Apple has asserted itself once again on the film side, winning an auction for an untitled Africa-set thriller that Idris Elba will star in. He will produce the film with Genre Films’ Simon Kinberg and ...

EXCLUSIVE: The market for new material and big spec script vehicles proved strong last year despite the pandemic. First up to test if specs and packages pick right up will be Safe House scribe David ...

In a most unusual spec script deal, Warner Bros has pre-emptively acquired an untitled “script-ment” from tyro screenwriter David Weil. Essentially, the studio bought the blueprint for a 7-part movie ...

EXCLUSIVE: In an intriguing pairing of two top crime novelists, a script is in the works by Don Winslow, author of novels that include Savages and The Winter Of Frankie Machine, and Chuck Hogan, whose ...

Are Tom Clancy movies out of date? Too 80s? Am I the only one who still adores The Hunt for Red October? (It boasts a dreamy cast: Sean Connery, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill, Stellan Sarsgaard, and the ...

Universal has acquired an untitled Michael Gilio script that the studio will develop as a potential directing vehicle for Gore Verbinski.Gilio titled his script "Black Hole" when it was included on ...

With relatively sparse purchases being made from the spec script market in 2009, it's interesting to see that what could actually be the biggest spec script sale of the year occurred so very late in ...

Fox is lookinng to get back in business with the executive producers of long-running hit “House.” The network has ordered a drama script with a penalty attached from Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner.