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FX Developing Drama About 1950s Tabloid Hollywood From Author James Ellroy

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday April 22, 2013 @ 3:00pm PDTTags: Clark Peterson, FX, james ellroy, Joe Roth
Nellie Andreeva

FX has bought a drama pitch from L.A. Confidential author James Ellroy and producers Joe Roth and Clark Peterson. Based on Ellroy’s 2012 novella Shakedown, the project is set in the tabloid world and underbelly of Los Angeles circa the late 1950s and centers on the city’s top informant/operator/wire tapper/fixer, Fred Otash, who lives and works where the glamour and the grime intersect. A fictionalized version of legendary Hollywood vice cop-turned-private eye Otash, who exposed the sins of the rich and famous in the 1950s magazine Confidential, also appeared in Ellroy’s novels The Cold Six Thousand and Blood’s a Rover.

Ellroy, repped by CAA and manager Joel Gotler, is writing Shakedown and will executive produce the series with Roth, Peterson, Steven Hoban and Palak Patel for FX Prods. This marks a return to FX for Ellroy, who developed cop drama Throwdown Gun at the network two years ago. On the feature side, James Franco recently signed on to direct and star in an adaptation of Ellroy’s American Tabloid.

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West Memphis 3 Feature Film Eyes Spring Shoot With Atom Egoyan Directing

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday August 19, 2011 @ 4:34pm PDTTags: Clark Peterson, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, Jessie Misskelley Jr, Paul Boardman, Richard Saperstein, Scott Derrickson, West Memphis Three
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: After the West Memphis 3 murder defendants were released from prison today after 18 years, it seemed like just a matter of time before the movie crowd got involved because the case is so controversial and became a cause celebre with the likes of Johnny Depp and Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh. Turns out that there is a feature film that already has a screenplay and a major director, ready to start production by the spring. Devil’s Knot is an under $20 million feature that has The Sweet Hereafter and Chloe director Atom Egoyan aboard to direct a script that was originally written by Scott Derrickson and Paul Boardman, the team behind The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Egoyan has spent the last six weeks working with Boardman on a rewrite. Read More »

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Dimension To Develop ‘Scanners’ TV Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday July 22, 2011 @ 12:02pm PDTTags: Alexandre Aja, Bob Weinstein, Clark Peterson, David Cronenberg, Dimension Films
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: David Cronenberg’s science-fiction horror classic Scanners may be headed to the small screen. The Weinstein Co.’s Dimension Films is developing a drama series adaptation of the movies about a group of people with telepathic and telekinetic abilities, with The … Read More »

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Salma Hayek Joins Effort To Turn ‘The Prophet’ Into Animated Feature

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday March 4, 2011 @ 6:41am PSTTags: Clark Peterson, Salma Hayek
Mike Fleming

Salma Hayek and her Ventanarosa Productions have joined Clark Peterson and Ron Senkowski to produce an animated feature based on the Kahlil Gibran book The Prophet. Hayek’s producing partner Jose Tamez will executive produce with co-financier Steve Hanson. The intention … Read More »

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