"Sony Pictures Entertainment has set "The Motorcycle Diaries" scribe Jose Rivera to adapt "Compositions in Black and White," the Kathryn Talalay book that's being developed as a star vehicle for singer Alicia Keys. Keys is attached to play Philippa Schuyler, a woman who grew up a child prodigy, the first child of color to become a nationally prominent musician. Schuyler was composing music by the age of 5, but racial and gender bias prevalent in the 1930s proved a crushing burden for her..." (full details)
""Arrested Development" star Jason Bateman is set to star in "The Heartbreak Kid," the James Bobin-directed comedy that DreamWorks is putting into pre-production immediately. "Saturday Night Live" star Amy Poehler is negotiating to play the female lead. Scripted by Scot Armstrong and Leslie Dixon, "The Heartbreak Kid" is loosely inspired by the 1972 Neil Simon-scripted comedy that was directed by Elaine May. Bateman will play the young man who falls head over heels in love and gets married quickly, only to fall in love with another woman on the honeymoon..." (full details)
"David Benioff, the writer of the screenplay for Wolfgang Petersen's 2004 epic Troy, has been signed by Warner Bros. to pen the script for the movie "Ender's Game" based on the Orson Scott Card novel series. Benioff will work with his writing partner, Dan Weiss, in close cooperation with Petersen, who is developing Ender's Game with the intent of directing it himself..." (full details)
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