The Hollywood Reporter - 26.02.2020

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 15 FEBRUA RY 26, 2020

As Needed for Pain (HARPER COLLINS, FEB. 11)

BY Dan Peres AGENCY Gotham Group

The Devil Wears Prada meets Less Than Zero in this memoir from

the former head of Details magazine. As told through the lens of

one man’s drug addiction, the book is a look at the fall of glossy-

magazine empires of the early aughts and those who ran them.

Harley in the Sky (SIMON PULSE, MARCH 10)

BY Akemi Dawn Bowman AGENCY Aevitas Creative

As if The Greatest Showman were made strictly for the young adult

set, the novel follows 18-year-old Harley Milano, whose family of

circus performers forbids her from becoming a trapeze artist.

Consequently, she runs away to a rival circus.

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Olivia Wilde (CAA,
Untitled, Ziffren
Brittenham) will direct
Perfect, a biopic about
Olympic gymnast Kerri
Strug, for Riverstone
Pictures and Pulse Films.

Kumail Nanjiani (UTA,
Mosaic, Schreck Rose) will
star in Amy Rice’s political
thriller The Independent.

Flight’s John Gatins
(UTA, Felker Toczek) and
Straight Outta Compton’s
Andrea Berloff (CAA,
Management 360,
McKuin Frankel) will
pen a sequel to Disney’s
live-action Aladdin.

Eli Roth (WME) will direct
an adaptation of the action
video game franchise
Borderlands for Lionsgate.

Veep creator Armando
Iannucci (UTA, the U.K.’s
PBJ) will executive produce
Sumo, a coming-of-age
comedy set in the world of
amateur sumo wrestling.

Lindsay Lohan (APA)
will play a police detec-
tive opposite Mickey
Rourke in supernatural
thriller Cursed.

TELEVISION

Will Ferrell (UTA, Mosaic,

Jackoway Austen)

and Paul Rudd (UTA,

Lighthouse, Jackoway

Austen) will star in and

exec produce MRC’s

limited-series adaptation

of Wondery and Bloomberg

Media podcast The Shrink

Next Door.

Danai Gurira (UTA, Suskin,

Jackoway Austen) has

signed a two-year overall

deal with ABC Studios.

Julia Roberts (CAA,

Hirsch Wallerstein),

Sean Penn (CAA,

Hirsch Wallerstein),

Armie Hammer (WME,

Relevant, Sloane Offer)

and Joel Edgerton (CAA,

Anonymous, Hirsch

Wallerstein) will star

in Universal Content

Productions’ Watergate

series Gaslit, based on

Slate’s podcast Slow Burn

and from Sam Esmail and

Robbie Pickering.

Schitt’s Creek’s Annie

Murphy (Gersh, Canada’s

GGA) will star in AMC com-

edy Kevin Can F*** Himself.

Oliver Hudson (ICM,

Management 360, Ziffren

Brittenham) and Malin

Akerman (UTA, Mosaic,

Jackoway Austen) will

star as siblings in CBS

multicamera comedy pilot

The Three of Us.

Annaleigh Ashford (ICM,

Beth Rosner, Schreck

Rose) will star in Chuck

Lorre’s CBS comedy

pilot B Positive.

Melissa Leo (CAA,

Untitled) will star in Fox

drama pilot Blood Relative.

Yellowstone co-creator

Taylor Sheridan (CAA,

Elevate, Meyer & Downs)

has signed a multi-

year overall deal with

ViacomCBS.

Lake Bell (UTA, the U.K.’s

Tavistock Wood, Ziffren

Brittenham) has signed a

pod deal with 20th TV.

Sam Rockwell (Gersh,

Untitled) and producing

partner Mark Berger have

signed a first-look deal with

MGM/UA Television.

NBC has renewed

Blacklist for season eight,

Superstore for season

six and Ellen’s Game of

Games for season four. ...

HBO has renewed rookie

comedy Avenue 5. ... Fox

has renewed So You Think

You Can Dance for sea-

son 17. ... Epix has renewed

freshman drama Godfather

of Harlem.

DIGITAL

Jennifer Lawrence (LBI,

Hansen Jacobson) will star

in Adam McKay’s Netflix

comedy pic Don’t Look Up.

Mahershala Ali (WME,

Anonymous, Sloane Offer)

will star in Apple TV+’s

Swan Song, the feature

debut of Oscar-winning

filmmaker Benjamin Cleary.

Sandra Oh (UTA, Principal,

Hansen Jacobson) will star

in Netflix dramedy series

The Chair from Amanda

Peet and Game of Thrones’

Dan Benioff and D.B. Weiss.

Priyanka Chopra Jonas

(UTA, Anjula Acharia,

GISPC) will play Ma Anand

Sheela, the spiritual adviser

made famous in Netflix

docuseries Wild Wild

Country, in Amazon drama

feature Sheela.

Martin Freeman (CAA,

the U.K.’s CAM, Felker

To c z e k) and Girls alum

Alex Karpovsky (WME,

Underground, Ginsburg

Daniels) have joined

Peacock limited series

Angelyne, based on a 2017

Hollywood Reporter story.

Lauren Graham (ICM,

John Carrabino, Hansen

Patel Lawrence

1,

Points by which the Dow Jones

Industrial Average fell on Feb. 24,

its third-highest daily drop ever,

in response to coronavirus fears.

The Wests’ new property is on the same street as Kris Jenner’s

home and Kylie Jenner’s undeveloped parcel of land.

Rep

Sheet

Next

Big

Thing

Naomi Watts has left

CAA for WME.

Linda Cardellini has left

ICM Partners for CAA.

Amelia Gray and Delilah

Belle Hamlin, daughters

of Lisa Rinna and Harry

Hamlin, have signed

with UTA and DBA.

Insecure’s Yvonne Orji

has signed with Imagine

Artist Management.

TikTok-ers Avani

Gregg, Andre Swilley

and Tayler Holder have

signed with Abrams.

J.D. Dillard

REPS CAA, Circle of

Confusion, Ginsburg

Daniels

WHY HE MATTERS

Disney has tapped the

writer-director of 2016

sci-fi thriller Sleight to

develop a new Star Wars

project with Luke Cage

writer Matt Owens.

Dillard, whose direct-

ing credits include

Amazon’s Utopia and

Blumhouse’s Sweetheart,

worked in production

support on The Force

Awakens and cameoed in

Rise of Skywalker.

Evans

Jacobson) and Emilio

Estevez (3 Arts, Sheppard

Mullin) will star in

Disney+’s The Mighty

Ducks comedy series.

Bethenny Frankel

(UTA) will front HBO

Max business competi-

tion series The Big Shot

With Bethenny.

Peter Berg (WME, Hirsch

Wallerstein) and Narcos’

Eric Newman (CAA,

Hansen Jacobson) will

exec produce Netflix’s

opioid crisis limited

series Painkiller.

Game of Thrones’ Kristofer

Hivju (UTA, Denmark’s

Panorama) has joined the

second season of Netflix’s

The Witcher.

NBCUniversal is in talks

to acquire Walmart’s Vudu

video service.

Netflix has renewed

Atypical for a fourth and

final season. ... Amazon

has renewed Bosch for a

seventh and final season.

REAL ESTATE

Kim Kardashian West

and Kanye West have

purchased two acres

of undeveloped land in

La Quinta’s Madison Club

community from Ron

Burkle for $6.3 million.

Dwyane Wade and

Gabrielle Union (Compass)

have purchased a new

seven-bedroom home in

Hidden Hills for $20 million.

— COMPILED BY KIRSTEN CHUBA

AND REBECCA SUN

Nanjiani Oh