News — Helmer Wes Ball

WME Signs ‘Planet Of The Apes’ Helmer Wes Ball & Oddball Entertainment Partner Joe Hartwick Wes Ball, left, and Joe HartwickShutterstock WME just signed Wes Ball and his Oddball Entertainment partner Joe Hartwick. The duo is in the early stages of rebooting the Planet of the Apes franchise for 20th. They will produce, and Ball will direct. Ball is best known for directing the Maze Runner trilogy that collectively grossed around $950 million worldwide. He also was public about the disappointment of seeing the movie he developed for so long, the $170 million CGI animated Mouse Guard, get unplugged last April, two weeks before start of production. The film was a casualty...