The Hollywood Reporter – August 14, 2019

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Augustine Frizzell

REP WME

WHY SHE MATTERS

After gaining notice

this summer for helm-

ing the pilot of HBO

hit Euphoria, Frizzell,

40, has been tapped

to direct the feature

adaptation of Jojo Moyes’

The Last Letter From

Yo ur L o v er. She made her

directorial debut with

2018’s Sundance comedy

Never Goin’ Back and

has helmed episodes

of Starz’s Sweetbitter.

Next up: Ryan Reynolds’

Home Alone homage

Stoned Alone.

New Line has won a
competitive auction for
Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart
follow-up, thriller Don’t
Worry Darling.

David Ayer (WME, Sloane
Offer) is in talks to direct
Lionsgate’s World War II
thriller El-Alamein.

Schitt’s Creek star Emily
Hampshire (Paradigm,
Atlas) will star in indepen-
dent horror movie Home.

Game of Thrones’ Joel Fry
(the U.K.’s Independent)
will play henchman Jasper
in Disney’s Cruella, starring
Emma Stone.

TELEVISION
Lee Daniels (WME,
Untitled, Hansen
Jacobson) and Star show-
runner Karin Gist (ICM,
3 Arts, McKuin Frankel)
will develop soap Our Kind
of People at Fox.

Booksmart’s Beanie
Feldstein ( WME, Brillstein,
Gang Tyre) will star as
Monica Lewinsky, Sarah

Paulson (CAA) as Linda

Tripp and Annaleigh

Ashford (ICM, Beth

Rosner, Schreck Rose)

as Paula Jones in FX’s

Impeachment: American

Crime Story.

Te e n Wo l f creator Jeff

Davis (WME, Authentic,

Jackoway Austen)

has signed a multiyear,

broadcast-only deal with

Fox Entertainment.

Jamie Dornan (UTA,

the U.K.’s Tr o i k a, Sloane

Offer), Alec Baldwin (CAA,

Cavalry) and Christian

Slater (UTA, Jackoway

Austen) will star in UCP’s

adaptation of Wondery’s

Dr. Death podcast.

Sisters Sara and Erin

Foster (WME, 3 Arts),

daughters of Grammy-

winning musician David

Foster, have signed a three-

year pod deal with Disney’s

20th TV.

Fox Corp. has purchased

Bento Box Entertainment,

the animation company

that produces Bob’s

Burgers on Fox and

Paradise PD on Netflix.

Nathan Fielder ( UTA, Rise,

Ziffren Brittenham) has

inked a one-year overall

deal with HBO that will

include a comedy pilot and

docuseries How to ... With

John Wilson.

Rachel Dratch (Paradigm)

will recur on season 10 of

Showtime’s Shameless.

Danny Trejo (AEFH)

has joined Pikchure Zero

Entertainment’s sci-fi

action series Paragon.

Nickelodeon will develop a

new Garfield series after its

parent company, Viacom,

acquired Paws Inc., which

controls the rights to the

cartoon cat.

Fox has greenlighted

dance-and-dating show

Flirty Dancing, based on

a U.K. format of the same

name. ... FX has renewed

Atlanta and Snowfall, both

for fourth seasons.

DIGITAL

Alicia Silverstone

(UTA, Untitled,

Gang Tyre) and Mark

Feuerstein (UTA,

Framework, Ziffren

Brittenham) will star on

Netflix’s Baby-Sitters

Club series.

Lauren Holly (Canada’s

The Characters,

Gilbertson) will star on

Netflix’s YA drama series

Tiny Pretty Things.

You’re the Worst star

Kether Donohue (ICM,

Authentic, Jackoway

Austen) has joined Darren

Criss on Quibi musical

comedy series Royalties.

Tiffany Haddish ( UTA,

Artists First, Ziffren

Brittenham), Carmen

Ejogo (WME, Untitled) and

Blair Underwood (ICM,

Thruline, Felker Toczek)

have joined Octavia

Spencer on Netflix limited

series Madam C.J. Walker.

Former NFL star Pat

McAfee (CAA) has signed

a multiyear deal with DAZN

and Westwood One Radio

for daily program The Pat

McAfee Show.

HBO Max and BBC Three

have teamed for British

comedy Starstruck from

comedian Rose Matafeo

and Avalon Television.

Netflix has renewed Mr.

Iglesias for a second season.

Haddish Snipes

Reese Witherspoon’s new farm was an event space.

Fixer Upper’s Chip and

Joanna Gaines and their

Magnolia brand have

signed with UTA, as

has Fortnite streamer

BrookeAB.

Matthew McConaughey

has left CAA for WME.

Strahan and Sara host

Sara Haines has left

WME for CAA.

Go Back to China film-

maker Emily Ting has

signed with Ver ve.

30 for 30 documentarian

Billy Corben has signed

with Black Box.

$

1B

Verizon’s estimated loss in its

Aug. 12 sale of Tumblr for less than

$20M to Automattic. Yahoo had

acquired the platform in ’13 for $1.1B.

YA a u th o r Lauren Oliver

(UTA, Lichter Grossman)

has signed a first-look deal

with Amazon Studios.

THEATER

Princess Diana musi-

cal Diana will arrive on

Broadway in spring 2020.

TheaterWorksUSA and

Martian Entertainment

are bringing The Lightning

Thief: The Percy Jackson

Musical to Broadway, open-

ing in October.

REAL ESTATE

Reese Witherspoon, in an

off-market purchase, has

landed a two-acre

hobby farm near

Malibu’s Zuma Beach

for $6.25 million.

Brie Larson (Compass)

has sold her three-

bedroom bungalow in Los

Angeles’ Laurel Canyon for

$2.17 million.

Los Angeles Angels star

Mike Trout (Villa), the

highest-paid player in

baseball, has purchased a

9,000-square-foot home in

Newport Beach, California,

for $9.15 million.

— COMPILED BY KIRSTEN CHUBA

AND REBECCA SUN

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