Exclusive: Radar Pictures and Bandits Roost Entertainment have tapped Kenny Ortega (High School Musical) to direct Weslandia, a feature adaptation of the international bestselling children’s book by Newbery Medal winner Paul Fleischman.
Shawn DeLoache (The New Adventures of Peter and Wendy) is penning the script. Producers of the family action adventure pic will include Ted Field, Anthony Tringali, Michael Napoliello and Maria Frisk for Radar, along with Cori Silberman and Michael Dovid for Bandits Roost. Field will also serve as executive producer.
Originally published by Candlewick Press in 1999, Weslandia tells the story of Wes, a tween genius loner who expects, upon moving to his new home in Plainville, that his life is going to be, well, plain! Little does he know he’s soon to be tangled up, literally, in a mysterious alien jungle growing in his backyard. But when the seemingly utopian civilization he creates...
Shawn DeLoache (The New Adventures of Peter and Wendy) is penning the script. Producers of the family action adventure pic will include Ted Field, Anthony Tringali, Michael Napoliello and Maria Frisk for Radar, along with Cori Silberman and Michael Dovid for Bandits Roost. Field will also serve as executive producer.
Originally published by Candlewick Press in 1999, Weslandia tells the story of Wes, a tween genius loner who expects, upon moving to his new home in Plainville, that his life is going to be, well, plain! Little does he know he’s soon to be tangled up, literally, in a mysterious alien jungle growing in his backyard. But when the seemingly utopian civilization he creates...
- 12/4/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Radar Pictures has secured the feature film rights for Geronimo Stilton, the best-selling children’s book series about the crime-solving adventures of a mouse journalist and his eccentric gang of family and friends.
Canadian animation writer, director and voice actor David Soren – whose credits include Turbo, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie and Paramount Animation’s upcoming Under the Boardwalk – has been attached to adapt and direct the Geronimo Stilton feature film.
The Geronimo Stilton character was created by Italian author Elisabetta Dami in the 1990s from stories she invented for young patients while volunteering at a children’s hospital.
Since then the character has been featured in more than 300 books, translated into over 50 languages, as well as graphic novels, an animated series, eight live stage productions, video games and toys.
The original books and their spin-offs have sold 180 million copies in 150 countries.
“I’m excited to be working...
Canadian animation writer, director and voice actor David Soren – whose credits include Turbo, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie and Paramount Animation’s upcoming Under the Boardwalk – has been attached to adapt and direct the Geronimo Stilton feature film.
The Geronimo Stilton character was created by Italian author Elisabetta Dami in the 1990s from stories she invented for young patients while volunteering at a children’s hospital.
Since then the character has been featured in more than 300 books, translated into over 50 languages, as well as graphic novels, an animated series, eight live stage productions, video games and toys.
The original books and their spin-offs have sold 180 million copies in 150 countries.
“I’m excited to be working...
- 2/13/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Two years ago, it was announced that the filmmaking duo of Jen and Sylvia Soska would be writing, directing, and producing a cinematic adaptation of the game BlindSide for Radar Pictures. That adaptation is called Unseen, and now that the Soskas have finished working on their psychosexual thriller On the Edge it looks like Unseen will be their next movie. It has been reported that Ted Field – executive producer of the 2003 version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre – has come on board to produce the film alongside the Soskas, and casting is underway.
Described as a psychological sci-fi thriller, Unseen is set in the 1970s and will tell the story of
a Boston couple who wakes up one day to find they can’t see. They soon discover everyone else has also been rendered blind and their only hope is Ada, a woman who previously could not see but has now had her sight restored.
Described as a psychological sci-fi thriller, Unseen is set in the 1970s and will tell the story of
a Boston couple who wakes up one day to find they can’t see. They soon discover everyone else has also been rendered blind and their only hope is Ada, a woman who previously could not see but has now had her sight restored.
- 11/2/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” producer Ted Field has boarded the Soska sisters’ new feature “Unseen.”
Based on the audio-only video game “BlindSide” (which was created by Aaron Rasmussen and Michael T. Astolfi) the film will be written and directed by horror auteurs Jen and Sylvia Soska (“Vendetta”), also known as the Twisted Twins. They are currently casting the feature.
Field’s Radar Pictures will produce while Film Mode Entertainment are repping global rights, launching the title at AFM this week in Los Angeles where they’ll screen a presentation reel today (Oct. 31). The Soska sisters previously collaborated with Film Mode on “Rabid,” their 2019 re-imagining of David Cronenberg’s horror film.
“Unseen” is a psychological sci-fi set in the 1970s, where a Boston couple wake up one day to find they can’t see. They soon discover everyone else has also been rendered blind and their only hope is Ada, a...
Based on the audio-only video game “BlindSide” (which was created by Aaron Rasmussen and Michael T. Astolfi) the film will be written and directed by horror auteurs Jen and Sylvia Soska (“Vendetta”), also known as the Twisted Twins. They are currently casting the feature.
Field’s Radar Pictures will produce while Film Mode Entertainment are repping global rights, launching the title at AFM this week in Los Angeles where they’ll screen a presentation reel today (Oct. 31). The Soska sisters previously collaborated with Film Mode on “Rabid,” their 2019 re-imagining of David Cronenberg’s horror film.
“Unseen” is a psychological sci-fi set in the 1970s, where a Boston couple wake up one day to find they can’t see. They soon discover everyone else has also been rendered blind and their only hope is Ada, a...
- 10/31/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Jumanji producer Radar Pictures is adapting Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar literary universe for television.
The company, founded by Interscope Records co-founder Ted Field, who is an exec producer on Amazon’s The Wheel of Time series, has acquired the small screen rights to the books, which number 58 over more than 30 years.
Kit Williamson, who created Netflix’s LGBTQ comedy series EastSiders, is adapting with author Brittany Cavallaro, who wrote the Charlotte Holmes series of books. The pair bonded over the books in school and will now write and produce the TV adaptation.
The series will be executive produced by Field, who has produced films including the Jumanji franchise, the Riddick franchise, Amityville Horror and The Last Samurai. Anthony Tringali, Maria Frisk and Michael Napoliello will produce for Radar.
The first season will be adapted from the Last Herald-Mage trilogy, comprising of Magic’s Pawn, which was first published in...
The company, founded by Interscope Records co-founder Ted Field, who is an exec producer on Amazon’s The Wheel of Time series, has acquired the small screen rights to the books, which number 58 over more than 30 years.
Kit Williamson, who created Netflix’s LGBTQ comedy series EastSiders, is adapting with author Brittany Cavallaro, who wrote the Charlotte Holmes series of books. The pair bonded over the books in school and will now write and produce the TV adaptation.
The series will be executive produced by Field, who has produced films including the Jumanji franchise, the Riddick franchise, Amityville Horror and The Last Samurai. Anthony Tringali, Maria Frisk and Michael Napoliello will produce for Radar.
The first season will be adapted from the Last Herald-Mage trilogy, comprising of Magic’s Pawn, which was first published in...
- 8/3/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Radar Pictures is developing a movie based on the audio-only mobile horror game BlindSide, which they’ll entitle Unseen, with sisters Jen and Sylvia Soska writing, directing and producing.
The horror feature will follow a Boston couple who wake up blind in a terrifying world they cannot recognize. They fear their sanity slipping away. They sense the presence of a strange new species, one for which light is not a priority. Michael Napoliello, Maria Frisk and Alex Power will produce for Radar. The actual mobile game has no visual, but an audio track of characters which you maneuver forward, backward, left or right.
“We have long admired Radar and the tremendous work they do as industry titans and innovators. We are very excited and honored to be partnering with this legendary team as they delve deeper into the horror genre and break new ground again. Unseen is a horror film...
The horror feature will follow a Boston couple who wake up blind in a terrifying world they cannot recognize. They fear their sanity slipping away. They sense the presence of a strange new species, one for which light is not a priority. Michael Napoliello, Maria Frisk and Alex Power will produce for Radar. The actual mobile game has no visual, but an audio track of characters which you maneuver forward, backward, left or right.
“We have long admired Radar and the tremendous work they do as industry titans and innovators. We are very excited and honored to be partnering with this legendary team as they delve deeper into the horror genre and break new ground again. Unseen is a horror film...
- 7/15/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Producer Autumn Bailey-Ford of Prominent Productions has obtained the film rights to 2019 Ya novel I’m Not Dying With You Tonight, written by activist Kimberly Jones and attorney Gilly Segal. Bailey-Ford is producing the project alongside Prominent partner Cameron Burnett as well as Michael Napoliello and Maria Frisk of Radar Pictures, one of the producers behind Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle.
The timely story, which picked up an NAACP Image Award nomination, focuses on prejudice and the racial tension in America. It follows two teen girls, one Black and one white, who have to confront their own assumptions about racial inequality as they rely on each other to get through the violent race riot that has set their city on fire with civil unrest.
Lena has her killer style, her awesome boyfriend, and a plan. She knows she’s going to make it big.
The timely story, which picked up an NAACP Image Award nomination, focuses on prejudice and the racial tension in America. It follows two teen girls, one Black and one white, who have to confront their own assumptions about racial inequality as they rely on each other to get through the violent race riot that has set their city on fire with civil unrest.
Lena has her killer style, her awesome boyfriend, and a plan. She knows she’s going to make it big.
- 6/25/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, Noomi Rapace gets a starring role, ArcLight Cinemas hires Ted Mundorff and a “Karn Evil 9” movie is in the works.
Casting
Noomi Rapace will star in the thriller “O2,” which will launch sales next week at the European Film Market in Berlin through Wild Bunch International.
Franck Khalfoun is directing and Alexandre Aja is producing and supervising artistic direction. CAA Media Finance will represent domestic rights.
Echo Lake Entertainment, 42 and Wild Bunch International are also producing. The script by Christie LeBlanc was on the 2016 Black List. The story revolves around a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic medical pod and finds herself alone with no memory. She has 90 minutes of oxygen left and must figure out how to save herself.
Rapace achieved international fame with her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish film adaptations of the Millennium book series, which included “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,...
Casting
Noomi Rapace will star in the thriller “O2,” which will launch sales next week at the European Film Market in Berlin through Wild Bunch International.
Franck Khalfoun is directing and Alexandre Aja is producing and supervising artistic direction. CAA Media Finance will represent domestic rights.
Echo Lake Entertainment, 42 and Wild Bunch International are also producing. The script by Christie LeBlanc was on the 2016 Black List. The story revolves around a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic medical pod and finds herself alone with no memory. She has 90 minutes of oxygen left and must figure out how to save herself.
Rapace achieved international fame with her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish film adaptations of the Millennium book series, which included “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,...
- 2/15/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Radar Pictures, which served as an executive producer on Sony’s Jumanji films, has secured rights to “Karn Evil 9,” the futuristic 1973 song by London prog-rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, to develop as a sci-fi feature. New York Times bestselling author Daniel H. Wilson has been hired to adapt the screenplay, which is inspired by the title and lyrics created and recorded by band members Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer.
Centered on a society that has drained all its blood with a dependence on technology, the film will explore the world controlled by a pervasive and dictatorial technocracy. The annual “Karn Evil” — a macabre rite of passage — is a young person’s once-in-a-lifetime chance to experience unbridled freedom, before subjugating themselves to the ruling class. When people stop returning from their Karn Evil experience, fear drives a revolution to topple the status quo and the artificial intelligence discovered at its heart.
Centered on a society that has drained all its blood with a dependence on technology, the film will explore the world controlled by a pervasive and dictatorial technocracy. The annual “Karn Evil” — a macabre rite of passage — is a young person’s once-in-a-lifetime chance to experience unbridled freedom, before subjugating themselves to the ruling class. When people stop returning from their Karn Evil experience, fear drives a revolution to topple the status quo and the artificial intelligence discovered at its heart.
- 2/14/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Edward Burns and his Marlboro Road Gang Productions is teaming with Radar Pictures to develop Tosca Lee’s upcoming thriller novel The Line Between as a television series. The first book in a duology, The Line Between releases later this month from Simon and Schuster.
In The Line Between, an ancient disease re-emerges from the melting permafrost to cause madness in its victims. As the mysterious medical cases spiral toward pandemic and an opportunistic cyber attack plunges the nation into chaos, 22-year-old doomsday cult escapee Wynter Roth, who spent her life preparing for the apocalypse, utilizes her survival skills to lead those with her to safety in a harrowing new reality.
Burns and producing partner Aaron Lubin will executive produce alongside Radar’s Ted Field, Michael Napoliello, Mike Weber and producer Maria Frisk. A search is underway for a writer.
Marlboro Road Gang and Radar recently set up Lee...
In The Line Between, an ancient disease re-emerges from the melting permafrost to cause madness in its victims. As the mysterious medical cases spiral toward pandemic and an opportunistic cyber attack plunges the nation into chaos, 22-year-old doomsday cult escapee Wynter Roth, who spent her life preparing for the apocalypse, utilizes her survival skills to lead those with her to safety in a harrowing new reality.
Burns and producing partner Aaron Lubin will executive produce alongside Radar’s Ted Field, Michael Napoliello, Mike Weber and producer Maria Frisk. A search is underway for a writer.
Marlboro Road Gang and Radar recently set up Lee...
- 1/22/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
The CW has put in development The Progeny, a drama based on Tosca Lee’s bestselling book, from writer Chris Roberts (Orphan Black), Edward Burns’ Marlboro Road Gang Productions, Radar Pictures and CBS TV Studios.
Written by Roberts, The Progeny centers on a young amnesiac who discovers she’s a descendant of history’s greatest murderess, plunging her into a deadly underground war as she fights to stop a secret society that has preyed on her kind for centuries.
Burns’ Marlboro Road Gang Productions and Radar Pictures teamed last year to develop the project and went out to writers. Burns and producing partner Aaron Lubin executive produce alongside Radar’s Ted Field, Michael Napoliello and Mike Weber. Roberts is co-executive producer. Maria Frisk serves as producer. CBS TV Studios is the studio.
Roberts most recently worked as a supervising producer on Frontier for Netflix. Before that, he wrote on all...
Written by Roberts, The Progeny centers on a young amnesiac who discovers she’s a descendant of history’s greatest murderess, plunging her into a deadly underground war as she fights to stop a secret society that has preyed on her kind for centuries.
Burns’ Marlboro Road Gang Productions and Radar Pictures teamed last year to develop the project and went out to writers. Burns and producing partner Aaron Lubin executive produce alongside Radar’s Ted Field, Michael Napoliello and Mike Weber. Roberts is co-executive producer. Maria Frisk serves as producer. CBS TV Studios is the studio.
Roberts most recently worked as a supervising producer on Frontier for Netflix. Before that, he wrote on all...
- 11/19/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
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