Month: November 2014

By Tatiana Segel, Borys Kit November 21, 2014 Channing Tatum and Reid Carolin are attached to co-direct and produce an adaptation of Matthew Quick‘s YA book Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock for The Weinstein Co. Tatum, receiving strong reviews in Bennett Miller‘s Foxcatcher and hot off Sony’s summer hit 22 Jump Street, would also possibly star in the film. The pair are developing the project for …

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By Brian Lowry November 20, 2014 Despite an explosion of programming aimed at kids, there are relatively few live-action shows intended to appeal to the prepubescent set that won’t send parents fleeing from the room. So Amazon has scored another mini-coup with “Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street,” a series ostensibly aimed at 6-to-11 year olds characterized …

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By Borys Kit November 12, 2014 Paramount has preemptively picked up ARES, an action-adventure spec by Michael Starrbury. Mark Gordon will produce via his Mark Gordon Company banner. Plot details are being kept sealed shut, but the title is said to be in the vein of Indiana Jones and Men in Black in what the studio hopes will start a franchise. (ARES is …

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By Dave McNary November 5, 2014 Scott Waugh (“Need for Speed”) is in final negotiations to direct the $120 million sci-fi action movie “Inversion.” “Inversion,” unveiled at Cannes by Mark Damon’s Foresight Unlimited, follows a young Chinese scientist and a street-smart American expat in a race against the clock across the globe to save Earth from …

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