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Exclusive: Gravitas Ventures has acquired global distribution to the Dr. Mark Smith-directed and Winterstate Entertainment documentary The Forgotten Battalion, Deadline can exclusively report. A fall digital platform launch is being eyed.

The Forgotten Battalion follows the Second Battalion, Seventh Marine Regiment, one of the toughest and hardest hit during their tour in Afghanistan. In 2008, 1,200 members deployed to cover a territory the size of Oregon, engaged in heavy combat with insurgent elements with no air support and beyond supply lines due to military cutbacks, they routinely ran short on food, water, and ammunition. Upon returning home, they soon discovered the horror of war and the challenges of surviving were not over. Their suicide rate is approximately 4x the rate for other young vets and 14x the average for most Americans. The documentary explores how some of the members are actively pursuing coming together to reconnect, helping each other to survive the...

Bruce Springsteen has no shortage of original songs about New Jersey that he could have played near the end of the Jersey 4 Jersey fundraising event on Wednesday night. “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)” would have been a touching tribute to his adopted boardwalk town, while “My Hometown” would have been a bittersweet look at his childhood in Freehold, and “My City of Ruins” would have gone back to its original, pre-9/11 meaning as an elegy for the struggling community of Asbury Park, now devastated once again due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Big remains one of our favourite Tom Hanks childhood movies (perhaps losing out to Turner and Hooch, boy did that make us blub, we barely held it together) so we're slightly unnerved by reports that a TV series based on the film has been commissioned.

Kevin Biegel and Mike Royce are now said to have received a script plus penalty commitment from broadcaster Fox for the half-hour comedy series, which will explore what it means to be both an adult and child in today's world.

The 1988 Oscar-nominated movie, written by Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg, sees a boy's simple wish to be big come true as a 13-year-old is transformed into a 30-year-old overnight.

We take a nostalgic look at the cast of the huge hit - including Tom Hanks and John Heard - and what came next below:

Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks was robbed when he missed out on...

Big remains one of our favourite Tom Hanks childhood movies (perhaps losing out to Turner and Hooch, boy did that make us blub, we barely held it together) so we're slightly unnerved by reports that a TV series based on the film has been commissioned.

Kevin Biegel and Mike Royce are now said to have received a script plus penalty commitment from broadcaster Fox for the half-hour comedy series, which will explore what it means to be both an adult and child in today's world.

The 1988 Oscar-nominated movie, written by Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg, sees a boy's simple wish to be big come true as a 13-year-old is transformed into a 30-year-old overnight.

We take a nostalgic look at the cast of the huge hit - including Tom Hanks and John Heard - and what came next below:

Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks was robbed when he missed out on...

Vanessa Anne Hudgens was born in Salinas, California on December 14, 1988. She is the daughter of Greg and Gina Hudgens. Greg is of an Irish and Native American descent and Gina is of Filipino, Chinese and Spanish descent. She has a younger sister, Stella whom she is so close with. Since eighth grade, she has been homeschooled and claims that she has never experienced the “school drama”. However, her mother filled her with enough knowledge as they move about the country and later settled in California. Starting age eight, Vanessa has been performing in various musical theater and local productions. Her first professional job was doing a local production of The Wizard of Oz as a munchkin and was paid $50. When asked about it, she said in an interview -in the character profile of the Road to High School Musical- “I have to start somewhere”. She has also appeared in local productions of Evita,...

Writer-producer Shaun Cassidy has inked a two-year deal with Warner Bros. TV. Under the seven-figure pact, Cassidy will serve as an executive producer on the studio's new Jerry Bruckheimer/Meredith Stiehm drama series for CBS Cold Case and will develop new projects. Cold Case, from WBTV, Jerry Bruckheimer TV and CBS Prods., stars Kathryn Morris as the head of the Philadelphia Police Department's cold-cases squad. On the series, slotted to air at 8 p.m. Sundays, Cassidy will executive produce alongside Bruckheimer, Stiehm and Jonathan Littman. Cassidy segues into the deal with WBTV after a long stint at Universal's television division -- most recently developing a drama series for CBS with his American Gothic partner, Spider-Man director Sam Raimi -- this development season (HR 11/11). He also was an executive producer on the CBS/Universal Network TV CIA drama The Agency. Cassidy's other TV credits include the series Roar for Fox and Cover Me: Based on the True Life of an FBI Family for USA Network. He is repped by CAA and attorney Bob Myman.