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This January, Peacock is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the intense biographical thriller series Lockerbie: A Search For Truth to the return of the hit British reality series The Traitors. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Peacock this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the seven best films that are coming to Peacock in January 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Alien (January 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93% Credit – 20th Century Fox

Alien is a sci-fi horror thriller film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by Dan O’Bannon. The 1979 film follows the crew of a spacecraft that intercepts a distress signal from a planet. They soon set out to investigate, but they are attacked by an alien entity that invades their ship.

Exclusive: Oscar-nominated writer-producers Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby have signed with Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment for management, Deadline has learned.

The news comes following word this morning that the pair have been tapped to script Shadow Tiger, a feature adaptation of the comic book from Sharad Devarajan.

No strangers to comic books, Fergus and Ostby rose to prominence after co-writing Children of Men and Iron Man back to back.

Released by Universal in 2006, Alfonso Cuarón’s dystopian sci-fi pic Children of Men adapted P.D. James’s 1992 novel of the same name. Set in a bleak future where two decades of global human infertility have pushed society to the brink of collapse, the film follows Theo Faron (Clive Owen), a disillusioned bureaucrat, as he is unexpectedly tasked with protecting a miraculously pregnant woman, Kee (Clare-Hope Ashitey). Widely regarded as one of the best films of the 21st century, Children scored three Academy...

The prequel film we have all been waiting for is finally here and I am really happy to say that it is as brilliant and bombastic as the original film. Obviously, we are talking about Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the prequel to George Miller‘s 2015 Mad Max: Fury Road. Directed by Miller from a screenplay by Nico Lathouris and Miller, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga follows the story of a young Furiosa as she is taken from Green Place of Many Mothers and tries to survive in the wasteland while trying to get back home but the war between great biker horde’s warlord Dementus and Immortan Joe makes it harder. Replacing Charlize Theron from Fury Road, Anya Taylor-Joy takes over the role of Furiosa in the prequel film and it also stars Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke, Lachy Hulme, John Howard, Angus Sampson, and Nathan Jones. So,...

Exclusive: Wattpad Webtoon Studios has promoted Jason Goldberg to Head of Global Film, also elevating Alessandra Ferreri to Vice President of Content, Brennan Loftus to Director of Development, Animation, and Jess Brinder to Director, Head of Entertainment Business Development.

Joining Wattpad Webtoon in 2022, as Director of Film for North America, Goldberg will now continue producing and expanding the studio’s robust film slate in North America and key international markets. He reports to Head of Global Entertainment, David Madden. Projects he’s overseeing at present include adaptations of the hit Webtoon comic Love Advice from the Great Duke of Hell with Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment, Wattpad romance Chasing Red with Stampede Ventures, and the Wattpad thriller What Happened That Night with Children of Men scribe David Arata, to name a few.

Alessandra Ferreri, Brennan Loftus and Jess Brinder

“Jason’s expertise and understanding of storytelling and...

Three titles selected for adaptation pitches from Australian creatives.

Wattpad Webtoon Studios, the fan-driven global entertainment and publishing arm of LA-based Webtoon and Toronto’s Wattpad, has partnered again with Australia’s Screen Queensland on a screenplay adaptation initiative.

The new arrangement continues the Australia-first relationship established in 2020 and will support three Queensland-based screenwriters or teams to develop film and series projects based on popular titles from the Wattpad and Webtoon digital platforms.

Wattpad Webtoon Studios and Screen Queensland will provide consultation to the participants to create their pitch and treatment and draft scripts, with a view to potentially securing...

Exclusive: Stampede Ventures and Wattpad Webtoon Studios will team for a feature adaptation of Chasing Red, the YA romance webnovel by Isabelle Ronin that has garnered huge attention on the digital publishing platform, Wattpad.

Jessika Borsiczky (Sex/Life) has been set to direct from a screenplay by Lauren Schacher (Hooking Up), and casting is now underway.

Chasing Red tells the story of straight-a student Veronica, who refuses to be college heartthrob Caleb’s next “conquest,” even after a chance encounter sparks an undeniable attraction between them. But with nowhere to stay and on the run from a recent tragedy, Veronica finds herself in need of Caleb’s help, despite the secrets of their pasts threatening to tear them apart. Wattpad’s #2 English-language property, following the massively popular After series from Anna Todd, the webnovel has garnered over 260 million reads since its publication in 2017. It’s been published in print in seven languages,...

Exclusive: Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment is partnering with Wattpad Webtoon Studios to develop a feature adaptation of Love Advice from the Great Duke of Hell, the hit comic from the creator known as Unfins, which has thus far garnered more than 160 million views on digital comic publishing platform, Webtoon.

Attached to script the live-action take is Cody Blue Snider, a veteran of the commercial and music video worlds, who is best known for his award-winning shorts All That Remains and Fool’s Day. Imagine will produce alongside Wattpad Webtoon Studios, with Karen Lunder and Allan Mandelbaum overseeing for Imagine, and Aron Levitz, David Madden and Lindsey Weems Ramey overseeing for Wattpad Webtoon.

Unfins’ Ringo Award-nominated comic tells the story of Paul, a hapless high schooler madly in love with “the girl next door.” After mistakenly summoning The Great Duke of Hell, Astaroth, Paul offers his soul...

Science fiction movies are known for having futuristic and sometimes impossible plots, but some films have scientific accuracy that makes them more realistic than they seem. As the name of the genre implies, science fiction films combine factually scientific evidence with fictionalized storylines. Movies like Armageddon feature likely circumstances, but aren't based on real scientific principles.

Luckily, there are plenty of instances in the genre where sci-fi films have gotten the science right. For decades now, movies and TV shows have warned of the dangers of technology through dystopian stories that depict robots ruling over humans. While they weren't always taken seriously, society has since seen computers take over jobs that have belonged to people. Newer films have explored how much further technology could go and how it could impact the human race. Some space movies also have been commended by scientists for their impressive accuracy. Here are a few...

Following the worldwide success of Netflix’s Spanish-language YA romance “A través de mi ventana” (“Through My Window”), Wattpad Webtoon Studios has announced the film adaptation of “Sigue mi voz,” author and influencer Adriana Godoy’s more recent Wattpad webnovel hit.

Directed and written by Inés Pintor and Pablo Santidrián, of Netflix’s Spanish TV series “El tiempo que te doy,” “Sigue mi voz” is the latest project from the Wattpad Webtoon Studios Development Fund that will be produced out of Spain.

“Sigue mi voz” has more than 25 million reads on Wattpad, and Godoy is one of the platform’s most successful authors, with more than two million followers and over 20 published webnovels in English and Spanish. Her works have accumulated a total of more than 850 million reads on the platform.

Godoy’s most personal story to date, the webnovel follows Klara and her search for love, identity and self-acceptance.

In his first leading feature role, Drew Ray Tanner (“Riverdale”) will star in “Boot Camp,” a film adaptation of the hugely popular Wattpad story by Gina Musa of the same name.

The romantic comedy tells the body-empowerment story of notoriously unathletic Whitney Carmichael, played by Rachel Boudwin, who begins to fall for her off-limits personal trainer, Axel (Tanner), after signing up for an intense summer boot camp to reinvent herself. A deepening connection inspires her to let go of the others’ expectations and, instead, find the strength to embrace her true self.

Wattpad Webtoon Studios announced that production has wrapped on “Boot Camp” after filming began in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, earlier this month. The movie does not yet have distribution deals. “Boot Camp,” which currently has over 26 million reads on Wattpad, was developed with Great Pacific Media, December Films, Junction Hammer Productions and Channel Zero Studios.

In addition to Tanner and Boudwin,...

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has published its list of the 101 greatest screenplays of the 21st century, topped by Jordan Peele’s “Get Out.” Peele won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with the script for his horror movie, which also marked his solo feature directorial debut. Bong Joon Ho’s Oscar-winning “Parasite” screenplay cracked the WGA’s top five along with Charlie Kaufman’s “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” Aaron Sorkin’s “The Social Network,” and the Coen Brothers’ “No Country for Old Men.” All of these aforementioned films won screenwriting Oscars.

The remainder of the WGA’s top 10 consists of Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood,” Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds,” Cameron Crowe’s “Almost Famous,” and Christopher Nolan’s “Memento.” Anderson has three scripts in the top 101, as does Tarantino. Writers with multiple ranked scripts include Aaron Sorkin, Charlie Kaufman,...

Italy’s Leone Film Group has teamed up with Wattpad, the user-generated fiction entertainment company, to develop a feature film based on “The Bad Boy’s Girl,” which is among the most popular stories on the storytelling platform.

Leone Film Group, a leading Italian production and distribution company, has also optioned the full series of novels in author Blair Holden’s “The Bad Boy’s Girl” saga, which is touted as having more than 220 million online reads, with plans to turn it into a teen romance film franchise.

The story of “The Bad Boy’s Girl” revolves around protagonist Tessa O’Connell, who has only two goals for senior year: to keep her head down, and to get over the heartbreak of seeing her longtime crush date her ex-best friend, according to promotional materials.

“But Tessa fears the worst when her childhood bully, Cole, returns to town from military school.

Exclusive: Lisa Hamilton Daly, who was most recently Director, Original Series at Netflix, has joined Bedrock Entertainment, the production company set up by Tony To Dan Sackheim after leaving the streamer.

Hamilton Daly, who oversaw development and production of series including Virgin River and Sweet Magnolias at Netflix, joins the company as EVP, Creative Affairs. She left the streamer in October 2020.

Band of Brothers producer To and True Detective director and exec producer Sackheim teamed up with ITV Studios America to launch the venture last year.

It is currently developing projects including an adaptation of Barry Eisler’s book series, starting with A Clean Kill in Tokyo, centered around Japanese-American assassin John Rain with Stuart Beattie (Collateral) and is also working with writers and executive producers such as Julia Ruchman (The Walking Dead), Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (The Outpost), and David Arata (Spy Game).

Prior to joining Netflix, where...

Robbie Amell, star of “Upload,” “Code 8” and “The Babysitter: Killer Queen,” is set to produce and star in “Float,” a movie based on Kate Marchant’s popular Wattpad teen-romance story.

Wattpad has teamed with Collective Pictures — formerly Colony Pictures — to produce “Float.” Marchant’s “Float” has accumulated more than 25.5 million reads on Wattpad and is among the top 20 stories in the teen romance category on the user-generated fiction platform.

“Float” centers on 17-year-old Waverly, who after her parents’ messy divorce finds herself yanked from her comfortable life in Alaska to spend the summer in her aunt’s sunny beach town. Waverly quickly begins to clash with one of her new neighbors and the polar opposite of everything she represents: an arrogant, jaded beach bum named Blake (Amell). Things take a turn after Blake learns Waverly’s embarrassing secret — that she can’t swim — and her one-time nemesis, who’s the town lifeguard,...

Exclusive: Producer Tony To (Band of Brothers) and director/producer Dan Sackheim (True Detective) have teamed with ITV Studios America to launch Bedrock Entertainment, part of ITV Studios’ expansion of its U.S. scripted TV business under the leadership of Philippe Maigret. The company, led by To and Sackheim, will develop and produce premium television content for the global marketplace across network, cable and streaming platforms. Infrastructure and financial support will be provided by ITV Studios America.

Bedrock Entertainment has multiple projects in the pipeline for television development, including Barry Eisler’s bestselling book series centered around Japanese-American assassin John Rain. Starting with A Clean Kill in Tokyo and spreading across the globe, Rain wrestles with demons while having to navigate between shifting global forces and governments that contract his unique services. Stuart Beattie (Collateral) is writing and is executive producer. Other projects are with writers and executive producers Julia Ruchman...

Wattpad, a global multiplatform entertainment company known for its digital novels and data insights, is expanding into film development and will finance two new film projects, including one from “Children of Men” writer David Arata and another from Angela Lamanna, a co-producer on Netflix’s “The Haunting of Bly Manor,” the company announced Thursday.

Founded in 2006, Wattpad allows users to write, post and read short, text-based novels. Readers can engage with the content by commenting on the novel or “liking” specific paragraphs. This data is then used by the company to identify emerging trends within the platform — such as what type of content is being written about and engaged with the most. The company then uses this information to help studios create video content, with Sony Pictures Television, Hulu and more having all used the data. Currently, the company has 50 different TV and film projects in development with studios around the world.

Wattpad Studios is developing the features What Happened That Night and The Hound. Both titles come from their library of Wattpad stories and are part of Wattpad’s Development Fund which finances early development for select TV and film projects.

The new fund uses data-backed insights to uncover stories and trends that can be adapted for TV, film, and published via the company’s publishing arm Wattpad Books.

Written by Deanna Cameron, What Happened That Night will be adapted for the screen by Oscar-nominated Children of Men screenwriter David Arata. The story follows a woman named Clara after her boyfriend is murdered by her sister. This causes Clara to go down a path that she would have preferred to forget, and in a desperate race to absolve her sister’s name, Clara advances ever closer to the dangerous secret of what really happened that night. Cameron’s book was published...

What Happened That Night, The Hound to bemefit from new development fund.

Toronto-based Wattpad, the company behind Ya hit After, is partnering with Children Of Men screenwriter David Arata on What Happened That Night, one of two projects the company is developing into features.

The development comes as Wattpad unveiled its development fund as it moves into financing early development on projects from its stable of original fiction.

Arata will adapt What Happened That Night from Deanna Cameron’s book, which drew more than 1.5m reads and was published by Wattpad Books last year

The story centres on a woman...

Oscar-nominated screenwriter David Arata, who co-wrote Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men, and Angela Lamanna (The Punisher, Hannibal) are turning novels into movies for the digital storytelling app Wattpad.

The projects are part of Wattpad's new Development Fund that enables the digital startup to finance early development for select TV and film projects. Deanna Cameron’s What Happened That Night, published by Wattpad Books in 2019, will be adapted by Arata.

The novel follows a woman named Clara after her boyfriend is murdered by her sister, which lands her in a desperate race to absolve her sister’s name and ...

Oscar-nominated screenwriter David Arata, who co-wrote Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men, and Angela Lamanna (The Punisher, Hannibal) are turning novels into movies for the digital storytelling app Wattpad.

The projects are part of Wattpad's new Development Fund that enables the digital startup to finance early development for select TV and film projects. Deanna Cameron’s What Happened That Night, published by Wattpad Books in 2019, will be adapted by Arata.

The novel follows a woman named Clara after her boyfriend is murdered by her sister, which lands her in a desperate race to absolve her sister’s name and ...

Some 778 showrunners and screenwriters have signed a statement saying that they will fire their agents if the WGA fails to reach an agreement with the Association of Talent Agents for a new franchise agreement. Signers include a slew of A-listers, including Greg Berlanti, Alfonso Cuaron, James L. Brooks, Aaron Sorkin, Norman Lear, Shonda Rhimes, Seth MacFarlane, Mike Schur, Tina Fey, Joss Whedon, Kenya Barris, Peter Farrelly, Oliver Stone, John Wells, Matthew Weiner, Noah Hawley, Vince Gilligan, John Singleton, David Chase, Barry Jenkins, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Colin Trevorrow, Eric Roth, David Shore, David Simon, Shawn Ryan, Lena Waithe, Paul Haggis, Mindy Kaling, Drew Goddard, Jenji Kohan, Carlton Cuse, Howard Gordon, Kurt Sutter, Krista Vernoff, Mara Brock Akil, Danny Strong, Rob McElhenney, Jason Katims, Terence Winter, Peter Lenkov, Michelle and Robert King, Al Jean, Robert Towne, Gloria Calderon Kellett, Kevin Williamson, Darren Star, Rashida Jones, Pamela Adlon, WGA West president David A. Goodman...

The $120 million multinational disaster movie “Inversion” leads a slate of two feature films and a TV series from Hong Kong-Chinese producer and financier Sun Entertainment Culture (Sunec). The two movies mark Sun’s English-language film debut.

Founded in 2011, Sunec has been involved in Hong Kong-Chinese co-productions such as 2017’s “Paradox” and 2015’s “Spl II: A Time for Consequences,” starring Wu Jing. But with the Chinese entertainment industry currently in turmoil after new tax rules have created hurdles for local financing and production, the company is looking to move in a more international direction, expanding into producing content in different languages as it becomes more difficult to produce in the mainland.

Disaster thriller “Inversion” tells the story of a Chinese scientist and an American pilot who must work together to save the world when gravity suddenly disappears. The project originally was set to be written by a team comprised of screenwriter,...

Netflix has released the first trailer for their upcoming Israeli spy thriller The Angel. The film is based on the true story of a man named Ashraf Marwan, "who was Egyptian President Nasser's son-in-law, and special advisor and confidant to his successor Anwar Sadat, while simultaneously one of Israeli Intelligence's most precious assets of the 20th century."

This Looks like a solid spy movie and the fact that it's based on a true story makes it even more interesting. The film stars Marwan Kenzari (The Promise), Toby Kebbell (War for the Planet of the Apes) and Hannah Ware (Aftermath).

The Angel was directed by Ariel Vromen (The Iceman) from a script by David Arata (Children of Men). It will premiere on Netflix on September 14, 2018.

Streaming services have opened the door for multilingual series like worldwide Netflix hit “Narcos,” but dramas in English still dominate TV’s Golden Age, travel the most widely and draw the biggest distribution deals. International companies are scrambling for a piece of the action — including, perhaps surprisingly, producers in France, despite the country’s perceived snobbery about other languages.

Federation Entertainment, the 5-year-old firm behind Netflix’s first French show, “Marseille,” and Canal Plus spy show “The Bureau,” is the latest French player to step into the competitive U.S. market, with nearly a dozen English-language projects in the pipeline. Unlike outfits such as Gaumont or EuropaCorp, Federation is one of the few sizable, fully independent TV outfits left in France, and not only has opened an office in L.A. but is also developing projects with Paramount TV and other American companies.

Even so, breaking into the U.S.

Dutch actor Marwan Kenzari is set to topline Netflix's real-life Egyptian spy drama The Angel.

Based on the New York Times best-selling book The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel, the feature will tell the true story of Ashraf Marwan, the son-in-law of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and special adviser to Nasser's successor Anwar Sadat, who spied on behalf of Israel, gaining invaluable intelligence that helped to politically shape the Middle East in the 20th century. 

Ariel Vormen will direct from a screenplay by Children of Men writer David Arata. Simon Istolainen and Antoine Stioui will produce the feature, which will begin production in early...

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Samuel L Jackson will fight a global gravity catastrophe in the upcoming sci-fi film, Inversion.

Since Samuel L Jackson happens to be one of the most omnipresent actors in the film industry, news that he’s nabbed a starring role in an upcoming sci-fi epic is hardly a stop the pressevent. Nevertheless, Jackson’s latest gig could uniquely see him join Ragnar Lothbrok and a Chinese scientist to fix the gravitational pull of the Earth! We fancy his chances, in truth.

According to Variety, Jackson will join the project, by the name of Inversion. In the film, Jackson will play a senior Homeland Security investigator who finds himself in the thick of a potentially perilous situation for anyone on the planet who enjoys constant gravity. The calamity is being combatted by Travis Fimmel (Vikings, Warcraft), who plays a street-smart American con man who in turn finds himself...

Currently the second biggest movie market on the planet, China’s stake in the global film industry continues to grow and grow with each passing year and in 2017, we’ll be welcoming the country’s most expensive blockbuster to date in the form of The Great Wall.

Mixing high-profile Chinese actors such Andy Lau as Jing Tian with western stars in the vein of Matt Damon and Pedro Pascal, if successful, Zhang Yimou’s fantasy epic could be a harbinger of things to come. One actor that’s certainly a big draw overseas is Samuel L. Jackson, and Variety brings word today that the Kingsman star has now landed a role in sci-fi epic Inversion.

Helmed by director Peter Segal, Liu Yifei has climbed aboard alongside Jackson, rounding out a preliminary cast that already boasts Travis Fimmel. It has all the makings of a true sci-fi romp, too, following a...

Peter Segal will direct from a Paul Haggis, David Arata and Bragi Schut script.

Travis Fimmel will star in Peter Segal’s sci-fi epic Inversion, which is being co-produced and co-financed by Markus Barmettler and Philip Lee’s Facing East.

Fimmel starred in TV series Vikings and will next be seen in Legendary Pictures’ Warcraft, which is being rolled out globally next month.

Scripted by Paul Haggis, David Arata and Bragi Schut, Inversion follows a street-wise American con man and a young Chinese physicist as they race to save the earth from a terrifying loss of gravity.

Michael Nozik will produce with Barmettler and Lee, while Segal’s longtime producing partner Michael Ewing will executive produce. Mark Damon’s Foresight Unlimited is handling international sales.

Hong Kong’s Pegasus Motion Pictures and Sun Entertainment are also co-financing. Chinese state-owned distributor Huaxia Film Distribution will co-produce and distribute in mainland China.

The film is...

"Warcraft" and "Vikings" star Travis Fimmel has joined the cast of Peter Segal's sci-fi feature "Inversion" at Facing East.

The story follows a street-wise American con man, and a young Chinese physicist as they race against the clock to save the earth from a terrifying loss of gravity.

Michael Nozik, Philip Lee and Markus Barmettler will produce. Paul Haggis, David Arata and Bragi Schut will pen the script. Shooting kicks off in Dublin, Shanghai and Chicago on September 12th.

Source: Deadline...

Warcraft‘s Travis Fimmel has been set to star in Paul Haggis co-scripted sci-fi pic Inversion. Directed by Peter Segal (Tommy Boy), it’s being produced by Hong Kong- and Beijing-based Facing East. Mark Damon’s Foresight Unlimited is selling in Cannes. The story follows a street-wise American con man and a young Chinese physicist as they race against the clock to save the earth from a terrifying loss of gravity. Haggis wrote the screenplay with David Arata (Children Of…...

"The Revenant" executive producers Markus Barmettler and Philip Lee have formed production-financing company Facing East with plans to back the sci-fi adventure "Inversion."

Peter Segal ("Get Smart") is attached as director and Segal will work on the screenplay with "Casino Royale" scribe Paul Haggis.

The story follows a street-wise American con man and a young Chinese physicist as they race against the clock to save the earth from a terrifying loss of gravity.

Bragi Schut and David Arata are also working on the script while Michael Nozik is set to produce. Filming is slated to begin in August.

Source: Variety...

On the heels of ordering Harvest as its first drama series in nine years, Spike TV continues to build up its drama development slate. Its latest buy is Nightrise, from Legendary TV and Neil Marshall and Marc Helwig‘s Applebox Entertainment.Written by Oscar-nominated David Arata (Children Of Men), Nightrise marks the first project developed and sold by Applebox since it was launched in February with a two-year overall deal at Legendary TV. Details about the plot are being…...

It’s turning into one of those weeks that’s heavily populated by talk of more movie-to-tv adaptations. Today’s latest addition to the popular craze is being served up by FX, who are developing a small screen version of Jack The Ripper thriller, From Hell.

Set to be a direct adaptation of the original comic series by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, audiences will recognize the title from the 2001 feature. Helmed by The Hughes Brothers and starring Johnny Depp, it was a bloody, gory caper that failed to bring to life the brilliance of the source material. From what we know thus far, the TV series will hopefully avoid any further misfires.

The sole remaining connection between the feature and the serial is producer Don Murphy, who’s back to produce the show for FX. Per Deadline, Murphy always envisioned the adaptation as a series not a movie. In...

Screen adaptations of the works of legendary British comic writer Alan Moore have been a bit of a mixed bag and have often differed considerably from the original work.

One that strayed quite far from the text was 2001's "From Hell". Moore's original 572-page, black-and-white work is his magnum opus - a serialised exploration of the Jack the Ripper murders that explores its themes to extraordinary lengths.

The Johnny Depp-film though bares no real relation beyond the title and subject matter, transforming the story into a more standard whodunit which pales compared to Moore's indulgent yet nonetheless astonishing creation.

Now, FX and producer Don Murphy ("Transformers," "Real Steel") are teaming for a new TV series adaptation of Moore's work which "Children of Men" screenwriter David Arata will pen. The plan is to turn this into an 'event series' with the much longer runtime than a two-hour movie allowing time...

FX is turning Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's graphic novel From Hell into a drama series. David Arata (Children Of Men) will pen the adaptation, while Don Murphy is serving as executive producer.

The work was previously adapted into a film starring Johnny Depp and Robbie Coltrane. The Hughes brothers directed the film, but won't be involved in this new take.

From Hell tells the tale of "Jack the Ripper with the killer himself as the main character. Detailing the events leading up to the Whitechapel killings and the cover-up that followed, the 572-page graphic novel is a meditation on the mind of a madman whose savagery and violence gave birth to the 20th century."

Murphy, who also produced the film, said he always envisioned From Hell as a TV series due to its length. The book’s structure was changed in order to make into a two-hour movie.

For fans of TV shows of serial killers and movies-turned-series, I've got a double whammy for ya! "From Hell", the graphic novel from Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, is being turned into a drama series on the FX network. Don Murphy, who produced the film of the same name, is also executive producing the series. Writing this adaptation will be David Arata (Children Of Men). While the film focused on inspector Abberline (Johnny Depp) uncovering the mystery of Jack the...

The Jack The Ripper graphic novel From Hell, previously a Johnny Depp film, is being re-adapted for TV.

In this age, where films are being touted for small screen adaptations pretty much every week, it’s refreshing to see a graphic novel getting attention. Albeit one which has already been a film.

We’re talking of course about From Hell, Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s Jack the Ripper story which previously offered the basis for the 2001 Johnny Depp film of the same name.

FX are developing a series, with Don Murphy (producer of the film) on executive producer duties. The Hughes brothers, directors of the film, are not involved. David Arata, of Children Of Men fame, will write the series, though.

What we don’t know is quite how many episodes we will be getting, or when they might appear.

We do know, however, that the From Hell graphic...

  Cable network FX is developing a dramatic television series based on Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's From Hell, a graphic novel about Jack The Ripper. It was previously adapted into a 2001 feature film by 20th Century Fox that starred Johnny Depp, Heather Graham and Robbie Coltrane. It was directed by Allen Hughes and Albert Hughes. One of the film's producers, Don Murphy, will be an executive producer for the From Hell television series. He's the only major player from the film to be involved with the show. Children Of Men screenwriter David Arata will pen the adaptation. Moore and Campbell's From Hell was published from 1989 to 1996 and is 572 pages long. The comic was inspired by Stephen Knight's controversial theory that the Jack The Ripper murders were orchestrated by Freemasons and the British Royal Family to cover up a matter involving Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence. It is...

That crackling sound you can hear is Alan Moore setting fire to his beard. Transformers producer Don Murphy is developing a new version of Moore and Eddie Campbell's dense Jack The Ripper tome From Hell for television. The FX Channel is its intended home, and David Arata (Children Of Men) will adapt the complex narrative.We've been here before in slightly different circumstances. Murphy was also one of the producers behind the 2001 Hughes Brothers version starring Johnny Depp and Heather Graham. That film did as good a job as could reasonably have been expected of simplifying and cramming the story into two hours.But Murphy apparently always thought the material was better suited to an episodic format, and the rise of must-see quality TV drama has prompted him to seize the opportunity. Moore and Campbell's massive massive graphic novel sees Inspector Abberline of the Yard investigating a Ripper conspiracy that involves the Freemasons,...

No one’s is ever going to launch an Oscar campaign for Need for Speed, but there’s a case to be made for unpretentious, action-packed popcorn pleasures like the racing thriller. Aaron Paul gave a mesmerizing performance, the stunts were spectacular and, perhaps best of all, it proved that helmer Scott Waugh (Act of Valor) knows his way around a slick action vehicle. Now, Waugh is set to dive into the deep end for a much pricier venture – a $120 million sci-epic titled Inversion.

The script, from Bragi Schut (Season of the Witch) and David Arata (Spy Game), follows a young Chinese scientist and a street-smart American ex-patriate who team up and race against time to prevent a cataclysmic reversal of gravity, which would send entire cities and civilians falling into the sky to certain death.

It’s an exciting premise, and Waugh’s background as a stunt coordinator should...

Need For Speed director Scott Waugh will direct the sci-fi epic Inversion, about two heroes trying to save the world from an apocalyptic end. Production will begin next spring.

Inversion follows two unlikely heroes, a young Chinese scientist and a street smart American expat, on a frenzied journey across the globe to save Earth from an apocalyptic threat – a total reversal of gravity that causes whole cities and civilizations to uproot and plummet into the sky.

The pic teams up Bragi Schut (Season of the Witch) and David Arata (Children Of Men, Spy Game). On board to produce are Michael Nozik, Markus Barmettler, and Philip Lee.

No word on who's going to star, but personally, I'm excited to see a sci-fi blockbuster with an Asian star.

Scott Waugh's last movie, DreamWorks’ Need For Speed, starring Aaron Paul, grossed $200m worldwide.

Scott Waugh ("Need for Speed," "Act of Valor") is in final negotiations to direct the big-budget sci-fi action movie "Inversion".

Costing a whopping $120 million, the story follows a young Chinese scientist and a street-smart American expat who race to save Earth from an apocalyptic threat - a gravity reversal causing civilizations to uproot and plummet into the sky.

Bragi Schut and David Arata (“Children of Men”) are penning the project which Michael Nozik, Markus Barmettler and Philip Lee will produce. Shooting begins in April.

Source: Variety...

As his latest film, the Benedict Cumberbatch-starring Alan Turing tale The Imitation Game, starts to generate serious buzz and continues its festival run, director Morten Tyldum is looking for a new challenge. He’s found it with the adaptation of William Gibson’s book Pattern Recognition.Gibson’s best-selling 2003 tome is set the year before and follows Cayce Pollard, a 32 year-old marketing consultant who has a psychological sensitivity to corporate symbols. The action takes place in London, Tokyo, and Moscow as Cayce judges the effectiveness of a proposed corporate symbol and is hired to seek the creators of film clips anonymously posted to the internet – which leads her to uncover a much deeper conspiracy.Anthony Peckham is writing the current draft of the script for a project that has been in development since 2004, when Peter Weir jumped aboard to co-wrote the first take for Warners alongside David Arata and D.B. Weiss.

With the help of some concept art and a script by Bragi Schut and David Arata, Foresight Unlimited has closed key pre-sales on the $120 million-budget disaster project "Inversion".

The story deals with a scenario in which Earth suddenly loses its gravity, the catastrophic results of such a phenomenon, and what, if anything, could be done to save the Earth and its six billion inhabitants.

Philip Lee, Michael Nozik and Markus Barmettler will produce and a major U.S. studio is already in place. Foresight is in final talks with a director for the project and production is slated to begin early next year.

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(Inversion – Concept Art)

Becoming one of the most talked about films at Cannes 2014, Foresight Unlimited invigorates a low key market with the big budget sci-fi action film Inversion, it was announced today by Mark Damon, Chairman and CEO of Foresight Unlimited which is handling international sales.

What would happen if Earth suddenly lost its gravity? The unique story revolves around the catastrophic results of such a phenomenon and what could be done, if anything, to restore gravity and save Earth and its 6 billion inhabitants.

The epic $120 million budgeted film, is written by Bragi Schut and Academy Award Nominee David Arata (Children Of Men) and is a global chase against the clock traveling across continents from China to Europe to the United States culminating in a startling gravity inverted NYC.

Produced by Philip Lee (Cloud Atlas), Michael Nozik (Syriana) and Markus Barmettler (Conviction), the producers are currently in discussions with a...

Mark Damon’s Foresight Unlimited has closed key pre-sales here on big budget disaster project Inversion based on a script and dazzling concept art.

Damon and Foresight president Tamara Birkemoe are in final talks with a director and a major Us studio is in place for the story of a potentially apocalyptic end of gravity.

Deals have closed with Spain (DEA Planeta), Russia (West), Scandinavia (Mis. Label), Benelux (Dutch Filmworks) and South Africa (Nu Metro). Further deals have closed in Latin America and Asia.

Talks are ongoing for Australia, Italy and Switzerland.

Bragi Schut and David Arata co-wrote the screenplay. Philip Lee, Michael Nozik and Markus Barmettler are producing.

Hong Kong’s Pegasus Motion Pictures will lead the financing and production is set for early 2015.

“Disaster movies are cyclical and this one is going to be particularly memorable,” said Damon. It’s a very unique and well conceived concept.”...

Mark Damon’s Foresight Unlimited has closed key pre-sales here on the disaster project Inversion based on a script and dazzling concept art.

Damon and Foresight president Tamara Birkemoe are in final talks with a director and a major Us studio is in place for the story of a potentially apocalyptic end of gravity.

Deals have closed with Spain (DEA Planeta), Russia (West), Scandinavia (Mis. Label), Benelux (Dutch Filmworks) and South Africa (Nu Metro). Further deals have closed in Latin America and Asia.

Talks are ongoing for Australia, Italy and Switzerland.

Bragi Schut and David Arata co-wrote the screenplay. Philip Lee, Michael Nozik and Markus Barmettler are producing.

Hong Kong’s Pegasus Motion Pictures will lead the financing and production is set for early 2015.

“Disaster movies are cyclical and this one is going to be particularly memorable,” said Damon. It’s a very unique and well conceived concept.”...

Cannes -- Mark Damon's Foresight Unlimited has announced an ambitious new sci-fi epic about the loss of gravity in various regions around the globe. However, Inversion has yet to nail down a director or a cast. Bragi Schut and David Arata -- who co-wrote Children of Men, directed by Gravity filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron -- authored the script. Photos: Stars and Their Sunglasses at Cannes Damon, CEO of Foresight, and Foresight president Tamara Birkemoe are preselling Inversion at the Cannes Film Market, and say they have struck distribution deals in Spain, Russia, Benelux, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, South Africa, Philippines and

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Disney has tapped New Yorker writer/genius Malcolm Gladwell to inject some uh, actual legitimate intelligence into a drama script in development called Hexum. Written by David Arata, who penned Children Of Men and Spy Games, Hexum follows:

a CIA threat-assessment analyst, an alternative-thinking brainiac who is relegated to a distant corner of the CIA where he assembles theories nobody pays attention to. By connecting a series of seemingly random occurrences, he uncovers a sinister adversary planning an imminent global threat. And of course, his biggest challenge is to get anybody to believe him. [Deadline]

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Disney has tapped New Yorker writer/genius Malcolm Gladwell to inject some uh, actual legitimate intelligence into a drama script in development called Hexum. Written by David Arata, who penned Children Of Men and Spy Games, Hexum follows:

a CIA threat-assessment analyst, an alternative-thinking brainiac who is relegated to a distant corner of the CIA where he assembles theories nobody pays attention to. By connecting a series of seemingly random occurrences, he uncovers a sinister adversary planning an imminent global threat. And of course, his biggest challenge is to get anybody to believe him. [Deadline]

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