Screenwriting News (June 17-June 23, 2019)

The week’s writing deals and movie project news.

Stuart Beattie writing animated movie “Rainbow Serpent” for Paramount Pictures, Imagine Entertainment, and Animal Logic Entertainment.

Natalia Blok writing “Our Breasts Are Our Weapons: The History of the Femen Movement” for Pan-Europeenne and Arthouse Traffic.

Kate Lanier writing untitled Jenni Rivera project for Mucho Mas Media and De Line Pictures.

Casey La Scala writing-directing “Amityville 1974” for Wonderfilm Media.

Rob Lieber writing animated movie “The Shrinking of Treehorn” for Paramount Pictures, Imagine Entertainment, and Animal Logic Entertainment with Ron Howard to direct.

Lamont Magee, Cory Tynan, and Jason writing “Essex Buffalo Flats” for MGM.

Ol Parker writing-directing “The Giver of Stars” for Universal Pictures.

Dee Rees writing-directing “The Kyd’s Exquisite Follies” for Elevated Films & TV.

Bert V. Royal writing-directing untitled “Easy A” spinoff for Screen Gems.

Eric Warren Singer writing “Malko” for Lionsgate.

Jill Soloway writing-directing “Red Sonja” for Millennium Films.

Jonathon Stewart and Eyal Podell writing animated movie “Zero” for Warner Bros. Pictures, Imagine Entertainment, and Animal Logic Entertainment.