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"About A Boy" & "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" helmer Peter Hedges is in negotiations to adapt the Jonathan Tropper novel "Everything Changes." Wendy Finerman and Tobey Maguire are producing the pic for Columbia. Book concerns a twentysomething man who's on the verge of marrying the perfect girl when he undergoes a life crisis brought on by his feelings for his best friend's widow and the sudden arrival of his estranged, Viagra-popping father..." (more details) Alfonso Cuaron ("Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban") is attached to direct an adaptation of author Ron McLarty's The Memory of Running at Warner Bros. Pictures. McLarty wrote the book in 1988 about a 43-year-old overweight assembly line supervisor who grieves the car crash death of his parents by getting on a Raleigh bicycle in his funeral suit and pedaling cross-country..." (more details) Warner Independent Pictures has hired "House Of Sand And Fog" helmer Vadim Perelman to direct "Truce," an original screenplay by Stuart Beattie. Set during the early months of WWI, the film is based on the true story of British soldiers who emerged from their foxholes in northern France to defy their commanders, trust their enemy and bring about a one-day Christmas truce at the deadliest spot on earth. Jennifer Klein's Apartment 3B Prods. produces the film. Pic is aiming for a first-quarter start..." (more details) Thanks to 'KC'.

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