Novel spent 19 weeks on NY Times best sellers list.
CBS Films has acquired screen rights to Ruth Ware’s novel The Woman In Cabin 10.
Hillary Seitz will write the script and The Gotham Group will produce.
Published by Scout Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, The Woman In Cabin 10 follows journalist Lo Blacklock who is given the travel magazine assignment of a lifetime, a week on an ultra-luxury cruise ship.
The dreamlike experience is shattered when she witnesses a woman being thrown overboard and all passengers are accounted for the following morning, like nothing happened.
“Ruth Ware has crafted a beautiful and sophisticated mind-bending thriller. We look forward to working with Hillary, The Gotham Group and the terrific team at Simon & Schuster to bring The Woman In Cabin 10 to movie going audiences around the world,” commented Terry Press, president of CBS Films.
Seitz’s previously wrote Eagle Eye and Insomnia. The Gotham...
CBS Films has acquired screen rights to Ruth Ware’s novel The Woman In Cabin 10.
Hillary Seitz will write the script and The Gotham Group will produce.
Published by Scout Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, The Woman In Cabin 10 follows journalist Lo Blacklock who is given the travel magazine assignment of a lifetime, a week on an ultra-luxury cruise ship.
The dreamlike experience is shattered when she witnesses a woman being thrown overboard and all passengers are accounted for the following morning, like nothing happened.
“Ruth Ware has crafted a beautiful and sophisticated mind-bending thriller. We look forward to working with Hillary, The Gotham Group and the terrific team at Simon & Schuster to bring The Woman In Cabin 10 to movie going audiences around the world,” commented Terry Press, president of CBS Films.
Seitz’s previously wrote Eagle Eye and Insomnia. The Gotham...
- 3/16/2017
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: CBS Films has tapped a new scribe to spin its Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark. BAFTA-nominated John August (Big Fish, Frankenweenie, Go) will adapt the iconic book series by Alvin Schwartz that had children of the ’80s and ’90s hearing bumps in the night, penning a new script based on the best-selling spooky story collection.
The three-book children’s series that’s sold more than 7 million copies worldwide began with 1981′s Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, continuing with More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark (1984) and Scary Stories 3: More Tales To Chill Your Bones (1991). The collection of folk tales and urban legends also memorably haunted generations of youngsters with its surreal and nightmarish illustrations by award-winning artist Stephen Gammell.
Sean Daniel and Jason Brown of Sean Daniel Company and Elizabeth Grave of 1212 Entertainment are producing, while Roberto Grande and Joshua Long will executive produce.
The three-book children’s series that’s sold more than 7 million copies worldwide began with 1981′s Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, continuing with More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark (1984) and Scary Stories 3: More Tales To Chill Your Bones (1991). The collection of folk tales and urban legends also memorably haunted generations of youngsters with its surreal and nightmarish illustrations by award-winning artist Stephen Gammell.
Sean Daniel and Jason Brown of Sean Daniel Company and Elizabeth Grave of 1212 Entertainment are producing, while Roberto Grande and Joshua Long will executive produce.
- 11/17/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Exclusive: CBS Films has set Conviction scribe Pamela Gray to adapt Liane Moriarty’s best-selling novel The Husband’s Secret. The label has also hired Depth Of Field’s Chris and Paul Weitz and Andrew Miano to produce. The film is a priority for CBS Films head Terry Press. Published by the Putnam imprint Amy Einhorn Books, The Husband’s Secret has been on the New York Times combined (print and e-book) bestseller list for 51 straight weeks.
The novel follows three women whose lives are plunged into crises after one of them opens a Pandora’s box that ties all three together in ways no one could have suspected. Gray is represented by UTA and Judi Farkas Management. CBS Films’ Winnie Kemp and Mark Ross are overseeing.
The novel follows three women whose lives are plunged into crises after one of them opens a Pandora’s box that ties all three together in ways no one could have suspected. Gray is represented by UTA and Judi Farkas Management. CBS Films’ Winnie Kemp and Mark Ross are overseeing.
- 8/14/2014
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline
Call it Dreamboys. Laurence Mark has signed to produce a big-screen version of Jason Robert Brown‘s smart teen tuner 13 for CBS Films. Mark will team with Bob Boyett, the TV veteran (Happy Days, Bosom Buddies)-turned-theater producer who mounted the Broadway show. It’s about a Bar Mitzvah boy unsettlingly transplanted from Manhattan, where he’s cool, to an Indiana burg, where he’s not. Until he is. David Blackman is exec producing.
Bert V. Royal (Easy A) is writing the screenplay based on Dan Elish and Robert Horn’s book for the show. Smart-alecky and featuring a bevy of sorta-teens, 13 flopped on Broadway in 2008 despite kudos for the game score by Brown (Tony winner for Parade and The Bridges Of Madison County whose adaptation of Honeymoon In Vegas is Broadway-bound this season). CBS Films VP Production Mark Ross and creative exec Winnie Kemp are overseeing the project.
Bert V. Royal (Easy A) is writing the screenplay based on Dan Elish and Robert Horn’s book for the show. Smart-alecky and featuring a bevy of sorta-teens, 13 flopped on Broadway in 2008 despite kudos for the game score by Brown (Tony winner for Parade and The Bridges Of Madison County whose adaptation of Honeymoon In Vegas is Broadway-bound this season). CBS Films VP Production Mark Ross and creative exec Winnie Kemp are overseeing the project.
- 8/12/2014
- by Jeremy Gerard
- Deadline
CBS Films plans to produce Jason Robert Brown’s stage musical 13 to the big screen.
Bert V Royal adapts the musical about a 13-year-old boy from New York who relocates to small-town Indiana and concocts an ill-judged plan to make friends.
Laurence Mark is producing and recently served in that role on CBS Films’ Last Vegas. Mark also produced Dreamgirls and Julie & Julia.
Bob Boyett, who produced 13 on stage, is also producing, and David Blackman serves as executive producer.
Vice-president of production Mark Ross and creative executive Winnie Kemp are overseeing the project for CBS Films.
Bert V Royal adapts the musical about a 13-year-old boy from New York who relocates to small-town Indiana and concocts an ill-judged plan to make friends.
Laurence Mark is producing and recently served in that role on CBS Films’ Last Vegas. Mark also produced Dreamgirls and Julie & Julia.
Bob Boyett, who produced 13 on stage, is also producing, and David Blackman serves as executive producer.
Vice-president of production Mark Ross and creative executive Winnie Kemp are overseeing the project for CBS Films.
- 8/12/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: CBS Films has acquired Other People’s Love Letters, a script that will be helmed by Tom Bezucha. The film has a Love, Actually vibe in that it follows the intertwining storylines of four romances, each at a crossroads. The film was scripted by Bethany Ashton Wolf, and Laurence Mark is producing with Jonathan Shukat, with Tamara Chestna and Eric Bromberg exec producing. They may change the title, but it’s based on the book of the same name, which is a collection of love letters that was edited by Bill Shapiro. They’ll now go out to cast. This movie is meant to be pure romance, and Tom Bezucha is the perfect director to bring these diverse love stories to life on the screen,” said Mark. Wme-repped Bezucha helmed Monte Carlo and The Family Stone. Wolf is repped by Apa and Magnet Management. CBS execs Mark Ross and Winnie Kemp are overseeing.
- 8/15/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Breaking: CBS Films has acquired screen rights to Children Of Paranoia, a debut novel by Trevor Shane for Dutton. The book will be adapted by Mark Verheiden, whose credits include Falling Skies and Battlestar Galactica. Akiva Goldsman is producing through his Weed Road banner. The first in a trilogy, Children Of Paranoia follows a young assassin caught up in a global clandestine war that’s been raging for centuries. Everything changes when he falls in love with a woman who calls into question the world as he knows it. As he desperately fights to uncover the elusive truth behind the conflict, he begins to wonder which side he’s really on — good or evil. The sequel novel, Children Of The Underground, came out in April. Said the author: “I’m honored to have such a talented group of storytellers working to bring Children Of Paranoia to the big screen. Mark...
- 8/1/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
CBS Films announced the development on Monday [29].
The rom-com is based on Kelly Bowe’s adaption of the Jane Moore’s book The Ex Files and centres on a destination wedding where old flames rekindle their passions.
Leonard Goldberg produces, while CBS Films vp of production Mark Ross and creative executive Alex Ginno will oversee for the studio.
“I absolutely love this project,” said Fickman, whose directing credits include The Game Plan and She’s The Man. “It’s a fun and fresh unique perspective within the romantic comedy world.”...
The rom-com is based on Kelly Bowe’s adaption of the Jane Moore’s book The Ex Files and centres on a destination wedding where old flames rekindle their passions.
Leonard Goldberg produces, while CBS Films vp of production Mark Ross and creative executive Alex Ginno will oversee for the studio.
“I absolutely love this project,” said Fickman, whose directing credits include The Game Plan and She’s The Man. “It’s a fun and fresh unique perspective within the romantic comedy world.”...
- 7/29/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Breaking: CBS Films has set Andy Fickman to helm The Exes, the romantic comedy based on the Jane Moore novel The Ex Files. Kelly Bowe wrote the script and Leonard Goldberg is producing. The plot: The ex-girlfriend of the groom reluctantly agrees to attend his destination wedding for closure and for friendship. Once there, she finds herself trapped at an island resort filled with couples’ exes. Old flames are rekindled, new romances are born and complete chaos ensues. “I absolutely love this project,” said Fickman, who most recently helmed Parental Guidance. “It’s a fun and fresh unique perspective within the romantic comedy world. Every time I mention the story to someone they immediately respond with how it relates to their own life — which makes this such a universal experience… anyone who has loved before has lost before.” Fickman is repped by Wme and Management 360, and CBS execs Mark Ross...
- 7/29/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Exclusive: CBS Films has attached Babak Najafi to direct the action thriller Inside The Machine. Najafi, who just helmed Snabba Cash 2 (aka Easy Money 2), will helm a drama that follows an El Paso-based undercover Atf agent who risks his life to destroy a murder-for-hire gang that is run from within a prison by an untouchable criminal mastermind. The script is by Marc Maurino, and Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson of Contrafilms are producing. Vinson called Najafi “an incredibly talented filmmaker who is going to blow audiences away with his ability to deliver an adrenaline-fueled thriller.” Najafiu will work closely with Maurino on developing the script. Najafi made his directorial debut with Sebbe, which won Best Debut Film at Berlin in 2010. He’s separately attached to Unlocked for Endgame. UTA and manager Shelley Browning of Magnolia Entertainment rep him, and CBS’ Mark Ross and Ryan Conroy are overseeing the project.
- 5/6/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
A science-fiction pitch from a writer with the name .Cameron. could have CBS Films dreaming dreams of Avatar-level box office receipts. For the moment, though, executives at the aggressive studio should dial back expectations until they see what they have in this debut screenplay from relative newcomer Cameron Alexander . and not James Cameron, after all. But who knows, Alexander may soon be on his way if his script Omega Point, which The Hollywood Reporter says CBS Films just optioned, is a smash hit. The 25-year-old writer has penned a sci-fi story about a young man who reportedly encounters a downed spacecraft near a crash site in the woods. Upon exploring, the man finds and befriends .a god-like artificial intelligence agent desperate to escape earth.. Omega already has some support. CBS Films executives Mark Ross and Alex Ginno will shepherd the project to theaters. It will be co-produced by Sidney Sherman,...
- 4/9/2013
- cinemablend.com
CBS Films has optioned Omega Point, a sci-fi spec script from newcomer Cameron Alexander. Sidney Sherman, a co-producer on the 2006 John Travolta thriller Lonely Hearts, is on board to produce via his Rosa Entertainment banner. The story centers on a young man who comes across a mysterious crash site in the woods where he discovers and befriends a god-like artificial intelligence agent desperate to escape earth. Execs Mark Ross and Alex Ginno are overseeing the project for CBS Films. Omega is the first sale for the 25-year-old Alexander, a budding music video director (one of
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- 4/8/2013
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Will Gluck, the director behind "Easy A" and "Friends With Benefits," is in final negotiations to direct and produce a film based on Geoffrey Gray's "Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper." Gluck's directing deal is done, but his producing deal is still being worked on, according to an individual with knowledge of the situation. Maria Faillace and Mark Ross will oversee the project, once CBS Films completes its negotiations for the rights to the New York Times bestseller, which fictionalizes the infamous skyjacking tale. Back in 1971, Cooper took control of a Boeing 727...
- 6/13/2012
- by Lucas Shaw
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Easy A helmer Will Gluck is at the center of a deal that CBS Films is making for the bestselling Geoffrey Gray novel Skyjack: The Hunt For D.B. Cooper, which was published by Crown. Gluck is in talks to direct and produce via his Olive Bridge banner, and Keith Bunin will write the script. Bunin scripted episodes of the HBO series In Treatment, and is writing for Universal and Illumination Entertainment a live-action film about the life of Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) as a vehicle for Johnny Depp to star in and produce. The Skyjack novel is an action-comedy that follows the story of D.B. Cooper, who on November 24, 1971, hijacked a Boeing 727, demanded $200,000 and parachutes, and jumped out over the Pacific Northwest. He was never caught and hailed as a folk hero. The book tracks his story from the perspectives of three different people claiming to be him. Gluck most recently co-wrote,...
- 6/13/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
CBS Films is going to Hellfest, snapping up feature rights to William Penick and Chris Sey's horror screenplay and setting it up with Gale Anne Hurd at her Valhalla Entertainment banner, Variety reports. Hurd ("The Walking Dead," The Terminator) developed the project. Penick and Sey wrote the script from a concept by Valhalla's Ben Roberts, who will exec producer. "Story centers on a Halloween night of fun turning deadly at America's premier theme park when an actual costumed killer begins slaying unsuspecting patrons who believe it's all part of the show." Vice President of Production Mark Ross and Creative Executive Alex Ginno are overseeing the project for CBS Films. CBS Films has released five pics since entering the distribution business last year.
- 7/21/2011
- bloody-disgusting.com
With the publication of the 2010 Black List another compilation of the year's best unproduced screenplays has arrived. This is the fifth year that The Black List has been in existence, and its purpose is to shine a spotlight on what 290 film executives think are some of the best creative executions of ideas worthy for the big screen.
To be nominated and included on The Black List a screenplay can't have been released in 2010. As well, the minimum number of votes that a screenplay needed to have to warrant inclusion on the list is five. Several of the projects listed on Tbl are in development and will be released in the next twelve months. Others might have heat but take years to reach theaters, and there are also many that will never be greenlighted.
In the words of the creators of The Black List, don't take this assembly of screenplays to...
To be nominated and included on The Black List a screenplay can't have been released in 2010. As well, the minimum number of votes that a screenplay needed to have to warrant inclusion on the list is five. Several of the projects listed on Tbl are in development and will be released in the next twelve months. Others might have heat but take years to reach theaters, and there are also many that will never be greenlighted.
In the words of the creators of The Black List, don't take this assembly of screenplays to...
- 12/15/2010
- by Patrick Sauriol
- Corona's Coming Attractions
The Black List has been released. The annual list is compiled with a poll of 300 (up from last year's 250) development executives and high-level assistants, and contains a ranking of the hot screenplays making the rounds in Hollywoodland, which were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2010 and will not be released in theaters during this calendar year. Basically, the black list contains the hottest projects in Hollywood that you haven't heard of yet. Note: The headline is a slightly inaccurate, because a lot of these screenplays have already been acquired (six of the top ten listed), a bunch are in production now, and some have even finished production. One of this year's top ten screenplays, J.C. Chandor's Margin Call, about the last 24 hours at now-defunct investment bank Lehman Brothers is already in the can and set to premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival with Chandor at the helm...
- 12/13/2010
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
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