Get High, with Abby Quinn, Stefanie Scott and Lauren Lapkus, currently on HBO Max next month.
Hazzard and Fontana are adapting a feature based...
Set on Christmas Eve, the story follows exes Lila and Beau who take the road trip of a lifetime when they put their differences aside to chase down their younger brothers, who have taken off on a runaway mission to save Santa from climate change.
Alloy, a book-to-features and -tv company, has produced such global franchises as You, Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girls, and The Sisterhood Of Traveling Pants. Most recently, the company produced Netflix teen dance comedy Work It, starring Sabrina Carpenter as well as Good Girls Get High, with Abby Quinn, Stefanie Scott and Lauren Lapkus, currently on HBO Max next month.
Hazzard and Fontana are adapting a feature based...
- 8/28/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Live By Night
Ben Affleck has posted the first photo from the set of "Live By Night", the adaptation of Dennis Lehane's Prohibition-era crime thriller which Affleck is both starring in and directing. The shot includes both Affleck and his cinematographer Robert Richardson in between takes conversing. The film itself is slated for release in 2017. [Source: Twitter]
The Serpent
Ciro Guerra ("Embrace Of The Serpent") has signed to make his English-language directing debut on the dystopian adventure "The Detainee" for Thunder Road Pictures and Film House Germany.
An adaptation of Peter Liney's trilogy by scribe Grant Myers ("The Maze Runner"), the story is set on an island from which there's no escape. Christian Angermayer and Basil Iwanyk will produce. [Source: Deadline]
The Ruins
Fox Searchlight and Joe Wright's Shoebox Films are teaming to develop the India-set supernatural thriller "The Ruins" with Jon Croker ("Desert Dancer," "The Woman In Black 2:...
Ben Affleck has posted the first photo from the set of "Live By Night", the adaptation of Dennis Lehane's Prohibition-era crime thriller which Affleck is both starring in and directing. The shot includes both Affleck and his cinematographer Robert Richardson in between takes conversing. The film itself is slated for release in 2017. [Source: Twitter]
The Serpent
Ciro Guerra ("Embrace Of The Serpent") has signed to make his English-language directing debut on the dystopian adventure "The Detainee" for Thunder Road Pictures and Film House Germany.
An adaptation of Peter Liney's trilogy by scribe Grant Myers ("The Maze Runner"), the story is set on an island from which there's no escape. Christian Angermayer and Basil Iwanyk will produce. [Source: Deadline]
The Ruins
Fox Searchlight and Joe Wright's Shoebox Films are teaming to develop the India-set supernatural thriller "The Ruins" with Jon Croker ("Desert Dancer," "The Woman In Black 2:...
- 2/24/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Alloy Entertainment and corporate sibling Warner Bros Pictures are teaming to develop Private, a feature film adaptation based on the Kate Brian’s bestselling Ya book series. That series has spanned 14 books, two prequels and six books from Brian’s spinoff series Privilege via Simon & Schuster. Stacy Rukeyser, a writer/executive producer on the Lifetime series UnReal, has been set to adapt it. Alloy first developed Private as a web series in 2009. The books…...
- 2/23/2016
- Deadline
Few topics are more intriguing than matters of the heart. Take this week's cover story for instance: a pregnant young marine's wife goes missing amid rumors of a military love triangle. When youth, passion and pain collide, it's hard to look away. This week, our staff's fiction choices are about just that - be it doomed romance or lost loved ones, these young protagonists are on an emotional roller coaster. Share your thoughts on their choices, and let us know what you're reading. Zoë Ruderman, Deputy Style and Beauty Director Her Pick: Help for the Haunted by John Searles I...
- 7/31/2014
- by Janine Rayford Rubenstein, @JanineRayford
- PEOPLE.com
Few topics are more intriguing than matters of the heart. Take this week's cover story for instance: a pregnant young marine's wife goes missing amid rumors of a military love triangle. When youth, passion and pain collide, it's hard to look away. This week, our staff's fiction choices are about just that - be it doomed romance or lost loved ones, these young protagonists are on an emotional roller coaster. Share your thoughts on their choices, and let us know what you're reading. Zoë Ruderman, Deputy Style and Beauty Director Her Pick: Help for the Haunted by John Searles I...
- 7/31/2014
- by Janine Rayford Rubenstein
- PEOPLE.com
Walt Disney Pictures has optioned the movie rights to the novel The Princess & the Pauper. The Gotham Group's Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Lindsay Williams and Disney-based Junction Entertainment's Jon Turtletaub and Christina Steinberg are producing. Written by Kate Brian and published last fall by Simon & Schuster's young readers division, the tale is a modern, female-oriented take on the classic tale: The lives of rebellious 16-year-old twins living poles apart, one a "pauper," the other a princess, become intertwined when they swap places for what is supposed to be one night but turns into a more long-term arrangement.
- 6/25/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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