Plus: Paul Haggis keynore set for Script To Screen summit in Toronto; Cartagena Film Festival announces 2017 dates; and more…

Tiger & Bunny

Ellen Shanman will adapt Tiger & Bunny for Imagine Entertainment, All Nippon Entertainment Works (ANEW) and BANDAI NAMCO Pictures.

The live-action English-language feature is based on the Japanese anime series and feature films set in a near-futuristic city where professional superheroes known fight crime.

Shanman is the author of the novels Right Before Your Eyes and Everything Nice, which she adapted for Charlize Theron’s Denver & Delilah Productions.

Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, ANEW CEO Sandy Climan and Annmarie Bailey will produce with Masayuki Ozaki on behalf of BANDAI NAMCO Pictures.

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