Fox Entertainment Studios has signed a first-look development and producing deal with Cottage Industry Entertainment, a new production company founded by Lisa Hamilton Daly and Alysia Cotter Thomas, whose first slate includes a series adaptation of Danielle Steel’s novel The Whittiers.
I’m not able to recall a specific past case from this news, and I don’t have verified details on similar Fox first-look deals that fell through, so I won’t invent one. What I can say is that the post is about a standard development deal: Fox gets right of first look at a new company’s projects, and this one starts with a Danielle Steel adaptation, which is cheap, safe, and easy to sell.