Goodbye to Romance: "In two separate deals, Dimension Films and producer Todd Phillips have made a preemptive acquisition of a comic pitch by "The Ringer" scribe Ricky Blitt and set E. Max Frye to adapt "Goodbye to Romance". Dimension paid mid-six-figures for Blitt's comedy about a youth's infatuation with an older woman..." (more info). Scrawl: "Scribe Sheldon Turner's reps closed out the final minutes of 2003 negotiating a mid- against high-six-figure sale of the thriller "Scrawl" to MGM Pictures. "Scrawl" follows a disgraced detective who takes a menial job delivering cash to ATMs at rest stops along a rural Georgia highway. His monotony is broken when he comes to believe that a girl has been abducted along the route, based on increasingly desperate messages scrawled at the rest stops..." (more info). Spy Hunter: "Mark Swift and Damian Shannon, the writing team behind New Line's "Freddy vs. Jason," have been tapped by Universal Pictures to rewrite "Spy Hunter," a vidgame adaptation to star Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson..." (more info). Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason: Shots from the comedy sequel are now up at intertain.
DVD News: More details on upcoming releases are out such as Beyond Borders, Pink Panther Collection, CSI: Season 3, Crimson Tide: Spec. Edition. Growing Pains: The Movie: 'Rasheed' indicates "Alan Thicke was a celebrity guest on the Jan 6 edition of Donny Osmond's PYRAMID game show, and revealed there's a new movie in development reuniting the cast. No production or air dates were mentioned". Kill Bill: Volume 2: 'Clips from the next chapter of the Tarantino violent saga are up here and here. Modigliani: The trailer, the poster and plot details of Andy Garcia's tortured artist flick are up at Bauer-Martinez Studios. The DaVinci Code: CinemaEye indicates Russell Crowe & Kate Beckinsale are the leading candidates for the main roles in the much-anticipated adaptation of the best selling book. The Producers: More details on the film adaptation are up at Broadway.com. War of the Worlds: Whilst talking with Johnathon Ross this week, Tom Cruise confirmed he's still keen on this and the "Iron Man" project. Thanks to 'Antoine', 'FanHalen', 'Stef', 'Jon', 'Jes', 'VJP', 'Abbas' & 'Graham'
