Orson Scott Card’s sci-fi novel “Ender’s Game” is making its way to the big screen. THR reports that Summit Entertainment is in negotiations to acquire the U.S. rights and co-finance a live-action adaptation of the Hugo Award and Nebula Award-winning book. The deal was propelled by a script by “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” director Gavin Hood, [...]
Daniel Craig stars in Jon Favreau’s “Cowboys & Aliens” as Jake Lonergan, a mysterious stranger with no memory of his past who stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. Aliens appear and begin to abduct the townsfolk and Craig bands together with his former foes to fight off the invasion. Also starring are Olivia [...]
Brad Caleb Kane, best known for his work on “Fringe,” will write a feature film based on the popular children’s toy, View-Master, for Dreamworks Pictures, reports Greek Geek. Kane also indicated in a Twitter post that “Transformers” and “Star Trek” scribes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are also involved on the project. Kane went to [...]
Adam Goodman, Paramount’s newly minted President, has made the action-comedy pitch “License to Steal” his first major acquisition, paying seven figures upfront for it, according to Variety. Shane Salerno will loosely model the script after the concept of high-end repo agents who travel the world to reclaim pricey toys explored in Marc Weingarten’s Salon.com article. [...]
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