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Exclusive: Campside Media, the company behind the popular Chameleon podcast series, which documented the story of the Hollywood Con Queen, has lined up its next project – the story of the wild kidnapping attempt of Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer.

The story, which is based on reporting from Ken Bensinger and Jessica Garrison, is being lined up as the sixth season of the Chameleon podcast.

However, in a new twist, the company is also simultaneously developing a television adaptation and has teamed up with Jeremy Miller and Daniel Cohn, who have worked on shows such as Ally McBeal and Entourage, to pen the small-screen adaptation.

The Michigan Plot details exactly what happened beyond the initial headlines that told the world the FBI had narrowly thwarted a kidnapping attempt against the governor of Michigan. What the Justice Department called the first step towards ‘The Big Boogaloo’ – a long-awaited civil war that would overthrow...

Legal dramas have been hot this season, and several of them draw on the experiences of well-known women in the field. Fox has given a script plus penalty commitment to Justice, legal drama from Scandal co-executive producer Judy Smith, who was the inspiration for the lead character in Shonda Rhimes' Washington drama. Written by Jeremy Miller and Daniel Cohn (Entourage) and inspired by Judy Smith’s own story, Justice centers on a high-powered African American woman who is…...

NBC is developing House Of The Rising Sin, a multi-generational family drama from Scandal co-executive producer Judy Smith, who was the inspiration for the lead character in Shonda Rhimes’ Washington drama. Written by Jeremy Miller and Daniel Cohn (Entourage), House Of The Rising Sin, from 20th TV, is set against a backdrop of politics and the eclectic food scene and vibrant music of New Orleans and revolves around three generations of a corrupt political family which has…...

USA Network continues its push in half-hour comedy. The cable network has bought Smother, a project from writers Jeremy Miller & Dan Cohn, Universal TV and Peter Traugott’s studio-based Tbd Prods about a 30-year-old man who has three moms after his mother and father both marry other women. When he has to go back to living at home, all three moms take control of his financial, professional and personal life. Miller and Cohn executive produce alongside Traugott and Rachel Kaplan of Tbd, Brad Epstein of Panther Films and Margaret Riley of Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Traugott and Riley began working on the idea while Traugott was still at Brillstein, with the project ultimately landing at Uni TV after Traugott set up shop there. USA has been looking to expand into original half-hour comedies. It currently has pilot Sirens in serious contention for a series order and is contemplating picking up ABC...

Every year, film executive Franklin Leonard releases his list, called The Black List, of most-liked unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. This year's list was compiled from the suggestions of 290 film executives, each of whom picked up to ten of their favorite scripts. Since the list started in 2004, many screenplays ended up being turned into films. In 2005, two of the top three scripts were "Lars and the Real Girl" which was nominated for Best Original Screenplay Oscar, and "Juno" which actually won the Oscar. See the 2012 Black List below, broken up by how many votes each screenplay received. Some of the projects are already in the works. 65 - Draft Day (Rajiv Joseph, Scott Rothman) On the day of the NFL Draft, Bills General Manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to save football in Buffalo when he trades for the number one pick. He must quickly decide what he's willing to sacrifice in...

There is either a couple of football fans or Jerry Maguire/Moneyball with this year’s most liked unproduced screenplay. Close to 300 hundred film executives provided with the Black List creators a top ten of their favorite screenplays of the year and the consensus first overall pick (with 65 votes) comes from the recently featured in Variety (10 Screenwriters to Watch 2012) tandem of Rajiv Joseph & Scott Rothman and their drama which has nothing to do with enlisting in the armed forces. Draft Day – about the day in the life of a fictitious Buffalo Bills Gm appears to currently be in turnaround — which only means I expect to see this greenlight perhaps a little later than sooner – worth noting: top spot almost guarantees that the film will indeed go into production (2006, 2010 and 2011 are the exceptions.) Among the more alluring logline subjects we find on the list, I’d be keen on reading the...

In the Barn

Having produced "The Road" and the upcoming "The Counselor" together, producers Nick Wechsler and Steve Schwartz have re-teamed to acquire the film rights to Jonathan Stone's upcoming novel previously titled "In the Barn".

The story feels with an old man who survived the Nazis as a feral child in the Polish woods. Having become a successful American businessman, he's targeted by thieves - but these crooks have messed with the wrong man. [Source: Deadline]

Mean Moms

"That's My Boy" scribes Sean Anders and John Morris are set to pen a film adaptation of Rosalind Wiseman's novel "Mean Moms" at New Line. Jill Messick will produce.

The story follows a happily married mother of two who moves from small town America to the high class suburbs and is faced with confronting the cutthroat world of competitive parenting. [Source: Variety]

Happy Birthday

Disney has picked up Jeremy Miller and Dan Cohn...

Walt Disney Pictures has acquired an original fantasy comedy called Happy Birthday , Deadline reports. Written by Entourage writers Jeremy Miller and Dan Cohn, the film is being planned as a live action feature film. Happy Birthday follows a man who, dreading his 40th birthday, vows never to have another birthday again. When he unexpectedly has his wish granted, the man finds that, in the absence of new birthdays, old ones are coming back to him and he's reliving some of his very worst. Chris and Jim Whitaker are attached to produce, the latter of whom was a producer on Disney's similarly magical The Odd Life of Timothy Green .

Walt Disney Pictures has picked up Jeremy Miller and Dan Cohn's original comedy Happy Birthday.

The fantasy comedy follows a man that wished to never have another birthday after turning forty years old. The wish backfires when old birthdays resurface and he begins reliving some of the worst birthdays he has ever had.

Chris Whitaker and Jim Whitaker are producing. The writing duo are best known for penning HBO's Entourage.

No production schedule has been released for this project.

This doesn’t hold a lot of promise. Variety reports that Andy Fickman has been hired to direct Over My Dead Body, a U.S. remake of the 1995 German comedy Nur über meine Leiche. The movie follows a womanizer who ends up in Hell after dying and strikes a deal with the Devil himself: if he can fix the broken hearts of three women whom he wronged while he was alive in three days, he will be allowed a second chance at life. TV writers Jeremy Miller and Dan Cohn (HBO’s Entourage, the ABC show That Was Then) have also been hired to pen the screenplay (the 1995 original was written by Rainer Matsutani and Sebastian Niemann).

While Over My Dead Body doesn’t have the worst (or most original) premise in the world, Flickman’s resume is insanely spotty (The Game Plan, She’s the Man, You Again, Race to Witch Mountain...

Director Andy Fickman (She's the Man) is on board to film a remake of the 1995 German comedy, Over My Dead Body (Nur über meine Leiche).  The original, written by Rainier Matsutani and Sebastian Niemann and starring Christoph M. Ohrt and Katja Riemann, featured a wife who was fed up with her husband's womanizing to the point of hiring a contract killer to murder him.  Once dead, the husband makes a deal with Death in order to earn a second chance at life.  The catch?  He only has three days to heal the hearts of three women he once took advantage of.  Variety reports that Entourage scribes Jeremy Miller and Dan Cohn will handle scripting duties.  Fickman's domestic comedy, Parental Guidance with Billy Crystal and Bette Midler opens Christmas Day of this year.  Hit the jump to see the original trailer (in German and featuring, oddly, a turkey puppet) and poster for Over My Dead Body.

McG’s Wonderland Sound and Vision has continued it's streak of prolific TV development. Deadline reports that the company has sold three projects to ABC, NBC, Fox and the CW, and also has several comedy and reality pitches in the works. McG is also set to direct his first pilot since 2007's Chuck. The company has 3 series on the air this coming season, with Chuck, Supernatural and Nikita. The company is based at Warner Bros. TV, after renewing it's deal with the studio through 2013.

Here is what McG had to say about the deal and his parnter Peter Johnson:

“Warner Bros. bet on us 10 years ago and has helped us build an amazing business. Peter doesn’t chase the same writers as everyone else: we look for people on the verge, and for people who can tap into the youthful vibe of our company as they approach storytelling for broadcast TV.

Writers Jeremy Miller and Dan Cohn are developing two comedy projects at Fox and Showtime. Deadline reports that the Fox pilot will be based on the Walker Lamond book, Rules for My Unborn Son. The sitcom will focus on Miles, a young underacheiver who was adopted by a family of eccentric intellectuals. When he finally meets his real father, Miles is inspired to write a rule book of life for his unborn child. The Showtime project will be titled (more)...

Writers Jeremy Miller and Dan Cohn have set up two comedy projects: one at Fox based on a non-fiction book, and one Showtime, which has Ryan Phillippe and Breckin Meyer attached as executive producers. Additionally, the duo has inked two blind deals: one at Warner Bros. in conjunction with McG's studio-based Wonderland Sound and Vision, and one at 20th TV's cable division Fox21. The Fox project, from DreamWorks TV and 20th Century Fox TV, is based on Walker Lamond's book Rules for my Unborn Son, a collection of fatherly advise for boys that includes such rules as "A man's luggage does not have wheels," "When in doubt wear a tie," "If you are tempted to wear a cowboy hat, resist" and "There is no better remedy (for hangover) than a dip in the ocean." The Fox comedy centers on Miles, a 25 year-old underachiever adopted and raised by a family of eccentric intellectuals.

Jean-Luc Godard's clever misuse of subtitles in his latest film reveals our linguistical shorcomings

The world's critics, gathered in Cannes to see Jean-Luc Godard's latest film, expected many things from cinema's imprecator-in-chief, ranging from brilliance to ridicule by way of the obscure, but they didn't expect this, and as always with Godard, he outwitted us all. Godard's art of subtitles sent the monolinguistic hordes screaming after three minutes. How dare he? How dare he translate only one word in five? When a character on screen said, for instance, "L'argent est un bien public", the English caption on the screen read "money public good". With never more than three words on screen, widely spaced and sometimes even joined together, no pronouns and no verbs, Godard does what no other film director will ever dream of achieving: say merde to reality. And it does take a truly Wild Bunch, the...