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EXCLUSIVE: Objectively Good Media is in early development on Seventy-Two, an authorized biopic on actor, comedian and TV presenter Steve Harvey, Deadline has learned. Producers will include Mohamed Kheir and Matthew R. Cooper for OGM, as well as East 112, which is headed by Harvey and Thabiti…

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Brolly’s thriller novel The Alliance is getting the small screen treatment. A mixed Korean/English language television adaptation is in development at Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group, with Kim Bo-tong (D.P., Badland Hunters), attached to write…

EXCLUSIVE: Rising producer Anna Dragoo has joined the recently launched production company Objectively Good Media as Head of Development. Dragoo comes to OGM after a year and a half as an executive producer at OB42, where she established and oversaw the U.S. production division, producing for an…

EXCLUSIVE: NBC has taken in for development Look What You Made Me Do, a drama from Leila Cohan (Bridgerton), Anna Fricke (Walker) and CBS Studios. Written by Cohan, Look What You Made Me Do follows the ex-wives of an emotionally abusive and absolutely untouchable billionaire. They band together to…

EXCLUSIVE: Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things) is developing Nineteen Steps, a feature adaptation of her same-name debut novel for Netflix, sources tell Deadline. Netflix declined comment. But we hear that Brown will produce under her PCMA banner, with an eye to star. Four-time Oscar nominee Anthony…

The Jurassic World franchise’s Derek Connolly has been tapped to write Eternal Champions, a live-action feature adaptation of the Sega video game for Skydance, Deadline can confirm. David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger will produce for Skydance, alongside Toru Nakahara for Sega. Rob Ree…

EXCLUSIVE: Lost alum Matthew Fox has signed on to star in The Assassin, a new drama series from writer-producer John Glenn (SEAL Team) in development at Max, sources tell Deadline. Gaumont and Entertainment 360 set the series up at the streamer in a competitive situation; the latter, identifying the…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO is in development on the comedy series Flat Tyres from Fifth Season and co-creators Thabo Rametsi and Robbie Leacock. The series follows a hapless gang of four deluded friends as they endlessly try – and fail – to become criminal kingpins of Cape Town's most vibrant…

EXCLUSIVE: Convexity Films, the production company of filmmaker Richard Dewey (Radical Wolfe), has optioned the Michael Lewis book The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story for development as a narrative feature. The deal came together following Dewey’s collaboration with Lewis on his feature…

EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Sodroski and Aggregate Films are in early development on a series inspired by Philadelphia’s Main Line Murders for Netflix, sources tell Deadline. Netflix declined to comment. But we’re told this is a limited series that Sodroski will write and exec produce, with Aggregate…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Netflix has taken in for development an untitled drama from former A Million Little Things showrunner Terrence Coli, Rabbi and author Steve Leder and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, Deadline has learned. Written by Coli, the untitled project is described…

Kara Swisher’s recently-published Burn Book: A Tech Love Story, described as part memoir, part history, chronicling tech’s most powerful players, is in the works for the small screen. Tomorrow Studios (Snowpiercer, Physical) has optioned the book for development as a television series, Swisher…