Escape Artists Movie Updates

Sony is fast tracking a remake of the 2015 French film Disorder.

Sony has acquired the rights to the New Republic article “The Year of the Pigskin” with Escape Artists attached to produce.

Sony Pictures and Escape Artists are feeling confident in their Denzel Washington thriller The Equalizer, as screenwriter Richard Wenk has closed a deal to write the sequel.

Tina Gordon Chism’s thriller script follows a young female lawyer handling the case of a New Orleans coffee magnate whose passing sparks a deadly chain of events.

Michael Mitnick has been set by Universal Pictures to adapt the Oliver Jeffers novel The Incredible Book Eating Boy. Escape Artists partners Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal and Steve Tisch are producing with Furst Films’ Bryan Furst & Sean Furst.

Sony has preemptively picked up De-Friended, a comedy pitch from MadTV co-creator Fax Bahr and Harry Dunn. Steve Tisch, Todd Black and Jason Blumenthal of Escape Artists are producing.

Lucy Alibar, co-writer of Beasts Of The Southern Wild, has closed a deal to write her next screenplay for Escape Artists.

ony Pictures Entertainment has extended its first-look non-exclusive deal with Escape Artists, the independently financed film and television production company headed by partners Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, and Steve Tisch.

Sony Pictures Entertainment and Escape Artists are developing a bigscreen adaptation of 1980s television series The Equalizer with Denzel Washington attached to star.

Universal Pictures and Illuminaton Entertainment have acquired the rights package to make a film based on the 60 Minutes segment Gospel for Teens.

Al Pacino is attached to play French artist Henri Matisse in Escape Artists' Masterpiece. Deepa Mehta (Water) is attached to direct from a script by Donald Martin.

Director Gary Fleder and writer Caroline Case are collaborating on psychological thriller Indiscretion for Escape Artists.