Ramping up for the new year, Paramount-based Scott Rudin Prods. has acquired its second property this week, making a pre-emptive bid on Philip Eisner's family melodrama/supernatural thriller, "Furious Angels." Earlier this week, Rudin acquired the rights to "The Hours" scribe Michael Cunningham's latest offering, "Specimen Days," and set Matthew McConaughey to star in another project, "Failure to Launch"..." (full details)
Sony has bought the sci-fi script "Resurrection" by scribe Trevor Sands ("The Six Billion Dollar Man"), which Mosaic Media's Charles Roven and Alex Gartner are producing. The studio is tight-lipped about the pic, described as an imaginative sci-fi action-adventure set in the distant future. Sands is also working on "The Four Jacks," which he'll also direct, for producer Holly Wiersma ("Wonderland")..." (full details)
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