Weed Road Pictures Movie Updates

Akiva Goldsman has relocated his Weed Road banner to the Melrose Avenue lot.

Rob Liefeld, whose disruptive Deadpool creation was the blockbuster movie surprise of 2016, is at the center of the first big film rights deal of 2017.

Universal has won the rights to Snapshot 1988, a novella by Joe Hill.

Sony Pictures has closed a deal to acquire an untitled microbudget adult thriller.

2oth Century Fox has acquired Kazu Kibuishi’s bestselling graphic novel series Amulet.

Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group chairman Tom Rothman has found a franchise to sink his teeth into.

Gravity screenwriter Jonas Cuaron is ready to look to the deepest parts of the ocean, re-teaming with Warner Bros. on the Atlantis-set film, The Lost City.

New Line has acquired the movie rights to The Raven Boys, the latest young-adult novel from The Scorpio Races author Maggie Stiefvater.

Brad Peyton, who helmed the global hit Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, has just been set by Warner Bros to rewrite and direct Lobo, the live-action film based on the DC Comics franchise. Joel Silver and Akiva Goldsman are producing.

Warner Bros. has picked up the rights to Archaia Entertainment's comicbook mini-series Lucid for writer-producer Akiva Goldsman to develop and produce as a potential new film franchise.

Warner Bros. is looking to make some magic, optioning Terry Brooks' Magic Kingdom of Landover series of books for Akiva Goldsman's Weed Road Pictures and Andy Cohen's Grade A Entertainment.