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Vince Vaughn's latest project Bad Monkey, which the star executive produced for Apple TV+ alongside Bill Lawrence (Ted Lasso, Shrinking) will bring comedy to a murder mystery set in Florida. Related Stories <a href="https://deadline.com/category/news/" class="c-span__link a-font-accent-bold-xs u-color-brand-red u-text-transform-uppercase…

Colleen Hoover's popular thriller Verity is in the works for a feature film adaptation with Amazon MGM Studios, and another of her books Regretting You has just been picked up for an indie adaptation with stars already attached. Related Stories …

Aaron Sorkin says he’s often asked whether The West Wing could work today. His answer, for the most part, is yes: his present-day depiction of the White House, like the one he created 25 years ago, would still be idealistic and still feel completely aspirational. But there is one element from his…

Allison Williams (M3GAN) has signed on to star in Regretting You, an indie adaptation of the 2019 novel from It Ends with Us scribe Colleen Hoover, Deadline has confirmed. The news comes amid the theatrical release of Sony’s It Ends With Us adaptation, starring Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, which…

SPOILER ALERT: For those who haven't read the book, this piece spoils the plot of It Ends With Us. Seven years after his Ted Talk about toxic masculinity, Jane the Virgin star and Five Feet Apart director Justin Baldoni combined directing and acting for the highly anticipated film adaptation of It E…

The first feature-length film adaptation of a Colleen Hoover novel, It Ends with Us, debuted this weekend. The film, adapted to screen by Christy Hall, who also wrote and directed her first feature in this year's Daddio, follows Lily Bloom (Blake Lively), who overcomes a traumatic childhood to start a new…

SPOILER ALERT: This piece contains spoilers for the entirety of It Ends With Us. Christy Hall’s script for Sony’s It Ends With Us, adapted from the novel by Colleen Hoover, changes a few things from Hoover’s story structure, as is expected in a two-hour film versus a 300-plus page book. Edits…

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Okun Productions has optioned Dark Side of the Moon: Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich and the Space Race, a historical work from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wayne Biddle, for development as an ongoing one-hour drama series, Deadline has learned. Based on true accounts, along with…

EXCLUSIVE: The Mentalist actor Simon Baker, Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories and Australian agent-producer Lee-Anne Higgins are taking to adapt Emily Perkins’ novel ‘Lioness.’ The trio have optioned the hot book, which comes from bestselling Aotearoa New Zealand author Perkins and won the recent…

Netflix has released the trailer for the long-awaited Uglies movie adaptation. Based on the book by Scott Westerfeld, Uglies stars Joey King as Tally Youngblood, Chase Stokes as Peris, Keith Powers as David, Brianne Tju as Shay and Laverne Cox as Dr. Cable. Related…

EXCLUSIVE: Convexity Films, the production company of filmmaker Richard Dewey (Radical Wolfe), has optioned the Michael Lewis book The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story for development as a narrative feature. The deal came together following Dewey’s collaboration with Lewis on his feature…

Romance author Emily Henry now has five of her most recent novels set to be adapted for the big and small screens. Henry went on a rom-com writing spree that began with Beach Read, which came out in the summer of 2020. She has published a book a year since then, with People We Meet on Vacation coming out…