-French actor/comedian Omar Sy has joined the cast of Michel Gondry's upcoming adaptation of the late French author Boris Vian's sci-fi/fantasy novel "Mood Indigo, Foam of the Daze" (aka. "Froth on the Daydream") says Shadow and Act
-Universal Pictures has acquired an untitled spy action thriller pitch from Josh Zetumer which they hope will become a franchise reports Deadline.
-Studio Eight has optioned the film rights to John Arne 'Jason' Sæterøy's 2007 Eisner Award winning graphic novel "I Killed Adolf Hitler" says Heat Vision.
-"Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance" co-director Brian Taylor has made a preemptive deal to write and direct a live action feature adaptation of the video game "Twisted Metal" for Sony Pictures says Deadline.
-Warner Bros. Pictures has optioned the film rights to Terry Brooks' "Magic Kingdom of Landover" book series says Variety.
-Mythology Entertainment has acquired feature rights to Richard Morgan's 2002 post-cyberpunk sci-fi novel "Altered Carbon" says Variety.
-Larry Charles’s comedy "Pierre Pierre" will begin shooting this Summer in Europe, primarily in Germany reports Screen Daily. In the pic Carrey plays a self-indulgent French nihilist who steals the Mona Lisa in the hope of selling it off so he can finally move out of his parents house. Edwin Cannistraci and Frederick Seton wrote the script.
-Radius-TWC has scored U.S. and Caribbean rights to an English-language remake of "Drive" and "Bronson" director Nicolas Winding Refn's 1996 movie "Pusher" says The Hollywood Reporter.
-Karen Walton has been hired by Strada Films to adapt novelist Ian Hamilton's Ava Lee crime novel series into a potential feature film franchise says The Hollywood Reporter.
-Susanne Bier ("In a Better World") has been set to direct a film adaptation of Abraham Verghese's novel "Cutting for Stone" says Variety.
-"The King’s Speech" writer David Seidler is set to pen a contemporary-set adaptation of Russian author Alexander Pushkin’s 1833 short story "Queen of Spades" reports Screen Daily.
-Johnny Depp's Infinitum Nihil production company has optioned film rights to the soon-to-be-published and as-yet-untitled book by Damien Echols, one of the West Memphis Three says Deadline.
-Disney is close to acquiring Kelly Marcel's script "Saving Mr. Banks" which deals with Walt Disney's 14 year attempt to persuade Australian author P.L. Travers to sell him the film rights to her book "Mary Poppins" says Deadline.
-Director Pedro Almodovar is poised to reunite with his "Talk To Her" star Javier Camara for his next film "The Brief Lovers" (Los amantes pasajeros) says Screen Daily.
-Forest Whitaker and Algerian filmmaker Rachid Bouchareb are teaming for "Bill's Law", a $20 million remake of Jose Giovanni's 1973 French psychological drama "Two Men In Town" says Shadow and Act.
-Uma Thurman, Viola Davis, Lindsay Lohan, Ellen Burstyn and Evan Rachel Wood have joined the all-star ensemble cast of Liz Garbus' Marilyn Monroe-themed documentary "Fragments" at StudioCanal says Screen Daily. The cast will bring voice to an array of Marilyn related material gathered from the Arthur Miller estate, Truman Capote estate and poems, letters and diary entries written by and about the icon.
-Vince Vaughn and filmmaker Tony Scott are poised to make action thriller "Lucky Strike" says Deadline. Henry Bean's script follows a DEA agent who pairs up with a drug runner to take down a cartel. Production has a potential late Summer or early Fall start date.
-Will Ferrell is attached to star in "Flamingo Thief" says Variety. Michael LeSieur ("You, Me and Dupree") adapted the script from the novel by Susan Trott. Ferrell plays Tim Forrester, a lawyer who becomes obsessed with stealing figurines of flamingos after his wife leaves him. No director is on board yet.
-James Frecheville, Jessica Brown-Findlay, Jeremy Allen White and Thomas Brodie Sangster have signed on for Stephen Kijak's ensemble comedy "Shoplifters of the World" says Screen Daily. Set in 1987 the pic is based on true events, that follows an American man so devastated by the breakup of The Smiths he broke into a heavy metal radio station, taking the DJ hostage and demanding that he play non-stop Smiths songs.
-Billy Bob Thornton will co-write and direct an "ethereal" road movie "And Then We Drove" says Variety.
-Producer Emma Biggins has won the movie rights for writer-director Jeff Norton to a sci-fi teen thriller "The Calling" says THR. The film tells the story of five teenage strangers who wake up in a high-tech prison only to discover they are on a manmade spaceship hurtling toward a trial for humanity's future.
-Danny Glover, Joe Anderson ("The River") and Dawn Olivieri ("House of Lies") are set to star in Deon Taylor's indie drama "Supremacy" says Variety. Based on a true story, the story follows a recently paroled white supremacist who, after killing a police officer, takes an African American family hostage. Vincent Cirrincione and Roxanne Avent are producing the pic. Production begins this month.
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