Amazon MGM Studios and UAs Stuber are negotiating to lock in all the pieces.

Stuber and Nick Nesbitt will produce for UA.

His reports leaned into the countrys slide toward autocracy.

Evan Gershkovich and Edward Berger

(L-R) Evan Gershkovich and Edward Bergergetty

The journalist ended his time in Russia when he wasreleased in a swap of prisonersin August 2024.

Before joiningWSJin 2022, Gershkovich reported from Russia for Agence France-Presse and theMoscow Times.

The reporters memoir will be published next year in the U.S. by the Penguin Random House imprint Crown.

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Gershkovich was the first American journalist to be arrested in Russia since the Cold War.

The imprisonment was widely condemned by America and countries around the world.

Berger is coming offAll Quiet on the Western Front, which won four Oscars including Best International Feature.

He completed production onThe Ballad of a Small Playerwith Colin Farrell starring for Netflix.

Berger is repped by CAA, Casaratto Ramsay and Range Media Partners.

Weill is repped by CAA, and both are lawyered by Jackoway Austen Tyerman.

CAA also repped WSJ and Millman.