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Exclusive: Sports content studio game1 has optioned film rights to attorney Rachael Denhollander’s memoir What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics, tapping Janine Eser to handle the screenplay adaptation.

The film will follow Denhollander, recounting her life from the time she met former USA Gymnastics Team and Michigan State University doctor Larry Nassar, through the subsequent fight to bring justice for his serial abuse of young girls seeking medical care. Despite powerful institutions attempting to cover up his abuse, the one-time gymnast launched an investigation that would ultimately unmask one of the most prolific sexual abusers in recorded history, while building an army of survivors that would take him down. Following her leadership, more than 300 women participated in the criminal prosecution and sentencing of Nasser, leading to his life imprisonment.

Hollander’s courageous tenacity...

Exclusive: Screenwriter Janine Eser (Fanie Fourie’s Lobola) has been brought on to adapt the screenplay to Trevor Noah’s bestselling memoir, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, which has Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o attached to star. Liesl Tommy, the director behind the upcoming Jennifer Hudson-starring Aretha Franklin biopic, Respect, is directing Born a Crime for Paramount Players.

Nyong’o will play Noah’s mother, Patricia, who served as an important figure to her son in his formative years. Set during the waning days of apartheid and the transition into the new South Africa, the memoir details the personal and often painful story of Noah’s youth. At the center of it all is Noah’s fearless mother, Patricia. In 2009, while returning from church service, Patricia was shot in the head by his stepfather but miraculously survived.

Noah is producing the project under his Day Zero Productions...

The short story goes... What happens when an Afrikaans guy and a Zulu girl fall in love and have to navigate their way through the complicated process of lobola? Directed by Henk Pretorius and co-written by Pretorius and Janine Eser, the film is called Fanie Fourie’s Lobola, a contemporary romantic comedy about love and tradition in a rapidly evolving society. It stars newcomer Zethu Dlomo (star of South African TV network SABC1's paranomal investigative series Room 9) as Fanie’s love interest and Eduan van Jaarsveld as Fanie - Fanie being the Afrikaans guy - a white South African. So, yes, it's an interracial...