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EXCLUSIVE: Emmy and Academy Award nominated producer David Permut and filmmaker Oscar Boyson are teaming up with author/filmmaker Mathew Klickstein to bring the San Diego Comic-Con origin story to life for the first time on screen in a new documentary based on the latter’s book See You at San Diego: An Ora…

EXCLUSIVE: Dylan O’Brien is set to headline in James Sweeney’s dark comedy Twinless, which the latter wrote and will also star in. Republic Pictures has taken global rights to the movie. Cameras are currently rolling on the movie in Portland, OR. O’Brien will executive produce. The pic follows two…

EXCLUSIVE: Permut Presentations and Merkaba Media Group have acquired the rights to Cheryl Diamond’s Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood which follows the author’s true story of being born a fugitive. By the age of nine, Diamond had lived in more than a dozen countries, on five…

Judy Heumann, who helped secure legislation protecting the rights of disabled people and whose life’s story was being adapted to film, has died at age 75. She died Saturday in Washington, D.C., as confirmed by the American Assn. of People with Disabilities. No cause was given. Heumann lost her…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominated producer David Permut and Jamie Cohen of Australian-based Clockwork Films have acquired the narrative motion picture and television rights to award winning journalist and author David Kushner's book, The Players Ball: The Secret History of the Internet's Secret Rise.   The…

EXCLUSIVE: Primetime Emmy nominee Michaela Jaé Rodriguez is set for Wildfire. The Chaya Doswell penned screenplay, which recently made the Black List, follows 7-year-old Lu, who accidentally starts a wildfire. A mute from an abusive home, Lu slyly tricks Merribelle, a hardworking trans woman, into…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar- and Emmy-nominated producer David Permut and Dawn Krantz have acquired Chaya Doswell's script Wildfire. The team is currently meeting directors and plans to shoot early next year. After accidentally starting a wildfire, 7-year-old Lu, mute and from an abusive home, slyly tricks…

EXCLUSIVE: Face/Off and Hacksaw Ridge producer David Permut has acquired Steve Lillbuen’s true crime book The Devil’s Cinema about Canadian filmmaker Mark Twitchell who was convicted of first degree murder in 2011. Twitchell is serving a life sentence for the murder of John Brian Altinger, whom he lured into a “kill…

EXCLUSIVE: The directing team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine) will direct The People Upstairs, a film that will be financed by FilmNation. Rashida Jones & Will McCormack wrote the script. David Permut will produce with FilmNation. Production is planned for later this year. The film is an…

EXCLUSIVE: NBA forward Patrick Patterson has partnered with producer Joel Reilly to launch Undisputed Pictures, a new production company with operations in both the U.S. and Canada, which will develop, finance and produce a slate of film, TV, media and entertainment projects, teaming up with Oscar nominated producer…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominated Hacksaw Ridge producer David Permut has scooped up the rights to produce the narrative adaptation of Alex and Marcus Lewis' gripping true story which was chronicled in Joanna Hodgkin's best-selling book Tell Me Who I Am, as well as in Netflix's critically acclaimed documentary of the same…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple Original Films has landed rights to a package based on Judy Heumann's bestselling memoir Being Heumann. Siân Heder, whom Apple signed to a multi-year overall deal in the wake of winning an auction for her Sundance sensation CODA, is adapting the film to direct. Ali Stroker, the first actress who uses…