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"Paramount Pictures has exercised its purchasing power with "Palms Fitness," buying the romantic comedy pitch from Nicholas Stoller for Dylan Sellers to produce. Stoller, who wrote "Fun With Dick and Jane" with Judd Apatow for Sony, will also pen "Palms Fitness." Story centers on star-crossed lovers -- a young man from a humble Nebraska background who takes a job as a trainer at a fitness club and becomes involved with a highly educated young woman..." (full details) "Working Title co-chairmen Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner have made a preemptive acquisition of "Alibi," a novel by Joseph Kanon to be published in May by Henry Holt. Story concerns a young, wealthy GI who arrives in post-war Venice in 1945 to visit his expatriate mother. He falls in love with an Italian Jewish girl, and his moral compass goes awry when he suspects mom's Italian fiance was a Nazi collaborator..." (full details) Thanks to 'Wakka'

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