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Writ Large has upped TV and film literary manager Lauren Dineley to partner.

Dineley joined Writ Large in 2016 and was later promoted to manager in 2019. During her tenure at the company, she has cultivated a diverse roster of top tier clients including creator & showrunner Tanya Saracho (Vida), Black List scribes Azia Squire, Emma Dudley, and Holly Brix, writers Brittany Miller, Kim Shumway, Silvia Olivas, Calaya Michelle Stallworth, Carly Woodworth, and Jessica Mena Esteves, as well as filmmakers Veronica Rodriguez and Monica Zanetti (Ellie & Abbie and Ellie’s Dead Aunt).

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Exclusive: Amblin Partners has acquired rights to the Truly*Adventurous article “The Richest Black Girl in America,” penned by Lauren Henley, and has tapped Azia Squire to adapt it into a feature script.

Squire will use the article as well of thousands of pages of archival documents to help with research on the true story of Sarah Rector, an 11-year-old Black girl in Jim Crow America, who is given reparations in the form of uninhabitable land by the U.S. government. After oil reservoirs are discovered beneath her land, Sarah almost immediately becomes one of the wealthiest people in America. But the government intervenes, once again, to insist that white conservators manage her finances for her. Remarkably, even with the deck stacked against her, teenage Sarah learns to outwit the system and take back what she’s owed.

Matthew Pearl and Charlie Wachtel will produce the film with Greg Nichols and David Rabinowitz exec producing.

The Rocketeer will return with an all-new movie on Disney+. On Monday, it was reported that a follow-up movie entitled The Return of the Rocketeer is in development for the streamer with David and Jessica Oyelowo producing under their Yoruba Saxon banner. Brigham Taylor will also produce with Mortal Media exec producing. The movie is written by Ed Ricourt.

There are also talks for David Oyelowo to possibly star. The title seems to suggest some kind of continuation over an all-out reboot, and a few select details have been revealed about the plot. The Return of the Rocketeer will reportedly have an all-new creative directive with Ricourt's screenplay focusing on a "retired Tuskegee airman who takes up the mantle of the Rocketeer." It's not clear at this time if any actors or characters from the original movie will return.

Directed by Joe Johnston and based on Dave Stevens' comic book character of the same name,...

Paramount Pictures has hired Mika Pryce as senior VP of production.

She begins her new position on April 26 and will report to the motion picture group’s co-presidents Daria Cercek and Michael Ireland.

“Mika has fantastic talent relationships, excellent taste and knows how to build a movie from the ground up,” Cercek and Ireland said in a statement. “We’re excited to have her bring her entrepreneurial skill set to the studio to help us tell great stories for global audiences. She is the perfect addition to our team.”

Pryce joins Paramount from Don Cheadle’s production company This Radicle Acts. During her time as head of development, she oversaw the development of several TV shows including the HBO Max series “Max,” a dark comedy about mental heath from Camilla Blackett; an adaptation of A. Lee Martinez’s 2009 fantasy fiction novel “Monster”; and “War,” about the formation of the Bloods and Crips gangs.

Paramount Pictures has hired Mika Pryce as SVP Production for its Motion Picture Group. She starts on April 26 and reports to Motion Picture Group co-presidents Daria Cercek and Michael Ireland.

“Mika has fantastic talent relationships, excellent taste and knows how to build a movie from the ground up,” Cercek and Ireland said Wednesday. “We’re excited to have her bring her entrepreneurial skill set to the studio to help us tell great stories for global audiences. She is the perfect addition to our team.”

Pryce joins Paramount from Don Cheadle’s production company This Radicle Act Productions, where she served as head of development. There she oversaw the development of several television projects including Max, a dark comedy about mental health created by Camilla Blackett and set at HBO Max; an adaptation of A. Lee Martinez’s 2009 fantasy fiction novel Monster; They Can’t Kill Us All, about the formation of Black Lives Matter,...

Exclusive: Don Cheadle’s Radicle Act banner and HBO Max are taking it to the Max, literally and figuratively.

The AT&T-owned streamer has inked a development deal with the Emmy nominee’s production company for the dark comedy created by Camilla Blackett, I’ve learned.

With the Fresh Off Boat, Skins and Newsroom scribe Blackett on-board as showrunner Max focuses on a black millennial woman who is trying to juggle her intense professional life and intricate sex life, with, as the official logline says, “some light sociopathic tendencies.”

Cheadle and Radicle Act’s Mika Pryce will serve as executive producers on Max. Industrial Media, whom Radicle Act has a first look deal with, will also be EPs on Max.

“The act of the radicle punching through the seed and rooting into the soil is a bold move too,” the Oscar nominated actor told Deadline of the new deal.

“That...

Twenty years before introducing the Star-Spangled Man With a Plan in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s World War II period piece Captain America: The First Avenger, director Joe Johnston brought another 1930s-set comic book character to the big screen on behalf of Walt Disney Pictures with The Rocketeer.

Released in 1991, the film was originally intended to serve as the opening chapter of a trilogy, and while disappointing box office returns interrupted those plans, the movie has developed a dedicated cult following that’s been clamoring for a sequel ever since. Now, it seems they’ll finally get their wish, as The DisInsider has brought word that the follow-up is currently in active development and has snagged a new writer (Azia Squire), with the project headed to Disney Plus.

Of course, this shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, as We Got This Covered already told you about the sequel...

The planned sequel to The Rocketeer is reportedly back on track, and Sleight helmer Jd Dillard is volunteering to direct the project himself. Back in 2016, it was announced that Disney had greenlit a sequel to the original movie called The Rocketeers with Max Winkler and Matt Spicer penning the script. Updates have been scarce on the project's status ever since, but a new report from The DisInsider suggests The Rocketeer 2 is back in development with Boomerang writer Azia Squire writing a new draft of the screenplay.

According to the report, The Rocketeer 2 is also intended to stream on Disney+ as opposed to bringing the franchise back to theaters. Brigham Taylor (Lady and the Tramp) is also reported to produce alongside Noah Weinstein (Inner Demons) and the NBA's Blake Griffin and the NFL's Ryan Kalil. However, no director has yet signed on to helm the project, leaving the door...

It’s not a hugely famous film, but 1991’s The Rocketeer has a strong cult following, with Joe Johnston’s throwback to 1940s movie serials often viewed as an underrated gem in Disney’s back catalogue. For the past few years, the studio has been attempting to capitalize on this by getting a belated reboot off the ground and back in 2016, we learned that Max Winkler and Matt Spicer had been hired to pen a script for the follow-up, titled The Rocketeers.

Nothing has materialized since then, but it seems that the advent of Disney Plus has given the project a new lease of life. That’s right, We Got This Covered is hearing from our sources – the same ones who said the Mouse House was developing National Treasure 3 and Transformers is being rebooted, both of which were correct – that the project will be released on the streaming service.

GLAAD and the Black List unveiled the second annual GLAAD List, full of “the most promising unmade Lgbtq-inclusive film scripts,” Saturday evening at the Sundance Film Festival.

The Black List is an annual survey of Hollywood executives’ favorite unproduced screenplays, while the GLAAD List operates differently: Instead of relying on a survey, it is curated by GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer media advocacy organization. The organization evaluates potential films based on a list of standards including whether they fairly and accurately portrays the Lgbtq community and what each film’s potential impact is.

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“GLAAD is thrilled to present this incredible list of unmade Lgbtq-inclusive scripts to the entertainment industry at large for a second year in a row,” Jeremy Blacklow, director of entertainment media at GLAAD, said. “We have read a...

Exclusive: During Sundance, Jeremy Blacklow, Director of Entertainment Media at GLAAD and The Black List’s Kate Hagen revealed the second annual catalog for the GLAAD List which is a roster of the most promising unmade Lgbtq-inclusive film scripts.

From stories about Tennessee Williams to the bohemian ‘80s arts scene in NYC to a family fighting for survival as the world might be ending, the scripts on The GLAAD List represent the type of stories that GLAAD would like to see studios producing. With the proper attention, and with the collaboration of the right directors and actors, these scripts show tremendous promise and should one day become films that will both entertain audiences and change hearts and minds around the world.

“GLAAD is thrilled to present this incredible list of unmade Lgbtq-inclusive scripts to the entertainment industry at large for a second year in a row,” said Blacklow. “We have...

Exclusive: Azia Squire has been tapped to adapt B.B. Alston’s unpublished Balzer+Bray novel Amari and the Night Brothers at Universal Pictures, a feature project that Black-ish actress Marsai Martin will star in and produce.

Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the project also drew the attention of Don Cheadle who is producing with Mika Pryce of Radicle Act Productions as well as Todd Lieberman and David Hoberman of Mandeville Films, and Josh Martin and Prince Baggett for Martin’s Genius Productions.

Squire’s recent credits include Bet’s Boomerang and Sister, which was recently featured on the 2019 Black List. She is also writing Return of The Rocketeer for Disney+. Sister centers around a queer black woman following her mother’s sudden passing. She returns to her Southern town to assist her estranged sister in planning the funeral. Her trip...

The 15th annual Black List survey was revealed Monday December 16, and it includes 66 un-produced screenplays from up-and-coming literary talent. Results were pooled from a survey of more than 250 film executives, each of whom contributed the names of up to 10 favorite scripts that were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2019 and will not have begun principal photography during this calendar year. This year, scripts had to receive at least six mentions to be included on the Black List.

Since 2005, more than a third of the screenplays included in the annual Black List surveys have become produced films, and often to notoriety — such as “Argo,” “American Hustle,” “Juno,” “The King’s Speech,” “Slumdog Millionaire,” “Spotlight,” “The Revenants,” “The Descendants,” and “Hell or High Water.” Melina Matsoukas’s 2019 film “Queen & Slim,” written by Lena Waithe with a story co-authored by James Frey, was featured on the 2018 Black List.

Below is the...