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A man convicted of faking Romanée-Conti is on bail in Paris and talking. Plus a London trial over dirty gold, a woman held fifteen days in a Texas psychiatric hospital, and the year’s big history prize.
Read this editionThe true stories worth optioning that week, the rights route for each, and what buyers have said in public.
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In development. The news, deals and people shaping film and television.
What buyers have said they want, searchable, with the original sources.
Disney+
“We are tripling the volume of local originals we commission, and we’re striking these large, ambitious partnerships with broadcasters wherever we can.”
Amazon MGM Studios
“Japan is just such a treasure trove of IP.”
Neon
“When Parasite was a hit, we didn’t say to ourselves, ‘We have to go find a new Korean Hitchcockian thriller.’”
A story to pursue. A buyer to approach. A development that changes your thinking.
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