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EXCLUSIVE: Amblin Entertainment is negotiating with Joachim Rønning to direct Micro, the final novel written by Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park and the screenwriter and director of 1973’s Westworld. Darren Lemke has written the script. Frank Marshall is producing and Sherri Crichton and Laurent Bouzereau are…

Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business. BART: When you bring two older guys together to reminisce, the conversation can become tedious and self-involved – even if they're…

National Geographic Channel has closed a drama series script development deal with Amblin Television, Sony Pictures Television and CrichtonSun for a global limited series based on the soon-to-be-published Michael Crichton manuscript Dragon Teeth. Crichton, who died in 2008, wrote the novel during his most prolific…

HarperCollins Publishers has acquired world English rights to Dragon Teeth, a manuscript penned by Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton. The upcoming book, centered on the golden age of American fossil hunting, will be published in May 2017 in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India. Harper publisher…

Two decades after an unproduced emergency room-set screenplay by Michael Crichton became the biggest show on television, NBC’s ER, another unproduced medical drama screenplay by the bestselling author and Harvard-educated MD is headed to television. CBS has given a put pilot commitment to Genes, from ER producer…

Michael Crichton’s last bit of unfinished business is still finding its way to the big screen. DreamWorks Studios just picked up the feature film rights to the late author’s novel, Micro with Frank Marshall on board to produce. Micro was unfinished when Crichton passed away in 2008 and it was later completed by author…

ICM Partners has taken on representing the Michael Crichton library in all areas. The agency will handle the majority of the titles — a couple are currently tied up — working closely with Crichton’s widow Sherri Crichton and licensees of rights. There also will be a focus on unknown and unpublished works as well as…