The Hollywood Reporter (Weekly)
DIGITAL/TV
Keanu Reeves (WME) will star in Hulu’s Devil in the White City series adaptation from executive producers Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese and showrunner Sam Shaw.
Selena Gomez (WME) is in talks with 20th Century to produce a reboot of Working Girl for Hulu. Ilana Pena (Kaplan Perrone) is
adapting the script.
Danielle Henderson (ICM) will showrun Hulu and Onyx Collective’s series adaptation of Zakiya Dalila Harris’ novel The Other Black Girl.
Sheila Heti’s (Gersh) forthcoming book The Alphabetical Diaries has been optioned by Hulu to develop as a series.
Jake Gyllenhaal (WME) will star in a remake of Road House for Amazon. Doug Liman (CAA) will direct the film from a script by
Anthony Bagarozzi and
Charles Mondry.
Jason Katims (CAA) has reunited with producers Imagine TV for a multiple project deal, including three unnamed titles already in the works.
Yara Shahidi (CAA) is extending her overall deal with ABC and added Onyx Collective to the pact.
Rosanna Arquette (Greene Talent) will recur on ABC’s David E. Kelleycreated series Big Sky for season three.
The Thomas M. Wright-directed thriller The Stranger, starring Joel Edgerton (WME) and Sean Harris (Entertainment 360), was acquired by Netflix.
Raj Nidimoru (WME) and Krishna DK (WME) have entered into a multiyear deal to direct and produce projects for Netflix.
Idris Elba (WME) will star in and David Leitch (CAA) will direct the Netflix thriller adaptation Bang!, from Dark Horse Entertainment. Matt Kindt and Zak Olkewicz will write for the screen.
Matthew Scott Kane (A3) will write the satanic panic thriller Hysteria! for Peacock, with John Francis Daley (UTA)
and Jonathan Goldstein (UTA) directing.
Andy Serkis (Verve) will showrun Madame!,a series on the life of Marie Tussaud, from Newen Connect, the distribution arm of TF1 Group-owned Newen Studios.
REAL ESTATE
Andy Cohen has bought a two-bedroom duplex penthouse in New York’s West Village for $18.3 million.
Johnny Galecki has listed a six-bedroom, 7,415-squarefoot Hollywood Hills home for $11.9 million.
Richard Gere has bought a six-bedroom, 8,811-squarefoot estate in New Canaan, Connecticut, for $10.8 million. — COMPILED BY E.H.
Stranger Things actor Joseph Quinn has found new reps at CAA.
You star Victoria Pedretti has signed with CAA.
Sadé Clacken Joseph, director of Rap Sh!t episodes, has inked at CAA. Russell Hornsby, BMF actor, will leave ICM for APA. The estate of Godfather author Mario Puzo has signed with APA. Actor Anthony Boyle has
signed with WME.
CASE David Carde v. Endeavor WHY IT MATTERS
A judge ruled Aug. 1 that the Ari Emanuel-run company must face a claim from consultant Carde, who says Endeavor’s IPO debut was salvaged thanks to his business blueprint. The suit claims Carde’s ideas were used in marketing for the IPO. An Endeavor rep says, “The evidence will disprove his allegations and
Endeavor will vigorously defend itself against them.” — WINSTON CHO