"Focus Features has optioned the novel "Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist" as a producing vehicle for the Weitz brothers ("About a Boy", "American Pie"). Lorene Scafaria has been set to adapt the Rachel Cohn and David Levithan-penned novel, which Knopf will publish in spring 2006. Set during a night in the nightclub scene in downtown New York, the novel revolves around a drummer and the best friend of the girl Nick just broke up with. The novel covers the twists, turns and turmoil of a defining evening..." (full details)
"Sony's Screen Gems has bought the spec script "Priest" by tyro Cory Goodman. Vampire Western concerns a warrior priest who disobeys church law by teaming with a young sheriff and a priestess to track down a band of renegade vampires who have kidnapped his niece. Mike De Luca, Sam Raimi and Josh Donen will produce..." (full details)
"Paramount has picked up "Snow Blind," buying the spec by scribes Paul Benz and Steve Tomlin and setting the thriller up with Lorenzo Di Bonaventura to produce. Project's described as a contemporary thriller in the vein of "The Fugitive" and "Breakdown." Benz and Tomlin wrote the thriller "Blind Horizon," starring Val Kilmer as a man with no memory, for Lions Gate..." (full details)
Thanks to 'KC'
