An American adaptation of French dramadey series “Call My Agent” is in development at HBO with Sarah Schneider set to write and executive produce.
The series will follow four work-obsessed sports agents as they struggle to balance their personal lives and their clients’ needs.
Brad Pitt’s Plan B will executive produce the series alongside Fulwell Entertainment Springhill Studios, led by LeBron James and Maverick Carter. Plan B is majority owned by French media conglomerate Mediawan, who produced the French series.
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Dano to Star in A24’s ‘The Chaperones’ With Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson
Paul Dano is set to star in A24‘s drama “The Chaperones.”
He’s joining the already-announced cast of Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson, two young actors who recently shared the screen in Lionsgate’s dystopian thriller “The Long Walk.”
India Donaldson is directing “The Chaperones,” marking her sophomore feature after her 2024 drama “Good One.” This film is set days after Christmas and follows three slacker friends who are hired to transport a troubled teen across the country. Sebastian Black is writing the screenplay in his feature debut.
Robert Pattinson’s production company Icki Eneo Arlo and Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B will serve as producers on the film.
Brad Pitt & Netflix Set Sci-Fi Horror Series Adaption Of 30-Year-Old Award Winning Comics
Now, Variety reports that Pitt’s production company, Plan B Productions, is teaming up with Netflix to adapt the graphic novel series Black Hole by Charles Burns. The sci-fi horror TV series has been given a direct-to-series order. Plan B will executive produce, while New Regency and Netflix will co-produce. Jane Schoenbrun is attached as showrunner and to direct the series.
According to an official logline, Black Hole focuses on the town of Roosevelt, where anyone who has sex too young contracts a virus that turns them into a monster. The protagonist, Chris, a high school senior, catches said virus, forcing her to become an outcast in the woods surrounding the town — all while a serial killer hunts down those infected.
Mark Ronson Memoir ‘Night People’ Lands At Warner Bros.; Plan B Producing Feature Take
In a highly competitive situation, Warner Bros. has snapped up the Mark Ronson feature package Night People, based on his bestselling coming-of-age memoir, which as reported last month, has Brad Pitt’s Plan B aboard to produce.
Published with Grand Central on September 14, Ronson’s memoir (full title: Night People: How to Be a DJ in ’90s New York City) was an immediate New York Times Bestseller and Sunday Times Bestseller in the UK. Both a personal coming-of-age story and a snapshot of a transformative era in music and nightlife, the book recounts the elite record producer’s early years, unpacking how his upbringing and family life informed his tastes, ambitions, and eventual path into DJing in ’90s NYC.
Venice Film Festival Awards
Heading into Saturday night’s awards ceremony, Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab was widely viewed as the movie to beat for this year’s Golden Lion. The powerful Gaza-set drama, which tells the story of a 6-year-old Palestinian girl’s desperate pleas for rescue after Israeli forces killed her relatives, received a thunderous 21-minute standing ovation at its world premiere, one of the longest in the Venice Film Festival‘s history.
But the film ended up going home with the festival’s Silver Lion for the Grand Jury prize, aka second place.
Hollywood heavyweights Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, Alfonso Cuarón boosted the movie’s profile ahead of the festival by joining its team as executive producers, while critics on the Lido hailed it as an “intensely involving and resounding” indictment of Israel’s genocidal campaigns against the Palestinian population.
