-Argentinian theater actress Maricel Álvarez ("Biutiful") has joined the cast of Woody Allen’s latest project "Bop Decameron" says Screen Daily. Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page, Alec Baldwin, Penelope Cruz and Roberto Begnini also star.
-Paramount Pictures-based Fake Empire has acquired Let It Snow says Deadline it's a pitch which includes the film rights to an anthology of three intersecting young adult short stories by John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle. Jordan Roter is adapting the script into what's being described as a "teen Love Actually" with a crippling snowstorm on Christmas Eve affecting the lives of several youngsters in their town.
-Frequent "30 Rock" director Don Scardino is set to make his feature directorial debut with the Steve Carell-led comedy "Burt Wonderstone" for New Line says Deadline.
-Relativity Media has optioned the rights to a futuristic drama called "Ecstasia" reports Deadline.
-Paramount Pictures is developing its second non-DreamWorks animated feature.Variety reports that the studio is developing "New Kid," a film adaptation of the Penny Arcade online comic.
-"Star Trek" writers/producers Bob Orci and Alex Kurtzman are taking J.J. Abrams reboot of the famed sci-fi franchise to the video game market reports Heat Vision.
-Almost two decades after they made "Muriel's Wedding" star Toni Collette and director PJ Hogan are looking to re-team for the Australian drama "Mental" reports Variety.
One cast member has been replaced while three more have joined Joe Wright‘s upcoming adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's “Anna Karenina” reports The Daily Mail.
-Batman News has info on another locale; Even as Cory Booker, the Mayor of Newark New Jersey, says he met with some of the filmmakers; Meanwhile, Showbiz 411 says that Matthew Modine's character in The Dark Knight Rises is "a politician and a key villain" named Nixon.
- Bob Keenan's comic "Alien At Large" is being turned into a feature film according to a press release.
-Warner Bros. Pictures is looking for writers to pen a script for "Hawkman", a film adaptation of the DC comics hero. News via Pajiba
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-Paramount Pictures and Disruption Entertainment have acquired the film rights to DC Comics graphic novel "The Mighty" reports Deadline. The story follows Gabriel Cole, a cop who's life was saved by the world's most powerful super-being as a child. He soon uncovers the beloved hero's dark plan that will put them on a collision course.
-Disney Pictures has acquired "The Girlfriend Equation", says The Hollywood Reporter The pitch is based on the story of an MIT grad student who attempted to identify and woo the love of his life through complex math equations.
-Paul Greengrass is in talks to direct Tom Hanks in the Somali pirate film "Maersk Alabama" in development at Sony Pictures says Vulture.The true life story centres on captain Richard Phillips, who was held hostage by four Somali pirates who seized his ship the Maersk Alabama. He was subsequently rescued by a group of Navy SEALs early 2009.The studio obtained the cargo ship captain's life rights and his upcoming memoir "A Captain's Duty" in 2009. Billy Ray ("Shattered Glass," "Breach") has penned the script while Scott Rudin is producing.
-Director Chris Columbus and his shingle 1492 Pictures have acquired screen rights to Michael Koryta's novel "The Cypress House" reports Deadline The story is set along an isolates stretch of the Florida Gulf Coast during the devastating 1935 hurricane. The protagonist is a WWI veteran who's plagued by premonitions of death for his traveling companions.
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