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EXCLUSIVE: The first big screen adaptation of House of Night, the popular YA fantasy romance book series by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast, has a new director in the shape of Johanna Watts. A long-time collaborator of the film’s producer Davis Films, Watts previously directed the short Career Girl and is currently in post-production on […]

EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood vet and Italian native Gianni Nunnari, producer on movies including the 300 franchise, Immortals, and From Dusk Til Dawn, is bringing Brian Selznick’s (The Invention of Hugo Cabret) young adult novel Run Away With Me to the screen, with Selznick adapting his own novel. Rome-born Nunnari, an exec producer on The Departed and […]

The 'Harry Potter' star will narrate and play every single character in the series.

Many books will provide backbone to both theatrical and streaming releases in 2026. From the long-awaited rom com film adaptation of Emily Henry’s People We Meet on Vacation, which hit Netflix in January, to the Ridley Scott-directed adaptation of The Dog Stars starring Jacob Elordi, Josh Brolin and Margaret Qualley that arrived in August, several […]

Lynn Painter’s Fake Skating novel will become a movie to be released in theaters next year. The news was first reported by Deadline before that of Painter’s Better Than The Movies film adaptation, which is in the works at Netflix. While hockey, figure skating and other romances set in the rink have largely been taking […]

Studiocanal’s genre label Sixth Dimension is in early development on a feature adaptation of the multiplayer horror game “The Headliners,” Variety can reveal exclusively. Released by Kafi Games in 2025 and developed by Lucas Bouyoux and Bruno Grégoire, “The Headliners” puts up to eight players in the roles of journalists who must capture photos of […]