[BenunLaw reps author Peter Guralnick]

Netflix‘s latest comedy film Incoming was at the top of its class in its first full week on the streamer, racking up 16.9M views.

[BenunLaw represents Producers Artists Road and Mark Korshak]

Asia Pacific Films (APF) announced that it will produce and finance romantic comedy The Last Resort (working title), with 10 Things I Hate About You and Legally Blonde screenwriter Karen McCullah attached to the project.

[BenunLaw reps writer Karen McCullah]

Wayfarer Studios is adapting for the big screen, the 2020 inspirational memoir by Sanford “Sandy” D. Greenberg, Hello Darkness My Old Friend: How Daring Dreams and Unyielding Friendship Turned One Man’s Blindness Into an Extraordinary Vision for Life.

[BenunLaw reps Executive Producer Jeff McCarter]

Dreambreaker: A Pickleball Story, directed by Ashley Underwood, documents the phenomenal growth of the sport – and the scramble to capitalize on its surging popularity.

[BenunLaw represents the film, director/producer Ashley Underwood, and writer/producer Craig Coyne]

Sophia Bush (One Tree Hill) and Chris Carmack (Grey’s Anatomy) will topline The Stranger in My Home, a new thriller from Brad Krevoy’s Motion Picture Corporation of America, and directed by Jeff Fisher (The Image of You).

[BenunLaw represents director Jeff Fisher]

Sasha Pieterse is double the trouble in The Image of You. From Republic Pictures (a Paramount Pictures label), the thriller based on Adele Parks’ hit novel stars the Pretty Little Liars actress as Anna — and Zoe, identical twins in a “twisted tale of deception and desire.”

[BenunLaw represents director Jeff Fisher]

After getting engaged to a white photographer raised by Indian parents, an Indian American doctor faces the challenge of introducing him to his traditional family.

[BenunLaw represents producer Levantine Films, and handled business and legal affairs on the film]

Global content studio Fifth Season has acquired the worldwide rights to the feature doc Nick Broms: What’s the Rush, which follows the 2-time downhill skateboarding junior world champion as he prepares for his most treacherous ride yet .

[BenunLaw represents world junior champion Nick Broms and Director/Producer Donovan Griffin]

Terence Winter, the writer-producer known for his work on Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos and more, will team with Vincent Piazza, Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and Phiphen to develop Midge, a tragicomic feature based on an absurd but true, as-yet-untold story.

[BenunLaw represents Executive Producer / automotive journalist Jamie Kitman]

Vertical has acquired North American rights for Lola, written, directed by, and starring Nicola Peltz Beckham.

[BenunLaw represents Writer-Director-Actress-Producer Nicola Peltz Beckham and Executive Producer Ryan Kirby]

Mason Thames, Bobby Cannavale, Kaitlin Olson and Scott MacArthur star in the Artists Road and Spyglass Media production.

[BenunLaw represents Producers Artists Road and Mark Korshak]

Eleven and Sony Television International are adapting novelist and former politician Jeffrey Archer’s bestselling “Kane and Abel” trilogy for television.

[BenunLaw reps author Jeffrey Archer]

Fans of the abruptly-canceled Netflix series Warrior Nun are in full rapture mode this week after a bombshell announcement: not only will beloved sapphic nuns Ava and Beatrice return, they’ll be back for a full trilogy of movies (and maybe a lot more).

[BenunLaw represents Producer Robert Burke]

Republic Pictures has snapped up rights to The Image of You, a recently wrapped thriller starring Sasha Pieterse (Pretty Little Liars) in dual roles. Pic is set for release via Paramount Global Content Distribution.

[BenunLaw represents Director Jeff Fisher]

John Travolta (Grease) and Katherine Heigl (Firefly Lane) have boarded the rom-com That’s Amore!, written and to be directed by two-time Academy Award winner Nick Vallelonga (Green Book), with Christopher Walken (Severance) also in talks to star.

[BenunLaw represents Writer/Director/Producer Nick Vallelonga]

Nina Bloomgarden (The Resort), James Tupper (Big Little Lies), Theo Germaine (They/Them) and Paige Collins (Big House) have signed on to star alongside Mary Beth Barone in the indie erotic thriller Good Girl, which Lauren Garroni is directing, in her feature debut. No details on their roles have been disclosed.

[BenunLaw represents Producer Kelly Parker and Director Lauren Garroni]

Village Roadshow Pictures has teamed with Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment for the U.K. release of the live-captured version of hit West End production “Heathers: The Musical.” The live-event style distribution strategy marks a first for both companies and will see a series of events premiering at more than 320 screens across the U.K. and Ireland from March 28 through May 6.

[BenunLaw represents Producer Village Roadshow]

The director discussed making great visuals on a small budget for Supercell, the personal themes of family, and working with the late Anne Heche.

[BenunLaw represents Writer-Director Jamie Winterstern]

Nickelodeon‘s new series Erin & Aaron has cast Ava Ro (Big Top Academy) and Jensen Gering (Wickensburg) as the titular duo, respectively. The music-driven comedy will premiere two episodes on Thursday, April 20, at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT.

[BenunLaw represents Writer Dicky Murphy]

Lynsey Addario traveled to Ukraine five times last year and followed Yulia Bondarenko’s journey on four of those trips, reporting from the Kyiv, Kharkiv and Cherkasy regions. Andrew E. Kramer, The Times’s Ukraine bureau chief, wrote this article from Kyiv.

[BenunLaw represents Photographer Lynsey Addario]

Sony Pictures Classics has nabbed worldwide rights to “A Little Prayer” following its premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The exact sales price isn’t clear, but sources state the film fetched a figure in the low seven-figure range.

[BenunLaw represents Writer/Director Angus MacLachlan]

AMC Networks has acquired the rights to John Maxim’s popular Bannerman spy book series for development as a potential television series. The project hails from Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, Ironman), Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead, Creepshow) via his overall deal with AMC Networks, and Brian Witten (Creepshow, Friday the 13th).

[BenunLaw represents Author John Maxim and Producer Jeff Maxim]

Tulsa King's latest installment, "Adobe Walls," is everything a penultimate episode in a television season should be: a thrilling lead-up to the inevitable that nonetheless manages to surprise.

[BenunLaw represents Actress McKenna Quigley Harrington]

Steven Spielberg looks to have found his Frank Bullitt as sources tell Deadline Bradley Cooper has closed a deal to play the no-nonsense San Francisco cop in the new original Bullitt story centered on the classic character famously played by Steven McQueen in the 1968 thriller, which is set up at Warner Bros.

[BenunLaw represents Producer Molly McQueen]

Lionsgate’s Grindstone Entertainment Group has acquired North American rights to A Place in the Field, a drama infused with magical realism, which marks the feature directorial debut of 2021 AFI graduate Nicole Mejia.

[BenunLaw represents Director/Producer Nicole Mejia; Writer/Producer/Actor Don DiPetta; and Producer Heliya Alam]

Thomas Barbusca has joined the cast of “Incoming,” a high-school comedy from directors Dave and John Chernin. The project reunites Barbusca and the Chernin brothers, who worked together on the Fox TV comedy “The Mick.” “Incoming” follows four incoming freshmen as they navigate the terrors of adolescence at their first-ever high school party.

[BenunLaw represents Producers Artists Road and Mark Korshak]

Originated by producers Ashley Underwood and Craig Coyne, the doc will focus on top leagues, events, players and celebrity fans to "examine the professionalization and commodification" of the sport.

[BenunLaw represents Producers Ashley Underwood, Craig Coyne, and Film 45]

The starry indie film packages keep on coming in Cannes with news we can reveal that Oscar winner Jamie Foxx (Spider-Man: No Way Home), Oscar winner Robert De Niro (Joker), Scott Eastwood (The Fate of the Furious) and John Leguizamo (John Wick) are set for under-the-radar action movie Tin Soldier, which begins filming next week in Greece.

[BenunLaw represents Producer Steve Chasman]

“Ted Lasso” star Juno Temple has joined the cast of Doug Liman’s action-adventure thriller “Everest.” The movie has also struck a number of global pre-sales for HanWay Films. Temple will play mountaineer George Mallory’s wife, Ruth, who is left behind to handle their life during his life-threatening attempts to scale the mountain.

[BenunLaw represents Author Jeffrey Archer]

Lil Rel Howery, Billy Magnussen and Jillian Bell will star in the ensemble comedy film “Reunion.” The movie is the first greenlit project for Artists Road, the comedy film joint venture that was formed in October by Spyglass Media Group, Propagate Content, Artists First and Off-Road Productions. The pic puts a darkly humorous spin on the classic whodunnit.

[BenunLaw represents Producers Artists Road and Mark Korshak]

Best-selling English author Brian Lumley’s Necroscope sci-fi/horror novel series is being adapted by Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary’s Revelations Entertainment across multiple media including episodic TV, animated features, video games, graphic novels and emerging formats.

[BenunLaw represents Producers Glenn Hetrick, Michael McKay, and Gary Lucchesi]

Transformers: Age of Extinction star Nicola Peltz will co-direct with The Florida Project actress Bria Vinaite the independent feature drama Lola James. The movie, written by Peltz, is set in 2002 middle America and revolves around 19-year old Lola James, who is working to save enough money to get her little brother, Arlo, out of their toxic home.

[BenunLaw represents Writer/Director/Actor/Producer Nicola Peltz]

Alec Baldwin (The Departed, Mission: Impossible franchise) is attached to star in Supercell, a new disaster action thriller that Herbert James Winterstern (NBC’s “Siberia”) will direct from a script by Winterstern & Anna Elizabeth James (Deadly Illusions).

[BenunLaw represents Producers Ryan Winterstern and Nathan Klingher]

Richard Plepler’s Eden Productions has brought in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm co-producer Ashley Underwood as a development executive. At Eden, Underwood joins Josh Tyrangiel, Senior Producer for Documentaries, and creative executive Heather Karpas.

[BenunLaw represents Producer Ashley Underwood]

Spyglass Media Group is teaming with Propagate Content, Artists First and Off-Road Productions to form the new comedy film joint venture Artists Road, which will focus on the financing and production of moderate-budgeted commercial comedy movies with marquee talent.

[BenunLaw represents Producers Artists Road and Mark Korshak]

Simon Barry’s Netflix series provides a religious twist to gun-blazing superhero adventure. ‘Holy ninjas!” seems like a perfectly reasonable response to “Warrior Nun.” How many superhero adventure series feature black-clad cloistered women and automatic weapons?

[BenunLaw represents Producer Robert Burke]

This episode features Robert Benun, Founder of BenunLaw and an entertainment lawyer. Here, he discusses how the pandemic has affected the entertainment and production industry, what reopening will look like for theaters, and more.

[Interview with Robert Benun, Founder of BenunLaw]

Author Jeffrey Archer has aligned with his first Hollywood rep. He has teamed with veteran book-to-film agent Joel Gotler at IPG to shop his newest bestseller, Nothing Ventured, as well as his back list titles for film and television.

[BenunLaw represents Author Jeffrey Archer]