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In what Deadline.com described as a “competitive bidding” war, Sony Pictures and Matt Tolmach Productions acquired the horror script THE BRINGING, a spec written by Brandon Murphy and Phillip Murphy. The script is based/inspired by the true story of Elisa Lam who was found dead in the water tanks on the roof of the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. From the Deadline.com news piece: “Footage of Lam’s bizarre, inexplicable behavior in an elevator before her death became a massive Internet sensation, and this has been turned into the story of the man investigating her death, and the nightmare he stumbles into.”

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Joel Silverman is adapting bio pic THE LADY IN THE LOCKER ROOM for CBS Films. From The Hollywood Reporter: “In the 1980s, Fornoff fought to secure equal rights for female sports journalists, insisting they deserved the same access to athletes as their male colleagues. At the time, most sports leagues barred women from entering the locker room, which made it difficult for writers like Fornoff to do their jobs.”

 Scribe Jack Thorne has been tapped to adapt the Neil Gaiman comic book SANDMAN for Warner Bros. The whole thing got started based on a “pitch that David Goyer made for his treatment for the Neil Gaiman comic book classic,” according to Deadline. What’s interesting is that Goyer must be so busy he couldn’t pen (or co-write) the script.

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Will Reiser was recently hired by Sony Pictures to adapt the documentary BROOKLYN CASTLE into a feature film.

In the category for “Why did it take this long?” Adam Sztykiel is confirmed to be writing the sequel to WE’RE THE MILLERS for New Line.

The comedy pitch DIPLOMATS was hitched to Twentieth Century Fox recently. The script is written by Jonathan Abrams.

Comedic actor Seth Rogen (along with Evan Goldberg ) is adapting the book CONSOLE WARS for Sony Pictures, and reportedly Rogen is set to direct.

Josh Boone whose adaptation of “The Fault in Our Stars” recently buzzing around town according to Wrap, is adapting Stephen King’s THE STAND for Warner Bros. and CBS Films.

Warner Bros. has recently picked up the supernatural drama pitch IMAGINARY FOES by Rocco Pucillo.

Andrew Sodroski is adapting a crime drama novel AMERICAN BLOOD for Warner Bros.