Universal Pictures has picked up the feature film rights to Sophie Kinsella's upcoming book "The Undomestic Goddess" for studio-based Tribeca Films to produce. "Goddess," set to be published in July by the Dial Press, a division of Random House, is about an attorney who is fired on the day she is to be made partner at her firm and then flees to London, where she winds up getting a job as a maid..." (full details)
Paramount Pictures and Nick Movies have tapped tyro writer Cory Koller to pen family comedy "Big Brother." Project, developed by Nick as an original idea, centers on a man in his mid-20s who reacts to a life crisis by moving back in with his parents and making his ambitious 15-year-old brother miserable by stealing his bedroom, parents' attention, girlfriend and best friends. The younger brother responds by trying to run his sibling out of the house in hopes of reclaiming his only-child status..." (full details)
Audrey Wells ("Under The Tuscan Sun") will write and direct romantic comedy "Rearranged" for Disney's Touchstone. The story concerns a woman who consents to an arranged marriage set up by her best friends. Wells most recently penned the U.S. remake of Japanese hit "Shall We Dance" for Miramax..." (full details)
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