‘Ascent’: Viola Davis to Star in New Paramount+ Thriller From John Logan
Paramount+ has given a series order to Ascent, a new thriller starring Viola Davis and created by John Logan, as the streaming platform continues to expand its…
Josh Lucas has joined the cast of Discretion, Paramount+’s upcoming legal thriller from A24. He will star alongside Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning, playing Greg, a lawyer who is married to Kidman’s powerful corporate law partner while also working at the same prestigious law firm. Fanning will portray Lenny, a summer associate whose world is…
Red Sage Studios and Sun Distribution have announced a feature film adaptation of Gordon Korman’s YA novel Son of the Mob. Son of the Mob will be directed and produced by Vince Marcello, best known for Netflix’s hit The Kissing Booth trilogy, who will also co-write the screenplay with his longtime collaborator Jay Arnold. The…
International sales for the first season of The Lady Grace Mysteries continue to expand. RAI (Italy) is among the latest broadcasters to acquire the series, joining NHK (Japan), HOT (Israel), ABC (Australia), Radio-Canada (Canada), RTS (Switzerland), YLE (Finland), NRK (Norway) and NPO (the Netherlands), all of which have licensed the first season. The recently announced…
Icelandic production company Glassriver and Network Movie, a subsidiary of ZDF Studios, have entered into a co-production agreement to adapt Lilja Sigurðardóttir’s An Áróra Investigation book series for television. Network Movie has acquired the adaptation rights to all five novels in the series. The crime drama follows a tough fraud investigator with Icelandic roots who…
ITVX has acquired the UK streaming rights to the true crime documentary series Look Into My Eyes, which is set to debut on the platform next month. The limited series examines the disturbing case of Dr. George Kenney, a once-respected high school principal in Florida whose reputation collapsed after it was revealed that he had…
