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Exclusive: Television agent Brandon Finkelstein is leaving CAA to join Drew Comins’ Creative Engine Entertainment as VP of Production and Development. He is one of multiple executives Comins is bringing in as he is building out Creative Engine under the company’s first-look deal with Fifth Season.

“Brandon’s excellent taste, entrepreneurial spirit and strong talent relationships make him a perfect fit for Creative Engine,” Comins said. “He brings an incredible range of knowledge and relationships to his work, plus a strong commitment to championing filmmakers. It’s an exciting time for the company and I’m confident he’ll be an integral part of helping us grow the range and scale of our business.”

At CAA, Los Angeles-based Finkelstein, who joined the company out of college in 2016 and was promoted to agent in 2020, was considered a rising star. He worked with directors, writers and producers, including Comins who signed...

Bad Bunny is the latest star to join Darren Aronofsky’s upcoming film, Caught Stealing, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

The global superstar joins Zoë Kravitz and Austin Butler in the Sony Pictures crime thriller, based on Charlie Huston’s novel of the same name. It is unknown who the artist will portray in the film adaptation.

According to the logline, the story “follows Hank Thompson (Butler), a burned-out former baseball player, as he’s unwittingly plunged into a wild fight for survival in the downtown criminal underworld of ‘90s NYC.”

Earlier this summer, the Grammy-winning artist wrapped his Most Wanted Tour in support of his newest album, Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana.

Bad Bunny’s first acting role came in Narcos: Mexico. He portrayed Arturo “Kitty” Páez in four episodes. He followed that up when he appeared alongside Brad Pitt in Sony’s Bullet Train as an assassin named Wolf.

Exclusive: Latin Grammy Winner and multiplatinum artist Bad Bunny is the latest to join Austin Butler in Darren Aronofsky’s crime thriller Caught Stealing for Sony Pictures. Aronofsky will direct the pic, which is based on the book by Charlie Huston. The script will be written by Huston, with Protozoa producing.

The film follows Hank Thompson (Butler), a burned-out former baseball player, as he’s unwittingly plunged into a wild fight for survival in the downtown criminal underworld of ‘90s New York City. It is unknown who Bad Bunny will play.

The cast also includes Zoë Kravitz, Regina King, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber and Will Brill.

Bad Bunny recently wrapped his 46-date Most Wanted Tour, which grossed about $208M and sold more than 700,000 tickets, breaking records in 16 venues. His latest album, Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and became the year’s...

Exclusive: Chris Van Dusen, creator of Netflix’s Bridgerton, has found his next project.

Van Dusen is developing a TV adaptation of Elle Kennedy’s book Girl Abroad with A24 and Pacesetter Productions.

It comes after the team landed the rights after a four-way bidding war.

The book, which was published by Little Brown in February, follows the daughter of a retired rock star who finds herself entangled in scandal and romance after she starts studying abroad in London.

When nineteen-year-old Abbey Bly gets the opportunity to study abroad for a year in London, it’s the perfect chance to finally slip out from under the thumb of her beloved but overbearing retired rock star father. She’s ready to be free, to discover herself―but first off, to meet the girls she’s rooming with. That is, until she arrives at her gorgeous new flat to discover those roommates are actually all boys.

Exclusive: Another high-profile post-strike TV package has found a buyer. In a competitive situation with multiple bidders, Netflix has nabbed Covers, a drama from Girls creator Lena Dunham, who is set to write, direct and executive produce under her Good Thing Going banner; Drew Comins’ Creative Engine Entertainment (Yellowjackets); and Fifth Season, sources tell Deadline.

No one is commenting but I hear the premium development commitment involves a 20-week writers room to pen an entire season worth of scripts. Staffing is currently underway with an eye toward opening the room in the spring, sources said.

Inspired by real events, Covers poses the question, what if university life – the hard-partying, test-cramming, hookup-regretting reality of a college student – was actually a ruse for a more complex identity, one that no one would suspect – as intelligence officers working covertly for MI6? Or, to put it bluntly, spies.

The heroes of Covers are clandestine...

Exclusive: eOne is developing a TV series based on the Paranormal Hitmen comic books from writer Brett Murphy and illustrator Wilson Gandolpho.

Billed as Ghostbusters meets Pulp Fiction, Paranormal Hitmen is an irreverent action-comedy that follows Gene Rizzo and Devon Grace, two mob hitmen whose lives are turned upside down when they’re accidentally recruited into a secret government agency tasked with hunting down paranormal threats. These low-down criminals then face threats from the living And the dead—determined to control the world of the paranormal, while literally confronting ghosts of their pasts.

The first edition of Paranormal Hitmen was released by Behemoth Entertainment (the company recently acquired by Sumerian Records and Films) in January. (Behemoth owns rights to all titles in the series.) eOne will produce the TV series under the late Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner’s Altar Rock label, with Goldner and Josh Feldman exec producing alongside Murphy and Gandolpho.

With "Bridgerton" season 2 just around the corner, promising even more scandals withe the Bridgerton family, series co-creator Chris van Dusen has been signed to co-write and executive produce the adaptation of "They Both Die at the End." Deadline reports that Entertainment One's series adaptation of the eponymous Adam Silvera YA novel has been in the works for a duration of 10 months and is expected to release some time soon.

"They Both Die at the End" made history when it was first released, being the first YA novel with queer Latino characters to hit number one on...

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Chris Van Dusen, best known as the creator and showrunner of the Netflix period drama Bridgerton, has agreed to co-write and executive produce a TV adaptation of Adam Silvera’s bestselling YA novel They Both Die at the End. The project comes from Entertainment One and Drew Comins’ Creative Engine Entertainment and has been in the works for about 10 months, according to Deadline. With Van Dusen now on board to co-write the pilot episode, the series will be shopped to the premium marketplace in the near future. They Both Die at the End was first published in 2017 and quickly became a New York Times bestseller. The story centers around two teenage boys, Mateo and Rufus, who discover that they only have one day left to live. While strangers, the two boys find each other through a unique app called Last Friend and end up meeting, hoping to live a lifetime together in a single day.

“Bridgerton” Creator Chris Van Dusen has lined up a new project — writing the television adaptation of “They Both Die at the End” at eOne.

Van Dusen will write the series with the book’s author, Adam Silvera. He will also serve as executive producer through his company Cvd Productions.

“They Both Die at the End,” a YA novel released in 2021, follows the story of two people whose lives change over one day.

The synopsis of the book reads: “On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They’re going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There’s an app for that. It’s called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to...

Exclusive: As he is firming up his post-Bridgerton plans, Chris Van Dusen has signed on to co-write and executive produce Entertainment One’s TV series adaptation of Adam Silvera’s No. 1 New York Times bestselling YA novel They Both Die at the End. The project, which has been in the works at eOne and Drew Comins’ studio-based Creative Engine Entertainment for about 10 months, will be taken out to the premium marketplace shortly.

Van Dusen is co-writing the pilot script for the TV adaptation with Silvera and is executive producing via his Cvd Productions alongside Comins. eOne will serve as the studio and distribute worldwide. This is one of several TV series projects Bridgerton creator Van Dusen has been working on since leaving the hit Netflix period drama after serving as executive producer and showrunner on the first two seasons.

Entertainment One acquired U.S. rights to Silvera’s novel last spring for Comins,...

Exclusive: Entertainment One has acquired U.S. rights to Adam Silvera’s novel They Both Die at the End, currently No. 1 on the New York Times YA paperback bestsellers list three years after it was published, to develop for television. Silvera is attached to pen the series adaptation. eOne will serve as the studio and distribute the project worldwide. Drew Comins of Creative Engine Entertainment will produce through his deal at eOne.

Published by HarperCollins in September 2017, They Both Die at the End was previously in development as a series at HBO with J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and The Other Two co-creator Chris Kelly. Comins and eOne pursued the rights when they became available, landing them in a competitive situation. Creative Engine and eOne already have a relationship with Silvera, whose first novel, More Happy Than Not, is currently in the works as a series at HBO Max, also with Comins and eOne.

Exclusive: HBO Max is developing Adam Silvera’s bestselling Ya novel More Happy Than Not as a one-hour series, from Drew Comins’ Creative Engine Entertainment and eOne where the company is under an overall deal. Comins and Silvera will serve as executive producers on the project, which is currently looking for a writer and filmmaker to do the adaptation.

In More Happy Than Not, it’s a sweltering, dangerous summer in the Bronx. Sixteen-year-old Aaron Soto is struggling to find happiness since his father’s suicide — but he’s gunning for it. With the help of his girlfriend Genevieve and his overworked mom, he’s slowly remembering what it might feel like. But grief and the scar on his wrist keep him from forgetting the past completely. When Genevieve leaves for a couple weeks, Aaron spends all his time hanging out with this new guy, Thomas. Aaron’s crew notices,...

For the next five years, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot is going to be developing several TV, film, game, and digital content for Warner Media. The two just closed a megadeal with each other that will run through 2024 and I’m sure there are going to be a lot of cool and exciting projects to come out of the partnership.

From here on out Abrams and Bad Robot will now develop original theatrical film projects for the divisions of the Warner Bros. Pictures Group, including Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema.

Bad Robot will also continue working on TV projects on various platforms for the company “including dramas and comedies, long-form/event series, digital, and more, as the production company has developed material for Warner Bros. TV for many years.”

Bad Robots’ current series include Westworld, Lovecraft, Demimonde for WarnerMedia’s HBO, as well as They Both Die at the End.