-Lionsgate has launched a new initiative to generate films with budgets under $2 million and three have received the initial greenlight reports Variety--Including one with Penn & Gosling
-Wanted" director Timur Bekmambetov has picked up rights to John Scott III's zombie-themed spec script "Maggie" reports Deadline.
-Ridley Scott will produce and hopes to direct a biopic about Gertrude Bell, a photographer and spy during World War I reports Deadline.
-First details of the story of "Piranha 3DD" show that it will revolve around piranha making their way into swimming pools, pipes, and plumbing at a newly opened waterpark named Wilderness Waters says Bloody D
-Jane Goldman, tells Absolute Radio that she doesn't think a "Kick-Ass" sequel is coming, certainly not anytime soon.
-"Cloverfield" 2 talk Helmer Matt Reeves tells Total Film that he's been too busy to lock a script, though he is constantly working on coming up with a satisfying storyline.
-Bill Murray has signed on to portray President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a film adaptation of Richard Nelson's 2009 British radio play "Hyde Park on the Hudson" says Vulture. The story follows FDR’s love affair with his cousin, Margaret Stuckley, during a June weekend in 1939 when the British King and Queen visited Roosevelt’s upstate New York cottage in what was the first ever visit to America by a member of the British monarchy.
- Deadline reports that Drew Pearce has been hired to work on the Iron Man 3 script. Pearce penned the screenplay for the shelved “Runaways” film, though is most known for his work on the cult UK superhero comedy series "No Heroics".
-The former L.A. cop turned regular "Castle" scribe Will Beall is in negotiations to pen the "Logan's Run" remake for Warners Bros. Pictures says Heat Vision.
-Universal Pictures has dropped plans to make its $37 million film adaptation of the acclaimed musical "In the Heights" reports Deadline.
-"Kung Fu Panda" and "Monsters vs. Aliens" scribes Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger have been hired to write the live-action feature based on the Hasbro board game "Candyland" for Universal Pictures says Heat Vision.The story centers around finding the lost king of Candy Land. The players wind their way through enchanted lands such as Candy Cane Forest and Gum Drop Mountain, see characters such as Princess Frostine and Gramma Nutt as well as the evil Lord Licorice who can make players lose a turn. Etan Cohen ("Tropic Thunder," "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa") was previously attached to write and Kevin Lima ("Enchanted") to direct
-He's been trying to get it off the ground for years, now filmmaker David Gordon Green tells The Playlist that his planned remake of Dario Argento’s classic 70's horror movie "Suspiria" could well be his next feature.
-Stuart Beattie has come onboard Lakeshore Entertainment's contemporary fantasy thriller based on the upcoming Darkstorm Studios graphic novel "I, Frankenstein" says Heat Vision.
-Screenwriter Mike Soccio (?) has been hired to perform re-writes on the upcoming "Men in Black III" says The Hollywood Reporter. The hiring is odd as the troubled production is in dire need of a strong writer to fix various troublesome issues, yet Soccio has no significant movie credits..Soccio is said to have been working on the project for months WTF is up with MIB III? Jeebus!!
-Malcolm Gladwell has been hired to polish David Arata's drama script "Hexum" for Disney Pictures says Deadline. The story follows a CIA threat-assessment analyst, an alternative-thinking brainiac who is relegated to a distant corner of the CIA where he assembles theories nobody pays attention to. By connecting a series of seemingly random occurrences, he uncovers a sinister adversary planning an imminent global threat.
-John Travolta is officially set to play mobster John Gotti Sr. in the indie feature "Gotti: Three Generations" says The Hollywood Reporter.
That's all for now...
That's all for now...
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