21 Laps Entertainment Movie Updates

Fox is taking a fresh start on A Bittersweet Life.

Jessie Nickson-Lopez will write the script with Levy and 21 Laps principal Dan Cohen producing.

Fox and 21 Laps have set up a thriller that will be directed by Colm McCarthy.

Twentieth Century Fox has pre-emptively acquired The Prince’s Guard.

Fox 2000 is launching development on a movie based on Larry Niven’s science-fiction story Inconstant Moon.

Lionsgate has won a vigorous auction and has acquired and will distribute Kin, the sci-fi action thriller.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson will make her live-action directorial debut with Darkest Minds, Fox’s adaptation of the YA trilogy by Alexandra Bracken.

Arash Amel is penning the screenplay.

Sierra/Affinity has picked up the worldwide rights to Sovereign, a sci-fi thriller written by Geoff Tock & Gregory Weidman.

20th Century Fox and director Shawn Levy will turn the life of legendary music promoter Bill Graham into a feature film.

Fox is acquiring an untitled Tinker Bell comedy-adventure that will star Melissa McCarthy as the eponymous fairy heroine, with Shawn Levy directing.

Fox has just made a pre-emptive acquisition of Understand, a sci-fi spec script by Eric Heisserer.

New Line has acquired the comedy pitch Fist Fight which is based on an idea by New Girl actor Max Greenfield.

New Line has picked up The Lost, an action comedy spec from popping scribe T.J. Fixman that has Shawn Levy and his 21 Laps banner attached to produce.

Ken Marino & Erica Oyama have been set by 20th Century Fox to script the comedy True Freshman, which 21 Laps & Radar are producing.

Shawn Levy's prolific production company 21 Laps -- whose credits include the Night at the Museum franchise -- has closed a new, overall first-look deal with 20th Century Fox.

FilmNation and Lava Bear Films are partnering to finance and produce 21 Laps' sci-fi thriller Story of Your Life, based on the short story by acclaimed author Ted Chiang.