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Welcome to Development Hell, the fiery pit into which we fling recent developments in casting, distribution, and everything else that’s new and mildly interesting in the Boschian phantasmagoria of the entertainment industry.


We’ll be honest: Some days down here in Development Hell are hotter than others. Days where the news is not, to put none-too-fine a point on it, good. Days when we’re forced to really come to terms with the depths of what our roles as entertainment journalists force us to think about on a regular basis. Today is one of those days.

Which is all to say, Logan Paul has announced he’s making a comeback of sorts, posting a video today explaining that he’s gearing up to make a new documentary about how hard his life has gotten this year, ever since he saw a dead body in a Japanese “suicide forest,” and then had to wrestle, not just with the barest dim flickerings of his own mortality, but also with the baffling fact that people didn’t like tase-ing dead rats his recent life story via The Verge



Another hurdle in the upcoming sale of The Weinstein Co. has now been cleared, with the film studio’s various creditors okay-ing an increase in the company’s sale price in order to cover some of the cash owed to them. Lantern Capital is currently in ongoing efforts via Variety



Patriot Releasing has acquired and set a release date for the Vivica A. Fox-starring sex drama Kinky, presumably as one of the 10 movies per year that it’s promised to target toward black women as their primary audience . Directed by Jean-Claude La Marre—whose other credits include Chocolate City, a Magic Mike riff focused on black men—the latest film sounds a little bit 50 Shades, with Fox starring as “a beautiful African American surgeon who begins a sexual journey with a billionaire investor. After a few months of dating, the couple begins exploring their most kinky sexual fantasies, leading them into a world of BDSM and hardcore sexual exploration.” Fun!



Per Slashfilm




Joe Johnston—whose credits include Captain America: The First Avenger and The Rocketeer The Nutcracker And The Four Realms According to Deadline



Judi Dench and Eddie Izzard are about to be Nazi-adjacent, as production starts on the 1930s period thriller Six Minutes To Midnight. Set in 1939, the film is about a teacher working in southern England, who comes to the unsettling realization that several of her students are the children of high-ranking Nazis. [ via Variety



BBC Two has picked up an adaptation of Dr. Adam Kay’s recently published comedy medical diary, This Is Going To Hurt. Penned in his rare off-hours while working 97-hour weeks in a labor ward, Kay’s book has been a bestseller since its publication last September. (Also, descriptions of it include the phrase “the constant tsunami of bodily fluids,” which should be something to look forward to.) The book is being adapted into an eight-part miniseries. [ via Deadline

