M. Night Shyamalan will write and direct his next film, the fantasy thriller "Lady in the Water," for Warner Bros. Pictures. Story concerns a building super who finds a sea nymph in his apartment building's pool. Shyamalan wrote the script and will produce the film. Production will begin in August on location in Philadelphia, for release in July 2006..." (full details)
Warner Bros. Pictures has closed a deal with NeoPets to make CGI-animated features using 50 different pet species from the kids Web site. Created in 1991, NeoPets has a global following of about 25 million members -- mostly preteens -- who log on regularly to create and care for their own virtual pets, follow storylines about the pets that populate Neopia and pit their virtual NeoPets against those of other Web site users..." (full details)
"David Gordon Green ("The Undertow") will direct an adaptation of the Brad Land novel "Goat: A Memoir". The film follows a man in his late teens recovering from an assault who joins a college fraternity and hopes to leave his shattered life behind. In the end though he must face hard choices head on or lose everything..." (full details)
Thanks to 'KC'.
