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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has acquired Burn Night, a package from Safehouse Pictures' Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell and writer Chris Sparling.  The project’s blurb: Seven years of the annual incident known as “Burn Night” have hardened the Lockhart family, but nothing’s prepared them for tonight…

Amazon Studios has closed a three-year first look film deal with Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell’s Safehouse Pictures. Founded by Harold and Tunnell in 2005, Safehouse Pictures is producing the sci-fi thriller Atlas, starring Jennifer Lopez, Sterling K. Brown and Simu Liu, for Netflix, and is currently in production on…

Obi-Wan Kenobi EP Joby Harold tells us about his spark for the continuing story of Luke Skywalker’s first Jedi Master; the hermit in the Tatooine desert who’s hiding from the Imperials. You can listen to our chat below: In keeping step with the original trilogy, Obi-Wan can’t really make contact with Luke just yet…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix won a 6-way bidding battle for the rights to turn the short story Backwards into a feature. Free Guy helmer Shawn Levy is attached to direct. He and Dan Cohen will produce for 21 Laps, and Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell will produce for Safehouse. The story story is written by mother-son team Julianna…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has set Tiffany Haddish to star in I.F., a live-action hybrid family comedy that has Mike Mitchell set to direct a script by Darren Lemke. The film blends animation with live action, in the vein of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The picture is the story of an imaginary friend. Lemke’s scripting…

Venerable Disney roller-coast ride Space Mountain is being developed into a film by screenwriter Joby Harold, whose credits include Zack Snyder's upcoming Army of the Dead to Warner's King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. The film will be a live-action adaptation and geared toward a family audience. Harold and wife Tory…

The Force is strong with Joby Harold — so strong that he is stepping in as a new writer for the forthcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi series at Disney+. The news comes after a reshuffling of the project about the iconic Jedi who has appeared in the first and second trilogy of the Star Wars franchise. Harold is stepping in and…

Transformers, the IP that never dies, based on the 1980s toy franchise with the slogan “more than meets the eye” is being developed again at Paramount with two projects, one by Murder Mystery scribe James Vanderbilt and the other by John Wick Chapter 3 EP and Army of the Dead scribe Joby Harold. The Vanderbilt…

EXCLUSIVE: New Line is back on the launchpad with Space Invaders, ramping up the movie version of the classic Taito arcade game from 1978. Warner Bros bought rights to the game several years ago, and New Line has hired Greg Russo to write the script, this after he wrote the reboot of Mortal Kombat for the studio that…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Amblin Partners has signed a two-year first look deal with Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell's Safehouse Pictures. Safehouse’s upcoming slate includes the Michael B. Jordan WW2 movie The Liberators, Battle of Britain, which Ridley Scott is attached to direct, and 70’s drama Love Canal…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has made a preemptive deal for Cloaker, an original action sci-fi pitch to Warner Bros. Harold, along with Safehouse producing partner Tory Tunnell, is producing, with Safehouse’s Matt Schwartz exec producing. The plot is being kept under wraps but we are told it's in the vein of the Bourne and J…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. has picked up Brad Desch’s multi-generational romantic comedy spec Wink from Safehouse Pictures, a Cyrano de Bergerac-like tale of what happens when you take over your mother’s social media profiles. The story was inspired by Safehouse producer Tory Tunnell’s own experience of taking over her…