New Line has purchased "R5," scribe Jango Sircus' spec script about dueling snipers for Benderspink to produce. Story centers on the human chess match played out on Los Angeles rooftops, triggered by a mysterious series of shootings that prompt the L.A. expert to focus his suspicions on a South African rival long presumed dead..." (full details)
New Line has bought thriller spec "Trap Door" from scribe Sean Dickson. Story concerns a hotshot exec who has eight hours to tear apart his new Mulholland Drive home and find a safe that contains a clue that will help him save his recently abducted wife. Dickson recently set up an untitled script at Reactor Films..." (full details)
MTV Films and Paramount wants to belong to "Adult World" and is negotiating to buy writer Andrew Cochran's comedy spec script. Tale revolves around a Stanford coed who feels she's destined to be a poet and winds up working as a clerk in a mom-and-pop adult bookstore. Cochran has signed a blind script deal with MTV..." (full details)
Thanks to 'KC'.
