Steven Spielberg's Amblin Partners has tapped The Maze Runner filmmaker Wes Ball to direct a feature adaptation of Claire North's sci-fi novel The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, Collider has confirmed. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August follows a man who is repeatedly born into the same life and can remember all of his past experiences. He sets out to save the world from a similarly gifted rival who’s willing to make any sacrifice to attain godlike knowledge and power. Blueprint Pictures (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) originally optioned the Hachette novel and developed …

The character of Courtney Whitmore is an intensely personal one to Geoff Johns, who modeled the girl who would become Stargirl on the younger sister who died in the TWA flight 800 disaster of 1996. That's a downer way to start a review for a show that, I promise you, is a genuine delight, but it's important to know why this character was created and what she was always supposed to be: A (literal) shining beacon of positivity in the darkest of times. As Johns wrote in a letter sent along with episodes of Stargirl, "It is her …

Rachel Brosnahan, the Emmy-winning star of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, is set to join Anthony Ramos in Amblin's sci-fi comedy Distant, the studio announced Wednesday. Will Speck and Josh Gordon, the duo behind Blades of Glory and Office Christmas Party, will direct from a script by Spenser Cohen (Extinction). Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Fred Berger and Anna Halberg will produce, while Jonathan Rothbart and Matt Hirsch will executive produce with Speck and Gordon. Kevin Vafi will serve as a co-producer on the project, which will be overseen by Amblin executives Jeb Brody and John Buderwitz. Production is …

Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse is a 2016 horror comedy that feels like a gory version of classic Amblin adventures like Gremlins.

Hot off his summer horror hit Crawl, genre maestro Alexandre Aja has signed on to direct an untitled haunted house movie for Steven Spielberg's Amblin Partners, and the kicker is, it will be an interactive horror film featuring a branched narrative -- i.e. a choose-your-own-adventure-style horror movie. The film will be written by Jeff Howard (The Haunting of Hill House), Nick Simon (The Girl in the Photographs), and Aja, based on an idea by Howard and Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep). [caption id="attachment_317647" align="alignright" width="350"] Image via Relativity Media[/caption] To develop the …