"Paramount has acquired film rights to Tom Clancy's videogame "Splinter Cell" and hired Peter Berg ("Friday Night Lights") to direct. Berg is penning the script along with "Splinter Cell" vidgame writer J.T. Petty and John J. McLaughlin. Vidgame, now in its second edition, follows the adventures of government spy Sam Fisher as he's dispatched to infiltrate an international terrorist syndicate and stop a high-tech threat..." (full details)
Director Jon Amiel and producer David Foster have made a deal to turn the life of Olympic downhill skier Picabo Street into a feature. The pair are looking to land a writer and will then take the project to studios. Street will be involved in drafting her remarkable story for the screen. It's an underdog story that Amiel and Foster are calling "Skibiscuit."..." (full details)
"After collaborating with Warner Bros. on its upcoming "Batman Begins" pic, David Goyer is mining the vaults of DC Comics once again. Goyer has committed to write, produce and direct a feature adaptation of the story of DC Comics hero 'The Flash' for Warner Bros. Pictures..." (full details)
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