Exclusive: Amazon Studios and George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse acquired in a six-against seven-figure deal screen rights to Hot Dog Money: Inside the Biggest Scandal in the History of College Sports. Book was written by Guy Lawson, whose Rolling Stone article “Arms and the Dudes” became the Todd Phillips’ movie War Dogs at Warner Bros, whose New York Times Magazine article “Ice Pack” has been adapted for Will Ferrell at Sony, his Rs article Oxy-Gen is being adapted at MGM for Pete Davidson, and other true-crime reporting spread around town.
Lawson spent two years working secretly with Marty Blazer, the ex-manager whose cooperation as a confidential informant with the FBI resulted in a 2017 ESPN live broadcast with prosecutors from the Southern District of New York successfully bringing charges against managers, coaches and schools for corruption in the NCAA. It’s similar to what Nick Pileggi had with Henry Hill...
Lawson spent two years working secretly with Marty Blazer, the ex-manager whose cooperation as a confidential informant with the FBI resulted in a 2017 ESPN live broadcast with prosecutors from the Southern District of New York successfully bringing charges against managers, coaches and schools for corruption in the NCAA. It’s similar to what Nick Pileggi had with Henry Hill...
- 11/7/2022
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: 47 Meters Down outfit Tea Shop Productions has signed writer-director Natasha Kermani (Lucky) to adapt and direct Locke & Key co-creator Joe Hill’s short story Abraham’s Boys as a feature film.
The action-horror story is a follow-up of sorts to Bram Stoker’s Dracula, testing the relationships Stoker formed in his original novel. The plot follows Max and Rudy Van Helsing, who know nothing of their father Abraham’s past and cannot understand his overprotective attitude and strange behavior. To make matters worse, Abraham is becoming increasingly more unhinged, paranoid, and violent.
Kermani’s adaptation is set to explore the boys’ trauma through the eyes of a young Asian woman who is no stranger to death.
The project will mark the third feature for Iranian American filmmaker Kermani, who last year played in SXSW with her genre film Lucky, which was picked up by Shudder.
Author Hill, the son of Stephen King,...
The action-horror story is a follow-up of sorts to Bram Stoker’s Dracula, testing the relationships Stoker formed in his original novel. The plot follows Max and Rudy Van Helsing, who know nothing of their father Abraham’s past and cannot understand his overprotective attitude and strange behavior. To make matters worse, Abraham is becoming increasingly more unhinged, paranoid, and violent.
Kermani’s adaptation is set to explore the boys’ trauma through the eyes of a young Asian woman who is no stranger to death.
The project will mark the third feature for Iranian American filmmaker Kermani, who last year played in SXSW with her genre film Lucky, which was picked up by Shudder.
Author Hill, the son of Stephen King,...
- 6/7/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Warner Bros just closed a deal for the horror short story On The I-5, written by bestselling author Kendare Blake. Shawn Levy and Dan Levine will produce for 21 Laps.
The story is being kept under wraps but it’s a female-empowered subversion of the serial killer genre.
Kendare Blake wrote the best-selling trilogy Three Dark Crowns which 21 Laps is developing at Fox. Blake’s book Anna Dressed in Blood is set up at Lionsgate.
Emily Morris and Becca Edelman will oversee for 21 Laps, and Cate Adams is overseeing for Warners.
The author is represented by Jody Hotchkiss of Hotchkiss Daily & Associates and Adriann Ranta Zurhellen of Foundry Literary + Media.
21 Laps premieres Stranger Things 3 on July 4th and is prepping British director Jonathan Entwhistle’s I Am Not Okay With This, a coming-of-age comedy series for Netflix, as well as the fantasy series Shadow and Bone, based on the...
The story is being kept under wraps but it’s a female-empowered subversion of the serial killer genre.
Kendare Blake wrote the best-selling trilogy Three Dark Crowns which 21 Laps is developing at Fox. Blake’s book Anna Dressed in Blood is set up at Lionsgate.
Emily Morris and Becca Edelman will oversee for 21 Laps, and Cate Adams is overseeing for Warners.
The author is represented by Jody Hotchkiss of Hotchkiss Daily & Associates and Adriann Ranta Zurhellen of Foundry Literary + Media.
21 Laps premieres Stranger Things 3 on July 4th and is prepping British director Jonathan Entwhistle’s I Am Not Okay With This, a coming-of-age comedy series for Netflix, as well as the fantasy series Shadow and Bone, based on the...
- 4/12/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Gotham-based book-to-film/TV lit agency Hotchkiss and Associates is changing its name to Hotchkiss Daily & Associates, as prolific dealmaker Sean Daily moves upward alongside founder Jody Hotchkiss.
Daily joined Hotchkiss and Associates in 2004 and has developed specialties in elevated sci-fi, horror, and fantasy, narrative nonfiction, and high-concept Ya and children’s books. His sales have included 13 Reasons Why, A Futile and Stupid Gesture and most recently the greenlighted supernatural drama Locke and Key to Netflix, Resurrection to ABC, The Book of Negroes on CBC/Bet, Sacred Lies on Facebook Watch, NOS4A2 to AMC and the recently wrapped untitled Babak Anvari thriller from Annapurna starring Armie Hammer and Zazie Beetz.
Daily said he was “extraordinarily grateful for the opportunities that I’ve had over the years at Hotchkiss and the flexibility and freedom we have to serve authors and help their books find their way to the screen. I’m...
Daily joined Hotchkiss and Associates in 2004 and has developed specialties in elevated sci-fi, horror, and fantasy, narrative nonfiction, and high-concept Ya and children’s books. His sales have included 13 Reasons Why, A Futile and Stupid Gesture and most recently the greenlighted supernatural drama Locke and Key to Netflix, Resurrection to ABC, The Book of Negroes on CBC/Bet, Sacred Lies on Facebook Watch, NOS4A2 to AMC and the recently wrapped untitled Babak Anvari thriller from Annapurna starring Armie Hammer and Zazie Beetz.
Daily said he was “extraordinarily grateful for the opportunities that I’ve had over the years at Hotchkiss and the flexibility and freedom we have to serve authors and help their books find their way to the screen. I’m...
- 8/21/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The Stars in My Soul, a memoir co-written by Hakeem Oluseyi about his life, has just been picked up by Working Title. Chadwick Boseman and Logan Coles are producing the film adaptation after they worked together on 2016’s Message From the King, which Boseman starred in and executive produced and Coles co-produced.
The Stars in My Soul is being compared to the breakout hit Hidden Figures. Oluseyi grew up in Louisiana when his parents divorced and he had to find his own way through life. Through pure will and perseverance, he ended up becoming a Nasa astrophysicist.
The book was scooped up in a competitive bidding situation — not surprising given that the package included Boseman. The actor (also a producer and writer-director) is one of the world’s most recognizable screen stars right now with the back-to-back mega-successes of Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War. Together these movies have...
The Stars in My Soul is being compared to the breakout hit Hidden Figures. Oluseyi grew up in Louisiana when his parents divorced and he had to find his own way through life. Through pure will and perseverance, he ended up becoming a Nasa astrophysicist.
The book was scooped up in a competitive bidding situation — not surprising given that the package included Boseman. The actor (also a producer and writer-director) is one of the world’s most recognizable screen stars right now with the back-to-back mega-successes of Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War. Together these movies have...
- 5/8/2018
- by Nancy Tartaglione and Anita Busch
- Deadline Film + TV
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