Fox Entertainment Studios has sealed a first-look development and producing deal with Cottage Industry Entertainment, the shingle launched by executives Lisa Hamilton Daly and Alysia Cotter Thomas. Among the slate of scripted television series and feature films in the works is “The Whittiers,” based on the Danielle Steel novel, which Fox has optioned to adapt for TV.
\n\nBesides “The Whittiers,” other TV projects Fox Entertainment Studios is developing with Cottage Industry include a one-hour family drama from writer Jordanna Fraiberg (“The Dead Girls Detective Agency”); an adaptation of the Lindsay MacMillan novel “Summer on Lilac Island,” with Delondra Mesa (“Z Nation”) attached to write; and the comedy “Mom’s Place,” from Angela Kinsey (“The Office”) and Audrey Wauchope (“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”).
\n\nIn film, Cottage Industry is working with Fox Entertainment Studios on the hockey-themed romantic comedy “It All Comes Down to This,” from screenwriters Sam Sklaver and Elizabeth Peterson; “The View from Lake Como,” based on the novel by Adriana Trigiani, who is also adapting it; and an adaptation of author Cynthia Hand’s “The Afterlife of Holly Chase” by Ali Laventhol and Tawnya Bhattacharya.
\n\nHamilton Daly and Cotter Thomas founded Cottage Industry Entertainment to focus on “emotionally engaging, female-driven storytelling spanning romantic…
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