"McG's production shingle Wonderland Sound & Vision has teamed up with James Stern's Endgame Entertainment to co-produce horror pic "Stay Alive." Pic will be financed by Endgame and is expected to start shooting in March in New Orleans. To be directed by Brent Bell, pic is about a group of New Orleans teens who play an online horror videogame; as their characters die in the game, the players die also..." (full details)
"Jim Henson Pictures has pacted with Warner Bros. Pictures to adapt 2001 children's book "The Witch's Children," penned by the Brit team of Ursula Jones and illustrator Russell Ayto. First published in the U.S. in 2003 by Henry Holt, "Children" started out a simple picture book about some misadventures caused when the magic of several witches-in-training goes off half-cocked However, the producers went with a more sophisticated pitch from "Laws of Attraction" scribe Aline Brosh McKenna - What happens when a single-mother witch decamps from her magical and somewhat morally suspect realm to raise her brood in the safer, more kid-friendly suburbs?..." (full details)
"Producer Scott Rudin has purchased screen rights to "Specimen Days," the soon-to-be-published novel by Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Hours." "Specimen Days" is a trilogy of tales from the past, present and future, with each novella connected by 19th century poet Walt Whitman and his home turf of New York. The first novella in "Specimen Days" is a ghost story that takes place during the Industrial Revolution as society confronts the machine age. The second part is a contempo thriller involving a suicide bomber; the third is a sci-fi tale set 150 years in the future as New York deals with an influx of extraterrestrial refugees..." (full details) Thanks to 'KC'
