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"Warner Bros. Pictures has tapped screenwriting newcomers David Posamentier and Geoff Moore to adapt the best-selling thriller "The Rule of Four." The duo's take on the novel beat out other more established writers. The book, by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason, details the story of four Princeton students who are on the verge of cracking the secrets behind the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a 15th century Renaissance text that points the way to a fabled Roman treasure. When they get too close, people start dying..." (more details) "One of the producers of "Finding Neverland" and that film's screenwriter are teaming up again for a third time. Nellie Bellflower has optioned the Philip Appleman novel "Apes and Angels" and has tapped David Magee to adapt the screenplay. "Apes" is a novel about young love in 1941 small-town America..." (more details) "New Line has tapped comedy writing team Alan Cohen and Alan Freedland to pen corporate comedy "The Retreat". Directed by James Dodson, story centers on a thirtysomething hot dog vendor at Chicago's Wrigley Field who lands a job at a corporation. He climbs the management ladder thanks to impressing the go-getter CEO with the simple wisdom he's picked up selling hot dogs. Protag discovers at a company retreat in Hawaii that he's the target of sabotage by a disgruntled employee..." (more details) "Pierce Gardner and Tim Davis are penning romantic comedy "Why Don't You Try Me?" at Columbia. Sid Ganis' Out of the Blue shingle is producing. Story concerns a woman who finds out with absolute certainty the name of her soulmate and then discovers he's far from the man of her dreams..." (more details) "Paramount is in talks to hire the screenwriting team of Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais to adapt "Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief," set up with Christine Peters at her CFP Prods. Project's based on the memoirs of Bill Mason, who co-wrote with Lee Gruenfeld. Mason stole over $35 million in jewels from the inner circles of high society over the course of three decades while maintaining an outwardly conventional life..." (more details)

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